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Yessir in on the frame in the left rear wheel well. It will be like the picture below but a lot less stuff and no clutter. At least I hope lol. Also my post 10 micron will be in the left front wheel well on the frame before heading up to the Y block.
Will do Ball. Thanks for the heads up. Generally my experience with Evil Energy has been 100%.
That's actually really great to know since I used a bunch of their stuff when I upgraded the feed on my fuel system and was still looking over my shoulder or under my car more accurately lol.
I used their filters, fittings and hose, other than the spiral shaving in the filter end, everything else has worked excellent, no leaks, looks like good quality stuff too.
HOLY FILTERS! BatMan!!
That sure is a system right there. Again, you are lucky not have to deal with the brake scoop / duct. You have no idea how lucky. There's really no other place to put it - period.
Not stealing you thunder but here's where I had to put mine. WAY forward to clear that stuff. Side entry Fuel Hat would be pretty cool too.
I'm still on the mend from recent 'procedure' - no lifting, no garage, no fun.
Carry on
The ECS Bulkhead has a sock so I used a small filter on the outlet. The combo 'should' cover the injectors.
No thunder stealing at all. I like to see what others have done. That's how we learn things. I'll be runnning a hundred micron filter pre pump to catch rocks and I'll be running a 10 micron up on the frame in the left front wheel well opening to catch the beach sand.
More pictures to come.
Just about got the ECS fuel block installed but the screws they sent are too short. Wont even grab a thread in the tank. Hell they barely go through the block themselves let alone the pump hat and gasket.
Came with 30mm long bolts and I need at least 35mm.
Long but semi fun Easter weekend of building and plumbing and overcoming adversities lol. Got the external pump done less the relay, hobbs switch and wiring which I will do today.
The Y block turned out really nice. Thanks for the persuasion @RonSSNova for the idea.
Corvettes, the definition of 10lbs of **** in a 5lb bag.
Well the time is near. Just got done tuning up the car for the next WOT dyno session on the 17th of July.
Cleaned the Blackwing filter for the first time ever after about 4 years. It wasn't super dirty but it was starting to look very dry.
Installed a new 8rib blower/accessory belt.
I splurged and bought a new Soler Performance Ported Throttle body and made the corrections in the tune for it. I also swapped out the Michigan Motorsports TB harness adapter in favor of a new Caspers unit.
Fresh oil change. and cut open the filter from now to the last dyno short lived dyno session. No scary monsters inside. Shout out to AMS Racing Engines for the awesome forged short block!
Thought about changing the plugs but they only have a few thousand miles on them. So I quit thinking about it.
Been working on tuning for the AC on and it's getting there. I also may have finally fixed my idle sag when blipping the throttle or coming to a stop after 3 years lol.
Sorry for the delayed response fellas. Been a lot of inquiries on this lol. It has just been a cluster eff of a week.
So the long short of it is we had a blast on this dyno session. Everything ran and performed well.
Oddly enough we didn't make any more power over a couple of months ago with the deficient fuel system. I think we were just getting lucky then by hitting peak power right when the fuel system was leaning out. Lean is mean!
This time, we started off coal rolling rich with the new fuel system. Like 9.5:1 Only made like 500hp like that lol.
I think we made 7 pulls on the day. Left with a perfect 11.5:1 AFR and 16 degrees of timing. Only 602 wheel hp and 708 foot pounds of torque. Yes 700. That is not a typo. On 92 octane grocery store pump gas.
Admittedly the car either needs more boost or more cam or a combination of the two.
Just going to leave it alone for now and drive the wheels off of it.
Below is a screenshot of the log and hell I'll attach the log as well if anyone is bored enough to look at it. Cough Ron lol.
The data looks ok to me. A little rich, we were commanding 11.35:1 to stay safe and your wideband was showing a bit richer than that.
I’d bet with some more tuning the power would go up past 5300.
When I ran a dyno, I never cared for sticking a sniffer in the tailpipe. It just never agreed with the AFR measured by the cars wideband. Ours finally died….problem solved!
The data looks ok to me. A little rich, we were commanding 11.35:1 to stay safe and your wideband was showing a bit richer than that.
I’d bet with some more tuning the power would go up past 5300.
When I ran a dyno, I never cared for sticking a sniffer in the tailpipe. It just never agreed with the AFR measured by the cars wideband. Ours finally died….problem solved!
Thanks Ron!
He did acknowledge that there is almost always a difference between onboard wideband and his sniffer. I think he just prefers his sniffer as it seems to be known to him for consistency.
I also think there may be some more power left there somewhere. Still kicking myself for not trying a pull with the intake tube off the throttle body.
I'm sure if I pressed him to find some more power he would have done so but on that note I had pretty much told him at the beginning of the day that it needs to be safe enough to make 1/4 miles passes as the priority.
04-06-2023, 12:49 PM
