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After pulling the plugs #1 hole seemed pretty lean, if it has been #7 I wouldn’t have thought much of it, but #1 isn’t normally the lean cylinder. So I sent the injectors off today to a local guy to have them flowed, better safe than sorry. No chance it’s a distribution issue considering I’m using the factory rail still is it?
good to know what kind of temps were you seeing before and after
i had the stock thermostat, it was running around 210-195, fluctuating back and forth. Would get you round 215-220 at the end of a pull. Now I have no thermostat and I set the fans on at 190 and off at 180 and at idle I’d sits at 180-190 with fans cycling, cruising it runs around 170-175
Been playing around round with another cluster I have, some of my gauges don’t work and they fine in either cluster so I’m thinking about doing something like this with the gauges on either side
Finished my harness tonight, got rid of all
of the engine bay wiring, and made the system a stand alone. I removed 140# out of the car, and the engine bay should look amazing now. All of the weight reduction has been up on the front of the car, and firewall
area so it should help with traction a little also. Started putting the car back together tonight!
Thank you very much! Placed an order for a ptc single disk yesterday, and I’m ordering the new cam next weekend. Then I’m going to take it to be dyno tuned I think. I haven’t done much boosted tuning, and I’m starting to exceed my comfort zone. So better safe than sorry. I’m just trying to decide if I should switch to e85 first or leave it pump gas
Thank you very much! Placed an order for a ptc single disk yesterday, and I’m ordering the new cam next weekend. Then I’m going to take it to be dyno tuned I think. I haven’t done much boosted tuning, and I’m starting to exceed my comfort zone. So better safe than sorry. I’m just trying to decide if I should switch to e85 first or leave it pump gas
Cam and converter is going to work wonders! Pretty much any tuning is out of my comfort zone lol so you're not doing so bad. I'm using MS3Gold, I'll probably have someone skilled to tune it before I blow it up. I was literally in the same boat as you, trying to decide on pump or e85. There is only 1 e85 pump around me and its about a 40 minute drive, so looks like pump gas for me. If I'm not driving it around as much then I'll order race gas by the drum, but if I drive it a lot then pump 93, we'll see.
It’s a 45 minute drive for me to get some also. My delema is I don’t want to add meth, and I think to get to the power levels I want to see, I’m going to need to run racegas or meth. I think with e85 I’ll be fine with my current setup, I’ll probably add a second 450 on a Hobbs if I do and maybe turn up the base pressure to 70# to get some more out of these injectors. I’d like to end up around 800whp or whatever these turbos max at. Not on this ls1 of course.
I thought about just ordering a 55 gal. drum of racegas or e85r. But I'd hate to be out driving somewhere and need gas and be **** out of luck. I bet those turbos would make 800whp on a LS1, not on a SBE though lol. I'm hoping to make close to 700 on this 5.3 of mine. Really I just hope it runs 9s.
I thought about just ordering a 55 gal. drum of racegas or e85r. But I'd hate to be out driving somewhere and need gas and be **** out of luck. I bet those turbos would make 800whp on a LS1, not on a SBE though lol. I'm hoping to make close to 700 on this 5.3 of mine. Really I just hope it runs 9s.
when I had my engine our to clean up the bay I s actually stuck in my forged 348, with ported 243’s, ls9’s and main and head studs. I’m going to have it tuned with the new engine and cam and converter, see what she will do. I put in my boost/pulse leash and I’m having issues with it, not sure what I’m doing wrong but I have it set to 5# and it just climbs in boost till I let off, got to 15# yesterday and I let out, not sure what’s going on
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