The Resurrection: 94 Firebird Formula

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Originally Posted by JOATMON

I remember him buying one injector to replace the bad one. But I suppose the progress has outrun the posts. I'm up to date now on this interesting project.
Nolan

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Fred layed it out pretty well. I had tried to keep it the way he built it as much as possible. But when the motec started giving me crap @Ltconvert was in the garage with me and said "i still have my stock 94 harness laying around" (hes going 24x, has a bp automotive harness from @harner) we just looked at each other and i started taking the motec out while he ran and got the 94 harness and more beer.

The idea was to use my LTCC and obd1 pcm, but my LTCC was on the fritz too after install, so went back to good ole opti. That was why i swapped the injectors to the 30lb jet injectors from osies heads/cam days. At the track sunday they were at 20.5msec which basically means they are at 106% duty cycle, and i didnt want one to hang open, so i threw in osies deka 60lb injectors (he went 80's in anticipation of the D1SC)

todays update: picked up ngk b8efs plugs for nitrous last night, remembering how much of a nightmare it is to change plugs with the shorty headers i said to my fiance on the way home from work "hey, crazy idea, car has to go in air to do plugs, why dont we just throw the hooker headers on?"

She proceeded to meet me in the garage at 830 with the cribs ready to go to put it in the air.

passenger side shorty is out and lt in place, waiting for felpro 1406 for that side. found a nasty valvecover leak on passenger side, so thats ordered too.

mad dash, trying to get this done by saturday night to hit island sunday and hopefully sprayAttachment 40353Attachment 40354Attachment 40355

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well, they are in.. that sucked. drivers side had to go nuts and unbolt motor mount/bracket from k-member/oil cooler to get header in. Passenger side slipped right in, too easy, because every single bolt then put up a fight. Had to chase all of them, and even then, a few wouldnt let me use 1" long bolts like i always do especially on the back 2????

other issue, drivers side collector is a half inch higher than the crossmember. im going to grind the edge of the crossmember off, but the bolts are CLOSE. rubber motor mounts mean i need atleast 1/2" of clearance, so thats gonna be interesting. passenger side will be nbd, shorten pipe, bolt muffler to collector, put in hanger.

bleh its been a fight to go faster in a week. Attachment 40356Attachment 40357Attachment 40358

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I had a collector/x-member issue like that on the '57 P/U project. I slipped a piece of 1" black iron pipe between the collector and the frame and used it as a long prybar and just bent the whole header section down enough to clear. Across the length of all four collector tubes it bent very easily. Seems like I wadded a towel between the collector and the pipe to keep from kinking it. Just food for thought before you start grinding.
Nolan

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Originally Posted by JOATMON

I had a collector/x-member issue like that on the '57 P/U project. I slipped a piece of 1" black iron pipe between the collector and the frame and used it as a long prybar and just bent the whole header section down enough to clear. Across the length of all four collector tubes it bent very easily. Seems like I wadded a towel between the collector and the pipe to keep from kinking it. Just food for thought before you start grinding.
Nolan

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i dont think i can bend it 3/4"

in good news, nozzle showed up today....https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1de95edab6.jpg

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Just 3/4" should be easy as hell.
Nitrous sounds fun, I've never tried it before. I remember many years back when nitrous first started getting used on street cars. Around '79 -'80 I was racing a guy up Hwy 1 leaving work, when I started to pull away from him he flipped a nitrous switch and stretched out on me. It was summer with the windows down and I recall the smell from his exhaust from the juice.
Nolan

progress update. I made something work lolhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...15c195a6b4.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...d8d6c19892.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...d84dd342eb.jpg

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progress, i really dont know if im going to get this buttoned up today to run tomorrow, but we are gonna piss in the wind and tryhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...040a6ec64c.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8c42c98a2b.jpg

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@Injuneer now it sounds cammed

Mallory install and wiring next

https://youtube.com/shorts/DVv1_IaVVZQ?feature=share

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@Injuneer @popo8 @Fastbird she huffed a 100 shot tonight

shes gonna huff a 150 shot tomorrow!
@Ltconvert handled top side of car and nitrous wiring, i handled everything underneath the car. i literally layed on a piece of cardboard for 10 hours today including half a hour under the dash for the wot switch

he said the candles were lit. i have 1 bottle with about 8lbs in it, i hope it makes a few good passes tomorrow

sounds way different now toohttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...63af79020e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5a7d1428d1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a0ff47d460.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e7f714b809.jpg

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