94 Z28, old mans car

[JOATMON]

Headed to Talladega for Spring race week. I'll catch up with progress on these cool projects when I return.
Later, Nolan

[SSlowBoat]

Headed to Talladega for Spring race week. I'll catch up with progress on these cool projects when I return.
Later, Nolan

hope you had a good trip.

got the car out for its maiden boosted holley voyage. this thing is rowdy, and so far the holley is handling it well. car already scared the shit out of me rolling into boost. its running hot though, got up to 210 (83 outside) so that kind of sucks. Also have to add a breather on passenger valvecover, but gonna end up going with a puke tank.

https://youtu.be/5lwVaUmSiH8?si=AshkhlUViHrQsywo

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[JOATMON]

Hey thanks, we had fun. The Camaro is sounding great. I'd like to see a video of the scary part when it goes under full boost, hint.
I'm chomping at the bit to bring mine to the dragstrip time trials. Just gotta get feeling better first.
Nolan

[SSlowBoat]

Hey thanks, we had fun. The Camaro is sounding great. I'd like to see a video of the scary part when it goes under full boost, hint.
I'm chomping at the bit to bring mine to the dragstrip time trials. Just gotta get feeling better first.
Nolan

hopefully next weekend i can get more logs/vids. the 7 mile ride getting that hot bothered me, have some things to sort first

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[SSlowBoat]

not much to post about this one yet, osie changed the stat and redid the intercooler piping a little to eliminate some of those long rubber elbows the procharger kit uses.

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[JOATMON]

Looks great, blower is tucked in so neat you can't see it in the photos.
Nolan

[SSlowBoat]

Alright where to start with this fiasco. So thursday night we load up, rip an exhaust clamp off the y pipe, nearly take out the bumper (damn this car is low).

Friday go to back it off the trailer at Island and figured ill leave it on the trailer ramps, chock it, fix exhaust clamp. well when i go grab the new clamp out of my bag, i see antifreeze on the trailer....waht the f**k. so my fiance and osie start searching searching searching. well the rad came with a level sensor plug, and osie didnt have a level sensor anymore, so we both totally overlooked it and realized thats where it is leaking from. Advance auto had one in stock about 20 minutes away from island, so we sent my fiance and daughter to get the sensor, a gallon of 5050, and a small drain pan. figured we will swap it quick when she gets back on the fly, top off, go thru tech.

well thats exactly what we did, i made 2 motor hits then she got back, swapped it with minimal loss, then went thru tech. tech for whatever reason gave me a hard time about the car having a 6 point with stock seats and belts, even though they were the ones that made us put a 6 point in it in 2019 and said after we are 10.0 good with the stock seat and belt. i threw a little bit of sarcasm at the tech guy, because the other tech guy said i was good, this guy said no, looked at other tech guy and he walked away. whatever.

go immediately up to make a pass, tires were at 18psi cold, these are 275/50/15 et street SS tires, so a 26" setup. this car is a street car thru and thru, long torque arm (relocated) lowering springs, koni sport adjustable shocks for handling, etc. NOT a drag car. yes i have been 10.78 in it on a 1.39 60ft, but i feel that may have been luck.

left off idle and immediately hazed the tires hard enough to have to fully lift, ugh. got back in it and ran it out the back. about 2/3 track start smelling a hint of burnt oil. bring it back to the pits and get the below slip, then see oil dripping. appears the driver side valvecover shifted back and since there are no posts due to the scorpion rocker arms, it allowed it to a) leak and b) the bolts were hitting the rockers (could hear the squeak). little annoying. just loaded it back on the trailer as i was over this car that day, and didnt want to stress out or risk wrecking it.

funny thing is it did this pass with just a basic street tune in the holley, with 6k rpm shift points. lol i think its making alot more steam now.


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[SSlowBoat]

crappy vid of the pass:

[JOATMON]

Awesome, thanks for sharing.
Nolan

[SSlowBoat]

coming up on a year, crap. life has been wild on both sides for both osie and i. the kids keep joking about breaking "pop-pops" car out and bringing it to my house to go over. well i think i am gonna do just that. rental is coming up again, my car is too fast, but this one has some room in the 10's still. think i am going to grab it, temporarily throw in 5pt harnesses/the og corbeau seat thats in the passenger side of my car into this, get some tuning on it, throw my wheels and tires on it, and see what happens at the rental