More Go Than Show - New Edge Content

[wickedsnake00]

Put the new wheels on and brought it to some shows. Fitment is garbage, but such is life. Front needs slightly larger tires and the coilovers adjusted. Rears could use some flairs to fit those giant 315 drag radials.

Could be worse though.




She moves out. That's for sure.

[190Evan]

Are you kidding me? A great way, this thing is awesome dude.

[wickedsnake00]

Holy crap

Not sure if in a good way or a bad way. I tend to get the latter.

[190Evan]

Holy crap

[wickedsnake00]

Well, like everything else it seems if you want it done right you have to do it yourself. The remote tuner I was using got me a whopping 4 revisions since last September. Still didn't drive worth a damn. I was sick of the slow responses and poor results, especially when I could read the data and know exactly what needed to be adjusted. So I took the plunge and shelled out for the tuning software. In the span of an hour and a half I managed to get a revision about on par with the tuner's last one, and most of that time was spent not realizing I had to re-disable the anti-theft system. Once I get some good weather I can get some on-road data and dial it in further. Things are looking up.

Tuning process:


Buttoned up a few small things under the hood, actually put the bumper back on.



One thing I will have to do before throwing on the good wheels and slamming it is re-do some of the downpipes/mid-pipe. Otherwise I'll be dragging it everywhere. It is low. On the tall winter tires I've got maybe 4" from the subframe connectors to the ground, 2" from the exhaust to the ground. On the summer tires that will be even less. I'll have to tuck that exhaust as much as possible.

[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.

[nsogiba]

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

[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

[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...

[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

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.

[CDeez5]

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