More Go Than Show - New Edge Content

[TeckniX]

Pure pony porn... Keep at it that motor should make some good power.

PS let's see dat new stance

[TheGraye28]

hgggggnnnnhhhhhh at that motor. moar.

[meech]

omg...

[wobleyjojo]

whered you go?

[wickedsnake00]

whered you go?

Slow but sure. Lots of problems I ran into requiring lots of fabrication. Still charging ahead, almost ready to fire.

I'll spare all the details of the crazy stuff I had to do. Probably not much interest in a plethora of AN lines and fittings, welding, etc...

[CDeez5]

Forgive me for saying this, but don't hit me bro! This thing is coming along nicely!

[wickedsnake00]

No fun stance stuff yet. Still rolling around on the spares.

Summary of some of the suck that went in before getting it running:

1.) Nothing like filling up a fresh build with coolant and finding that it weeps from the brand new freeze plugs. Even less fun replacing them with the engine in chassis. Tossed the crappy Dormans for some deeper lipped units, and copious amounts of sealant.

2.) Did you know that a worn out o-ring on the upper coolant crossover will manifest itself as a leak coming from the bellhousing? I know now. After dropping the transmission assuming it was a rear freeze plug I found it was running down the valley and out the back. Then had to lift the intake manifold/blower assembly to replace the two little O-rings for less than $0.30

3.) PVC intercooler reservoir tucked into the passenger fender. 4x the capacity of the original.

Initial tune was waaaay off. Good enough to make it around the block but wasn't getting enough fuel, causing it to fall on its face by 2000 RPM. Alternator was DOA. Rebuilt and replaced. MAF signal was reasonable but still less stable than desired. Flow screen was installed.

Now it's too damn cold to do anything so...here we are. Here it is after the first shakedown run.



Not very exciting, right?

Well if it's any consolation here's another bit of iron taking up too much space in my driveway. 1968 Cutlass Cruiser on Camaro rally wheels.

[rice4life]

Four and a half years and it still isn't done. Man I remember posting in this thread when I was still young.

[wickedsnake00]

Four and a half years and it still isn't done. Man I remember posting in this thread when I was still young.

Is what it is, man.



It's been a long time but it's come a long way. Went from total 2V dumpsterfire, to 4V blown dumpsterfire, to slightly cleaned up 4V blown dumpsterfire, then cracked block, battle with fabricator, become my own fabricator, crazy engine rebuild, cram a twin turbo setup on it, and now it's getting back on the road.

[philohlean]

Not sure how I missed this over the years, have to say I was very excited when I read about the compound turbo/supercharger setup, but twin-turbo is definitely solid too.

Sidenote, I lived in Columbus, IN for 3-4 months a few years back. Glad to see someone from there on here. There seemed to be a pretty decent amount of car culture there, but not a whole lot that would end up on here.

[laextreme5]

I hope youve got good plans to get the rear suspension dialed in on this thing. or else its just going to be a burnout machine

[wickedsnake00]

Not sure how I missed this over the years, have to say I was very excited when I read about the compound turbo/supercharger setup, but twin-turbo is definitely solid too.

Sidenote, I lived in Columbus, IN for 3-4 months a few years back. Glad to see someone from there on here. There seemed to be a pretty decent amount of car culture there, but not a whole lot that would end up on here.

Still compound, just fed by twin 66s instead of a single 72mm.

Columbus is a weird scene. Lots of high dollar stock cars and there was a huge tuner group but that seems to have disappeared.

I hope youve got good plans to get the rear suspension dialed in on this thing. or else its just going to be a burnout machine

It will be a learning experience. It came with the IRS and I still want to keep it since it's a full street car. Dialing in the old quadrabind on a SRA is pretty straightforward, but there isn't as much out there on the IRS. But hey, if the Corvette guys can figure out how to leave hard on an IRS so can I. With an air bag on one side, adjustable shocks and the tall 1st gear in the T56 it has a shot. Maybe. I do have a spare TH400 lying around and I saw a JW adapter bell for cheap...

[DjGreggieP]

This thing is awesome. Keep it up.

I have a few guys run a single air bag on the rear suspension for launching at the drags, so I can't see how it wouldn't help. I throw a set of coil spring spacers in when I go to the drags otherwise my car squats to much in the rear and my 60ft's suffer

[nsogiba]

This thread is awesome. Don't know how I missed it. Keep the updates running, I just read through the whole thing.

[philohlean]

Ah, my mistake! I must have misread that post, but now I'm very excited again.

Columbus is definitely an interesting place in some ways, I come back to the area for work once every month or so. Hope to see this thing on the road one of those trips.