RPM Magazine December 2021 - Features, Technical Articles, Projects and New Product Releases

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AED Competition ................. 77

Misener Motorsports ........... 12

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Air Flow Research ..... 5,39,81 AJE Racing.........................102 American Racing Headers ... 68

Northern Radiator ............... 82

Aurora Bearing .................... 83

Parts Pro/Total

AVAK/Ridgegate Tools ......... 54

Truck Centers ....................... 69

Baer Brakes ...................35,94 BES Racing Engines ............. 17

Piston Racing Engines ......... 39

Bill Mitchell Products ....56,33

Profiler ................................ 72

BoulandMotorsUSA.com ...104

PRW-USA ............................ 18

C & S Specialties .................. 17

Race Part Solutions .......49,86

Callies Performance Prod..... 25

Racetronix ........................... 85

Calvert Racing Suspensions ... 32

Rage Wraps ......................... 71

Canton Racing Products ...... 26

RAM Clutches ...................... 45

Clearshot Customs............... 95 Competition Engineering .... 55

RCD ..................................... 77

Deez Performance ............... 38

RM Racing Lubricants .......... 35

Design Engineering ............. 58

Ross Racing Pistons ......... 7,87

ECAM .................................. 79

RPM Magazine .......22,24,68

Energy Suspension .............. 78 Erson Cams.......................... 33

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GoDragRacing.org ............... 39

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Granatelli Motorsports ........ 52

SM Racecars ......................102

GRP Connecting Rods .......... 56

Summit Racing

Harland Sharp ..................... 55 Hitman Hotrods................... 72 Hughes Performance.............. 7

Equip. ............... 36,104,109 Taylor Cable Products .......... 57

Ian Hill Racing ...............10,87

T & D Machine ..................... 68

Icon Forged Pistons ...........103

The Supercharger Store ....... 81

Induction Solutions ............. 37 Jesel .................................... 70 Joe Van O............................. 72

Thermo-Tec ......................... 16 Ti64 ..................................... 71

JW Racing Transmissions ........ 5

Tom’s Upholstery ................. 58

Kinsler Fuel Injection.....13,73

Total Seal Rings .................103

LenTech Automatics ......12,80 Liberty’s Gears..................... 80 Lokar Performance .............. 79

Trailer Alarms.com ............104 Trick Flow ...................15,103

Lutz Race Cars ..................... 16

Tuned By Shane T ................ 79

Magnaflow.......................... 95

Ultimate Headers ................ 25

MagnaFuel .......................... 16 Manton Pushrods ................ 57 Mark Williams ...................102

VFN Fiberglass Inc. .............. 18 Vortech ............................... 73

Maxima Racing Oils ................ 2

Weinle Motorsports ............ 38

Metal Products .................... 77

World Domination – RPM ... 23

Meziere Enterprises ............. 94

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PBM Products...................... 78

Billet Specialties .................. 38

Burns Stainless .................... 18

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Neal Chance Converters....... 76

World Products.................... 59

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LS Killer Twins ..................................................................................... 8 and 7-second time slips make this Coyote Mustang a whole lotta fun!

Big Truck, Big Block, Big Blower...... 46 This full size Chevy Pickup will put you on the trailer home!

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How To Assemble Holley LS and LT Clamshell Motor Mounts Page 100

Street Terror ............................................................... 28

With 2000 horsepower on tap, this boosted Camaro makes for one heck of a street car!

A look back at some of the cars we presented over the past year

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The 5.0 Coyote platform Ford uses in its Mustang and F150 trucks has been out The for 5.0 tenCoyote yearsplatform now, Ford uses in its Mustang and spanning three F150 trucks has been out generations for ten years now,of spanning three generations of factory factory offerings. offerings.

When it comes to making power and going fast, many heavy hitters have evolved along with the Coyote, and guys like Anthony Ballard, the owner of Signature Speed, have even built a business around them.

After his first car, a 1979 Indy Pace Car Mustang, and then a slew of various other Mustangs, Ballard originally bought this 2014 GT just to have some fun and, you know, install a few bolton parts to see what he could squeeze out of it. We all know how that goes, though, and he eventually kicked it up to a whole new level. Over the last

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Anthony Ballard’s 2014 GT Mustang started off as a cool street car to play with and bolt a few parts on to see what he could squeeze out of it. Now, with over 1,700 wheel horsepower, it is a 7-second LS Killer on the strip!

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This is it, and it’s not a Chevy motor stuck in a Mustang. The “heartbeat” of this Mustang pumps solid blue blood via a tricked out Ford Coyote motor with nearly invisible twin turbochargers. The initial underhood experience looks like a factory install, that is until you see the cool jewel-like Plazmaman intake and little nuances like the blow-off valve location.

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seven years the GT has been through many alterations.

Starting with some giggle gas, Anthony would move on to a few different superchargers and then into a single turbo setup, and many of these combinations put Signature Speed on the map by setting a few records, but we’ll get to that later.

It took 7 years for the build and interestingly, Anthony has never had the notion of going full race car, instead, “the Guillotine” as it is known, is a streetable car through and through,

still sporting the entire interior, radio, and almost all the components it came with from the factory. Of course, there were changes needed for safety along with certain mods that needed to be done to ensure the car is serviceable between rounds at the dragstrip, but for the most part, the car’s original body, interior and much of the chassis remain intact.

Inside, the Mustang looks like it did when it came from the factory other than the fact that Anthony now sits in a racwww.rpmmag.com

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Ah ha, what’s this...?

Again, at first glance it looks factory, but on top of the trick tubular K member and additional suspension goodies, there seems to be two circular type objects mounted under the car…but how! Twin turbos are mounted low due to the efforts of Hot Rod Dynamics fitting a 2015 front undercarriage into the 2014 car.

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ing seat and the passenger seat got the axe in favor of a cooler for ice to help keep the intake air temperatures down. A Boost Leash controller and Ngauge pod are within arm’s reach, and he has the trans brake button mounted right on the steering wheel. A 10-point cage surrounds the interior to keep Ballard safe.

The Coyote engine platform has turned out to be quite impressive, especially under pressure, forced pressure, if you know what we mean. There are many turbo Coyotes out there, both single and twin, that make serious power, however, the Guillotine’s snails mount under the car. Hot Rod Dynamics built the system tucked low using Precision Turbo 68/70s and coated it all in heat-absorbing material to reduce heat. This is a sizeable undertaking on an S197 chassis (2011-2014 models) as there’s sim-

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