What are the numbers? I can’t download on my phone?

 

final numbers were 692/551 on radials, open X pipe, speed density, etc, etc

 

Great job Darth. Nice Numbers. You should probably just tear it apart and fix it the right way. Its going to drive you nuts if you don't. **** like that could happen to anyone. Totally sucks. Not sure if I read it but what all is done to the rest of the car to get all that sweetness to the ground?

 

Thanks holy ****. LOL. Damn dude. How built is your trans and rear? LOL. Well thought out build. Congrats

Jim

 

Those are some crazy numbers from an NA engine.
Congratulations.
PS Pull the head off and fix it!

 

Trans is a rpm stage 5. Rear is a burkhartchassis fab 9 with strange center section. Suspension is the strano Afco umi road race kit which seems odd I guess but it hooks better and rides better than when I had Vikings.

 

Very stout numbers! Congrats man

 

Very nice. Chuck Burkhart is Good People. We have quite a few parts from him. They do incredibly good work and are priced reasonable too. Been to his shop several times. Wish we would have discovered him a lot earlier.

I believe the Afco's are a better shock. If we wouldn't have gone with the Menscers, which start off as Afco's. We definitely would have chosen Afco's. We started with the QA1's and they were good to 800Hp with the rebound cranked all the way up. Now with the Menscers. we go no more than 4 clicks of rebound for 1200Hp. It really is so important to have a good set of shocks. Your 60 should be really Good. RPM builds some Bad *** Trannys for sure. Did you get a brake on it? Looking forward to seeing your track times if your willing to post them.

Great Job Man.

 

Where do you race TTur1996? Chuck handles all my suspension stuff and his good friend Matt at Redline does my tuning. I'm good friends with both and Chuck's place is only a few hours from my house. I've been to the track with them before. Real good people.

I went with Menscers in my manual trans car and Darth went with the UMI. Both start as Afcos. Remy (I think that was his name) actually helped me pick Menscers for my build and he's one of the main engineers for UMI. Awesome guy. I'm running the Afcos on my auto car and I love them. I haven't even had to adjust them yet but I haven't hit the car very hard yet. Just figured out some big gremlins.

Darth's car has a stage 5 t56 manual transmission from RPM and a RPS double disc clutch.

 

9s here he comes!!

 

Nice build. 220ish bmep again i think if my calculator in my mind is correct

If you have to use epoxy Use spash zone.
obviously burr finish and
Pre heat part a little and definitely post heat. I use a heat lamp light.. i also lightly heat the epoxy before before mixing. Many years ago i had jb weld come out of a intake port on motorcycle during a race . Lost a ton of power. Didn't do any damage. But the above method has never failed me sense.

 

Any updates?

 

dang just read whole thing tonight man you got bad hotrod

 

What’s been going on with the car?

 

I've been a lazy ****.

For real that crack opening back up took it out of me. Not making excuses but I have my fourth daughter getting married end of feb so that's that. I will get back to it. And it will be my daily again.

I just have *need to get off my **** syndrome

 

I hear that. I tore the wiring out of my car in September. I took it apart 3 times in 2020 for no reason and only put it back together twice 😂

Just got mine running again. Holley EFI is the ****. Still working on the new engine too just one roadblock after the next.

The great thing about cars is you can easily step away from them for a while. Congrats on the good things in life and I’m sure you’ll be back running ASAP when it’s a priority again.

 

Thanks man I appreciate it. I'm seriously considering ripping all the wiring out and going Holley. At this point the only thing stock is the wiring and body panels.

 

Heres hoping for 2021 to be much more forward progress on our hotrods! Parts are rolling in again n spring just around the corner..

 

Man I can't be happier with the Holley. There are little things here and there that you don't really understand until you use it, but no EFI setup will be 100% for everyone. The Termi X only has one extra rev limiter for example and I wanted two. Some of the limited I/O is already used for stupid things like cooling fans or AC controls etc. The tach signal output is non-programmable so again you have to burn an output if your tach is anything but 4 pulse per rev. Overall for the cost though it is phenomenal. Terminator X plus the harness for $900 without the touch panel. I built a base tune and literally could drive out of the neighborhood and go WOT with only my best guesses in the VE table. After a few pulls it is +/- 1-2% on fueling.


The learn table is doing it's thing and over time it'll continue to get better. There's still cold-start, idle, low speed and timing tables to optimize manually but man the speed of the ECU and having closed loop wideband control full time is such a game changer. It really modernizes the engine response. Our factory ECU's are 20+ year old tech at this point.

 

Well, I'm finally past all the life event stuff and got to pull the intake off. Short summary of life activities -- another daughter married off, helped one that was already married move accross country, find a house, and they are about a week away from having our second grandchild. yeah I'm old, my company decided to build a new factory which I'm part of the design and commissioning team. All of that is honestly just excuses though. It was kind of a punch int he dick to have to tear the heads off, and I just didn't feel like it for a while, so I went through a bit of a funk. Out of it now. So, the intake came off, and...

One of these things doesn't look like the other ones....


I was completely unexpected, but the #3 plug that was fouling has a perfectly clean port while the others looked varnished. I puzzled over this until I felt around inside the port, and it was completely oil soaked. Basically, the oil is so new that it is transparent. but the coating is heavy enough that it prevented varnish from sticking. But the other ports varnished up and felt bone dry. There was no oil inside the intake manifold.



Here you can clearly see the hole in the runner. The discoloration surrounding it I think is the epoxy patch I did, and it didn't hold. Another thing I notices is that oil drip kind of hanging onto the bottom of the rocker boss. So I do need to go back and do a better job sealing the rocker bolts.


Now, for the "While I'm in there" list... I have a holley system on the way. I'm bouncing back and forth between ditching the factory gauges and running the screen on an overlay or mounting it where the radio is. The radio works just fine, but kooks > radio volume. My factory harness is just crumbling, and I keep trying to patch it up, but it's starting to look really messy from all of that. If the holley ends up looking really clean, I might just get rid of the stock stuff altogether. If I can find a way to tap into everything from inside the car, I might do it that way. Got some stuff to figure out, anyway.

If I can access the AC box without pulling the motor, it'll come out. I'm sick of fighting it for space, and I haven't run the AC in years anyway.

I cheaped out on the rocker covers and have regretted it, so I'll be replacing those, which will help me with some of my space concerns also.

I might be jumping to a 105mm throttle, but I need to see how much I can open up the mouth of the intake. I'd have to use a paper gasket if I do this, because the rubber seal diameter is 105mm.

My throttle cable plastic flange has fatigued and broken off, so it won't clip into place on the intake mount anymore. I will need to ran a new throttle cable.

Try to reroute some of my various hoses to clean things up in there. My bay looks pretty cluttered and really could and should be done better.