MAN! After an initial tune, I took the GWP 422 out for a spin (uh huh) thru 1st and 2nd (no place for a long, secluded run) and I had trouble mustering the nerve to keep the pedal to the floor. The front end came up like a speed boat and it seemed the farther I went, the harder it pulled! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

I can't wait to dyno and 1/4 mile it! The dyno near here has been broken for weeks, they told me today, and is backed up for four weeks. I may have to drive to Greensboro. I called them, but got no answer.

Thursday is normally test-n-tune night. But, that's Thanksgiving, so I doubt they will be t-n-t'ing it this week.

If I go down home this weekend, I have to see if I can get a guage run before I jump on anybody spraying.

 

Uh yeah, I think I'd be scared to hammer the throttle on your car as well. Can't wait to see what kinda #'s it puts down after you get it tuned and running right.

 

Sounds awesome, what are you hoping for number wise, 1/4 and dyno.
J <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

 

this is assuming you have the new tranny in...how does that hpa tranny feel?

 

Sounds great, get some numbers/times.

What kind of transmission did you end up getting?
How do you like it?
Do you think it will holdup?

Jay

 

I hate you !! i hate you !! i hate you!!!

you know it's bad for your health, so as a service from me to you , i'm offering to take that car off your hands free of charge!

man !! thats nice to hear! hurry up and dyno / track run that beast!

 

Oh... the motor is definitely waking up as more miles are put on it. It feels looser and, SOTP, the power is better.

I'm getting more boost, now, too. Before, I only saw about 2.5 to 3 PSI. Now that the motor is looser and revs a little better (and, I'm sure, a better tune is in), I see around 4 or 5 PSI. THAT is making heck of a difference in the power, too! <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />

I shudder to think what this thing would do with enough fuel and 10 PSI! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="gr_eek2.gif" />

 

What kind of transmission did you end up going with?

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Lost & Found2:
<strong>What kind of transmission did you end up going with?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I still wanted to try sticking with the 4L60E and chose High Performance Associates to do the job. I talk about it here:

4L60E Choices - who would YOU pick?
https://ls1tech.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...c;f=2;t=005144

 

Since I just got the tranny back in, I haven't been able to get a dyno or go to the track. I visited home and got to do some stuff out in the country. But I had a problem with everytime I got the ET Streets heated enough to get a hook-up, it would blow my fuse for the Aeromotive pump.

Everybody that saw me take off, and even beat a guy spraying Nitrous in a '99 Camaro SS, said there was NO car around there that could beat me (he quit about halfway, I was so far ahead). But, he asked for another run, and I tried to heat my tires up... only to keep blowing the fuse. If I took off easy, letting him get ahead a couple cars, and then leaned into it, I could catch him and beat him. But, if I used first gear with WOT, I'd blow that fuse.

Anybody with some recommendations aobut the problem, I'm all ears. I have to try to contact Kenny about it today.

Here are my initial thoughts about what is happening:

1. Somewhere the wire for power is shorting against the car when it flexes from the more powerful take-offs.

(I crawled around and found no bare wire, but there is a spot I have to check above the underbody heat-shield where the wire is hidden.)

2. Somehow, more fuel demand creates a load on the pump and more current than I used to get, so it blows fuses.

(Well, I went from a 30 amp fuse to a 40 amp, and it blew that one repeatedly , too. So, I've all but eliminated that silly idea. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> )

3. The pump is going bad and either needs a rebuild or replacement. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="gr_images/icons/mad.gif" />

So, once again I'm stuck... three days before a test-n-tune night I could have taken advantage of. Oh, well. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />

 

Kenny just told me to look at increasing the wire to at least 12-ga.
Team ZR-1 says he'd take it to 10 ga and Kenny said that couldn't hurt. I think it's around 16 guage, but I'm gonna check.

Also, they both suggested re-checking my ground connection. Kenny says that will blow fuses too because of the increased resistance.

I don't know what the max amps it flows is... I'll check with Aeromotive.

 

Mike

I had a problem with that fuse blowing before. In my case it was a dead short underneath that heat shield your talking about. Somebody wasn't careful about making sure the wire didn't get crimped when they put the shield on. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Embarrassed]" src="gr_emb.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

Bigger wire wouldn't hurt either though. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

John

<small>[ December 02, 2002, 05:17 PM: Message edited by: XLR8NSS ]</small>

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by XLR8NSS:
<strong>Mike

I had a problem with that fuse blowing before. In my case it was a dead short underneath that heat shield your talking about. Somebody wasn't careful about making sure the wire didn't get crimped when they put the shield on. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Embarrassed]" src="gr_emb.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

Bigger wire wouldn't hurt either though. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

John</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks! I sure hope you are right, because the wire on there (I checked when I went outside) is 12 guage already.

When the guy put the tranny in for me, he left the wire laying on my exhaust and the exhuast was misadjusted. I moved that off and readjusted the exhaust. It makes sense that when the car flexes with an extra powerful take-off that that's when it blows. It doesn't blow any other time than a takeoff with super hook-up.

Thanks. I guess I'd have found that when I replaced the wire. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

Whelp... the wire going to the pump was bumping against the headers under hard torque. This bare wire (actually two spots) was hidden from view, behind some heat shield, until I removed it and checked it with the headers cold.

Thank God for fuses, hmmm?