She's alive. Got to driver her a short bit yesterday. Street tune only. We are going to get a few heat cycles on her before we get into any serious stuff. Took her to Sullivan's to have the transmission gone through again. Tranny had a leak so we will fix that then set her up. AFter that Steve is going to finish the boost controller. I still have to pin the hood and the Corbeau Forza seats are due in next week.We are going to take it easy onmher this summer and wait for cool weather to see what she will do. Video is somewhat boring but you can see the difference between the initial startup and the tune James put on her. Car is remarkably docile for a 1200+ rwhp car.

Startup and running Video


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Also got first of new Corbeau Forza Seats

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Got a little deeper into the transmission than I had hoped to today. Nate at Sullivan's pulled it. The Torque converter I put into it was not sized right and we had beat up the pump pretty bad. We'd been keeping an eye out on the front aluminum hub for a couple of years now and we've decided to put it back to an iron piece. Little speed bump in the highway to hell but we are still headed home with this thing.

Right now guessing the pads on the converter were too thick and pressed the converter too hard against the input shaft wrecking the pump. Converter has had some metal in it, debating on having it gone through.

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Alumninum hub in the iupper left is probably a good drag racer only idea but for street uses we figure an iron piece will be more durable.

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We didn't have enough hours on the tranny to put any burn on the clutches.

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Here is the hub we are replacing

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View down inside the open Transmission

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My theory is that the converter pressure on the input shaft might have also resulted in pressure back up into the crank, fouling the reluctor wheel and taking out my LQ9...Just a theory.

Car sounds great! Please post video of first hard run. Your a disciplined man, as I would have already opened her up. Thanks for posting.

Well it is more a factor of wanting to get everything right before we stress it this time. Thanks though. May get the tranny done tonight.

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Nate at Sullivan's finished going through the transmission today. Replaced the front pump and freshened it up.

If it weren't for that hood, it sounds like you have a cammed LSx. Have fun!

She sounds great! I love the look with that hood.

Tore the sagging liner out today. Thinking up ideas. I was pressing for a Velvet Elvis headliner. Can't find one that suits me though. I have been looking at some shaggy Mink too but was afraid some activist would douse me in red paint or blood.

So you ought to try it with a roll bar in it.

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Some Ethyl Porn

Had Special Performance Coatings in Irving Texas do my strut bar to contrast the Vic Jr. and match the overall setup.

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Looks great. And thanks for posting the videos. Shoot us some more when you get them!

Moar Porn

Nice
 

Good to see you enjoying it

Thanks :)

Got the headliner back from Dee Trim in Plano. In lieu of a velvet Elvis motif I went with a suede black. Should have done blue :)

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Well SNL has really worked their asses off to get the car back together. I'd say the wiring is close to 75% done. Most of the damage was local to the harness on the passenger side though we lost a lot of connectors. Melted the Line Loc and ruined the two step wiring Getting it back together. They also took the time to clean off all the suppressant. Between the fire and the power washing, the engine bay has never looked better. Here is a mixture of damage and repair shots.

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What a mess to clean up.

I was wondering the other day where you've been. Can you elaborate on the fire source?

We've redone the wiring several times. I wrestled wit a cam position sensor code for about two weeks then rewired that part. Took the car on a 60 mile trip. Had a lot of theories on the source of the fire ranging from Alcohol fire to the TH400. At the end of the day it seems I had a short in a wire that set the insulation on fire. The fire burned for a while and eventually compromised the integrity of the fuel line. The fuel boiled and then vaporized filling the engine compartment, that caused the explosion. The fire seems to also have been fed by a leaking Transmission seal. Damage was mostly to connectors and the wiring insulation/sheaths.

Moving right along they installed the Co2 System that will drive the Boost controller.

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Motor is sitting there ready. Shop has a couple of priority jobs in right now. Might be this weekend, I think they want to get it done quickly. Still have to wire and rig the Co2 and the Boost Controller. Once I get it home I have to drop the pumpkin and axles to have them inspected. Should have done that a couple of weeks ago but I just didn't have the time.


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Took the car to Ennis Texas for Opening night. Conditions were terrible.We only got three passes before calling it quits. Did manage to trap 147 though.

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Good to hear from you. Have any new street kill videos? Don't stay gone so long next time!

Sorry, we ran 9.2 @ 154 today. Much more to come.

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9.29 @ 154

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Nice!

Compiled videos from 13-15 March Racing in Texas....Ethyl Porn

Ha Ha, nice! She's moving out now! Love the videos. I see you have a bar in the car, but with that much speed, you really should cage this beast. Are you street driving the car at all?

Street driving days will draw to a close as we update the bar and change out the suspension. Might be driving to the occasional car show but not going out playing much.

Lots of suspension work needed.

Just don't end up like that Leux ISF that took flight and started gliding down the track!

Amen

Frame by Frame through the traps, the view at 154 mph

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Love the build. And those frame by frame pictures are awesome. 150+mph is no joke.

Thanks David, we've stepped back to work on the suspension and look over the safety issues. At a minimum we will be upgrading to a cage. We've already done some revisions to the suspension. One thing I have noticed looking over the videos, one run netted a 1.55 60'. The car lurched right, out of the groove when the boost came on, a little over 1 second into the run. Reviewing the film, I believe the front wheels came off the ground as the car pushed right. On the 9.2 pass the car was clearly lifting as it passed the 330 foot mark and you can see it squatting well past the 1/8 mile. It is in short, a beast. Here are the vids of the busted pass. I have no really passion about whether the wheels lifted or not, just an observation. I based it on the frame by frame where there first is a shadow from the wheel, then there isn't, then there is.

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Blow up of frame 5

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A few shots from our recent shaedown runs

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[bold]Traps at 154 MPH[/bold]

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Man, when you said that there was a lot of suspension modifications needed, I was hoping for front and rear short/long arm, true coilover, high travel/low roll, 315's all around road racing suspension.

So is this beast going to be a drag queen only? You know that you can set it up for road racing and it can still drive straight, too, right?

I'm impressed, either way. That car is a freaking machine.

Thanks, I have a cousin that used to road race factory cars for BMW. Right now he is a HPDE instructor. He put a proud picture of himself and his beautiful new TT Porsche 964 up on facebook. I asked him why would anyone try to turn a car going fast :) He seemed upset with me. I must admit there may be a 4L80 and 3.08 rear gear with an appropriate converter in the car's future for a mile and/or half mile pass, just to try to get in the 200 mph club. I say drag queen only but I do drive around on the streets quite a bit and am not shy about not letting someone cut me off at the on ramp to the freeway, ;)

My only real concern is whether the solid aluminum bushings will make the car unstreetable/unforgiving on rough roads. For now, if you pull up by a QSM 04 GTO in Texas, you still prolly need to wonder if it is Ethyl :) We are working on a stock 04 hood. I have to confess 315s all around and an open track day at the Texas Motor Speedway would be a hoot.