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my attention span sucks, i did none of the stuff above lol...




seat bottom is still a bit tweaked from the asshats at the U-Pull JY. 1 bolt and they could have removed it, but they taco'ed it up instead to get the fuel pump out the car. anyway. i think it fits decent. kinda. not really. but i made it look ok. just extended the carpet all the way up the back, hides in a bit nicer.

oh... the reason i made this seat work...

it matches the fronts.


i researched and messed around with some other stuff, nothing picture worthy. i ordered some more parts.

i also did something they said cant be done? according to posts on the forum you have to remove the heater box to get the right kickpanel vent thing out...sounds like a bitch, but i also have been holding off putting coolant in the car just in case. it came out, i smashed my finger, but i dont even think i damaged the kickpanel (dont care anyway). ordered black/speaker panels.

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so its been a month, what have i done?


yup i did another door panel...lol

i find this pic just funny

this is an Amazon delivery...if you look closely he tossed my $15 LED's behind the big *** box that UPS dropped off before. solid move. lol.

so whats in the box?

yeah, i kinda did something... [makes the amazon pic that much more ironic. putting my 15dollar lights behind my $1300 efi]



what a mess...


drilling a big *** hole to send the wires through. ran them up the back of the trans tunnel, behind the intake manifold. made it all nice and clean.


me ripping apart my brand new engine harness... needed to move the fuel pressure sensor plug. just pulled it back in the harness, no cutting.


plan to tuck it in my center console here.

console!?!



that one. yeah its kinda made out of 1/4 board, and some cardboard at the moment. but you get the idea...maybe. big hole at the back will be a armrest/storage. and i would like to put a recessed tray thing at the front to throw my phone and random junk that doesnt need to be there anyway.

oh yeah....

and the screen. just a quick little bracket, some paint, a hose clamp, some 3M mounting tape. mint... it does block a bit of the scary/going to jail end of the speedo that doesnt read right.

wow, attention span... so i bought the new Holley Terminator X Max EFI. i bought a couple 0-100psi transducers off ebay (like 37 for pair) for oil and fuel pressure. i bought the Holley alternator plug. i bought a Glowshift (i hate myself a little for that) fuel rail pressure adapter.

i spent a couple mins going through the setup wizard on the EFI. then pulling the SD card (refused to by the $58 cable) then putting it in my computer to modified a bunch of the advanced tables, timing, fuel stuff, nicer target AFR's, etc... save it back to the SD, uploaded to the handheld. verified it did something (the map sensor was reading correct now)... maybe tomorrow ill get out on the road again and get those learn tables full of some numbers....

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i arrive at my buddies shop...


back her up on the dyno...



looking damn good, and we are all excited....



rip off 3 pulls, all sound great, comments of how it sounds like she just wants to make power... runs are at like 6psi (ok, that torque spike is like 9 or so)...


and time to go home....


so lets start by saying that by buddies that run the shop in no way even touched my car other than strapping it down to the rollers... they tune import stuff, and we are trying to give them that push to get into some LS swap tuning...
anyway, we have known each other for ever. and he had no problem letting me use the dyno (well i did pay too). was a bit sketched out by the idea of doing some 120-140mph street pulls.. so this was really just a shake down day to try to break stuff in a controlled environment.. and well i did...

after the 3rd pull, i shut my camera off. its just idling down. and it lets out of LOUD SCRREEETCHHHH... and he is trying to turn the car off. so Nate was watching the AFR's on the 3rd pull (solid, just like i had set in the holley)... after looking at the datalogs...err.. i maybe should have told him that i have an oil pressure gauge too! lol. so it was idling 12-20psi... WOT at the end of the last pull at the revlimiter, 6500ish, it was like 35psi... yup..





cam is seized. she doesnt spin without a breaker bar... doesnt look like any heat in bottom end. think it just starved the cam.


in the back of that mess of parts is a 4.8L with gen4 rods... i 'traded' one of those 80e's for a 5.3L i still dont have... so one of those will be going in the Nova (4.8 was suppose to be for the Crown Vic, oh yeah i bought a Vic)...we all know its the 4.8 cause getting this 5.3 is going to be a pain in the ***...

anyway. i have a new cam that has been here for months, along with springs, and headgaskets (save for later still)... waiting on a new oil pan, because im not going to clean that mess out... i have a new pickup already.

thats all for now...

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its fine....


upside down getting a cam railed into it, and a new chinese f-body oil pan, pickup, and PAC 1218 springs...
oh cam is fresh Elgin E-1840P/sloppy stage 2
picture of the fresh cam seems to be missing..whatever.


bought a new cam retainer plate/seal this time






getting her warmed up and coolant cycling... kept sending air pockets threw and shooting to 210-240ish... must have roadkilled the **** out of the coolant, because it took like 2 gallons more than was in the bucket. LOL.
and of course, had to note that we have some decent idle oil pressure. like 35psi all hot.. think it was 45 at startup?. shoots to 60 on a quick rev.

took her for a drive.... it was warm in the car!

oh yeah, AC blowing cool..

i always tell myself im going to work till im finished, then get food, blah blah... but this time!

figured i needed to make a shake down run, needed food, most importantly i wanted to drive my NOVA!


you read through all that ****?











no i didnt wash her...

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take 2...


ok. so had some problems, but the engine and car is still in one piece. so ehh, whatever...

made 440whp/430ft at *8psi*

I was having issues with the wastegate. it has too light of a spring and is being pushed open by backpressure. so what I did was put manifold pressure to top and bottom of gate. got the power in dyno graph.. put manifold to the top and Nathan Shiel lifted to preserve the rods lol (edit: 18psi).... so maybe I'll buy a real TiAL or a Turbosmart gate?... maybe stack some springs in the china gate... we will see.

lol, here is one of the tests:

i put a heavier spring in my manual boost controller. we messed with it a bunch (might just be crap too), then i found a big *** vacuum T that came with it. railed that in there. no change. went to buddies work right next door, soon as he was suggesting it i threw the T at him..was like "oh"... " disconnect the line".... was actually why i went to ask him lol. put i put pressure to the top and the bottom of the gate and got a super clean 8psi pass.... then like 18psi with no reference...
set it back to running the T to the top and bottom of the gate. DROVE HER HOME!

dyno:

lower run is first hit off the street... same power as the 5.3 that was seizing up... then the clean 8psi hit.


imgur video work?
Em40wKD.mp4
maybe click on it?


I'm happy