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JULY 2007 - Ride of the Month Submission

Scott "Iceman_II" Humpert

The pumpkin started out life as a fleet vehicle in Detroit according to carfax, I can only imagine that it was a company car for a Dodge execuitive. Three owners later, the Gentleman who had sold it to me had been T-Boned, and did not have other than Liability Insurance. So he got a couple of estimates, and deducted the value of the repairs from the "Book Value" of the car. Since the engine was in great shape and all the damage was cosmetic, I figured I could buy it, and using my own skills as well as a few contacts, I could get her back on the road for far less than book.

I bought a black door, blue fender, and green mirror from Kevin Williams at www.stealth3000gtparts.com, I picked up a red side skirt on Ebay, and I bought a new A-piller from Libertyville Mitsubishi. When it was done with the major body work, the car was red, black, blue and green, the Chicago crew took to affectionately calling her "the crayonbox".

Jump forward one paint job, two engine rebuilds, and three years, and what you see is the end result, if you are so inclined, I have the whole "saga" spelled out in 5 pages of rantings and lamentations for the past year or so. As you can see from the pics, I am not big into bling, and I am a firm believer that "Chrome don't get you home" so i opted for the whole crinkle black and brushed aluminum motif under the hood. The pumpkin was never meant to be a trailer queen show car, but in my humble opinion, she turned out looking pretty OK

I have to give the following shout-outs to people who helped to get the pumpkin into the state she is in today:

Von Morgan of Morgan's Motorsports - 'nough said

Ron Cook - Libertyville Mitsubishi

Grayson Lough and Mark Gunter for being there

Tony Clark - Advanced Auto Body

Chris "Existenz" - for taking OUTSTANDING photos!

Thank you to all of them for all of the help through the years, and thank you for taking the time to read this much shortened version of the pumpkin's story.

Modification list:

Engine Internals:

Bored .050" over

2mm oversized supertech nitrided exhaust valves

1mm oversized supertech nitrided intake valves

3SX racing valve springs

Third gen lash adjusters

Webb racing cams

Venolia forged pistons

Pauter rods

ARP head and main studs

Ported and polished heads (Morgan Motorsports Stage XXX)

Ceramic coated piston faces

Ceramic coated combustion chambers and valve faces

Ceramic epoxy coated exhause ports

Ceramic epoxy coated intake ports

TFL coated piston skirts

TFL coated bearings

Engine bolt on:

3SX lightweight crank pulley

Canton Oil Filter with replaceable elements

Ported and polished manifolds

Ported intake plenum

Airflow:

GTPro 368s

GTPro Front Mount intercooler with 2" IC piping

K&N filter with custom hard piped intake

Tial 50mm BOV

Titan bending front manifold (with ceramic coating)

Ceramic coated rear manifold

High flow catalytic converters

ATR down pipe

ATR Single-shot catback

Fuel:

Supra Fuel Pump

DR Fuel Pump hotwire

PTO 780cc injectors

Aeromotive FPR

SX Fuel filter

Parallel AN6 fuel feed and return lines

EK2 fuel rails

Electronics:

AEM with MAP & IAT sensors

AEM UEGO wideband

MSD Dis-4

Morgan's Motorsport's Coil on Plug ignition

Blitz DSBC

Greddy turbo timer

Defilink BF gauges, boost, temp, oil pressure, and fuel pressure

Sony CDX-MP40 head unit

Drive train and Suspension:

300M output shaft

Southbend Clutch DXD-F (coming out shortly)

Custom Southbend Clutch pressure plate (coming out shortly)

Unorthodox lightweight flywheel

Stainless steel braided brake lines

Second Gen Brakes W/Motul brake fluid

Crossdrilled and slotted rotors

K-Sport dual cylinder coil-overs

5-Zigen FN-01 wheels

Sumitomo HTR-Z 245/45R17

Cooling:

Oil cooler with fan.

Dual pass aluminum radiator with hard pipes

Custom fabricated radiator fan shroud

Coolant catch can upgrade

Eliminated things:

Charcoal canister elimination

EGR Elimination

Vacuum hose reduction

Vacuum accumulator elimination

Oil Squirter elimination

Interior:

N/A Seats for weight reduction

Custom interior by leatherseats.com with custom Ram/three diamond logo

Exterior:

Custom Dupont pearl "New Tucker Orange" paint

Custom blocked off passenger side rear bumper cut (see picture)

99 Front Bumper with custom inserts to fit pop-ups

Vital Velocity 96 Super-banana

Late Night Customs LED tail lights (see picture)

Deft Racing 575 FG hood

Aerocatch hood pins

Debadged/shaved

On the shelf waiting to be installed:

Horsepower Freaks Bronze friction disk

RPS Max Pressure plate

Fidanza adjustable cam gears (to fix my pesky little compression issue)

Kevlar Timing belt