fairmont 5 is now running

put an iron 6.0 in the ventura

threw in the spare iron 6.0 into the ventura with iron heads!

nearly done with the ventura

coolant system is closed up, and circulating, fan is working numerous other things setup and working great right now, car is getting paperwork and registration this week so we should have it out and making some noise, very curious to see how much power it makes and how it does.

video of the ventura running

fairmont 4 running!

268,000+ mile motor runs great, i guess we can move on with the plans here.

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

fairmont is running!

i am going to wire trans connector into the shifter connector, then ill have park safety, also the other 2 wires are the reverse lights, so ill wire those into the reverse switch on the shifter, viola, i wired my fan to the ECU today, and the damn low speed seems like its burned out, luckily the fans are easy to find the high speed still is a beast also

i wired the pump to key on and the starter up, buttoned up a few things and fired the car, it fired no problem but i soon heard fluids gushing out haha, i thought it might be coolant, turned it off, and alas, i have not done anything with the trans cooler lines yet, doh!

nice big puddle. oh well at least everything else seems right for now! hopefully driveshaft tomorrow and a lower coolant hose that fits, warm this thing up and get a downpipe built

going good!

johns turbo 5.3 nova running!

all that really needs to be done now is some tricky alum welding for the intercooler piping, and our friend is going to cover that! then its off for some boosted tuning!

got this thing fired today

engine test stand operational!

fired my 5.3 today on the test stand, it will go through some refinement once i figure out what works and how i wanna do stuff, i would like to build a panel that connects to the back of the cyl head or something, and then get a power switch and push button etc, but these nice things might never happen