Hey Ron - car looks like its running REAL good

 

Thanks man.

 

Ron how much are you boosting your combo?

 

How was the carne asada?

 

Excellent as always.
😊

 

Well, finally pulled the engine to assess the pan damage. Can’t remove the pan with the engine in the car.

The pan rail on the pass side was bent about 1/4 “. No damage to the sump. Pan is quite stout actually.

Sadly, I discovered this:





This is the upper left bellhousing bolt location.
So basically it hit so hard, the upward motion of the rear of the engine tried to tear the trans off the engine.
TH400 with an ultrablell. If you’ve seen those, the flange is 1” thick, it wasn’t going to break so the block took the brunt.

Fortunately I purchased an LC9 block to have as a spare, so my internals will go into that.

Sigh….RIP L33

Ron

 

Well crap. Cracks go deep? Fairly shallow flange depth back there Ron, so not a lot of force (leverage) on that part of the casting. Might be easily repairable?

 

A little hard to see in the photo, it’s about 4” long and all the way through. One part back there is 1” thick.
My welder guy (Truckdoug) says maybe if you heat the whole block etc etc.
There may be internal cracks I can’t see. Oil was oozing out of it as well.

This is the one instance where only having 5 instead of 6 bolts for the trans is an issue.

My Ultrabell has the boss for that top bolt. It’s not drilled now but will be. 😊

I will say that the main bearings look excellent. No more edge riding on 2&4, no wear on the thrust either. So maybe my larger clearances and a butt load of oil pressure are working.

 

Time for front and mid engine plates perhaps or just no more wheelies?

 

How are you making 11 pounds on foot brake

 

Darn!

 

I'll vote for no more wheelies. My gas pedal Achilles still hurts.

 

3200 rpm and 9 degrees of timing. It just does it, in my experience all combos are different.
My turbo has an 87mm exh wheel.

 

Damn. Damn Ron.

I didn't even think it would be possible for that to happen.

I would have guessed the oil pan and trans pan would have taken all the brunt until some part of the chassis hit the ground.

Hopefully the LC9 treats you well.


On a positive note, my whole entire C5 drivetrain less the engine is laying the floor in the garage for the Monster twin disc install. I'm trying not to get overwhelmed lol.

 

It hit the frame too......

Got ya on the drivetrain. Been there done that! Lying on my back on the garage floor. I get to do it again as my torque tube needs bushings.

 

I heard this car may have hit the track last night?

If you made it Ron, how did the car do for you?

 

friday he was there with only to be amazed at how my car can run 10's on 24psi

saturday he had his nova and i hear the track was pretty good, i'll let him post deets.

 

Yeah, finally got some hits at my local track PIR.
There we’re 3 of us small tire turbo cars so I asked the track manager if he could spray a little later in the evening. Which he did!

Nothing earth shattering, 9.17@150 was my best. 16 psi in low and 21-22 psi 2nd and 3rd.
Was good to make some runs. It’s been awhile.

Looking forward to the fall with cooler weather.

 

Ron we had the same problem with our car wheelieing. We had our shocks set full tight. Still couldn't keep it on the ground. We run spray. We now run Menscers all the way around. Our fronts are only on 3 clicks now. The car hooks incredibly good all the way down the track now. We did nothing else. We now crank the spray way up and leave a 1000rpm higher and it never leaves the ground. Menscers are worth every penny. The support you will get from them is priceless.

 

I have Viking Crusader fronts. Not the high hp version. I didn't have them quite full stiff, 3 clicks shy. Full stiff was the next test. As usual, the wheelstand was unexpected.
I guess they make a stiffer high hp version now.
Are the Menscers going to be a coilover setup?