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Wife ran me out of the hospital today. Went out and took a few pictures. The shifter is in waiting for the transmission to get back from FTI. Also started working on the undercarriage, cleaning it up some
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Working on a central console for the various switches. This is the first stab containing the LC1 calibration button and LED, The Line loc switch and the transbrake button.Will eventually incorporate the Nitrous switches and hope to steal Plumcrazy's idea to use one button on the shifter knob controlling either the transbrake or the line loc depending on how the toggle goes. Was thinking it would be cool to toggle a switch for the fans for cooling power between runs.
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Got much of the interior back in today. Still have to remount the ECM, front kick panels and passenger seat. I think the console panel turned out well. I bought a second Firecharger system so now I service three zones with two nozzles each. To solve the activation challenge I just mounted the handles where I could pull them both easily.
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we're expecting videos. :thumbsup:
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I'm leaning forward in the saddle
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Ethyl Roars X
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Put in the drivers side harness today, well mostly, still have to work on the mounting on the right side of the car. We also got the fuel pump filters right. Thanks to RUQWIKR on LS1GTO for pointing out the fire suppression bottles need to be horizontal to function properly. That will be my next project.
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Got Ethyl out for street tuning yesterday. She decided to show us who was boss and proceeded to kill the entire Alliance Air Show and Goodguys car show. All Matt and I had to do was get her to the right intersection at the right time. On the up side, we heard some cool insults, some of which are anatomically interesting though most likely impossible. Saw several vintage firearms and a couple of nickel plated Saturday night specials. I'd estimate we had 10,000 cars blocked for about 10 minutes. Once her point was made she fired right up and continued on the 60 mile journey home. Enjoy the video, the reason for the grey was I had ducked a 22 caliber pistol shot and dropped the phone on the seat camera side down. A couple of people from the Goodguys show followed us over to the nearest lot to tell us she sounded good. Three bikers came over to whip our ass.
Here are some shots of the car running. Matt was keeping it out of boost until he can get the driveability sorted out. |
Street Tuning, massive changes in fueling
right at 15 seconds you can see the belt disintegrate. The tensioner pulley slipped and the belt got into the bracing. . |
Took some advice and moved the mounts horizontal. Theory being if upside down, then they would still work
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how's the tuning going?
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Shredded a belt and took out the electrical for the water pump. Mostly repaired but waiting to finish installing a new high torque starter and finish some odds and ends. Hope to be back with it this weekend.
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Doing a lot of driving to work out the low end tune and driveability. I really am enjoying the car as the tune gets more dialed in. Last week we worked on the exhaust that was hitting in some areas and we replaced the OEM Starter at 100,00 miles with a PowerMaster High Torque starter. Those mods alone increased the driveability of the car remarkably. Nothing special in these vids but they do give a sense of the way the car handles.
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First really hard launch from the dig, was on street tires though.
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Moar wheel shots.. Also mounted the second fire bottle horizontally, just have to reconnect the nozzles and that will be complete.
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Got some better shots of the new wheels and tires this afternoon.
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Track Videos Soon
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Completely rebuilt the blower over the past few weeks. The rear bearings for the rotors went out. Whipple has rebuilt everything on the blower except the case and the manifld. New Intercooler, rotors, etc.
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looks like fun....... :unibrow: Any idea why the blower failed?
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Remains a mystery. It has been installed for nearly three years now put a little over 4,000 miles on it. My best guess is that there are a combination of problems.
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Made more steady progress
Installing the Intake Vacuum Line http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psec8a7135.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps3ea68a42.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psd7c86241.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps0713e797.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...pse41dc6b6.jpg Installing the cog gear spindle http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps8a848af8.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psfff5eeab.jpg Test Fitting the modified snout Mods to the snout included widening the idler pulley shaft base, cleaning up some damage to the mounting plate, and trimming off some material from the driver's side. http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps2ea03aec.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ple-86-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ple-83-640.jpg |
Just a few things left
Hooking up the boost gauge http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps3aaacee0.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps67d83fe5.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psd72ffe4a.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psc1d70356.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psea715819.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psafb9aaa8.jpg Pressing on the drive sprocket http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps26d992fe.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psa17f4c9f.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps636692ce.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psc06f079d.jpg |
Okie the blower is back on. It has been completely rebuilt by Whipple. We added the CBM Motorsports Intake. Had to custom fab the throttle cable mount, still need some work there. I screwed up the an connector to the fuel regulator so we didn't get to start it up. Hopefully will start it this week.
Test Fitting in the Dakota 6 cylinder, it rides well http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...le-126-640.jpg Pressing on the Gear http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psa17f4c9f.jpg **** you have to do to use the CBM Intake on a street car http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...psafb9aaa8.jpg Rides pretty good in Soccermom too http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...le-130-640.jpg Fitting the Throttle Cable http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...le-127-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...le-129-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...8-640-Copy.jpg On the car http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...le-131-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...le-132-640.jpg |
I am looking for a better window switch option than the OEM. I think I have found a couple of rocker switches that will work. I am going to move the fire pulls back to the rollbar then add a on off on switch with two LED's one for transbrake and one for lineloc. Plumcrazy turned me on to the setup. With the switch, the LED will indicate which one is active for the shifter button.
http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ior-52-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ole-26-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ole-25-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ole-24-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ole-23-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ole-22-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ole-21-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ole-19-640.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ole-16-640.jpg The black material is ABS. Once I get the panels and switches right I will replace them with actual carbon fiber like I have with the current switch. Would love to hear suggestions. |
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Taken about a week to figure out the throttle stuff. I turned the TB 90 degrees and made a bracket to run it in from the side. Took some monkeying around to get it where it would give me 100% but I think I am there.
Went from this http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...8-640-Copy.jpg http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...le-133-640.jpg To this http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps488335b3.jpg Had to douche the return spring, still working on that one. So afterwards took her out for a spin. Not inspected so tried to keep it reasonable. Did a short launch, nothing spectacular Couple of short Romps Ran into a C6 playing with a 335i. Just didn't want to hit it in the neighborhood. The 335i slowed down looked and waved. The vette seemed in a hurry to get away. Some day soon my friend. |
This car is ready for a pass
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Welp we've gone in a different direction. I am going to abandon this thread and start a new one with the new direction.
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