October 2007

Flanges!

Got my flanges today! boy are they pretty! it will almost be a shame welding them to a sloppy header. Camera phone pics for now.

Sloppy Dyno day

Well, i setup a dyno day for a few friends, and they invited their friends and so on and so forth, we ended up having probably 30 people at the dyno and 15 cars dyno in 4 hours. Here is some video of a few cars from today.

Sloppy Truck Lift

Ryan picked up a 3 inch suspension lift for the f350, we installed it tonight, plenty of help, Corey and Andre were there for the whole install up until around 1am when we finished. I'll take some pics of it when its not raining, and dark, and you can actually see it hahah.

Oil return

Oil return installed today. Removed, drilled, tapped and installed a barb fitting to return the oil out of the scavenge pump, ready for the turbo to arrive! I also installed a new set of colder plugs today.

Quick ride in Skalor's Buick

Metup with skalor to get some 2 inch piping and took a quick rip in it, grabbed some short video of it for fun.

Misc turbo stuff and preparations

Well, while im waiting for the turbo and the scavenge pump to arrive, along with my flanges to get machined, I recieved my 45 degree bend so i can go around the cyl head nicely with a soft pipe to minimize scraping the rad and valve cover. I routed the vaccum lines the way i wanted to, so they are not such a mess, and 4 lines T fitting into one was really a boost blown off vaccum nightmare waiting to happen in my head. So I flipped most of the hoses together and zip tied them down, then i attached the factory speed density sensor, and left one open for my GM 2 Bar Map sensor, and one more on the end running to my boost gauge. Boost gauge! i had one laying around that is off +1psi so i decided its a freebie why not mount it for now and get a liquid filled one later, zip tied that nice and routed it up around the dash, drilled a nice little hole and fed one of the clap screws in and washer and nutted it down, it is mounted very very securely and looks great i think. Here are some pics of the stuff i did today.

more intake hat

today i bought 12 hose clamps haha, painted the hat a few more times, and installed it with the hose clamps. I also did a little bit of measuring to figure out how much 2 inch piping i need, and orderd a 45 degree silicone connector to make the turn around the head of the motor. A few odds and ends to throw together im guessing all things go well 2 weeks from now it should be done.

Intake hat and oil feed

Well today Ryan, Keith, and I fabbed up an intake hat for the bike, and installed the oil feed line. Hopefully i will get the flanges cut this weekend and i can make the hotside, then it will come together really fast. Here are pics of tonights events, i will let them speak for themselves.

Bike turbo, oil feed line

Got some parts to feed the oil line for the turbo on my bike, i decided instead of buying a few couplers, to go from the complex metric fitting to a 1/8th inch npt so i could goto flare or something, i would just drill and tap the factory oil pressure test plug, and see how that pans out for me, i also went to parker and had him make me a 1ft line for the oil feed and bought a fitting to feed into the turbo. Maybe later today i will get some work done with the intake hat. Here are some pics

Vert Parts Car

Finally finished stripping out the vert parts car the other day, I actually forgot to post about this, ryan just sent me some extra pics now so i guess its better than never posting them. We ripped the rear out of the car by winching it up on the trailer, backing it into the garage and using the engine stand to lift the rear end of the car up! then unbolted the rear and kicked it out from under the car! haha. The wheels actually stopped it from hitting the diff or anything as we had planned, or at least hoped it would work out that way, then we took out parts of the dash, pedals, gauge cluster etc, cut off the power steering rack and anything that was good enough to sell, then junked the car. Here are some pics

AEM Wideband

Well today, after some trouble with the LC1 wideband, i told ryan he could take the AEM wideband off the bike and see if he likes it, if he does, he can buy me another one after we are doing fabbing my turbo kit. So today we removed the LC1 and installed the AEM in the car, and setup the ECU etc etc, all it all it went pretty quick and came out very clean, sice the lc1 has a ton of extra wires and whatnot in the engine bay. Here are some pics from today.

Junkyard visit, and fans for the rusty

Well we went to the junkyard saturday morning and picked up an electric fan for the beater car, its in the rulebook that you need one. we also picked up some truck tires with some decent meat to them. Also i found a set of steelys with studded snow tires that will fit my taurus so i bought those, and ryan found a double fan set for his mustang we robbed out of a nissan.

Here is a pic of the fans installed.

Big boy injectors for the bike

Adding fuel is a good thing! and running the 30 shot i was at the top of my injectors, to run more nitrous, and add a turbo down the line i needed to add larger injectors, bought a used zx10r throttle body and injectors set on ebay and installed them in my bike.

Stock injectors are like 180cc, im not 100% positive, but these are 440cc injectors, HUGE! i had to take out 45% of fuel out of the map to get it to idle in the 15.8 AFR range, so they are around 45% larger than stock! Either way here are the pics, bike is running great with them.