Few updates on the Firehawk
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Few updates on the Firehawk Been hot so I figured now is the time to get a couple things done, brought the car down to NRC in South Carolina to get an 8.50 cage done and they did a great job. I also went ahead and put a BS3 in this week, stock PCM was doing OK but I was running out of injector and since I had some 95s laying around it made more sence sell off the 2 step. 60lb injectors and EFIlive and put a BS3 in. I had great luck with the BS3 in my old car and it really makes tunign a lot easier then the stock PCM.
I did keep the stock pcm for the speedo, fuel level, temp and oil pressure gauges. Not so bad leaving it in there when there is only about 10 wires left going to it.
I'm going to pulley up the D1SC and see what I can get out of it, ran 9.17 @ 149 with the old car with the D1SC so I'm going to try to see if I can squeak in the 8s with the D1 in this car in good weather. It wont be easy but I may be able to get it. Just have to put the carpet back in, plug in one of my old tunes and wait for it to cool off a little - been brutal here temp-wise lately.
I did keep the stock pcm for the speedo, fuel level, temp and oil pressure gauges. Not so bad leaving it in there when there is only about 10 wires left going to it.
I'm going to pulley up the D1SC and see what I can get out of it, ran 9.17 @ 149 with the old car with the D1SC so I'm going to try to see if I can squeak in the 8s with the D1 in this car in good weather. It wont be easy but I may be able to get it. Just have to put the carpet back in, plug in one of my old tunes and wait for it to cool off a little - been brutal here temp-wise lately.
Last edited by kp; Nov 23, 2009 at 02:33 PM.
Very nice looking cage! I really like my BS3. Especially having all those boxes in one box. One day I'm going to try their boost control just to see how well it works vs EB2. Only thing BS3 "sorta needs" is a ben map option...not really hard to map in real time, but more than 30 seconds of logging with a ben would be icing on the cake.
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Very nice looking cage! I really like my BS3. Especially having all those boxes in one box. One day I'm going to try their boost control just to see how well it works vs EB2. Only thing BS3 "sorta needs" is a ben map option...not really hard to map in real time, but more than 30 seconds of logging with a ben would be icing on the cake.
Yea the 30 second logging is kinda short for a street car but its fine for what I'm doing, I dont use many cells
Plus I take full advantage of the wideband correction, thats something the stock PCM/tuners still cant do. BS3 does have a wideband controlled auto VE table writing thing but it doesnt work on the LS boxes which is a shame.It would be nice to have undo and compare with the software also but sometimes simple is better.
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This car is blue and the other one was black, how much different can you get lol.
Its similar, but a lot things are done differently, just like when you replaced yours I'm sure you changed a lfew things around that you didnt like the first time. Plus its all new, my old car had over 1000 passes on it over three years and was starting to show it, nothing lasts forever. Plus I just didnt fit well in the 25.5 cage and I didnt like driving it..
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You know how it is guys. At one point 10s seemed fast enough, then it's 9s, then mid 9s, then low 9s, and hell why not, let's squeeze an 8 outta her! I know that's all way easier said than done, but speed is a progressive disease. The more we get, the more we want.
Glad your having fun with it KP. Looking forward to some new updates once you hit the track
Glad your having fun with it KP. Looking forward to some new updates once you hit the track
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I re-used your old charge pipes for old times sake, I was going to make all new fancy aluminum pipes but I ended up putting a big procharger blowoff on these and using them again.
The wiring wasnt that scary, just need a PCM pinout and a set of wire cutters - luckily you dont have to hook any of those back up
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It wont be easy with the D1SC, only a couple 3200lb+ cars in the whole country that ran in the 8s with a D1SC that I'm aware of. But it doesnt hurt to try, if not I can always bolt an F1A on it, been there
I re-used your old charge pipes for old times sake, I was going to make all new fancy aluminum pipes but I ended up putting a big procharger blowoff on these and using them again.
The wiring wasnt that scary, just need a PCM pinout and a set of wire cutters - luckily you dont have to hook any of those back up
I re-used your old charge pipes for old times sake, I was going to make all new fancy aluminum pipes but I ended up putting a big procharger blowoff on these and using them again.
The wiring wasnt that scary, just need a PCM pinout and a set of wire cutters - luckily you dont have to hook any of those back up
I noticed the ol charge pipe
Now all we need is some cooler weather huh!
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I can overspin this D1SC a bit if need be, my only weak link are my pistons. They are off the shelf diamonds and are decent but they arent as stout as the JEs I ran in the old engine. I'll have to get ~100lbs out of it to get it to 3200lbs too, its something to shoot for anyway
Been hot so I figured now is the time to get a couple things done, brought the car down to NRC in South Carolina to get an 8.50 cage done and they did a great job. I also went ahead and put a BS3 in this week, stock PCM was doing OK but I was running out of injector and since I had some 95s laying around it made more sence sell off the 2 step. 60lb injectors and EFIlive and put a BS3 in. I had great luck with the BS3 in my old car and it really makes tunign a lot easier then the stock PCM.
I did keep the stock pcm for the speedo, fuel level, temp and oil pressure gauges. Not so bad leaving it in there when there is only about 10 wires left going to it.
I'm going to pulley up the D1SC and see what I can get out of it, ran 9.17 @ 149 with the old car with the D1SC so I'm going to try to see if I can squeak in the 8s with the D1 in this car in good weather. It wont be easy but I may be able to get it. Just have to put the carpet back in, plug in one of my old tunes and wait for it to cool off a little - been brutal here temp-wise lately.
I did keep the stock pcm for the speedo, fuel level, temp and oil pressure gauges. Not so bad leaving it in there when there is only about 10 wires left going to it.
I'm going to pulley up the D1SC and see what I can get out of it, ran 9.17 @ 149 with the old car with the D1SC so I'm going to try to see if I can squeak in the 8s with the D1 in this car in good weather. It wont be easy but I may be able to get it. Just have to put the carpet back in, plug in one of my old tunes and wait for it to cool off a little - been brutal here temp-wise lately.