Noe's Performance

10/04/2026

Another set of completed projects:

Cale Parrot's beautiful '06 GT, installed all new timing components, Ford Hot Rod cams and one of my custom cam tunes

Troy Compton's 1 of 250 made Cobra R's! This one has one of my custom 408 stroker builds with a Dart SHP block, Forged bottom end,11R Trick Flow heads, custom roller cam, Procharger D-1 superchargers with 13 # . Car made 601rwhp while losing 4 #'s of boost by 6000 rpm! went from 13 #-9 # by the end of pull and was still climbing great (see dyno sheet) even with the belt slipping, a steady 13 # would have yielded 650ish rwhp while the planned for 15 # would have gotten us to 700rwhp, driveability is stone stock with my custom tune!

Chris Gamble's big bore (3.661) 298ci shortblock got assembled with TKM machine work on a Teksid block, Darton sleeves, Noe's Performance Diamond spec'd pistons,Molnar Power Adder Plus connecting rods, MMR billet rear cover plate, This bullet has already made 1088rwhp & 1004 rwtq on E85 without the big bore mod!!

Brady Lester's 283ci 2V was assembled with Gen 2 Coyote rods, JE pistons, Trick Flow 2v heads, Todd Warren turbo cams destined for 12-15 #'s of boost to come!

06/25/2026

06/25/2026

I haven't posted much of my automotive stuff lately, as a matter of fact I'm sure I've forgotten several but here's a few: Jeremy Roach's Stroker 2V engine, used a new aluminum Nemak 3V block, Trick Flow Heads, L&M engine custom cam, Manley stroker crank, Pistons & rods, destined for his 2001 Mustang Bullitt and 600-650rwhp.
Brandon Johns '07 GT: This one simply got plugs,boots & one of my custom street tunes
Jay Hardin's '89 former SSP coupe got one of my custom tunes for his Trick Flow headed, Trick Flow cammed, Explorer intake equipped hot rod
Mike's super nice '94 GT got some simple maintenance issues corrected
Tyler Gann got a great street tune for his 2000 GT that corrected some issues he had

02/21/2026

Had the opportunity to tune Dennis Ball's clean, original owner, '95 GT for my good Friend, Beau Dunnivant at Blue Oval Classics in Blountville. Beau fixed a lot of issues on it as well as installing an Edelbrock RPM II intake, AFR 165 heads and a Steeda #19 cam car made 274 rwhp and 287 rwtq. I normally don't tune push rod 5.0 cars anymore but I've been tuning his customer's as well as mine at his place since 2004!! so I'll tune whatever he needs,LOL.

02/07/2026

A couple of projects I completed during Dec. Paul Bledsoe's 347ci, '85(?) GT, I rebuilt the complete rear end this past summer with 3.55 gears, bearings, spool, C-clip eliminators, 31 spline axles; car is street driven but after drag racing it some he wanted to do a gear swap to 4.30's so that's what I did , car went 6.90's on motor and 6.50's with a small shot of nitrous before the swap.

Zach Webb's 2010 GT500, did 3.73 gears, bearings and diff swap on this one.

Dyno'd Zach's '98 F150 with a Lightning engine with better internals and small cams, it hit over 400hp around 4800rpms where it ran out of injector, he's upgrading the injectors soon and we'll see what it really has!

12/01/2025

Just a few I've did in the last few weeks and they ALL had issues before they were completed, I lost money on every one of them!!! Everyone thinks the tuning/performance thing is great until the real crazy problems start! It's ***NOT*** the ***CUSTOMERS FAULT*** sometimes it just doesn't go right.
First, is Tom Johnson's '05 GT, he had a Howard's performance cam and new timing set installed and I did a custom tune for it; it started going into limp mode at 70 mph & after bringing it to me and diagnosing it, I found out I was given the wrong information on the rear gear set (which is imperative,especially on automatics cars which this one was) Always VERIFY what you have, not assuming or even relying on the previous owner telling you what it is and once the correct gear set was input into the tune, problem solved.

Next was David Hirt's '98 Cobra, did a complete differential overhaul with new Ford Performance gears, bearings,axles, fl**ge, rebuilt 8.8 L*D he bought from me after I went through it and made sure all was good in it, even put a new breather in it! Upon driving it heard a strange rumbling noise, after tearing it COMPLETELY apart again ( including disassembling the both mine AND his original L*D unit's and remeasuring the clutch shims) reassembled it all only to conclude it was tire noise!!! To add insult to injury, I forgot to replace the rt rear ABS unit correctly the second time and damaged it to the point it will need to be replaced, 15 hrs of labor. charged him for 7! I nearly always try to drive the vehicle before starting on them to make note of things like this, this time I didn't and paid the price for it!

Last is Greg Taylor's 2010 GT NASA Street Iron series car, these cars weight is based off torque which is dyno'd at each & every track they go to, the goal is to make as much horsepower as possible while making as little torque, quite different than anything I've ever did which is make the most of BOTH. I started on the right path but overthought it and went down the wrong "rabbit hole", thankfully Justin Gaddell and Logan Cross, owners of RPG where we dyno'd at got me back on track with some good advice and we got it, The dyno sheet shows how we started out and where we finished, lost 2-3 hp but killed the torque from 333 ft lbs down to 311 which saved him near 300 lbs in weight to have to haul around!!

09/01/2025

Haven't posted in a while, here's just a few projects I worked on this summer. Kevin Kyle's (K&K) GORGEOUS '94 Cobra I built the 347 engine for many moons ago just got dyno'd this summer, very conservative tune ( I didn't tune it),11 # YSI Vortech,E85, dyno sheet in pics
Rick Rathbuns totally custom '49 Studebaker with a s/c'd Terminator Cobra engine, did some troubleshooting on this one

Stephen Bishop's nearly perfect '93 LX, did some inspection/troubleshooting here

Aaron Baird's AWESOME '89 LX, too much to list on this one, as much as I hate to admit it,this one beat me, had an idle issue I just couldn't work out and as nice and well put together as this car is, I still had to admit defeat, I have committed to one more foxbody and that's it again for the pushrod stuff, no more!! Won't tune them again. Sorry, I couldn't get this one for you Aaron!!

Misti Hollifields Vortech V-3 s/c'd, all stock '02 GT, tuned this one to 350+hp on a very rainy day and stock converters still in place.She's gonna have fun playing around drag racing this one!

Josh Brooks '07 GT, did a simple 93 Octane street tune and a JLT CAI on this nice ride

06/22/2025

I know I post a lot of engine builds here, most folks think everything goes smooth as silk but nothing could be FURTHER from the truth!! It's really bad when you fool yourself,even when you know better! Here's a video on how dumb was despite knowing better,Enjoy!

04/19/2025

Had a chance to go to RPG in Greenback yesterday for the first time to tune Darryl Richard's, beautiful, Vortech V-3 supercharged, '04 GT and to meet Darryl, Logan and Tyler for the first time, great guys and facility! Tuned the car remotely initially and everything went well and finally got it on the dyno. Car made 377 rwhp and 377 rwtq, on a conservative tune, first time I've ever had the horsepower and torque the same!