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Old 05-19-2008, 07:38 PM
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I was messing around with a friend this weekend and he has a 01 WSG with a T-Rack SLp headers, 3500stall, ported tb. I have a 00 Z28 with a set of AFR205 milled .024",MAMO ported FAST intake 90/90. Mamo cam 224/228 598/598 lift @ 114LSA+2 deg advanced, pace setter LT's, gears.
When we raced he handed me my ***, at the end of the run the car started with blue smoke then a hint of grey. I was looking at the paper ihad with my tune and my AFRs are all-over with 15+ down low then down to 11.0 then back up to 16.0. Would you guys think this would be the dawn fall of my combo? I mean i should have walked him but no. I did not spin at all its just that i have noticed the car has not been running like it did. what are your suggs.
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WS6??

Anyway if you are running 11 : 1 A/F then yeah you are going to lose to everything.

Heres a scenario for you. I had a 408 stroker built for my SS. I had a mail in tune done for it and it ran ok, no smoking or anything so I thought all was well. I raced a guy with a Z28 and all he had was gears and a lid and he pulled me by a car and held it until about 135 mph. So I go and get a real tune and run him again and just in one gear I pulled a couple of cars.
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I would suggest getting a better tune on the car. Your a/f shouldn't be all over the place like that.
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Get a good tune and you should be fine....
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Tune that thing before you break something. You should take him by about 3-4.........buslengths.
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Can't really say anything that wasn't already said. Get that girl a tune.

4 buslengths = 1 trainlength? There has to be some sort of street racing math lol
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Can't really say anything that wasn't already said. Get that girl a tune.

4 buslengths = 1 trainlength? There has to be some sort of street racing math lol
Well considering a freight train can be a 1/4 mile long... I'd say football field.
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It's because the Ws6's have the vett motor and ram air.
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It's because the Ws6's have the vett motor and ram air.
you wouldn't believe how many people around here try to sell a vehicle, whether it be lt1 or ls1 camaro with their main selling point being that it has the "corvette motor"

Its so funny
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Originally Posted by redhotz28
I was messing around with a friend this weekend and he has a 01 WSG with a T-Rack SLp headers, 3500stall, ported tb. I have a 00 Z28 with a set of AFR205 milled .024",MAMO ported FAST intake 90/90. Mamo cam 224/228 598/598 lift @ 114LSA+2 deg advanced, pace setter LT's, gears.
When we raced he handed me my ***, at the end of the run the car started with blue smoke then a hint of grey. I was looking at the paper ihad with my tune and my AFRs are all-over with 15+ down low then down to 11.0 then back up to 16.0. Would you guys think this would be the dawn fall of my combo? I mean i should have walked him but no. I did not spin at all its just that i have noticed the car has not been running like it did. what are your suggs.
Yes, I did mean WS6, my bad. What do you huys think about the smoke thing though. I know I should beat him with a tune, but the thing I am really worried about is the smoke.
The funny thing is, on this tune the car went a best of 11.78 at the track. after a driving it like this for a year it feels like the car is loosing a step in the way she runs.
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Once you get it tuned, assuming you get a good tune, the smoke will go away.
The blue and gray smoke is from the car running very rich and pretty lean as well.
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ok, thanks sarge, I was jsuted worried I did damage to my car
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Originally Posted by redhotz28
ok, thanks sarge, I was jsuted worried I did damage to my car
You very easily can running it lean and rich like that.
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Go spend 50 bucks for a few pulls on the dyno. Compare your resuls to old charts. I know after driving around a while in my car it starts to feel slow. So I dyno it occasionally (when it ******* runs) to make sure all is well. With my old 408 SS it actually saved me some issues that wheren't appearant.




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