Thanks!

Put some finishing touches on to pass tech today, and of to no mercy 6!





Driveshaft Loop





Finished Trunk





Skinny Pete Pedal





Rear Seat Delete Panel





Ready to up the shot with some 116 nos max

 

Made it to the track at 8:00 am About to go through tech at 11:20!!!




In line for tech





6 cars ahead of us jimmy!

 

Made it through tech ready for some testing. Entered in the N/T small block nitrous shootout.

 

Lol, love the last comment. Good luck out there... interested to see how much the limiters help with the nose.

 

Hope you have a great outing. There are some KILLERS there.

 

Good luck!! Vids pls!! = )

 

Howd you do?

 

The event is still going on til Sunday. Link to the live feed http://motormaniatv.com/?page_id=529

 

watching no mercy , good luck . damn n/t class well i guess i wont know how fast that damn car is. lol.

 

For all of you asking the car broke in test at no mercy. I know why and have nothing nice to say about the situation. Many people have asked what it runs so I am posting the best time slip. On motor the car made 570 who and on a 200 shot made 820 whp.




Best run before it broke. Had to let out to keep it off the bumper.

 

sorry you had problems. Hope it will be an easy fix...

 

I would like to hear these un-nice things to say

 

sorry for the bad luck , but keep us posted on repairs and testing

 

Thats moving for sure! What broke if you dont mind me asking?

 

I was going to take the high road with this, but as things are going to go down a very shitty road. I will post pictures for your pleasure. The motor blew up. The Intake valve radius was larger than the relief in the piston. The person who picked this combo will take no responsibility for his mistake. All 8 intake valves were hitting the pistons because the radius of the valve relief was smaller than the radius of the ls3 valves. P/V was not check at assembly!!! This engine was a ticking time bomb!!!





Passenger Side of Block





Broken Rod and Block





Passenger Head





Drivers Head





Drivers Side of Block





Exit Wound





Carnage





More Carnage





Note the valve impact on the intake side





Note same valve impact on this cylinder. All 8 were like this

 

Damn sorry to see this. I hope you're able to recover and get the car up and running again.

 

Damn man that sucks. Did you have a shop build the engine?

 

Naturally the next question is................................who dunnit

 

Funny how someone says the high road. To everyone that has been following this build thread here is the real story. I'm the one the whole time that's built this car with the exception on doing the wiring and the roll cage. Funny how someone that had a car built without one dollar spent in labor and got all their parts on dealer pricing wants to take the high road and not say anything.
From the start I'm the one that has done all the body work, body modifications, and paint. I'm the one that built the rear end, along with all the suspension installation and tuning. I also built the engine, in which was MY short block and not the other persons. It was my engine combination along with my tuning. Funny how someone else takes credit for everything else till something goes south, as which in racing things happen.
The person saying they know what happened isn't an engine builder or tuner by any means. This person was at best a front counter boy that you would find at your local auto parts store. The person is afraid to change the oil in a car for the fear of doing something wrong or incorrectly. The person also has never made a pass in this car on motor or on nitrous. Other then driving the car around on the street and purging on people in a typical Honda ricer fashion.
I had assemble the engine, yes I did. What the other person fails to say is, that while he was here I never checked piston to valve clearance. But what he won't/didn't say is he had to run home to his wife while I stayed late to finish the engine and check other things such as PTV, intake port match up and other things. All he knows when he came in the next morning the engine was together and ready to install the car.
If there was such an issue with PTV why is it the car/engine never had an issue on the dyno on motor or on nitrous. Engine made many pulls on the chassis dyno with not one issue. Then I had many hits testing on the streets and then went to the track and had made multiple passes at the track. The high speed limiter was set to 7500 and had been to that point a few times seeing where the car fell off at the track. If there was an issue with ptv it would have surface way earlier.
Again after many passes, I took the car to the no Mercy race for testing after installing the front end limiters to help keep the car off the back bumper. The other person stayed back and I was there at the track without help again. In the process of trying out the new travel limiters, the car on the 2nd pass/launch had an issue. With the limiters being set with low travel, coming of the trans brake and turning the nitrous on ( even tho it was on a progressive controller ) the car went right up in smoke with 0 traction. So it basically was like putting the car in neutral and turning on the nitrous at full throttle with no load on the engine. And anyone that knows about engines knows that when something like this happens valve float comes into play. So even with correct ptv, valve float comes into play and the valve springs lose control of the valve events and things crash into each other. If there was an issue it would have surfaced way before this. Me not being aware that this happened ( Valve float ) and after checking the plugs there was no apparent issues or miss firing of the engine. On the next pass the front end stayed down, with a 1.33 60' and the 1-2 shift being made at 6820 rpm and the 2-3 shift made at 6780 and then the engine cut loose. So if anyone would like to know the other side of the story, there you have it. I'll post up video also..

 

Well this changed directions in quick fashion.