05-16-2013, 08:19 AM | #276 |
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Looks great, I love the stance and the wheels look pretty good too
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05-20-2013, 09:51 AM | #277 |
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Well....mission(s) accomplished.
Mission 1: Family Cruiser Status: Accomplished Mission 2: Drive it up to the Automotion weekend in Wisconsin Dells Status: *Accomplished The good: Truck was together for the deadline, made its way up and back under it's own power, and was a mega crowd pleaser. *The bad: Got a little bit of play with an Alpha 9 GTR, and think I hurt the motor (too big for my britches on a rough tune...think I killed a ring land). A compression test this week should tell the tale. Also blew a power steering hose off in the hotel parking lot on Sunday morning. Did some MacGyver stuff in the parking lot to drive it home...no power steering or hydroboost for a 350 mile drive...
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05-20-2013, 09:59 AM | #278 |
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Right on! Sounds like fun, I miss mine, was even the same color. Congrats!
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We were a little giddy...it's not every day you run into a 850-950 hp supercar that wants to dance.
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Awesome. Glad your rig made it there and back.
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05-20-2013, 03:37 PM | #282 |
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He was cool. We pulled off a couple miles later and he threw me a thumbs up, and yells "Damn! I want one!"
Haha sure you do, pal. But thanks.
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05-21-2013, 12:20 AM | #283 |
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Too fun! and that was definitely not Mexico! I have driven that road too many times to know better! lol But I'd definitely like to take a run against you in my '67 when I get a better tune on her if you'd have for it!
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I'd race John Force if he wanted to get down
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Racing is fun. Racing John Force would be a He!! of a lot of fun. Racing you would also be fun! FUN. That's what we are here for! Let's race! That would be funny. Ha ha! Baby sounds nice!
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Looks like when i got greedy on the rough tune, I hurt 3 holes. Oops. You'd think it was my first rodeo...
Let's try this again... Also picked up a little bling to replaced my cracked stock power steering pulley
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Jeez! Do 6.0s grow on trees up there?
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Pretty much. Lol.
As of right now, kicking around in the shop I have: Two LQ4s LM7 5.3 LS6 5.7 L33 5.3 Never hurts to have spares
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Do you have a milage range you like to stay within? 50,000 to 100,000 for example.
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Nope, I ain't skeered of pretty much any LS. I've never got one from the junkyard with less than 70k on it, and most of them have been 150k or more. To hell and back.
It figures of course that the first LS engine failure I've had was with the 70k mile 2007 LQ4 that is in the blazer now...
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Where did you find your bulkhead connectors? I have been looking all
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Caterpillar Plug 9X-0401 $46.39 Caterpillar Receptacle 9X-1343 $42.46 Caterpillar Receptacle 214-4208 $80.68 Caterpillar Plug 160-7689 $34.01 Haha thanks. Although the more I dig into it, the more I think that much of the damage was done early on in the tuning process, before this stunt with the GTR.
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Looks really clean. I will probably go back to the mil-spec route, but I will see if my buddy at the cat dealer can hook me up. Thanks
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The round mil-spec stuff is nice, but I needed a connector with more pins. I used one 70 pin bulkhead for the engine, and another 40 pin for the transmission and wideband, water injection, etc.
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How do you like the handling with that front end? I am also doing a unexpected motor swap this summer.
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Might go back this winter and put some 500 lb/in springs in to replace the 450s it came with. What happened to your motor?? F'n hot rods....
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Do you have some sort of boost retart setup in your ignition? If so what do you have it set at and what are you going to change on your new motor. Also, how many pounds boost?
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The megasquirt has a 3D timing table. Load in kPa on the Y axis and rpm on the X axis with timing values in the cells. I can set it to anything I want it to be. This one isn't mine, but it's an example of how it looks. I'm not changing anything on the motor...I've had really good results with turbo stock shortblock LS engines in the past...I just got stoopid with a rough tune. We were still sorting out a couple of random megasquirt issues, and I got greedy and beat on it too hard before I should have. Also, the knock sensors were not enabled yet. So to answer your question, I'll have more patience next time. Boost was right around 14 psi. Gonna back it off to around 10 until I get everything sorted out, then switch over to E85 and go to 16-18 psi. Shooting for 800 rwhp out of this setup.
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WOW havent been keeping up on your build lately, But WOW its nice to see it all together and that video was cool. Sucks about the motor but sounds like a minor set back for you. Love the conversion your build thread is a must read for anyone wanting to convert!! thanks for all the info and sharing this build with us.
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