isky triple 12 cam idle

installed the triple 12!

installed the triple 12 cam, and whatever traction i had in third gear, i no longer have.

tuned a ls3, 2013 camaro with a cam and headers

stock engine and intake tract, texas speed cam, longtubes and stock axle back

420rwhp on a dyno dynamics is very strong because they are a stingy dyno.

cam and another turbo truck

short story is, my friend got a truck, and i told him i would turbo it for him no problem haha so that is getting worked on, and i also got the cam for my fairmont and installed that

turbo RCSB cam install

installed a leftover ls9 cam in the truck last night, waiting on parts, ordered a bunch of stuff.

AJ and Matt cruise around in the fairmont

my friends 5.3 crown vic going 9s!

junkyard 5.3 with 862 heads, ls6 cam, home built th400, pte7675, ~4000lb raceweight

next up! to get a turbo

a friend of mine just got this 2000 silverado, 4.8, we will be throwing in a turbo and a 80e etc

burnout!

did a burnout yesterday, well, many of them, and my friend caught it on video haa

66 c10 chevy pickup with a 03 5.3 and 4l60e in it

fired this swap today, Joe and Ryan swapped the truck and wired it, and i just stopped by to plug in the ecu and get it fired up and running! awesome to see it key to life, the injectors were actually frozen and we had to hit them with a wrench and power them off the battery with alligator clips to kick them open haha

sloppy #001 replaced today!

my friend ryan sold the turbo rusty, the first sloppy car ever.
picked up his new toy today, he has always wanted a supra and picked up this nice one today

threw together a bastard motor out of spare parts today

gen3 block, gen3 crank, gen4 pistons and rods, flat top pistons and spare 862 heads, should be pretty high compression engine, also i put some old headbolts right back in out of a 5 gallon bucket, and used ls9 gaskets from a friend to top off this build

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!

racing dynos, OG ryan with some video commentary

fairmont dyno

cruising down the road

big dons notch and rockstar comments by ryan hahah

quick video update

fairmont and truck update

and a track pass from the firebird sunday

tuning on 18psi highway third gear pull

stock 99 4.8 (only valvesprings installed $50 dollar comp electronics)
stock ls1 intake, stock fuel rails, stock throttle, heads (untouched from the yard)
stock paper head gaskets, stock head bolts, stock rings, rod bolts, etc
18psi (on3 76mm turbo .96 AR) 2 inch home made hotside, 2.5 inch cold side
harbor freight compressor regulator boost controller

sumped stock tank, bosch 044 fuel pump, returnless rail with aeromotive regulator attached. 3/8ths push lock lines. wawa 92 octane pumpgas with methanol (prestone washer fluid approx 30-30% alc)
4l80e, fox 8.8 rear with 3.73 gears. 31 spline mosers.

my friend Ryan is helping his friend swap a older truck with a 5.3 and 4l60e combo!

i am excited to see this done!

bad balancer?!

i had a crazy vibration at idle and part throttle cruise, everything is tight so i pulled the belt off to see if something was hanging up and its ok.
replaced the balancer last night, my friend said the balancer might be dicked because his tow truck shook like a bitch when the balancer was bent or went bad somehow lol

this truck, well the truck this motor came out of, the brake lines blew out and it ran into a tree, so it could have been tweaked a little.

i swapped on another balancer i had, and this one came off so easy, something had to be wrong, i thought my puller was fucked up it came off so easy.

anyway i put the new balancer on and its much happier, also it was nice to dump the coolant system as the heater core made my entire coolant system brown and muddy already hahaha

how to remove a clutch fan without specialty tools

lost the serp belt today

kicked the belt off this thing today while pedaling 2nd gear hard, decided to try just for fun, building an alternator sheild so its harder for it to throw the belt off it, i am assuming its kicking it off the alt since its the smallest pulley with the least surface area. so cut this out of an old flex plate hahah

and a nice shot of the car while pulled over boiling over hahha

meth kit!

i had a partial meth kit laying around and a friend of mine had a spare snow performance 3 qt container, so i installed that today! excited to turn up the boost now!

my dad hates dirty cars

so he had to do something about it with this new fairmont, just quick polished the paint, didnt get to throw wax or anything else on the car, it has no clear coat on the yellow/cream color

getting there! fairmont driving video updates

this is yesterdays video from the car, 10-12psi and rough tune

and here is today at 14psi
doing pretty good!
gotta make my shifts sooner, its laying over power wise at 6000 it feels like, and looks like

valvesprings and pressing on

installed the 50 dollar valve springs today to see how they do in comparison to the pac1218s wich are 140 ish... they seem good so far, i raised my boost to 10lbs without a problem right now, just crushed in some more wastegate spring for the car to see how it will do should be 14lbs of boost on the wastegate right now after this, probably going to add the methanol kit to the car tomorrow and continue pushing, also i think we are going to race the firebird tomorrow

permanent wideband and IAT sensor finally

finally wired this thing in permanently to the key, so it wont kill the battery, also wired the output into the ECU and got that working, also mounted it in a blank spot of the dash!

Finally... IAT installed in egr plug haha, i was nervous about the sensor coming out or moving under boost, drilled a hole, put the sensor inside, covered in rtv, and put a small hose clamp on it so it cant move or get pulled/blown out hahaha then RTV'd the plug walls, and hammered it down with a socket.

trouble with the twin turbo third gen

chad mad a pass today and afterwards there is some bottom end noise, he already has the top end apart, and it looks spotless haha curious to see if he crushed a rod bearing or something

fairmont first driving video!

quick update sorry for the phone sounds over the recording.

car is doing good! more miles everyday

firebird turbo and fuel update

we were able to go 10.30 @ 134 ish with the s475 on 20lbs of boost

we had the car out with the billet 80 again sunday, and ran out of fuel at 19lbs of boost

the car has twin 255s in the tank, with a hotwire, half inch feed, and a regulator and return system

we pulled the pumps today and replaced one of the 255s with a 400lph i had laying around

removed the bottom of the basket,

installed a Y fitting instead of a brass T fitting

and used a junkyard connector with like 10 12g wires and used 5 for power and 5 for ground, ran a 8g power and ground to the connector and ground externally in the car.

the car had a 11.5 AFR on 17psi and it was quickly running away into the high 12s at 19psi

left the car the same from the track, took it out and on 19lbs its a 10.0 AFR

nice improvement hahah going to do some trimming and get back out

the firebird went 6.4x @ 109 in the 8th and then 10.66 @ 99mph in the brakes hard after running out of fuel. haha

so we will update again when we head out this weekend most likely

nice picture of the wiring

track pass of going 10.6 on the brakes, car cut a 1.47 60ft!

64x@109 in the 8th!

fired the car up a few times, warmed everything up, checked fluids, double checked, topped things off, made excuses, checked gears, checked trans, checked shifter, added zipties, checked fluids again, started it a few more times, everything seemed good, oh ill take it up south 4th st, i back out and go into drive, all is well, turn and go up the road, that is great too, get about a mile up the road, and notice its pretty rich, cool, ill fix that, i am on the real time tuning table, i highlight high load and hit .9 to take out 10% and hit multiply, and the car shuts off dead as fuck. had to get towed home. apparently something is wrong with the wiring harness because it says no VCM at all all the time, if i pull the computer and put it into my bench flash harness it works fine, i replaced every relay, fuse, ground, power, everything is good, car just cranks like there is nothing going on, terribly, terribly frustrating.

so i guess tomorrow i will call jon from PSI conversion harness and see what he thinks of that whole scenario