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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 07 2014, 11:32:39 PM »

I race pretty much every weekend from the first week of April till our Thanksgiving weekend...whic h is this coming weekend. I still get nervous/anxious/excited sitting in the staging lanes waiting to make my first run of the evening/day. Once they wave me in...it's all good. Lining up against the big tire Sportsman cars is what gets my pulse rate up. I'm happiest when I'm at the track...there's no other place I'd rather be. Sounds stupid...but it feels like home.

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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 07 2014, 04:58:33 PM »

When I used LU convertors I had Eric lock it for me via his chip. Think he locked it in the mid 80's.

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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 06 2014, 11:13:18 PM »

That puck is huge. Jason offered it after I bought my DP from him. It caught on the inside of the DP...so I trimmed some of the inside of the DP off with the die grinder so it would swing freely.

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Paint and Body / Re: Finally Got em on

« on: October 06 2014, 11:07:23 PM »

Sweet ride!

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General Auto Tech / Re: nocooler's firechicken thread

« on: October 06 2014, 06:04:21 PM »

this might be it   http://www.direct-io.com/

Sorry to hijack the thread Jeremy
That was the the yellow car that had a peg-leg?
 

The dual fan setup and diff girdle are on my car...from the yellow car.

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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 06 2014, 05:56:06 PM »

I'd keep my eye open for a used pair of 28x9 slicks...as they have the same dimensions as a 275/60/15 drag radial. They fit on a stock GN rim and clear the frame rail and fender lip...as can bee seen by this idiot launching. I did a test one time. I removed the .63 Garret housing on a TA 49...and slapped on a Precision .83. With the same boost and tune I gained 3 mph. Leave Erics 3rd gear timing alone...and work on your low gear tuning. Put the boost to it and enuf 3rd gear fuel so it won't hurt itself.

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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 05 2014, 06:03:23 PM »

Jason...this is what I would do. I'd bump the boost up to 25 PSI...and leave high gear fueling where it's at. The slightly higher boost pressure will lower your 02's for you. Log 2 shows 795 going through the traps...so your high gear fueling should be fine...if the temperature is the same. Pull some low gear fuel out of it...and have at it. I'm curious to see if your MPH increases...or you "blow through" that unlocked convertor.

Be sure to address that voltage issue first.

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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 05 2014, 05:42:20 PM »

I had a 49 with a .83 Precision exhaust housing. Wish I still had it. I'd bolt it on this engine and squeeze it for all it's worth.

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General Auto Tech / Re: nocooler's firechicken thread

« on: October 05 2014, 05:39:24 PM »

I had Direct Scan...and it works on DOS.

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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 05 2014, 11:38:27 AM »

If you're referring to the RJC Power Plate...beg, borrow, or steal to get one.

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General Auto Tech / Re: nocooler's firechicken thread

« on: October 05 2014, 11:30:50 AM »

LOL..I answered this in my answer to your PM...but Jeremy will explain better than me...

Android. That's like R2D2 or C3P0 from Star Wars...right?

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General Auto Tech / Re: nocooler's firechicken thread

« on: October 05 2014, 11:09:43 AM »

Any interest in how I hacked a chromebook into my tuning laptop?

God hates a coward...so I'll ask the stupid question. What's a chromebook?

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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 05 2014, 10:52:15 AM »

Long ago,  Jeremy (Nocooler) was running mid-elevens on a TE-44 in a peg leg car...he put some serious air in the bag on the passenger side to hook it up

I remember that.

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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 05 2014, 10:08:05 AM »

Steve...here's a pic of me squaring off against a big tire car from earlier this year. High compression SBC...big cam...loose convertor...op en exhaust...big gears...blah blah blah. I'll give you one guess who got to the top of the track first. To head fake these guys even further...note the stock GN rims...and that's a 10.5 tire on the rear...clears the frame rails and fender lips.  Not one cool guy part on my car. 

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General Buick Tech / Re: jason's education thread

« on: October 05 2014, 09:17:03 AM »

I have a set of TA aluminum heads here...that were further ported by Nick Micale. I had every opportunity to bolt them on this short block back in July...and didn't...for a reason.

Dan and I did a test a year ago. On a Saturday we swapped a Champion race intake on my car. I always run the Champion stock appearing intake. I wanted to see what the car would do at the track with no other changes. My hunch was correct. Had a go at it the next morning at the track at the same boost setting I normally use...and it was a stone off the line.

The only 2 LU convertors that I'm aware of that can be locked at WOT is the Precision multidisc and the 9/11. The rest don't have enuf surface area. Dusty Bradford has forgotten more about convertors that most will ever learn. He's a good read.

A boat load of fast parts won't make your car fast. There's a ton of guys out there with 10 second parts running 12's. Two guys up here in the Toronto area with S2 cars are running 11's. Believe it.