sloppy mechanics pitching in when we can so students can go turbo LSX!

So Jan 6th we had a Votech student post a build they are working on in class, a 07 ranger with a 02 5.3, and th400 planned as the power plant, he posted photos of a carb intake and what looked to me like a quadrajet on top, with the promise to show more photos of the project.

My first reaction was, holy shit this is awesome, and i know that these things are usually budgeted pretty tight and they work with what they have or what people will give them.

in my first post i said please let me know if i can offer any advice at all on the program or if they needed any help, i said if you throw the carb away ill donate dyno time to the school so they can learn more about a project like this, and man it would be cool if we can help them go turbocharger right away (since most of sloppy is all about throwing turbos on junkyard LS motors)

immediately members started saying post what you need and we will try to get you parts!

then i learned they were farther away than would make that a practical reality east PA vs Michigan (probably 14 hours away)

He said he would be showing the teacher some sloppy mechanics videos and tell him we are interested in helping. first i thought ill try to get them everything i can, then i thought, well i better ask and make sure this is OK haha, we got the teachers information and overwhelmed by it all said we can send anything to support the students and the program.

Before i could even ask him my friend Viren (of VSracing) steps up and said he will start looking around immediately for turbo V8 parts and other things he can ship them for the car for free, I said i would contact Mike & Mike @ efi source and see if they would chip in or discount an ECU and wiring harness to control the turbo LS motor for the drag car.

Mike said absolutely he will donate ecu, wiring harness, and sensors towards the project at no cost! he asked where they were located because he wanted to show up and do it in person! also finding out they were in Michigan makes this difficult haha.

Either way we have people stepping up who work at parts stores to send fuel pumps, and more.
pretty soon they'll have everything they need, and they didn't have to spend any money at all.

whatever else they might need we will raise the money to pay for it and ship it their way i am sure of it.

as always i am amazed at my group's willingness to help out in these situations.

looking forward to updates in videos and pictures of the truck and how it turns out.

ill be posting updates when i can, and linking the videos they put up, also talking more with the teacher soon

first passes with the car are in

my buddy corey took the car to the track today as i was busy!
he made 3 passes, one first pass was 11.30
the next pass he got on the brakes after the 8th,
then third pass he ran out the back and went 11.0 @ 126mph

great start so far.
might race again tomorrow!

pictures from cecil county 10-11-12

finally got a 9 second pass today

out of car

in car

corey racing my car at the track today

took it out for some test and tune, and work on the trans shift settings and check the temps since it was hot as shit, got the car dialed in to 16psi and it looks like i am running out of fuel... gunna work on that, and probably upgrade the fuel pump to something giant for the other motor. car easily goes 106 in the 8th even hitting the limiter on the 1-2 shift sometimes.



and some snaps

88gt 5.3 turbo car goes 10.55 first outing

what a awesome day today haha
we have this TBI 350 powered flatbed towtruck, and the motor was fuckin tired, as you might have seen in the last video hahah
anyway we just happened to have a 454 big block carbed motor sitting in the driveway, yes, in the driveway... so obrien racing LLC decided to install the big block in the towtruck, they slammed it in there super fast, and we put a regulator on the fuel feed and return and got the pressure down to 9psi for the stock quadrajet and got it fired etc, everything is great otehr than having to hotwire the pump to run when the key is on since we are really not using any of the tbi electronics.
so my buddy wires it up no fuse or nothing but does use a relay, well half way to the track, on a bridge... the wires melt lolol
so we used a jumper cable to power it enough to pull off the bridge, and we were following him in another car, so went to auto zone and got the wire and a fuse holder and wired it up and finished our trip to the dragstrip.
first pass in the car we decided why not footbrake nice and see how she does.
10.55 @ 133mph 1.7x 60ft 107 in the 8th. awesome, we are super pleased with this, considering we can turn up the boost a little and even spray it with nitrous if we really want to hahah.
the next two passes were off the trans brake but although they look great because of the squat you can also see the car fishtailing and spinning 1.8 60 and going 10.60 and 10.71 i think, ill be cutting and uploading the video shortly.
but i figured you would all enjoy the sloppy story.
he also knocked the rear view mirror off today on a launch

great runs at maple grove raceway today

before the track... video (what turned out to be bad bearings from fubar'd oil pump oring)


at the track footage from a friend


in car footage of my car


and timeslip

wild pass in the fairmont

welp worked on the nitrous and boost controller in the 8th today, track could have been better but at least i got my boost controller sorted out and where i want i have her set on 21lbs right now basically, i made 10 passes over 100 in the 8th easy today, one of them was a 107mph on boost only on a 2.0 60ft...
last pass was after someone oiled down the track and they cleaned up it was like 42deg and the track was cold and i juiced a tiny bit off the line and cut a 1.8 so nitrous is working good, just gotta try some things, the car is a hand full to say the least.
i turn off the spray in 2nd gear and keep it pinned and it was spinning and wandering bad, so i chopped it and straitened it out and then said fuck it and shifted 3rd and planted it, since i figured the track was shot and i wouldnt make anymore passes, it went 1.8 60ft, went only 103 in the 8th because of traction, then i went 11.03 @ 134mph out the back lol car is a rocket. just need some more work and passes.

finally got the 10 sec pass with the turbo truck

no nitrous, drove in on drag radials and pumpgas with meth and ran 10s and got booted!




time slip proof!