Please don't say fire.... there's been enough melting going on lol
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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