V6Sprout
Registered User
Well, I finally got the car ready enough to take it for a spin, it was around 11:30pm or so when I actually left the driveway. The car is super loud soI didn't want to punch the throttle too much in town and didn't want to venture too far away from home so late at night just in case.
I got down the street adn around the corner and the car was running fine. Then all of a sudden it seemed to have lost power and stalled out on me. Not sure why. I fired her back up, took a few cranks but she started back up. After that for the ffirst minute of so it would hesitate every now and then and want to stall out but then kick back in and run fine. No idea what this is so thats the main reason why I did not go too far from home.
Car pulls pretty good, a lot harder then my old N/A motor thats for sure. I could spin the tires with only part throttle no problemand spun then into 2nd without trying. I did see up to about 6-7 PSI boost at one time but not sure if I was at WOT or not. ON the vacuum side of things I saw anywheres from 10-20 PSI.
Got a question though, while accelerating lightly do you guys see boost? I saw about 1 PSI boost while accelerating but once I was at crusing speed it showed vacuum around 12-15 PSI, is this normal? At one point I was accelerating and it read 0, no boost no vacuum, but quickly changed at I sped up more. Guage is working fine too.
Over all I am pretty pleased, the motor is loud as well, the buzzing sound is coing from my IC hoses, I put my ear up to the rubber IC hose and could hear the buzzing noise, I think once I switch over to a steel pipe it won't be as bad.
I put my fan back in the stock location so I did not have to re-wire it, I didn't think it would fit but it did. I also made a custom bracket for the overflow bottle, seems to work.
I am tempted to drive to the Mod Motor Shootout tomorrow but still not sure, there are guys there that could fine tune the car for me, that would be my main reason for going, not to race, I wouldn't race.
Anyways, thats my update for now.
Sean, if I don't go to the Shootout I have ot go to the In-Laws with my wife, hence another reason I want to go to the Shootout We would be back Sunday night so maybe Monday we could hook up, I want to tighten up my collar nut on the blower, did you get Bill's spanner wrench?
I got down the street adn around the corner and the car was running fine. Then all of a sudden it seemed to have lost power and stalled out on me. Not sure why. I fired her back up, took a few cranks but she started back up. After that for the ffirst minute of so it would hesitate every now and then and want to stall out but then kick back in and run fine. No idea what this is so thats the main reason why I did not go too far from home.
Car pulls pretty good, a lot harder then my old N/A motor thats for sure. I could spin the tires with only part throttle no problemand spun then into 2nd without trying. I did see up to about 6-7 PSI boost at one time but not sure if I was at WOT or not. ON the vacuum side of things I saw anywheres from 10-20 PSI.
Got a question though, while accelerating lightly do you guys see boost? I saw about 1 PSI boost while accelerating but once I was at crusing speed it showed vacuum around 12-15 PSI, is this normal? At one point I was accelerating and it read 0, no boost no vacuum, but quickly changed at I sped up more. Guage is working fine too.
Over all I am pretty pleased, the motor is loud as well, the buzzing sound is coing from my IC hoses, I put my ear up to the rubber IC hose and could hear the buzzing noise, I think once I switch over to a steel pipe it won't be as bad.
I put my fan back in the stock location so I did not have to re-wire it, I didn't think it would fit but it did. I also made a custom bracket for the overflow bottle, seems to work.
I am tempted to drive to the Mod Motor Shootout tomorrow but still not sure, there are guys there that could fine tune the car for me, that would be my main reason for going, not to race, I wouldn't race.
Anyways, thats my update for now.
Sean, if I don't go to the Shootout I have ot go to the In-Laws with my wife, hence another reason I want to go to the Shootout We would be back Sunday night so maybe Monday we could hook up, I want to tighten up my collar nut on the blower, did you get Bill's spanner wrench?