qouted from my dyno thread

 

Sweet! When are you planning on running at the track?

 

I have a few things to do ,move battery to back so that I can mount my ac accumulator where the battery is. Vacuum pump took up that accumulator spot. For now the small battery is held down by a bungy chord.
today I'll be tracking down a water leak. Hopefully it will be at the track sometime this month but possibly early November before I go

 

Cool deal, there's Streetcarrevolution November 16th at SCR.

 

Nice update! When you move the battery to the back I suggest not getting a metal battery box. See my threads for wiring info.

 

No me and wife going to new Orleans that night

 

It's a small lithium battery. No box needed

 

Electric water pump took a dump. Leaking water around the seams .
Ended my dyno session early thinking possible head gasket.
The water run down the front of block , on to the oil pan rail and to back of block.
Amazon is refunding me most of my money so I put a mechanical pump back on. I dont think it done much for horsepower and it wasn't helping with cooling so I'm not mad about getting money back for something that didnt work for me.

 

Meziere? Or another one?

 

Meziere street pump.

Meziere told me they dont sell through Amazon and that they would warranty it but not refund it.
Amazon is so all good, back running with a mechanical pump

 

I have been debating on whether to use the LS2 pump I have or a Meziere. The Meziere seems like it's really expensive for what it is. And it's fixing a problem that doesn't exist?

Edelbrock makes a higher volume water pump that doesn't work on our cars without some modding. But the price for it and the billet pulley is almost as much as the Meziere.

 

Sucks that it leaked almost right out of the box. Mine is a few years old with no issues.

 

Im using an Evans water pump, flow 20% more than an oem pump, outflows a meziere, helps keep no 7 and 8 cooler. Just running 70/30 water-glycol and water wetter, 28psi radiator cap, double clamp on radiator pipes ,160 t-stat
Normal street driving water temps sit at 228, when i get into it temps will go to 220. Only problem i have is when hwy driving, temps will go down to 195 so every 15mins or so ill drop it into 5th and give it a squirt to bring temps up to 215 or so

 

PRW 1434620 here. Awesome pumps. Excellant low speed flow yet designed to operate well above 7k rpm. And the pulley just plain looks great!

 

It does seem great. That'll be my next pump!

 

I made a short drive to the gas station today. No leaks and I found my oil leak I had while I had my intake off. Ict billet oil pressure adapter for sending unit wasnt letting the spending unit tighten down enough to squeeze the metal washer.
Modified that and seems to have fixed that issue.

 

It won't cool as well as a mechanical pump.
I'm not concerned with temps now , I'm spraying meth injection 5o cool off combustion chamber.

 

I had a good weekend with the car. I went to the Mississippi Gulf coast for cruising the coast kick off and put about 200miles of driving on it. Since changing to the mechanical water pump, car stayed around 198 and only 1time creeped up to 205 . I didnt have time to get the m&h 325x45x17 tires put on my wheels so I went to the coast on my drag set up. Skinnys up front and 275x60 pros on back. Car ran and drove flawlessly.
I lined up with a friend of mine who has a vortech supercharger in heads cam and intake ls1 fbody who made 550running out of fuel pump with a 255walboro at only 5500rpms.. Since swapped it for a 450lph.
We went from a 55mph roll to 135& was side by side the whole way. Here's the kicker, he was alone on 1/4 tank of gas, I had a full tank and a 170lb passenger and through exhaust. He has the speed engineering dual exhaust, I have the bassani dual 2.5" and need to swap to the speed engineering dual exhaust as im losing 30hp to the wheels with this small pipe set up.
Because of him edging me out by a fender, his exhaust was right next to my window so data log shows I shifted second to 3rd at 7300 instead of running it out to 7800where it needs to be.

Great run with a good friend and we both laughed and just enjoyed the run. In no way am I making excuses for why he edged me out, i'm tickled to be running with a blown fbody even if he is only on 8psi boost.
Data logs show I was lean also. Yet I made another hit right after where it was perfect at 12.4 air fuel.
Seems the meth kit is saturating my air filter or something as it makes kpa go down to 92-94 and get lean then it will read 99 the next pull and be great.

Possibly gonna do a Chris 1313 pro stock ram air and 3" speed engineering dual as next mods

 

Why do you want your temps that hot

 

F*ck me I run the LS1 in my Camaro at under 180 .. I have an overkill aluminum radiator and fans in it. Usually sits around 175. Here's the deal, that's on the autometer mechanical temp gauge threaded into the water pump.. But the actual GM temp sensor in the cylinder head always shows 10 degrees hotter than the autometer at the water pump. So I figure the heads are up at 190, so I don't want it any hotter! Plus it's quicker when it runs cold due to intake temp, and never pings. I've proven it many times over with my gtech. And I run my tune on the absolute limit of high octane pump unleaded so more heat will just be backwards. And lastly I don't buy into this cylinders sealing better with higher temp crap, at least not in a sleeved block. Cooler cylinder head temps I can run the tune leaner with more timing on pump gas = more power.