September 2010

installed a hitch in the g8 tonight

hidden hitch brand, install wasnt too bad, you have to drop the exhaust, and trim the heat sheilds out of the way so the ears can lay flat on the frame, then fish th bolts on and viola. Looks great!

this big heavy high hp car should tow like a dream

picked up another fiddy

what a beast, 125cc 4 spd

johns nova

screwing around in the truck

messing around with my friend in coreys truck

th400 dyno for fun

even though we figured it wouldnt hold full boost, and it didnt, the dyno roller doesnt weigh enough to load up this big turbo automatic truck correctly...

at the dyno today...

dyno'd a f350

steve wheelied the quad...

swapped converters today...

swapped converters with the ventura and the truck, and it couldnt have turned out better, the venturas converter in the truck works perfectly.

the converter stalls like 2500 and stops, then you can pump up the brakes, floor the gas, it hits like 6psi, then keeps going up, itll open the gate on 10psi and then its at like 3400 rpm, holds tight

coreys truck, first time out at island

the truck did great for its first time out, 12psi, pushing through the converter hard on the top end still going 12.1 @ 111

now we know it needs the tighter converter, and 3.73s and a 28 inch tire. should really move then!

Some nice driving around in coreys truck

a quick walk around of coreys turbo truck and driving. 600miles on a 2010 silverado.

coreys turbo truck update

got the trans in this weekend. ended up modding stock trans mount to make it offset (redrilled holes), and using the stock trans crossmember by just cutting the slit longer. It just fit, I got lucky and did not have to weld an extension plate.

the valvebody i put in actually shifts automatically also if I leave it in 3rd. I didn't hook up the th400 full throttle kickdown solenoid as I don't want it to kickdown. It will kickdown or up as needed from governor weights installed. I can also manually shift and hold any gear I want. The th400 does not use a kickdown cable for those of you wondering. I also used the stock dipstick tube from a 1977 or so truck.

I put a 4000 converter from henry's big block truck.. in the truck, its a little big (more than advertised 4,000rpm) with the stock 30" tire and 3.42 gears along with me heavier weight than a 90 1500 it came out of.

Im probably gonna put 3.73's or 4.10 gears in the truck because it will spool the turbo fine because of its weight and I am never gonna go 150 in 3rd.

One funny thing about the swap is that the truck did not crank. Skalor told me they should be all grounds on the trans harness if the wiring was a higher guage. I ended up finding a ground on the stock trans harness, and jumping it with a paper clip to each pin until i found neutral safety. Fired right up.

I actually started the truck with the stock trans on the ground and plugged in lol for testing purposes.

I changed the wastegate spring and cranked the boost controller to make 12psi. I'd like to run around 14psi all said and done.

The trans I put in was manufactured in 1976, and did have alot of shit in the pan, I threw it in anyway and it seems fine. It is a short tail th400, and I had to get a custom driveshaft made 4" longer than stock. I got a thicker wall stock diamater (3.5") driveshaft made by east penn trucking (sheichlers or whatever). Cost was 250 with new 1350 u joints on each end.

Overall Im pretty happy with everything to start with a stock th400 that is towards the end of its life.

so my friend... put a goped motor on a mountian bike! haha

this is definately worth posting, i will try to get more pictures and info, but like the video says...

49cc Moped engine attached to a 24" 8 year old Walmart special mountain bike

screw in gas cap

finally got a screw in gas cap, ordered off ebay, its a nice piece, was 40 shipped, rubber o rings top and bottom nice billet aluminum.

corey getting his cobra tune by frank