Congrats on the times. That thing is making (and taking) some serious power, especially at your weight. Very impressive. I weigh almost the same and think im pushing it at 14lbs.

Ive seen a lot of people lose motors cus they ran the car on low gas and got that lean spike.

 

Thanks ya it did make some power until my screw up. Funny thing was before the pass i was like hmm i should have enough gas but i cut my best 60' and well starved it. When i pulled back to my trailer i had 5 gallons of c16 and put it all in the car still sounded great then pulled into the lanes to make another pass and i heard motor noises and heard the same stupid *** sound as last time. Stupid *** bearing! First thing i said was damnit i just wasted 5 gallons of C16 haha

 

Yeah, I wasn't happy at all. Especially since the car has been running so well and I have only a few weeks to get it ready for our track day. If I recall, it put down 677/626 on 16 lbs. or so. Power drops off hard after 5700 or so. I think this winter I am going to go with a max effort 5.3 with a Martin cam and this same turbo. Will see how it runs next spring.

 

Not trying to thread hi-jack, but what would the rest of the specs be on the 5.3 cams Martin? If you're willing to give them out that is.

And sorry to hear about your motor Doug, hope to see it back together quick. Impressive 60 ft time though, looks good leaving the line wheels up!

 

Thanks! Ya kind of wish it was a softer launch might have saved the motor for at least another couple passes lol

 

Pulled the hood off at 510


Two hours later.........

 

HA! I'm all too familiar with this statement man. If not for the dumbass mishaps, our motors would run forever with boost. But with HP and a turbo comes problems, guaranteed. Good thing it's so addicting!

Looks like you already made some good tear down progress too. Let me know what you end up finding when it comes apart some more, and good luck.

 

Time for a forged engine....

 

im doing almost the same setup, but i cant find the correct map sensor... what sensor did you use? do you have the part number?

 

Haha I agree with that!
Ya i only worked a couple hours but i have been here before so its just getting in there and doing it. I will let you know what i find in there. I'm going to get a new oil pump and the Baffle that MUSTANGBRK suggested

Id be pissed if i spun a bearing in a forged motor but thats why use a stock cranks lol
Alky kit will help........

I used a sensor that DSTeck makes think hes on here but i found him on HPtuners great price works awesome its a 2.5 bar map.

 

I run that same sensor from him. Works great and good price. But you might aswell sell it and get a 3 bar I know I'm going too.

 

46 pages! i feel like a trooper - i shoulda been in bed over an hour ago - but i kept reading and watching videos!

i love the build
this thread has been filled with more useful information then any other single theard ive read to do date.
im doing a ls360/s480/4l80/currie 9in 325 gear in my 67 camaro
thank you for all the information and the sponsers that have helped - i definitely know where my money will be going now.

 

Why did you stop working on it? You should be able to pull that thing out in your sleep now. lol

 

Funny you said that, on friday He shipped a 3 bar to me it prob will be on my step today.......

Thanks glad you liked it, I tried to put everything in here no matter what happened so that way maybe from my issues others can learn what to and not to do. lol
Good luck with your build love the 1st gen Camaros, i have a 69 Vert in my back yard i'm thinking of doing a turbo on after we get done with a couple other projects.

I only had a couple hours and wanted to see how far i got. next couple hours i'll pull the motor apart and see what happened. LOL

 

Stuff comes apart fast when you know the socket sizes, order you need to take stuff off, etc cause you've done it several times lol.

 

Oh so painfully true! lol

 

Tore the motor down last night and found something better than what i expected. One rod really bent but every other rod had a slight bend to them. Still bought the oil pan baffle that bill mentioned and will go with a new oil pump before installing the next motor.


So pretty much found the limits of the gen3 rods and they were right where i thought they would be.

Buddy took this picture though it was awesome

 

9.20s and nearly 150mph in a heavy car is a pretty respectable STOCK limit lol. The stock GM stuff is awesome.

 

It's ok I hear you are getting a forged 370?????

 

Is that what you hear??
Thanks again man! Funny how things work out. You needed your car at the shop I needed a motor 27+hr drive and bam both will be here LOL