nocooler's firechicken thread

[Scoobum]

You ain't got enuf till you can blow the neighbours windows out across the street with the volume on only 2 like I can. That car's gonna run a 9 on almost zilch for boost. Get yourself all the proper safety equipment. You have a family to think about. 

[Steve Wood]

The sound of that thing pullin' is all the music you need!

I love the sound of carbs but there ain't nothing that will make an combo work like FI

[nocooler]

Brad - I've been looking at safety gear. The car is just missing a transmission blanket or shield (they don't fit this application) and some other little b/s to be "good" for 9.99 As far as me, I'm looking with a going multi-layer jacket/pants, gloves, head sock, and my helmet is probably expired.  Thinking with the stock bottom end stuff I'm really considering an engine diaper.  Once I get things sorted, an 8.50 cage might be in order, but that's down the road.

Funny thing is, that's the base tune I built with zero WOT tuning. The MAP sensor isn't configured right ignore the kpa/boost

Look at the Command AFR and AFR - not bad. I got the info I needed - it makes power, time to swap the gears so we can actually go faster than 110mph!

[Scoobum]

Lots of injector left as well. What rear gears do you plan on.

[nocooler]

I have 3.25s to go in it. I wanted a more street friendly gear without overdrive. 3.70s would have been money but I wanted lower cruise rpm. 

[Scoobum]

Jeremy, it's a long thread. Is this a stick car or automatic? Or did you swap it to auto?

[nocooler]

Built th400 w/brake - PTC 9.5 15-0 spragless
That’s why the 4.56s have to go ASAP. 3000rpm cruise is 48mph lol

[nocooler]

Simple gear change turned into a major kick in the nuts.
31 spline axle - pretty much scrap now. The other side isn't twisted but the splines aren't happy.
35 spline axle is the fix. Not only do I need axles/bearing/spool, but my case has 3.062 bearings and the 35 spline requires you to go to a 3.250 case. Cha-Ching!

[Steve Wood]

Chubby Checker built those

[nocooler]

I've got a couple of options that I'm debating. 
1 - buy a new case, spool, bearings, and assemble with parts I already own. 
2 - buy a new 3rd member - and sell my existing 3rd member complete. I'm really tempted to go this route. 

Option 1 is about $600 in parts, option 2 is $1300. Even if I could only get $400 for my setup, $300 more for new stuff sounds good. 

35 spline is happening regardless - the wife agrees it's stupid to put it back together with 31 splines. 

[Steve Wood]

I would rather go option 2.  I think longer term, it will be the cheaper route.  It's that or put less traction on it and that is not a viable option LOL

[nocooler]

That's what I ended up doing. I've got the old stuff listed on ls1tech, hoping to avoid facebook/craigslist.
The new spool is 8lbs, the truetrac was 48lbs! 

[nocooler]

https://ls1tech.com/forums/dynamometer-results-comparisons/1953482-huron-speed-single-c-v3-ls1-sbe.html

Similar combo - 7psi. I've got more headflow and less cam, but I thought 7psi felt like it used to on 150 shot. 
Ricer math says 700rwhp should still be within reach if I can get a conservative 15hp-20hp a psi until 15-16psi and another 10-12hp per psi up to 20 psi. 

[Steve Wood]

country logic says 7 lbs of boost should add 50% displacement to the engine.  Of course, in the country, we ignore reality whenever it suits us

[nocooler]

LS1tech came through for me - I guess I listed it too cheap. Today I swapped the 4.56s out to a set of 4.11s and boxed it up. Shipping is stupid expensive right now - $160 to send a 100lb package ground ouch. I can buy a flight to the destination and back for that. 

Steve, your logic is similar to mine.