Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
driving around the malibu
nearly all the bugs worked out, just doing some tuning, thinking about taking it to the track this friday night or weekend
complete as of today
79 malibu, 02 lq4, gt45 turbo, 4l80e, ford 8.8, stock comptuer/psi harness tuned on Hptuners speed density 3bar
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
got the driveshaft today, very nice! installed and the car is mobile! i only was able to get 6 lug nuts at advance auto today, so there is 3 in each side of teh car hahah, also the pinion angle needs to be adjusted i wants to wheel hop like a bitch when i try to brake stand, well, it actually wheel hopped bad enough to kick the battery out of the tray haha, shifter needs attention, trans controller is giving me trouble, cant get it to shift right yet, other than that we got the hood on and pins installed so most of that stuff is all done with, throttle cable installed today also, awesome to see it moving under its own power.
sunbird update
our friend in florida still has the sloppy mechanics sunbird, recently took it to the track and went high 10s on 7 cyls (one of the coils or wires was bad) haha on 14lbs of boost! what a beast
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
rims tires and brakes bled!
bled the brakes today and installed a friends rims and tires that fit 5x ford pattern, hopefully driveshaft is done tomorrow and we try this thing out.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Sloppy Mechanics circle Track Car
my buddy corey has a circle track neon! sponsored in part by sloppy mechanics! i got him a cheap ass video camera for teh car that works great hahaha check this out
Monday, July 15, 2013
Turbo nova out and around the block
Had johns nova out today for a nice drive. Only a few more things to work on till this sees boost!
johns turbo 5.3 nova running!
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Plug and plau micro tcu
Trans controller is in. Wired and seems to be working great. Can't wait to get the rear and driveshaft in and cruise this pig
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Johns nova nearing completion
nearly done with Johns nova, aluminum 5.3 runs, trans fitting broke, so he has to get one of those, we did the oil feed and drain for the turbo, re-did the downpipe, mounted the intercooler and test fit the radiator, its going to goto ryan ackerman next once its running and cooling system works, to get some alum piping welded up for the intercooler, and then we can get to flooring it.
malibu runs, and cools!
after getting all the hoses and radiator and etc to fit i got a fan from the junkyard, a 2 speed ford fan with a cowl and everything works awesome! fired the car and let it idle for almost 30 minutes and it took a while to heat up the coolant in the block even without the fan on, then just turning the fan on low speed it was able to easily cool the motor down to about 180f (stock tstat with 2 very small holes drilled in it) pretty happy with that! on top of the rear not being a drop in i figured i would go the 8.8 swap route so me and corey pulled a disk brake rear end out of the junkyard for this pig, and i bought swap upper A arms for it. very excited to have this go in.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
install all the things
engine, trans, intercooler etc installed, did some wiring and intercooler piping also, oil feed and return are ready to rock, etc etc, might even fire it tomorrow night.
