Learning to make fast go fast!

[Doug M]

Sorry to hear Billy!
I know it won't slow you down for long, nothing has so far As always, best of luck to you with everything on the rebuild.

 

[ILW84U]

Sorry to hear Billy. You are taking this better than I would. In fact it was this sort of thing that made me give up on my car & just get something with reasonable power that I can just turn the key & drive. Props to you. I hope there is nothing serious when you tear it apart.

 

[one eyed willy]

Damn....sorry!

 

[05moneypit]

Well....congrats on the numbers, that bitch is flying!!

Bummer on the engine.

 

[05stroker]

Damn billy that stinks. 9.38 in a true street car is flat out balls fast man. Ur car should be a kots car. Hope its not as bad as it sounds.

Good luck with the tear down. Post some pics along the way.

Thanks guys and will do.

Time for that 6.2L? I may know of a good one you could get your hands on.....

Not ready yet. that is a next winter project.

Sorry to hear Billy!
I know it won't slow you down for long, nothing has so far As always, best of luck to you with everything on the rebuild.

Sorry to hear Billy. You are taking this better than I would. In fact it was this sort of thing that made me give up on my car & just get something with reasonable power that I can just turn the key & drive. Props to you. I hope there is nothing serious when you tear it apart.

Damn....sorry!

Well....congrats on the numbers, that bitch is flying!!

Bummer on the engine.

Looks like I will find a melted piston. There is oil in the intake cylinders and heads sitting on the valves. its just going to be a matter of how many pistons and if it took out a cylinder wall with it. Looks all to much like my 2008 meltdown. Everything is disconnected except the trans and its down to the long block. I will yank it out tomorrow evening. Drown my problem in to much JD last night and was not very productive today. LOL

I am so pissed at myself right now! What a stupid mistake.

 

[dysan]

Damn sorry to hear about the engine. I'm right there with you other than the quick ET's...hearing a noise from mine so I just took it out of the car Saturday.

Best of luck with a quick fix.

 

[05stroker]

Damn sorry to hear about the engine. I'm right there with you other than the quick ET's...hearing a noise from mine so I just took it out of the car Saturday.

Best of luck with a quick fix.

Good news is I got my 9.50 or better goal. The new times at 9.38 should put me at 8th on the 3v power adder list and 14th on the overall site ranking!

So new goal is 8.97 to get in the top ten over all and top 5 on the 3v power adder list!

 

[ethic1]

Sucks!!! I got pics from all my buddies of your car them hoping mine looks as good!

 

[crownaviation]

Bout threw up reading this. Sorry to hear it Billy. I was without cell or internet the last 3-4 days and passed your track on my way home wondering if you were out there today. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help

 

[08fordgt]

That sux man!

 

[Department Of Boost]

So new goal is 8.97 to get in top 5 on the 3v power adder list!

Are any of those cars in the top 5 street cars?

 

[05stroker]

Bout threw up reading this. Sorry to hear it Billy. I was without cell or internet the last 3-4 days and passed your track on my way home wondering if you were out there today. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help

I was actually at a different track. I was at the Texas Motorplex in Ennis Texas. As asis the motor goes, it can be fixed I just really didn't feel like doing it right now.

 

[69Mach1-409]

Man sorry to hear about the motor. Hope it's not too bad!

 

[Department Of Boost]

I was thinking about what happened to you last night. I sorta have the same issue at the road race track. Hard left hand corners will starve the fuel pumps unless I have 3/4 of a tank or more. Basically I top the tank off for every session. On the up side if I do starve mine out in the middle of the corner I am never near WOT, the car would just spin around.

Now to my point. How to solve the problem. I’m thinking of removing my PS fuel hat and either putting a stock pump or a high volume/low pressure pump “in” it. We’ll make some brackets, a billet piece/clamp thing or something, that’s pretty easy to solve. Then I would hook that pump up to a toggle on the dash and I could activate that pump and transfer all (or at least until the DS is full) fuel to the DS saddle. The nice thing about a setup like that is that you could activate it only when you need it, it would not be on the time and you don’t risk burning the pump up. And I would leave the stock siphon.

I’m sure there would be some trickery to figure out. But it would be cheap/easy.

Thoughts?

 

[stretch]

 

[05stroker]

I was thinking about what happened to you last night. I sorta have the same issue at the road race track. Hard left hand corners will starve the fuel pumps unless I have 3/4 of a tank or more. Basically I top the tank off for every session. On the up side if I do starve mine out in the middle of the corner I am never near WOT, the car would just spin around.

Now to my point. How to solve the problem. I’m thinking of removing my PS fuel hat and either putting a stock pump or a high volume/low pressure pump “in” it. We’ll make some brackets, a billet piece/clamp thing or something, that’s pretty easy to solve. Then I would hook that pump up to a toggle on the dash and I could activate that pump and transfer all (or at least until the DS is full) fuel to the DS saddle. The nice thing about a setup like that is that you could activate it only when you need it, it would not be on the time and you don’t risk burning the pump up. And I would leave the stock siphon.

I’m sure there would be some trickery to figure out. But it would be cheap/easy.

Thoughts?

I think we were having the same thoughts last night.

Here is what I was thinking. I have a Walbro 255 just setting on the shelf I could use. I could mount it to the fuel sending unit and run a hose to the drivers side running the power wires up through the sending unit and to a switch in my console. Then when I get to the rack I could flip it on for a few seconds and then I would know it was empty. Then the gauge would only be reading what is on the DS. Then I add to 1/2 tank on the gauge. Make a pass then repeat before adding fuel to the car again.

 

[Department Of Boost]

I think we were having the same thoughts last night.

Here is what I was thinking. I have a Walbro 255 just setting on the shelf I could use. I could mount it to the fuel sending unit and run a hose to the drivers side running the power wires up through the sending unit and to a switch in my console. Then when I get to the rack I could flip it on for a few seconds and then I would know it was empty. Then the gauge would only be reading what is on the DS. Then I add to 1/2 tank on the gauge. Make a pass then repeat before adding fuel to the car again.

Yep, that sounds like a winner.

Check the manual and how it explains the interaction between the two fuel level senders. It has some sort of delay/average ting built into how they read on the gauge. Telling exactly how much fuel is in it could get tricky.

 

[crownaviation]

well, just so you don't feel left out.. I just broke my tranny

 

[BruceH]

I was thinking about what happened to you last night. I sorta have the same issue at the road race track. Hard left hand corners will starve the fuel pumps unless I have 3/4 of a tank or more. Basically I top the tank off for every session. On the up side if I do starve mine out in the middle of the corner I am never near WOT, the car would just spin around.

Now to my point. How to solve the problem. I’m thinking of removing my PS fuel hat and either putting a stock pump or a high volume/low pressure pump “in” it. We’ll make some brackets, a billet piece/clamp thing or something, that’s pretty easy to solve. Then I would hook that pump up to a toggle on the dash and I could activate that pump and transfer all (or at least until the DS is full) fuel to the DS saddle. The nice thing about a setup like that is that you could activate it only when you need it, it would not be on the time and you don’t risk burning the pump up. And I would leave the stock siphon.

I’m sure there would be some trickery to figure out. But it would be cheap/easy.

Thoughts?

Why not a round fuel cell that fits in the spare tire well? Use an aeromotive 1000 lph pump and all should be good. You could still keep the stock tank and just switch over at the track. Or am I leaving something out?

 

[Department Of Boost]

Why not a round fuel cell that fits in the spare tire well? Use an aeromotive 1000 lph pump and all should be good. You could still keep the stock tank and just switch over at the track. Or am I leaving something out?

Not a bad idea but way more work and way more money than I want to spend. I'm looking to button the blue car up and call it done so I can build/buy/lease a real race car.

The blue car will see the RR track 1-2 more times and that is it.