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finishing it
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:57 pm
by Vinny
I am taking the day off tomorrow to finish up the car if anyone feels like stopping by the house (Jason). I don't see why I can't get it done and fired up tomorrow, I just got by vacuum manifold and am going to get the crush washers I needed from my guy at Jeff Wyler in a few minutes.
It's about fucking time.
Re: finishing it
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:45 pm
by evlneon
Vinny wrote:It's about fucking time.
couldn't have said it better myself.
i think j is still down south though.
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:15 pm
by AlexSuave23
Any chance it'll make it to the track this weekend?
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:38 pm
by Vinny
I didn;t know Jason was out of town.
I doubt I will make it to the track, I'm counting on having some minor bugs to work out.
And yeah it took me a while to do this, but it wasn't like I was installing a purchased kit. A lot of stuff I had to figure out as I went, and hell who knows how many hours I have just into driving to Lowes, Sears Hardware and the Dodgde deal. That and I am extremely fucking anal so everything has to look nice too. The extra time I took with this install has been worth it IMO.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:21 am
by Vinny
BTW: it lives!
full report later.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:02 pm
by Diablo0
Yah, I just got back last night.
KICKASS dude, it runs? How far out of tune is it? lol
If you're home tonight maybe I'll roll over and check it out.... lemme know.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:18 pm
by Vinny
I think it is fairly tuned, still have to fine-tune the AOBE though. Right now base pressure is at 17psi and idle doesn't seem that rich with the big stage 0 injectors.
I got it fired around 11:00 last night with the help of Ian and Charlie and took it for a little drive around the hood. Hit open throttle briefly and everything seems kosher and it pulls pretty hard. Had a little scare when the temp gauge shot up real high, but it went right back down and I hadn't ran the engine since I filled the coolant back up so it was likely just an air bubble. My boost gauge doesn't appear to be working though for some reason, once I figure that out and putt around in it a little more it will be time to push on it a little more. BTW the open 3" DP sounds great!
Make fun of me all you want for taking almost 2 months to do this, but just about everything worked great first try, and I had virtually no problems putting it together. I didnt get pissed once!
My engine bay look way pimp too.
I should be around tonight, though I may have to stop by my dude's to help him with his six-three for a bit.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:41 pm
by Diablo0
Ah okay... well lemme know about what time you think you'll be around and I may stop over to check it out.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:25 pm
by Vinny
Gimme a call around 7:00 and I'll let you know where I'm at, good chance I'll have to work late tonight.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:12 pm
by neonrtdriver
hell yes dude I want to see the car!!
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:08 pm
by Vinny
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:02 pm
by 2mopar
I know those crush washers are gonna give you some mad powa!
Bring that thing by one day! Looks like you did a killer job!
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:46 pm
by Neoncrazy101
this is probably one of the most stupidest questions to be asked at this moment but... i feel out of the loop as too what u did? lol...
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:51 pm
by 2mopar
Sorry, just a little inside joke!
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:42 am
by neonrtdriver
bad ass Vinny!!