January 2007

Truck down and back up!

Well tuesday night, ryans truck went sour. The way to work the voltage gauge was reading low while the truck was running, and when he went to leave it was even worse, so he decided to leave the truck at work and hitch a ride home with a guy who lived nearby, so tonight he took the old mans truck to work and home, then i picked him up and we grabbed an alternator at auto zone and drove down to his work, tossed the truck in the heated garage, nice! Turns out the garage also has a nice movable overhead light and air hose hookups for air tools, removed the alt easily and ryan noticed the pulley's were different sized. so we searched around for an impact at his work and a large enough 1/2 inch socket to do the job. After the pully was swapped it was smooth sailing from there. 2 bolts, the belt back on, 2 harnesses, and fire her up. 14 volts indicate a win and its time to pack up and head home. Another day in the life.

Mustang Parts

Well today ryan got the parts he ordered earlier in the week for his diff, the detroit locker, the 31 spline axels, c-clip elimninators, and the install kit wich is seals and studs etc for the axels and rear end, so we decided to pile it all together and take an nice family photograph of all the parts laying on the floor costing a few grand, and chuckle at the sheer price of the hunks of metal on the ground.

After that he worked on installing the tq boxes in the drivers side of the car and i procrastinated and drank from the beer fridge.

Anyway here is all the pics

Lightning Port

Well, after Tim saw how easily we made power porting the blower himself, he said we are definately going to do his 99 lightning. Here are some pics to compare and what we will use to make a stencil just like the cobra.

Cobra Re-Port

Well since the port did make power, and we were pretty conservative, we are going to pull the blower back off the cobra and port it a little more. Hoping to make 490+ rwhp. This will probably wait till febuary because as of right now the stock mafs is pegged with just the mild port, a bigger maf will have to be installed and tuned, and then we can spray on top of that.

Ported Blower Dyno

Well the car definately made more power, throttle response is great, and at peak it gained 24rwhp and 20ftlbs, but the most important thing is it gained power everywhere, down low, up top at 3000 rpm it gained 30rwtq at 6200rpm it gained 37rwhp, where it was dropping off and much needed, The biggest problem now is with these gains, the stock mass air meter is now pegged. So corey needs to buy a 300 dollar mafs, and we might as well port the plenum and toss on a larger throttle body. Either way it will be really neat to see the gains with the nitrous after this, and maybee some more porting.

I will have the video of the runs up soon, but here is the dyno chart of its best pull dead cold vs the ported blower.

Limo Burnout

Today at about 141pm someone pulled up and did a burnout in front of the shop, the security cameras caught it on video, and thought it was too good not to post, Here it is.

Ported Blower installed, dyno tomorrow

Well Corey called me up at 11 and headed over, we were gunna soften the edges from what we cut out yesterday, and clean it up, wash it out in the parts washer, repack the bearings in the back etc. All in all it went really smooth, got it all cleaned up and re greased the bearings and installed the rotors. Then we tossed the snout on and smacked it down with a mallet. TQ'd the bolts down and packed it up and went to Corey's shop. We took the propane heater with us, fired that up and in no time it was nice and toasty in the garage. We got to work filling the blower snout with some synthetic oil, which I spilled all over the place hahaha. After it was all filled we just tossed it back on and started connecting endless amounts of wiring and vacuum lines etc. Tightened down all the necessary stuff and then one of our bolts was screwed up, quick stop at auto zone and a new bolt installed. Now it was time to fire her up! brought the civic around back and jumped it, filled the after cooler res and she was good to go, fired up and sounded great, there is definitely an improvement in throttle response and it revs very quickly. Then when that was all done. We painted the rest of the cage, cut the carpet and installed the rear bench and the drivers seat. She is all ready to go on the dyno tomorrow and we are eager to see the results.

Porting done!

Today Corey laid out the outline and got right to work porting. We used a metal hole saw kit to get the 3 upper cuts worked perfectly, better you would have expected it to, and a dremel to get the finer points cut in, tomorrow we are going to sand out the inside of the case and make sure there are no burr's and then take the torpedo over to the garage and heat er up and bolt this thing back on and paint the rest of the cage since it will be warm enough to dry nicely. But here are some crappy camera phone pics of our work, I will take some pictures of it with the good camera tomorrow. Along with the Installation pics.

Plans to port stock blower

Well corey brought over the stock blower today, we have a nice pic of a ported blower, ryan and corey took some measurements and then i applied them to a cropped and edited version of the ported picture. We made sure everything fit up well and now he can use that as a template to port himself. Here are some pictures and the porting template we made.

Pulled the blower

Corey and I removed the blower from the cobra today, well more like corey took the bolts out and disconnected everything and i stood next to the kerosine heater since it was like 6 degrees in the garage, it was even colder than it was outside. Either way, I helped him pull it off towards the end, it came out really easy, about an hour and a half. I will get some better pics when we do some porting, These pictures are just from my camera phone.

F150 cheap head unit

Finally got tired of the stock Ford head unit. So we found a cheepie down in the basement and figured it was worth it for a few bux to install. Everything went good all the connectors fit the only bad part was we ran into trouble with the mounting of the head unit So in our usual fashion we used our good friend the zip tie lol. Worked out great, all mounted and set to go.. we'll see how long this "rampage" lasts though hahaha

Starting to install the torque boxes

Got the drivers side Torque box almost in. Had to fit the bottom reenforcement box inside the original Torque box. Drilled the 4 holes that will then mount the top square plate to the inside of the car. Everything lined up even after thinking the original torque boxes were "bent" so it looks to be they are ok (thankfully). Got the plate mounted and tack welded the 4 corners to add some extra strength. The bottom Torque box will also be partially welded in and the original box is also going to be finish welded for extra strength. Here are some pics

Modded stock exhaust

Ryan and I removed my muffler today and gutted it... and i disabled the factory butterfly valve, i made a metal plate that blocks the servo so it thinks its pulling on cables lol. I will take off the header sometime soon and remove the catalytic converter, so itll be basically full race exhaust and then tune it with a dyno and PCIII.

either way it worked out good and sounds great, ill have to ride it when it stops raining and beat the shit out of it, and really hear her yell.

Here is some video of me revving it in the garrage. Its not that exciting but it stops people from asking me for video.

Dyno Day videos

Matts Civic

Aarons Integra

Tims Vr6

Korey's 24v Vr6

Davey Vr6

Jeremy Vr6

Satuday Afternoon at the dyno again

Nice turnout today, I expected about 2 cars from last night and by this morning there was 4 vr6s and a civic, and a turbo integra being dyno'd. Pretty good turnout, everyone made some power and no one broke anything... Here are some random pics, video will be added later as i have to go thru and edit all of it.

Fiddy trouble

Well monday me and wischer were riding the fiddy's around and mine decided to quit, and it was running like ass and stalling out. I knew right away what it probably was, i couldent find the exhaust donut when i put the bike back together, and ive been running without it, and i figured i would burn a valve, so tonight i got bored and decided to pull the thing apart. Here are some intresting pics, still a little inconclusive but im gunna ask some fiddy guys and possibly take it to a tractor supply/powersports dealer and have them look at it... if you know, shoot me an email.

VW Day

We had a small VW day thing going on today, Corey was going to be installing some E-codes i think in merediths GTI, i think they are Ecodes, but i may be wrong, i apologize in advace to the VW heads. Either way Mckendry was in attendence and in about 5 hours me and him managed to do.

• Plugs, Cap, Wires, Rotor
• Both front brakes
• Both front rotors
• Left front wheel bearing

Now the most entertaining part is how many times we hit ourselves with tools and or broke bolts and being just plain jackasses with the hammer taking out the wheelbearing hahhaha. For the most part it was fun, accept for the pain in the ass headlights that were never designed to fit, lol, corey had his fair share of drilling wiring cutting etc for the day. My hat is off to him, i wouldent have the patience to finish that kind of job without just taking off the bumper and gluing everying in place and re-applying the bumper.

Here are the pics!

Costas's Supra is Alive

Well i found out today that tom broke the rear piece, and costas broke the front piece of his driveshaft, so Costas was able to buy the good front piece from tom, and Corey slapped it all together and now the supra is out again! Here are some pics

Here is Video of when it ripped on Oct 29th

Cobra cage

Today welded the backpiece into the cobra cage, its totally done, just have to paint it and put in the seats tomorrow!

I will post up pics of the cage when its done.

Mustang work!

Wulp since we are waiting on the clutch bolts to work on the trans stuff, figured it was a good time to start working on stiffening up the Torque Boxes. Although that entails the removal of the Rear Diff assembly... Wasn't to bad over all though, hardest part was trying to remove the brake hose.. Breaker bar came in handy hehehe... Other wise it went pretty smooth, bolts came out fairly well for never being touched since 1989! although i did find some bad news. As you can see the drivers side box was tore down about a 1/4" from where it should be... So we'll have to see tomorrow how to fix the damage and then start to reinforce the box so this won't happen again!!

Here are the pics!

Fiddy out!

Well with it being in the 50s today in January, today was the perfect day to go out and play on the fiddy, here are some pics and video of hte 125 rippin around

Flyin!

Screwing around

throttle and clutch working!

Today me and mr halpin fabbed up a throttle cable, i cut my rear braided brake cable off, and threaded it thru the throttle cable line, cut it to length and soldered a tip on the end for the carb, it works great! although its too dark for some nice video at this point in the day we figured we would wait till tomorrow. Here is video of the hack throttle at work

Turk's Motor teardown

I have to first start off and say, this was one of the most awesome motor explosions to watch in person, and i just wanted to rub that in, because we didnt get it on tape, so if you were'nt there too bad! hahaha. Turk, Matt, and Lapos decided to tear it down today the pics of this distruction are awesome, i love seeing this type of thing, this is exactly the sloppy mechanincs theme. He plans on getting another motor for this car and swapping it in, i would hope we get some coverage of that event also.

Well without further adue here are the pictures of the teardown!

Turk's Civic Teardown

Fiddy Motor installation

Well it started off harmlessly enough, a power drill, me corey and ryan, overdrilling the shit out of the motor mounts on the frame, using washers to take up the extra space, now what we run into is the clutch cable doesnt fit at all, i still have to look into this, and the throttle cable is also too short... so i will probably have to order a clutch and throttle cable kit off teh intarwebnets. Back to the installation, after the motor was mounted, there was some question and frustration as to what do do about the wiring. Since there was no easy way to do it, and i hate looking at instructions, mainly because its usually the exact opposite of what i would do. So either way we get to installing the carb and skipping the wiring because that sucks, i dissasemble the needle and slide and i notice i dont have enough throttle cable... well now this sucks, after contemplating and thinking of a few hack things to do, i realize the throttle is about the only control i have over this thing and ide better just get the correct throttle cable... Also now we are faced wtih that, i realize now that we cant rev it, i now have to focus on the wiring i have been putting off...

Alright, we do some wiring, wich is me cursing at the wires because we cant get spark from the coil... way too frustrated for some reason, we decided to call it a night, corey and ryan had to get going so i figured i would sit and stare at some wiring diagrams till i figured it out, and well it clicked, i went out and smashed some wires together, and i got spark, viola. the fiddy lives!

So tomorrow i will work on the throttle and making sure the clutch works... and or buying cables. Here are some pics and video.

Fiddy Motor Has Arrived!

Later tonight the motor should be going in, the fiddy will live again!

Turk's Civic

Well some of the sloppy mechanics were out last night, I guess we are going to have to accept Matt Weis to the crew now hahaha he blew up a civic, and he blew it up good, rev limiter first gear burnout when most people wouldent have even started the car, it was knocking really really bad, so he takes it around the building and just dumps the clutch in a water puddle, they spin and spin, and it throws sparks out the front bumper, but he keeps it pegged to the floor till it siezed up nice and proper... here is what was left on the ground along with lots of block material, hopefully i can get pics of the car and motor teardown tomorrow, since he wants to rip out the motor and get pics and trophy's.

Rollcage day 3

Third day of the rollcage work, we have both doorbars in place, all that needs to be done is the crossover bar and then start painting it. It feels nice to have it done

Roll Cage Intstall