Ive seen some of the cool on the fly stuff that can be done with it...and simple plug in accesories for spray and boost...etc.
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Ive seen some of the cool on the fly stuff that can be done with it...and simple plug in accesories for spray and boost...etc.
@shownomercy
Soooooo........
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just isn't the same....
Bonus question, when I said I took a couple plugs out? Guess which ones they were?
Went ahead and replaced them with tr6's gapped at .035 and it seems to have cleared it up. What concerns me is the gap on that one plug, and how it got that way...
Quite rich...
Maybe the one got dinged on install and closed that gap?
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Better look at #4. It was gapped at .005. Yes, that's five thousands, not .050
That's the only thing I can come up with. I'm very careful when installing and if they get dropped, they get replaced. But there are no markings on the ground strap to indicate it was pushed closed. And yes, quite rich lol. The 2 I took out and called good were 1 and 3. For the last 2 years this car has driven about 50 miles. Mostly down the road and back to test this or that. Evidently the short tripping fouled them out. Good news is the 80e install is complete and shifts all 4 gears under load and locks up as it's supposed to. I'm going to go into the trials and tribulations of piggybacking systems later. Learned quite a bit on that one. Also learned that my little servo motor controlling my secondary throttle body isn't strong enough to open completely under boost and is also being sucked open at idle. So that idea is over with. Going back to the howling screaming all the air you can eat way it was before and hope that the 1900 cruise rpm keeps my eardrums intact
Lil more timing and let her eat all teh boost!
Good to hear your 80 is fine. .. All that worrying and she is all good :) ya a little rich! U have a wide band to see where it's humming along afr wise?
Yea under a heavy load it around 12:1. With as low as compression I have I could probably squeak by with 12.4 or .5.
The idle afr is what has been so fat. Initially I had a lot of problems with getting it to idle and the only way I could keep it from starting the idle roll of death was fatten it up. That was around 11:1. I've addressed the idle issues and have it down to 14.5-15:1 at idle and cruise. I made these changes prior to changing the plugs but the damage was already done. I'm really hoping that I got a little rough with that one plug and that's what caused it to close up and not something bouncing around in the cylinder. I might borrow a bore scope and take a peek.
Please keep us posted on what u see with the scope.
I'm pretty sure it's fine. I was in the garage thinking about snm saying the plugs could be fouled and I remembered back to the day before the shootout last year when it was acting the same way. Changed the plugs (new) back to the stock heat range and away it went. The same plugs have been in there since then. If something got in there and was bouncing around I would have expected to see a lot more damage to the plug end. Not to mention I've got an ass load of ptv clearance. It doesn't matter what's in there anyway, it's getting the piss ran out of it regardless lol. I'm tired of messing around with it.
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Oh lawdy, OHHH lawdy LAWD!!
Lol.... porn.
Some nice squares you ahve there. Does not look like it will grate cheese well at all though.
LOL no not at all. Just some intake flange blanks I had waterjetted to fart around with
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Something like this maybe?
Going to draw up a new base plate to replace the one on it. It will end up sitting higher than the intake I bought it with but I got the room for it.
Yabba dabba dooooo!!!!
LOL
The guy I met today that did the water jetting is great. Gave me a hell of a deal on them, plus gave me 2 that got cut into by other cuts (trying to minimize scrap by putting more patterns on one sheet) to practice getting my heat right on. That will be the next trick
That would be a fun set up, big whipple ona Lt1. Big Block torque, instant tire fire
Please don't say fire.... there's been enough melting going on lol
dude, if you pull this off (which we all know you will)its gonna be awesome, @Ltconvert wants to do that with the nova. he wasnt too keen on the remote one, he wants a top mount, but the whole custom intake is kinda scary (expensive). i heard there was a guy that would make them for b-bodies but stole a bunch of peoples money and is now gone :(
This one is for a friend of mine but we'll test it on my car is the d1sc doesn't fit. It won't be cheap. Already have a lot of money tied up in material. I'm using the base that I bought with the blower for measurments that I'll end up reselling if when I'm done with this one if he's interested in that. It's just an SBC intake that's been welded to adapt. I've seen a few made from sheet metal before and they are slick. Hoping to achieve that look lol
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The replacement....
Former Golen 383, eagle forged crank and h beam rods, 9:1 compression, stage 2 ported trick flow 195cc heads, GMPP LT4 intake, Comp cams blower cam, magnum pushrods, pro mag roller rockers, double roller timing chain, and arp hardware. Going to break it in nice and easy on gas, then switching to corn for some base tuning. After I feel confident with that, I'll put a huffer on it. Just not sure if it will be a d1sc or the whipple...
I guess I can back up a bit for those that may have not seen my other thread about the piston damage. Well, the car was running rich at idle for a while. It all started when I was running the remote setup with the throttle body on the supercharger. Long story short, it was too much plenum space and it took massive amounts of fuel to keep it alive at low rpm. After I moved the throttle body to the intake, I never messed with tuning the idle tables. Wot looked decent, around 12:1, but it would only run a stock heat range plug. Anything colder would foul out in a matter of minutes. I finally decided to tune the idle afr when I put the larger crank pulley on. I bought some tr6 plugs and brought the afr down to 14-15 at idle. Ran nice and smooth. Made a few wot runs and it felt good but my datalog was not saving the runs so I honestly can't say when it happened, but I ended up loosing compression on 2 cylinders ( 3&5). I had hoped it was just a head gasket but what I found was much worse...
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All the pistons had the exact same damage in the exact same spot on that bank. Curiosity led me to pull the passenger side and it was the same. The cylinder walls were not damaged but the #2 piston had a piece of ring land come loose and damage the chamber of the head a little. I took the head in and it had a bent valve and needed decked. At the same time a guy just bought a set my water pump spacers decided he was done with lt1's and asked if I knew anyone interested in his. I told him my situation and eventually we made a deal. He was working on getting it dyno tuned so he could sell it with a clean bill of health. He had just put a larger crank pulley on it and was turning up the wick when everything went to hell. After several runs they couldn't get it to fatten up and had been running it lean. He finally made 637hp to the tires at 16# with an afr of 13.8:1. The 60# injectors his tuner told him would be enough were not and he ended up with a lot of blowby and low compression on 2 cylinders. We adjusted the price of the deal to account for the potential damage and I bought it like this...
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I found this on the 2 cylinders that were low...
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Golen specs out the ring gap at .022 on both compression rings. When i checked those cylinders I found the top rings around .026 and the bottoms at .022. I think this had a little do do with the failure, anyway. ...
As luck has it, I had the exact same set pistons sitting on the shelf so I tore it down, honed it, and replaced the pistons (Verified that the weight was the same first) and reassembled it.
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The heads needed decked but aside from that everything else was fine.
So it's back together and ready to go now. There is an engine dyno in stl and they happen to be an accel dfi dealer/installer/ tuner. Been kicking around the idea of taking it to them and letting them do their thing with the new 80# injectors that way I'll have a good tune to start off with. But chances are I'm just going to slap it in there na and ease into tuning it on my own. After break in I'll put the smaller crank pulley on and hopefully make the switch to e85, just depends on time frame I guess. Anyway, now you're all up to speed with the changes!
Well written man. U covered just about everything.
The only thing I didn't see in the write up was when you plan to test this new setup, before October 4th?
Probably around the time you're ready to test!
So October 3rd?
Lol probably so
The eagle has landed..... again
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Lookin good!!!
:claps::claps::claps::claps:
Cutting it down to the last minute!
Fired it up tonight and got the accessory bracket installed. It's ready for a road test tomorrow. I've been on the fence about selling the procharger but tonight I starred at it for about 2 hours and I have a few ideas. Not sure if I can pull it off before the shootout though
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This way shows it mounted high on the drivers side.
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This way seems the most practical and quickest because I can utilize some of the original brackets
Oh and the big overtime job that threatened to stop all progress lasted only 2 days. Game on
Thats awesome. What did u say was in the way of mounting it in the normal location?
The steering box and the massive spacer between the damper and crank pulley. Big ol clunky thing. I think what I'm going to is make one out of plywood to mock it up but I believe I can make it work. Tricky part is going to be finding someone to mill down my spacer on short notice
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Drawing it up tonight and should have it cut Monday or Tuesday hopefully