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Post by tiresmoke69 on Dec 19, 2010 21:23:22 GMT -5
Yea, well today I got the following fixed and working:
Slave cylinder
passenger window ( had to epoxy the plastic clips to the glass )
Parking brake working
AFR gauge hooked up and working
Car actually moved under its own power yay!
Then after repairing the feed line with a new fitting that screwed into the turbo housing, the piece that comes out of the head started leaking... I took all of it out and rethread taped everything and made sure it was tight. Cranked the car up and starts pouring oil again :/ ... Turns out that after all that the line cracked ha awesome. So I guess tom im going to oreilly's or Lowes to get a line. If I don't find anything tom I will just order your lines ( Stinger ) after christmas.
Im just glad the car is running good. I did find out that I need a new water pump also.
So just a few more things to fix here and there and I should be tuning it after Christmas.
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Post by Stinger on Dec 19, 2010 23:35:52 GMT -5
You're not going to find a feed line that rated for the heat, pressure, and oil rated at Lowes or O'reilly's.
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Post by tiresmoke69 on Dec 20, 2010 7:24:41 GMT -5
Yea I figured it was a long shot. If I can't find one local, I will put an order in Christmas eve.
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Post by sluggo on Dec 20, 2010 9:30:20 GMT -5
2850? Was this with the engine? All that with stock seats only took mine to 3250.
Look forward to you hitting that 10. Have fun with it!
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Post by tiresmoke69 on Dec 21, 2010 6:37:57 GMT -5
Yes 2850 was with the engine in the car and yes it still has the iron head.
Ill try and post pictures of all the weight reduction I have done. Its a lot more than most people would normaly do. I pretty much took my car and made it into a TC with absolutly no options, kind of like the muscle cars that you could buy in the 60's. Im working on putting roll up windows in it at the moment to save a little more weight.
The car will still have full interior, heat, factory glass, full exhaust, radio, get 30+ mpg on the highway and hopefully run 10.99 or better in the 1/4 mile , when I get done with it.
Right now I am limited on funds until I get out of school in May. So as far as 1/8 and 1/4 mile times, I'm going to see how far I can take the stock long block.
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Post by Matt Culpepper 2300gearjammer on Dec 21, 2010 9:49:28 GMT -5
The thing thats being questioned I guess is how to the tc weighs the same as my white mustang which has also been lightened.
Is it still all steel body panels?
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Post by bobbarker on Dec 21, 2010 15:42:52 GMT -5
Yes 2850 was with the engine in the car and yes it still has the iron head. Ill try and post pictures of all the weight reduction I have done. Its a lot more than most people would normaly do. I pretty much took my car and made it into a TC with absolutly no options, kind of like the muscle cars that you could buy in the 60's. Im working on putting roll up windows in it at the moment to save a little more weight. The car will still have full interior, heat, factory glass, full exhaust, radio, get 30+ mpg on the highway and hopefully run 10.99 or better in the 1/4 mile , when I get done with it. Right now I am limited on funds until I get out of school in May. So as far as 1/8 and 1/4 mile times, I'm going to see how far I can take the stock long block. I hate to throw rocks at someone else's work, but I just don't see how your car can be that light when it's such a heavy one to start with, and full interior? And just from my past experiences, most manual window's weigh as much, sometimes even more, than electric window's. I've removed all interior other than 2 front seats, center console, and dash, no window's, no speakers or wires and no a/c winshield wipers and I'm just hoping to reach 2800#'s. Again, I'm not trying to throw dirt at you!
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Post by tiresmoke69 on Dec 22, 2010 8:17:28 GMT -5
Matt: It has all the factory body panels.
Bobbarker: have you read the weight reduction list?
This is what will make up the " full interior " :
Corbeau racing seats, absolutely all sound deadening material removed, factory back seats, no head liner ( car didn't come with one ), no stereo other than 2 spaekers in the dash at the moment ( car didn't come with one ), all carpet and insulation taken out ( was rotten anyway ) and replaced with carpet from orielly's with no insulation, and all plastice pieces and glass are still in the car. I probably won't worry about the window motors if you know that it won't make any difference.
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Post by Matt Culpepper 2300gearjammer on Dec 22, 2010 9:36:59 GMT -5
Those are the same basic things that people do to TCs but they seem to still be a few hundred pounds heavier is all he is saying.
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Post by tiresmoke69 on Jan 2, 2011 10:27:17 GMT -5
Update: New oil line. I got to drive the car down the road yesterday and let it warm up to OT. I am having a problem with datalogging though. When I start the datalog it's showing 121.7 bar, rpm at 7400, tps is 2.27 V, and says im in 5th gear. This is all while the car is idling and none of the values change. Im running the SD setup using BE 2009 with a Moates QH v1.6. The map voltage is at 1.76 where it should be, but it doesn't change with throttle. Things I have already checked: In the hardware tab-> Mode 2 Tune 2 and I wrote it to all 8 banks. Any ideas on what could be causing this?
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Post by Stinger on Jan 2, 2011 23:16:36 GMT -5
You'll probably get the best answer on the Moates forum for that question unless svojohn sees this thread.
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Post by tiresmoke69 on Jan 3, 2011 0:36:33 GMT -5
Big thanks to Clint and John!
I was using QH v1.6 with BE 2009 which I found out today doesn't work...
I got BE 2010 and bam! Now I can datalog and car is idling and cruising great.
Its 28* outside so ill finish most of the tuning tomorrow.
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Post by tiresmoke69 on Feb 6, 2011 12:19:46 GMT -5
Update:
Took to the bird to the track yesterday and ran into a funny problem... Figured out that if the car has quarter tank of gas or lower it cuts out when going into second gear from a launch at the track. I noticed that I did not cut out when I floored it from a 2nd gear roll. After I put some more gas in it ( half tank ) this was no longer an issue.
So im pretty sure the gas is sloshing away from the pump pick up... It has an in-tank walboro 255HP pump. Any ideas on what I could do to fix this, other than have a half tank of gas?
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Post by Stinger on Feb 6, 2011 13:10:49 GMT -5
That's a pretty standard tc problem. I wouldn't think you would want to race with less than a quarter tank much anyway. Sometimes the in tank baffle comes loose and makes the problem worse.
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Post by 75pinto on Feb 6, 2011 20:19:20 GMT -5
i guess this old news (forgive me i have been away for awhile) i just cant see an all steel Tbird at 2800 lbs.
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