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Thanks Navy!

I haven't finished the turbo install because I'm still waiting for the new waste gate to arrive. May have to remove one from a turbo we already have on a truck to get it finished up. The car is also getting some Convo Pros and different tires as we are going to get it more streetable and cruise in it more than it has been.

We finally got a waste gate fit and adjusted on the secondary turbo and the turbos are on and now we have to make a new down pipe for the exhaust. Once that is done we can put the primary turbo oil drain on, and then re-install the injector lines and the cold pipe and intake. I still have to come up with a support bracket for the primary turbo as well. It'll be nice to have this running again.

Any new estimate of HorsePower?

It should be from 650-800hp hopefully. We're going to try to get the fuel backed off to a haze at wide open throttle and see how fast it is at the track. Right now there is no fuel plate in the injection pump so it is set on kill and it's too smoky to drive on the street. My brother has been workin gon the down pipe today and almost has it finished. More pics later.

Here's a better pic of them. The header wrap on the down pipe sure doesn't like the flash.

Small update on this one. We got the turbos all done and my brother spent about 5 days repairng things and making sure all is well before he fired it up. He thought one of my electric fans was bad and he put pressure on it and that resulted in a hole in the radiator. So the intercooler had to come out and the radiator got repaired and a new fan installed. I put some 195/60R15's on the front convo pros and put them on too. Right now the car is headed to Indy and Nick, my brother, will be racing it at the NHRDA Fass Nationals this Saturday. It's been 2 years since the car has been there last.

Your not going??? You'd have a hard time keeping me away if I were you

Originally Posted by cffisher

Your not going??? You'd have a hard time keeping me away if I were you

No, I couldn't get the time off work and I'd rather spend the hotel money on buying new back tires on it so we can get the rear convos on before Good Guys. It does eat at me, but you can't do everything all the time.

Gotta love thinking outside the box, I salute you!!!! I'll have to read this whole thread a bit later. Thanks!!!!

Here is a picture with the air filter on the primary turbo.



Here are some bad pics of the car with the convo pros on the front.

No real news here on this one. Back in June when Nick took the car to Indy, it was pushing oil out the breather. Plus my rear tires went flat and no one aired them up and they have some dry rot now. I haven't really been impressed with the performance of the car, and it isn't the car's fault. I'm going to make some changes, and get back into the seat. My brother means well, but he isn't a drag racer. He doesn't relay info or pay attention. He gets caught up in the moment and just spaces out. We're going to dyno it in November. Depending on what it does, I may buy an aftermarket cylinder head. I ported the holy jabeezus out of this head, and in the back of my mind, I keep thinking I unshrouded the valves, and that is hurting the power. All of that really doesn't matter as the car still really doesn't stall off the line. Well, one time it did, with a V10/V10 converter, and I'm going to go back to that converter, and make changes to the car to get it down the dang track like I should have.

First, I need to redo the back of my cage so I can get it cert't to run with the org I was running with. I'm so torn on just building a tube chassis ride and leaving this one alone. Which may be an option. I might just save up and buy a pro stock roller or similar.

Second, I'm going to buy slicks for it and ditch the quick times. Once the engine starts making boost, these tires still spin on the track. Always have since I've been running this thing.

Third, I need to replace my seat with a kirkey or something that takes up less room than the cheap plastic one I have in there now. I'd also like to redo my tin work and center console area.

We'll see how it all goes. I'm not real happy with the mid 11's it's ran and I want it in the low 10's or high 9's. It has the MPH for those times. We'll see what it dyno's and then I'll go from there on where the big purchases need to go. If worst comes to worst, I've nad a nitrous kit sitting in the shop for it, and I'll put it on.

Back in the end of October we started getting the car ready to go dyno on November 8th. I put the quick times on the Convo Pro rear wheels finally, and we added a TV pressure cable. Good news, now you can hold the car to 10psi of boost but after that the rear tires start shoving the car forward. The bad news, the place that had the dyno couldn't run it. My rear tires are too wide and the rear tires are too close together. So it didn't get a run. But, the car is closer to making a pass if we feel the need now!

You've been making good progress on a variety of projects I see. You are actually shaming me into getting off my butt and get something done! Anything!!

Car looks good Ryan, anxious to see how big an improvement it picks up this summer! Let us know when you get some sort of schedule together for where and when you'll be running the car next summer, would be fun to come see it run and meet you guys!

Love this turbo diesel Vette!