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Not only am I not talking you out it, since the link was posted I am trying to talk myself out of a 383
So my thought.
Run what you got
add some laughing gas
Build a set of twins that will work for the next motor too
Drive it until you get tired of it or you hurt it enough that it can't be easily fixed, then buy the new motor.
Lots of benefits in learning how to race with a slower vehicle.
Run what you got
add some laughing gas
Build a set of twins that will work for the next motor too
Drive it until you get tired of it or you hurt it enough that it can't be easily fixed, then buy the new motor.
Lots of benefits in learning how to race with a slower vehicle.
I think we've really settled on the supercharger over the twins. The packaging is just easier and it's going to look cleaner with less heat in the engine compartment, not to mention for street driving it will just be more fun.
Now about the current engine and why this would be a fairly bad Idea. This is the engine out of my old Blazer, when I installed it, a washer went through #5 and beat the piston/head up quite a bit. I cleaned them up and ran the engine for quite some time in the Blazer, it ran in SupersizeK5s race car for one race, then it sat around until I dropped it in the shop truck a while ago. To run turbos on it, I'd need to replace the heads and pistons and possibly the rods. At a minimum pistons and regapped rings.
If/when we buy the Smedding engine, it will go in the truck and we'll have our fun. If we really like drag racing, I'll likely rebuild the LQ4 to put it in the shop truck and pull the Smedding to put into a lighter car specifically set up for drag racing/drag and drive. I've always wanted to build up a 1000+ HP engine, but it really didn't make sense for the S-10, that would have just resulted in even more broken parts.
Also, we use the shop truck quite a bit. I have to go into the office once a week and that is my wife's primary vehicle when I've got our commuter. I don't want to blow it up, I want it to start, drive, and generally work like a more modern car.
It's looking good for us to be ready for this Friday's open drag racing at Firebird.
We bought the kit to upgrade our Sidewinder shifter for a reverse lockout per NHRA rules and installed it (pain in the butt).
Then I found this beat up old S-10 in my back yard that had a nitrous kit on it, so we stole it and installed it on the Shop Truck.
We're controlling the nitrous system with the Dominator, which has been a learning experience. We're even using virtual switches on the dash for purge and activation, but having some issues. I'm not sure we'll have all the kinks worked out before Friday, but we'll be at the track anyways, tickets are already purchased for that and the Duct Tape Drags.
It has the 75 shot on it now from the S-10, but I picked up jets for a 150 shot that I'm hoping to use if we can get everything working properly.
We bought the kit to upgrade our Sidewinder shifter for a reverse lockout per NHRA rules and installed it (pain in the butt).
Then I found this beat up old S-10 in my back yard that had a nitrous kit on it, so we stole it and installed it on the Shop Truck.
We're controlling the nitrous system with the Dominator, which has been a learning experience. We're even using virtual switches on the dash for purge and activation, but having some issues. I'm not sure we'll have all the kinks worked out before Friday, but we'll be at the track anyways, tickets are already purchased for that and the Duct Tape Drags.
It has the 75 shot on it now from the S-10, but I picked up jets for a 150 shot that I'm hoping to use if we can get everything working properly.
My truck won’t be ready but I might still come. I had some stuff come up and couldn’t work on it.
Well, I figured out the issue already. Now I just need to pull the logs and make sure everything looks good before I put the 150 jets in. I should also put colder plugs in...
Everything looked good, I'm going to pick up new plugs tonight and try to burn out some more of the 87 octane. We'll swap the plugs and put in the bigger jets tomorrow.
New plugs are in and we installed and routed better purge line.
Here's a shot of the custom dash I made for the track with the N2O buttons/switches.
We put the new jets in and just need to take it for another test run to make sure the logs look good. We have the heater for the bottle and a blow down tube to install, but eater isn't necessary in AZ right now and technically we don't need the blowdown tube because it's not mounted in the passenger compartment, but I want to do it anyways. I'm not sure if it will get finished up before Friday, but we're good to race on what we have now.
Here's a shot of the custom dash I made for the track with the N2O buttons/switches.
We put the new jets in and just need to take it for another test run to make sure the logs look good. We have the heater for the bottle and a blow down tube to install, but eater isn't necessary in AZ right now and technically we don't need the blowdown tube because it's not mounted in the passenger compartment, but I want to do it anyways. I'm not sure if it will get finished up before Friday, but we're good to race on what we have now.
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Looks great, can’t wait to see what it runs. Are we going to take bets?
I have a Dragy and did an 1/8 mile test on a private runway in Mexico on our way to dinner. I'm thinking it will be low 14's/high 13's..
Well that escalated quickly
Come on, it's ck5, what did you expect?
I played with the tune a bit and went back out the the abandoned air strip.
Tomorrow should be fun.
Tomorrow should be fun.
I was on the brakes before 1000'
I've also heard that the dragy DA isn't very accurate
