Finally got the Vette finished!!! For now......LOL!!!
03-04-2007, 10:23 AM
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Finally got the Vette finished!!! For now......LOL!!! Well I got the WBC installed along with the fuel pressure and nitrous pressure gauges. It took me a while to get the wireing laid out and shored up. But all in all I'm really happy with the fit and finish.
Friday night I was working on the fuel pressure regulator which bolts to the T connector on the end of the fuel rail. And as I was tightening it down the end of the fuel rail bent downwards.
So I tried to bend it back up to where it would be horizontal again, and drip drip....fuel started coming our from the fuel rail end. So need I say I was really pissed off. Fortunately I had another fuel rail laying around and all I had to do was swap them.
Let me tell you that pulling that main fuel line off without the propper tool is not fun to do!
Anyway, the rest went relatively smooth. I finished the fuel rail swap late Friday night and got up early Saturday to finish the gauge install. I finally got it all finished about 1200 to 1230 and eagerly started the car up to see the gauges come on. And nothing.............
After fiddling around for about an hour, I found that it was just a bad ground. I regrounded the gauges and BAM............all working just fine.
At idle fuel pressure is right around 65psi and under WOT it never drops below 60psi. Pretty damn good if you ask me. I have yet to see what happens to the fuel pressure under WOT while I'm spraying the nitrous, but I'm sure its still nice and high.
Well I'm at work right now and as soon as I get home I'll post up some pics of the gauges and all that stuff.
Friday night I was working on the fuel pressure regulator which bolts to the T connector on the end of the fuel rail. And as I was tightening it down the end of the fuel rail bent downwards.
So I tried to bend it back up to where it would be horizontal again, and drip drip....fuel started coming our from the fuel rail end. So need I say I was really pissed off. Fortunately I had another fuel rail laying around and all I had to do was swap them. Let me tell you that pulling that main fuel line off without the propper tool is not fun to do!
Anyway, the rest went relatively smooth. I finished the fuel rail swap late Friday night and got up early Saturday to finish the gauge install. I finally got it all finished about 1200 to 1230 and eagerly started the car up to see the gauges come on. And nothing.............
After fiddling around for about an hour, I found that it was just a bad ground. I regrounded the gauges and BAM............all working just fine.
At idle fuel pressure is right around 65psi and under WOT it never drops below 60psi. Pretty damn good if you ask me. I have yet to see what happens to the fuel pressure under WOT while I'm spraying the nitrous, but I'm sure its still nice and high.
Well I'm at work right now and as soon as I get home I'll post up some pics of the gauges and all that stuff.
03-04-2007, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by NWDragRacer
That "bad ground" thing seems to be a pattern with you. 
Didn't that happen at Bremerton last year?
Didn't that happen at Bremerton last year?
03-04-2007, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by WAHUSKER
Amazing how important good grounds are. Glad you get it worked out Jon.....
You'll have to take a look at the pics after I post them up. Maybe its just me, but I just love the look of the gauges in that a-piller.
i wana see how they look!
03-04-2007, 04:55 PM
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Pics...... I took off work a little early because it was so nice out. Here are the pics of the gauges.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...e/DSC04301.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...e/DSC04300.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...e/DSC04299.jpg
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http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...e/DSC04301.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...e/DSC04300.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...e/DSC04299.jpg
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03-05-2007, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by howierd42
Its a never ending battle.........kind of like a crack addiction. Seriously though, I have to lay off the modding for a bit till I can settle down my finances. The wife isn't working and won't be for a while. When she gets back to work, then I can start back up again. So this will HAVE to be it for a while.
I'll be happy for a little while.................I have no choice.
03-05-2007, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by 00Vette
I know right? Its a never ending battle.........kind of like a crack addiction.
Seriously though, I have to lay off the modding for a bit till I can settle down my finances. The wife isn't working and won't be for a while. When she gets back to work, then I can start back up again. So this will HAVE to be it for a while.
I'll be happy for a little while.................I have no choice.
Its a never ending battle.........kind of like a crack addiction. Seriously though, I have to lay off the modding for a bit till I can settle down my finances. The wife isn't working and won't be for a while. When she gets back to work, then I can start back up again. So this will HAVE to be it for a while.
I'll be happy for a little while.................I have no choice.
Until he puts a pipe and velocity stacks and tinted screen and frame savers and braided brake lines and alloy control levers on the GSXR.....hehehe
03-05-2007, 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by GTOMO
Until he puts a pipe and velocity stacks and tinted screen and frame savers and braided brake lines and alloy control levers on the GSXR.....hehehe
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell Cindy, she'll divorce me. 
03-06-2007, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by 98transam special
hey jon we should try to meet up sometime this week since the weather has been pretty nice so far this week
I'm at work if you can drop by! I don't know when I'll get off work though......but you can drop by. Do you know where life support is?
03-06-2007, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by 98transam special
ya i kno where it's at i don't get off till around 6:00...what time do you think you'll be getting off
03-06-2007, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by GTOMO
Stop Lie n', jon will be off by 3:45, hehehe
Whats up guys...
Whats up guys...
Did you go for a ride today?
