my cars dyno pulls!

My fairmonts and my kia dyno sheets as of the last week haha

Pre Dyno Video

Dyno runs video

Put fairmont 3 on the dyno last night

Made some easy and incredible power.
10lbs 500+
15lbs 660+
17lbs 721whp
Pumpgas and methanol

fairmont 3 out and about testing!

running around on 6psi for now working on the tune!

both cars done as is, as of today

just some completed pics of the cars today for fun, as is! both running and driving and making boost!

blazer dash in the yellow car!

since i paid about 100 dollars for the camaro SS dash *cluster and wiring* i thought what the hell i will pull a 20 dollar GMC jimmy dash out and see if it can work the same.

so i tested it first, then wired it in.

yellow car shakedown on the dyno

threw the yellow car on today and had some trouble, but its the first time it has been out of the garage period so it did great temperature wise, i believe i have a bad coil or bad plug, or more than one. going to get that sorted out and get back on the rollers

put the black car on the dyno

well i put the black car on the dyno and it hit 12psi and 12deg of timing and laid down 413rwhp to the tire and 400ftlbs of tq super safe tuneup

brake boosting 15psi in the garage

mounted the wastegates today with light springs, bench test moves them at 5psi ish, so hoping with no reference they are around 15psi, wich it looks like they might be, i would like to hook up some reference points to them and dyno on 5psi

running and making boost!

got the exhaust done the other day, and finished the intercooler piping today after my friend did some aluminum welding for me. so i fired it and decided to roll into it a little for your enjoyment, and get some idle clips

venturas 2014 hotside

putting an LS motor back in the ventura this year and corey and i buiilt this hotside for it!

updates on fairmont 3 today

started eyeballing a intercooler into the car today, going to give our regular small intercooler a try as a fair test of power difference, then i might go stupid later like large custom 4 inch core or air to water intercooler setup.

but for now i think a good test of is the turbo and hotside better, is using the same intercooler we always do.

got the radiator mounted up in the car

88 mustang gt upper rad hose, cherokee lower rad hose

had to cut the lower rad support, *its double layered* dropped that rad about 2.5 inches down to make it flush

that is the truck alternator bracket drilled out and shoved on sideways

have to credit my friend for coming up with that one, and a 69 inch belt from AZ teeing it all together.

two updates in this post

made a quick update video, and then got my shit together and fired the car for fun

both cars update video

fairmont 3 fired up for the first time

worked on the yellow car today

dipstick in, connected the wiring to everything i could, bolted up the hotside and s476r turbo! that shit looks amazing in there. put a new sticker on the back instead of the white one, a black LSX sticker

she is coming together fast.

over 200miles on the swap for now

driving great, also plenty of fuel up top it seems!

all is going really well!

valve spring install on the 5.3 motor going in fairmont 3

time for the 5.3 to go together

today we made some room, pushed the cars back, had to replace the caster wheel on the engine hoist, then we moved the painted 5.3, installed valvesprings, studded the motor, removing one head bolt at a time then installing the studs, once the studs and springs were installed we did the cam. This time after pulling the balancer i used a LS7 crank bolt wich is longer than a truck bolt, pulled the balancer right on no problem then you finish with the truck bolt, man this worked so well i dont know why i have never done it, like it was meant to do it, crazy how i have never heard of it till my friend john said something about it, thats the way he does it.

either way the motor is back in the yellow car already with the reiners engine mounts ready for the turbo kit tomorrow.

out driving and doing great

Drove the car 75miles probably or more

another 50 miles just today (25 yesterday and day before)
its almost perfect, just some more cruising and whatnot to confirm and i wanna drive it everyday and make sure it keeps doing alright, no leaks, no problems, just want to finish up some interior wiring for power accessories and maybe swap the head unit, very very happy with this car.

tinkered today for a while got my shift points where i want, also 80mph is 2000rpm and 95mph is 2350 or so haha OD ftw

another stock dash gauge conqured today

since my stock sending unit was bad, i installed a universal 0-90 ohm sending unit in the stock tank, and ran that to the PCM today and setup the stock gauge in the software, unbelievable how easy that was, i couldnt believe it. so just oil pressure left to do now.

fairmont 4 all around town haha

Fairmont 4 out and about! a short drive and some testing, everything seems to be working ok, i have to swap over the intercooler next and then we can start making some boost and see how it all works out!

drove around for 10 miles today then ill look everthing over, coolant was 180f the whole time and everything was working out great.

moving!

gas tank installed and it is moving under its own power!

fairmont 4.0 tank done

my friend finished sumping the stock tank for the black and grey fairmont 4.0