Bslade (Bob Slade)

1993 Dodge Stealth RT - Single Turbo FWD
Orchid Pearl Blue

Ride of the Month Submission 3000GT/Stealth International December 2010

Suspension and Wheels:

• Tein Coilovers
• Diablo 20" Chrome wheels
• 275/30ZR20s Rear, 255/35ZR20s Front
• Cross drilled rotors, SS brakelines, Axis Pads.

Electronics:

• Innovative Performance Digital A/F (A-pillar)
• AEM Boost Gauge (A-Pillar)
• Apexi blue LED Turbo Timer
• Apexi NEO A/F Mgt

Interior:

• Reconditioned leather seats (Stock was cloth)See below.
• Blue LED conversion on all switches and lights. See below.
• Speedhut Indigo Blue gauge face overlays including centre gauges
• 3SI Floormats

Engine:

• Polished intake plenum, intake pipes, valve covers, fuel rails, water housing, headers, downpipe, Stealth R/T Spark Plug cover, strut bar.
• Custom Single Turbo
• GT Racing Wastegate and BOV
• Steel Forged Crank
• 360CC injectors
• 99 lifters
• Chrome rings
• Upgraded pistons
• Front mount intercooler
• Front mount Tranny cooler
• Stainless steel intake piping and exhaust system (again custom made by GTR)
• K&N FIPK mounted down by foglight.
• Supra Fuel Pump (Hot Wired)

Audio:

• Alpine MP3Head Unit
• Audiobahn amp for sub
• JBL 10" Sub in Homemade Box

Other:

• FIAMM Horn Mod
• Snake-Eyes Mod

My Website: Bob's Stealth

My story:

I purchased this car in 2002 from an elementary school teacher who really didn't know how to take care of it. I fell in love with it after the 1st test drive! It had 178,000km. It started out as a high-end used car for a daily driver. The first thing I had to do was get it painted. Paint was thrashed and sideskirt split... My cousin the ex-bodyshop mgr stripped it down sanded it, threw all the parts inside (bumpers and all) and took it to the paint shop for re-painting it stock/original orchid pearl blue. When it came out, I helped him put it all back together again. Thats when I learned how well built these bodies are! Took forever, but it was worth it. Paint still holds its own in car shows to this day.

I found the 3SI website shortly after, then the 'obsession' began..... I met other owners with beautiful cars, engine bays, etc. etc. and wanted a car like theirs. Started 'upgrading little things here and there.

Stereo Upgrade was next, even built my own sub box because being long distance daily driver I didn't want to lose my spare tire!

Then I learned how to polish Aluminum......then it snowballed... 'Hey! I can polish that too!' I kept saying. Local 3S owners started calling me Mr. Bling....

Show & Shine judges would walk by my car, look at the engine bay, realize how many hours it took to polish all those parts, and just shake their head.....then give me a trophy at the end of the day

Kept driving it 100Km to/from work every day, but eventually at 320,000km the head gasket finally gave up.

Our local guru/Stealth-God mechanic at GT Racing said 'Bob - if you wanna go Turbo, now is the time to do it'. Need a whole engine rebuild, so away we went! The Single-Turbo setup, including turbo, intake, headers, exhaust are all custom made (stainless steel) for this car. GT designed the whole thing. While it was in the shop (engineless) I found a set of Leather seats that a friend reconditioned and replaced all damage leather on. I installed them while it was in the garage being re-built.

The Turbo was made from 2 different turbos (bigger vanes, faster spooling ball bearing type). Last Dyno run est 410HP at the crank.(At 12 lbs boost).

The next winter I slowly converted the entire interior to Blue LED lighting. Patience is very necessary if anyone even thinks about being crazy enough to do this like I did....LOL

Odometer now reads 356,000Km....... and it's just like a brand new Stealth R/T FWD except better!

-Bob

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