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Monday, April 30, 2007
Philly SCCA Event
Some of my sloppy friends went to philly today to partake in an SCCA Auto-X event, I ripped the video and converted it to DVD for them and decided why the hell not post it on sloppy mechanics. So here you go!
Ryans Incar Video
Incar Video of one of ryans runs at Island dragway, you can hear the car breaking up, Needs tighter gap on the plugs.
636 Oil Change
Saturday there was a 600cc bike dyno day shootout at scott powersports, Sevens bike took 1st place and mine took 3rd. So this morning around 10 seven heads over and we go down to scotts to claim our prizes haha.
When we get there we talk to bobby for a while and then we head over to parts counter to collect our prizes, mine was a $25 gift card they said on the phone and seven was supposed to get an Alpinestars jacket.
They came to the counter with an Alpinestars jacket and Alpinestars gloves for me, i asked if i could get the gift card instead, since i own a pair of nicer leather gloves and these are textile (junk) so bobby came over and talked it over with the service guy, he said i could "return" the gloves for store credit and buy the oil and filter i was going to get anyway, neat thing was the gloves were 29.99 so i got a little more than a gift card out of it. i ended up paying a $1.50 for 5 quarts of oil and a filter.
Seven took the jacket with plans to ebay or sell, and also bought oil and filter.
I just changed the oil in the bike and she is happy! looks like vegtable oil is in the crank case.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Island Dragway Sunday
Well, I decided not to take the bike to the dragstrip, lots of cars were going so I figured I would just catch video and pictures and just watch. Day went pretty well for Timmy, had the truck out since he installed many goodies, I know he did a converter, and installed a shift kit and traction bars, also some drag wheels and tires. He ran very consistent 12.7s around 107mph as I recall. Donovan ran an 11.0 and bent a support for his transmission, so he needs to get that sorted out and then he can up his shot and really go for broke. Ryan's car was breaking up in boost, we gapped the plugs wider when we replaced them and i guess that was a mistake, yeah well, easily fixed. They are gunna get gapped nice and tight and it will be out again. I think we are going to race this wednesday night at Island. Coreys car is still having the cut out issue, he replaced the feed line in the gastank because that is a known issue, but he really needs to swap out his rail pressure sending unit. He already ordered one at the dealer and is taking the cobra in monday to get an alighnment and he can swap that out. Should be some mean times coming shortly, I also havent ran the bike since i installed the quickshifter.
Pictures from the even were taken by Cody, so instead of rehosting all the pictures i will just link you to his photopage. I will Have video uploaded soon
Cody's Pictures from Island Dragway April 29th
Thursday, April 26, 2007
240 Update
UPDATE:
Engine will be back in my ownership tomorrow, as will my pistons on rods
But some pictors for fun:
CP 86mm (stock) 8.5 compression (stock) Forged Slugs. Yes I'm cranking the boost
My modified Greddy Manifold - Now I won' tneed spacers and bumper washers to hold the rubber gromets on. Emil (http://www.emilsweldshop.com/) hooked a brother up with this BANGING screw on piece. Baller status parts for the redneck kid.
PS: Oh yea, Custom Steel Cam gears - +2 or +3 for that exhaust cam (can't decided yet...will need dynoz)
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Donovans Stand Alone Fuel System
I stopped by Corey's shop, he had called me earlier in the day and said that his brother Donovan had gotten all the parts to finally install the fuel system for the Trans Am. Pretty neat little kit, so you dont have to rely on the cars fuel system to supply for the large shot of nitrous and the injectors at the same time, you can fill up this 1gal fuel cell made specifically for fbody's and run that to your nitrous solenoid. Well either way they got ide say 80% done with the install and i snapped some pics of it quick.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Quickshifter Install
I picked up a MPS Racing Quick shifter very cheap, and I went ahead and opted for the schnitz wiring harness for the coils, so i wouldent have to wreck my stock wiring coils. This was pretty strait forward, pull the tank and airbox off and gain access to the coils. Then plug in the tap in harnesses and run the wires to the killbox, while i had the airbox off i removed the 2ndary throttle bodies, lots of people say they made more power without these restricting the air flow, i also took the liberty to remove the metal screen from the stock air filter.
I then placed the MPS killbox next to the battery, it fits there great and really cant move once the gas tank is in place. Then i simply used a multimeter to find an ignition wire to power the killbox, and then grounded the killbox and the quickshift switch, then i sat and thought of the easiest cleanest and best way to mount it, you can pull the shifter lever off and there is a nice bolt behind it, i figured one of those rubberized pipe holders would hold this thing nicely while i attached the spring to the shift shaft, this way it can get the proper Tug when i shift and be almost hidden.
First impression is WOW, This is AMAZING, why dont all bikes come from the factory with something like this, they would have alot less issues with broken transmissions from missed shifts. Its amazing feeling the power never leave, I just cant get over how fast it shifts and completely accurately... I took it up to about 10k coming out of a stoplight and whacked 2nd and it spun the tire, i was in awe lol.
Also if i am crusing in 2nd i can hit 6th gear in damn near 1 second if i just keep banging up. I really cant believe how well it works, and i can really understand how it shaves time off at the strip easily, and makes you very consistent. Here are the pics i took during the install.
Edited on: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:58 AM
Categories: Drag Racing, Installations
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Lift Kit Day 2
Today we definately had to get the jeep done, everyone has a busy weekend and im sure Adrian didnt want it sitting around for a few more days. Started by disconnecting the transfer case because spacers had to be installed to keep the pinion angle right. Then there were new springs and shocks up front and new crazy jeep steering bars, i dont even know what they are called haha. The front was a pain in the ass because it didnt want to go back together nicely, also installing large spring spacers and larger than stock springs presented a challenge, after the larger springs were in the front lower control arms would not line back up nicely, so we could not get the bolts in. This was very frustrating, hahah many failed attempts to get it to work and i finally said, screw it, take out the springs and well put it together then drop the springs in. Well that seemed to work out pretty good accept for the fact that i had to compress the shit out of the springs. I guess i was the only one crazy enough or stupid enough to compress the springs this far hahah since most were backing far away. The one side even slipped and shot a ring compressor after trying to gently nudge it in place lol. All in all it wasnt so bad, we then re-attached the sway bar and bled the rear brakes, and it was done, He doesnt have his fender flares in yet and boy does it rub! That will get sorted out no problem. Enjoy the pics!
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Lift Kit on Adrians Jeep
Today we started the lift kit install on Adrian's jeep, He brought over all the neccisary items and we took the diesel over to pickup the huge rims and tires. Got pretty far tonight, removed all of the old rear suspension and installed all of the new stuff ecception of the left rear shock, then we can try to fit the wheels on it, i should have gotten a before picture of it, but im sure i can dig one up somehwere for a before and after. Anywyas here are the pics from tonight.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
AJ's Brakes
As Eric Lapos himself said "AJ says to me "My brakes are grinding" I pulled them off yesterday, and.. they certainly were!" haha.
He made a post about this and i asked if i could use the pictures and throw them on sloppy mechanics, its something our viewers should see!
More Pictures from Cecil County
Here areHere are even more images from Cecil County! My Favorite is Corey holding the broken axel
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Cecil County Track Rental
Well today the sloppy mechanics woke up early, I metup with tim, corey, and seven at chris's diner and corey was cracking some jokes that he could not sleep, because of nightmares of breaking an axel, i laughed but i still dont know if he was serious or not. Now me and seven went to get the Trailblazer with the bikes attached... then stop by wawa to get some cash for the coming events.
Met up with Ryan and the mustang, and we headed down to Cecil. We metup with corey, timmy and troy down there, Everyone did great today, one thing that made me laugh was corey did break an axel, i regret to inform you that i dont have this on Video, since i ran my bike about 23 times i didnt have alot of time to do video and whatnot. It wasnt too big of a deal really, he brought spare axels and had it swapped in no time, he was out making runs within the hour easily.
This was sevens first time to the track with a bike, he did really well, started off with a 14 i think, just rolling out and going thru the gears, then he cut down into the high 11s, 11.8 IIRC, Troy with a best before of 11.5 i think was doing 11.0's all day, and Ryan out for the first time this year with the new setup, was taking the time today to do some test and tune, He still managed many 11.0 second passes on low boost and even nailed a 1.58 60ft Congrats to him for launching the hell out of it!
I tossed together a video of all the cars and bikes running that i have clips of, its processing on youtube right now, so when its done ill drop the link in here, Other than that here are some of the pictures i got, Seven also took alot of pictures, i might make a new post for just his pictures or ill add them to this one later.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Line Lock Install
Well, Ryan and I got cracking on the line lock install at around 8 oclock, We had already mounted the switch so all we needed to do was destroy the stock lines and throw in some braided ones leading to the line lock haha. So he got to cutting the ones that were in there. After the right lines were cut, we flared the ends and fitted them to the T fitting, both outlets Got T'd together and into the linelock, then out of the linelock back into a T and into the stock brake lines, it sounds like a mess but didnt really go bad at all, everything went according to plan, It was kindof a pain to reach everything since you are between the motor, headers, and fender reaching in on everything, but we managed to get the flare tool in and do the buisness and everything worked out fine. I also too pictures of the new AN fittings and stainless lines on the oil relocation kit, The relocation kit was also moved to the frame rail. Tomorrow we will bleed the brakes and test it out! Check out the pics!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
636 Sleepover...
While sevens bike is here i decided to get some pics of the two together. If its nice out tomorrow, (read unlikely) ill take them both out to bask in the sunlight... lol
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Goodies for Sevens Bike
so today seven rode over in the rain for just cause, install some modifications! Bike has about 80 miles on it and we tore into it. Removed the stock blinkers front and rear, removed the whole tail section of the bike and installed flush mount blinkers in the front and a rear integrated tail light in the back. I also used my trick of taking out the stock lisence plate bracket out of that mess they call the rear fender, and pulling the ECU aside and drilling holes and mounting the stock lisence plate bracket up under the tail of the bike, Looks great when its done and its free! Also we installed the GPR steering damper, looks great! Ill bet he is excited to ride it next, hopefully we can take it out this weekend to the dragstrip... Its supposed to rain but maybe we can get lucky. Pic time!
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Stainless brake line for my 636
i ordered this line last week, and now its finally in, i put the pieces together and bled it and it looks and works great, there isnt much more to say about them so here are the pics!
Monday, April 09, 2007
Shopping-spree for the Blue Kawi
So last night and today I bought all my gear and the first few mods for the Blue Kawi.
Gear Includes...
ICON Battlecry Alliance Helmet
ICON Merc Hero Leather Jacket
ICON Superduty Gloves
Black Leather boots with steel toe
Mods include...
ATV Tether Kill-Switch Disconnect
Vinyl '7' for the windscreen (it's an inside joke - See Matt's Kawi for a Vinyl '5')
Cambuckle Straps
I also ordered the following and it should arrive Wednesday afternoon...
Clear Alternatives flush-mount front turnsignals
Clear Alternatives integrated rear turnsignal kit
GPR Steering Damper (Black)
After all of the running around and calls being made I finally got to ride with Tim, Matt, and Ryan W for a while... Put almost 50 miles on the bike and now it's halfway broken in. Dyno should be thursday or friday and then track rental saturday. Can't wait. Stay tuned for more mods This week.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
New addition to the Sloppy Crew... v.636
Well after finally finishing and selling the aforementioned 240SX Cody Ace posted about a little while back, and missing my old 2004 Kawi 636, I decided it was time to add another 636 to the sloppy mechanics crew. So on Friday even we borrowed Mike D's trailer and took the Trailblazer up to Woodward's ATV in Lewistown and picked up a new 2006 ZX-6R in blue. Strapped it in and took it home. It's got 0.1 miles on it and is brand new, but it's a leftover from 2006 because you can't buy a 636 for 2007 as they are discontinued, and the 07 6R (which is a 599cc) is a little less powerful (which is why I drove so far to buy a bike thats from last year haha).
Now as I said I owned one before (actually before Mr. Matt, but never modded it) so I'm not copy-catting, just to clear it up.
Pics below! Mods to come this week!!
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Extensions and Trailer wiring
Well today we decided to install the extensions and new chain on the bike, and Ryan wired in the pinouts into the trailer plug, Extensions went well, only had to trim a little bit of the one slide to get the axel thru without sticking. EK chain went together really nice, no pop rivet or chain breaker needed, it put me back a little over 5 inches, pretty nice i have to say. The chain master link you just crush together and put in a locking piece thats easily removable. Here are the pictures.
Friday, April 06, 2007
Shift Light
Well, got the shift light pinned into the right part of the AEM and setup the output, man does it work great, the light comes on and it hits you square in the left eye! haha its so damn bright. So today ryan will be picking up a 45degree AN fitting to replace the strait. Also taking back the strait one and some other things, He moved the oil relocation kit, ill have to get pictures of it, it looks great where it is now all tucked away, now the line lock can go in the place of the oil filter. We should also be installing the extensions today at some point on my bike, so look forward to pictures of that.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Diesel Tailgate and Boost gauge install
Well ryan got all the parts in to install the tailgate again, and i was pushing on him pretty hard to install the boost gauge hahah because im like a child when it comes to that, so, we installed the new breakaway hinges and then the cables, and walah new tailgate, then it was right to the boost gauge, i dont have alot of pics but it works great! all done!
Nitrous Taurus and Turbo MR2 and 68 Bonneville Dyno day!
Well i had planned on dynoing the taurus with the nitrous to see the gains and to make sure the AFR is safe. it made a great 40whp and 30ftlbs on a 28hp shot estimated, much better than i suspected, should do great in the 1/4 when i take it. Also from the north Michal dyno'd his turbo MR2 made some great numbers 292rwhp at around 16psi if im not mistaken. Also after all of this pete tossed the great 68 bonneville on the dyno for a pull, i was pretty surprised for never being apart it made 198rwhp and 302ftlbs to the wheels! Then he rewarded us with a burnout! hahahha pictures and video of course!
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
SR go Boom
The SR finally died...however in a very pathetic manner. Getting on 22 from the 33 onramp, Dave (Trans Am) gunned it, so I followed suit. Got zipping along pretty good, running the car down, but when I shifted into fourth...I lost all power...it felt like the clutch slipped. Confused, I then looked at the gauges to see that my car had shut off. I immediatly thought 'blown intercooler pipe'. So I pulled over, and the other Dave (Lightning) stopped with me. We immediatly begain looking over everything, but to no avail couldn't find the problem.
I got the car fired up again, and drove it (with a very obvious misfire) to the 191 exit, where I pulled off into the parking lot adjacent the intersection at the end of the offramp. I again looked over all the couplers, but found nthing. Dave T/A purchased some carb cleaner, and we started spraying it everywhere, hoping to find a vacuum leak...none found. I then decided to cehck plugs.
Number 1 was WET...so I began thinking 'ok, fouled plug, no biggy. So I changed plugs (yes I carried a spare) and went to fire it over....no change.
I then decided to give Ray (The Guru) a call, and aske dhim to stop down before he ate Dinner. He came down and immediatly pulled power to number one cylinder...no change in idle. We then thought it would be a dead coilpack...so I changed coilpacks...no change :(
Disgruntled, tired, and upset, I packed up the car and all my tools, went to eat, and then came home to do a compression test.
Hooked everything up...0 psi on cyl one :( Now I knew I had a problem inside. I also did a leakdown to find 100 percent leak in cyl 1...but most importantly, air came rushing out of the timing chain area...now we knew it was piston/ring related, and not valve related. Fearing the worst now, we removed the engine...and well the pictures can speak for themeselves.
The car obviously melted the piston down, which is leading me to believe the #1 injector died, or is malfunctioning. Every other cylinder looks great (both head side and block side), so it's probably 90 percent right. COuld the rings have magically aligned and made a mess...sure...could the connector come 'loose'? Sure...but those are arbitrary results at best.
So I just picked up a new block, and it should be hear next week. CP Forged Pistons, Apexi HG, and it should all be back together again....
Keep tuned!
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Takin Care of the Diesel
Well, when we tried to load up the bike before we went to etown, the damned tailgate straps, ropes, steel chords, whatever broke! almost dropped the bike off the back. We pulled the tailgate off and saw that the tailgate attachment nub things were all rusted to shit and needed to be replaced. So the next day ryan had to order the new lines and connectors for the tailgate. Well they didnt have replacement bolts in stock, so whatever, we will put the old ones back in. Also my dad has some MAC truck gauges left over in a box, we scored one that is a diesel 3-50psi boost gauge, we will hook that up tomorrow probably, then buy a nice one later down the road, or just keep that one in.
Ok so we also ordered some brake lines and fittings for the line lock kit, to go in the mustang, ryan picked up all the stuff for the tailgate and we figured we would get that done tonight. Well the stupid torques bolts stripped out and only one of them came out. So i had the bright idea to weld on a half inch bolt and use the half inch wratchet and take them out, that works great but now we have useles bolts. HAHA cant win somedays. So he ordered some bolts online tonight to replace them, He also tonight installed the AN to NPT adaptors to the oil relocation kit so when the AN fittings are in we can attach the AN fittings to the hose we have and screw them in place, and then that will be done.
Also tomorrow the rest of the brake line stuff should be in and we can start on the line locks. Also on the agenda is clipping in the shift light into the AEM harness and setting that up. Im also waiting on extensions for my bike before the weekend. Pretty hectic right now, hope it all works out for the best and we get some racing done on the weekend.
Cobra Etown Video
Corey racing the cobra at Etown raceway, trouble with the wheel weights on the left tire, made the car wobble bad and he had to let off on the first pass, second run there was a problem with the WOT switch for the nitrous.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Bike Pics From Etown
When i went to etown to race, my friend bob was there taking pics with his expensive camrea. These pictures are so awesome I have to post them on here. Im pretty sure he got pics of the cobra, I emailed him back asking for them, when i get them i will post them too.
