Finished!! Forged piston block, Custom valve head (flowbenched)

[mopar3.0]

what tranny did you use after, the small spline or did you get yours fixed?

[Ondonti]

the small spline was the one with the bad bearing. I just bought another clutch and used a large spline trans.

[Ondonti]

Engine started. Gotta check plugs to see if they are all firing.

vacuum is a little higher with these cam gears advanced. Just idled it for like 20 seconds and gave it a bit of gas once.


my buddy is taking out his 12 second sr20 nx2000 so I really want to make it to the track tonight...

[Ondonti]

Yeah so my sr20 buddy blew a headgasket cause he car was running bad and he decided he would rather beat a mustang then let off :P

I had some horrible runs. I will post slips later.
Lots of drama too. My new brake pads were hitting the spacers but the butcher brothers pulled up next to me (they run a caryard and do the TD thing) and say "oh we have some spacers that will fit at our yard (1 block away from track) so they come back and help me swap the spacers then I get into the races (late!)

Summary of my runs
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1st gear = bye bye 2.139 60' ick
2nd gear SLICKS SPINNING @ 12psi
3rd gear = NOPE!!!!!!!no 3rd gear
I thought I broke something but I guess I just let the clutch out to fast. I have no practice with this solid hub 3 puck and I actually had clutch problems that made me late to the races (clutch not engaging all the way so I removed all the rubber gromets to get more slack in the clutch cable and then it worked)
4th Gear = yay car not broken (going about 45mph at this time)
Put car back into 3rd gear, hit limiter and then engine braked @ the 1000' mark
17.8@74
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So I practiced my 3rd gear shift in line and then dropped to 9.5psi in the slicks (24.5x8 r15)

1st gear = weeee 1.99 60' on my 2nd try ever with stock rear suspension too.
2nd gear = PING!!!!!!! NO 2nd!!! shifter cable clip pops out! I knew what happened the moment I heard that.
3rd gear = blah 3rd gear sucks @ 30mph.

Cant get out of 3rd gear when shifter cable is jacked. I hit the rev limiter in 3rd and then engine brake.
I lost 2mph on the top end lol
blah I wanted my 12!!!!!!!and I had the 60' for it easy

Had to drive past the timeslip shack and pull over so I could fix the shifter cable clip and then grab my slip (i am NOT going to try a 3rd gear start with my current clutch)
16.4@72 lol
my 1/8th mph was 74 and that was me going 1st to Nothing!..then coasting...and then shifting into 3rd
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Then when i was changing my tires this ls1 camaro owner I know was talking lots of crap (according to friends sitting nearbye) cause after he ran once he spectated and he saw my poor times. He just ran a 13.9 (not spraying) on dot slicks and he thinks he can beat me on street tires (not spraying)
but I already know from last time that i have run a 13.8 on crappy drag radials and that was with no traction
Just funny to me.

Got home safe. No transmission dying on the way home

I will take pictures of the timeslips when I wake up tomorrow afternoon :P I didnt get home till 6 AM.

P.S. I think the dodge 3.5L AIS that is on my intake manifold is leaking boost because I was only making 5.0ish boost (should be more like 5.8psi on my .4 bar Tial spring)
Im not really sure though. I dont know how they work. If it is leaking I will just fix up something so it gets air from my IC piping and then I will have a closed system. Im not really sure if that is a good idea though.

[Ondonti]

There is video of my bad runs too.

[Ondonti]

Tested the AIS passage for boost leaks with my air compressor and I found that it is a MASSIVE leak. Probably why I felt the car was a bit slow even with the intake and the advanced cams....and why it was running less boost then before. Probably means the turbo was working a lot harder and i still wasnt getting 5.8psi. Spoolup is slow too.

Right now I am working on welding a piece of 3/8" ID cast iron pipe nipple to my IC piping so I can connect the AIS with the IC piping using some 5/8" ID heater hose.

I thought it might leak a little bit but when i tested I was shocked!

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Also I went for a drive yesterday and the transmission does not like to shift in the higher rpms...might be my fault by not using the new clutch right but Im not sure yet. This is probably why I didnt have shifting problems last time I raced...the other trans/clutch shifted great.

[c2xejk]

I can't imagine an AIS having a leak so large that it compares in anyway to the amount of air the cylinders are ingesting...

[Ondonti]

the hole is 1/2" in diameter at least.

Try pulling the hoses off both large vacuum nipples on the stein's intake and see how it peforms.

I was loosing almost 1psi boost.

The main problem for me is that the wastegate will try to build the 5.8psi boost or whatever but when there is a big leak the turbo is spinning faster to make the same boost level so the car acts laggier too

[c2xejk]

I take it that this is with your homebrew intake vs a stock style?

[Ondonti]

Yeah.
I think that leak is fixed now cause I closed the system. Welds look ugly on my IC piping but oh well :P

[Ondonti]

Here is another thing I found leaking today. I dont know how I was making boost at all. I knew the car felt really laggy when i went for a test drive a few days ago.
This was broken before or during my races last week when I couldnt get a full run.



Ceramic spray canned the weld. Not as good as the jet hot on there but the weld wont break now.

[Shadow24V]

gotta love the little shit that bites you in the ass. its what im fighting with on the 24v right now

[Ondonti]

I just wanted to mention its my fault that broke.

I just remembered now that when i was installing the engine last time, I kept pushing on the wastegate tube really hard to reorient the engine and I actually remember hearing something crack once....so it was broken when I installed it and it must have fallen apart more when I had the wastegate bolted on (heavy) and it got hot.

[XxPichulonxX]

You should put a sleeve on that for better reinforcement if you have any extra material to use. It's only going to crack again.

[Ondonti]

the previous weld was not good. This new weld is very good.

There is actually a brace on that pipe that you can see in the pictures..I just didnt have the fiberglass spacers installed below it or a bolt going through the transmission hole where that brace sits.