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Any chevy guys here?

:NoNo:

If you want to talk about cars that you don't own. Here is the WORLD RECORD on a street tire. Using 434 cubes of ford power.:eek::yesnod::D Fed by a couple turbos.


RWD Dan Saitz, St. Louis, MO 07 Mustang 434 Ford 6.195 04/01/2008

RWD Dan Saitz, St. Louis, MO 07 Mustang 434 Ford 236.23 04/01/2008
http://www.gatewayraceway.com/track/news/article.php?dir=200804&id=1726
 
Heck, I thought we were talking about cars we owned and actually streetable.... :rolleyes:

BTW, my car is STILL in the shop! After finding that the intake manifold bolt holes were drilled incorrectly, then the fix that World Products did on those holes looking like someone had done them in their basement, AND then finding a crack in the head casing surrounding an exhaust valve guide, I rejected that Warhawk engine completely. Luckily LME is biting the bullet on this one and building me a NEW engine. Just waiting for the RHS block to show up at LME so they can do their work on it. Been a damned long 5 months (!!) with my car tied up.......... :angry:
 
I helped build this car and I have spent alot of time helping crew this car.It is owned by my best friend.So I am sorry to intrude on your thread,did not know there were rules listed to reply,the title of the thread is any chevy guys here so I replied.Just wanted to show what I take alot of pride in.Won't do it again.Once again SORRY.
 
No one is mad, guess you can't tell just by typing.

Always something when it comes to cars webslave. Ive been correcting problem after problem with this supercharger install. Should have a tune by mid week. I will post results.
 
jjhall8 said:
I helped build this car and I have spent alot of time helping crew this car.It is owned by my best friend.So I am sorry to intrude on your thread,did not know there were rules listed to reply,the title of the thread is any chevy guys here so I replied.Just wanted to show what I take alot of pride in.Won't do it again.Once again SORRY.
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Man, don't worry about it. It's all in fun anyway. Hell, I would LOVE to drive a car that could do the quarter under 7 seconds. :thumbsup: I would probably be screaming just like I do when on a roller coaster.... :rofl:
 
Unbelievable as it may seem, my car is STILL in the shop. :bandhead0

From the last message to this one, I had to reject that original Warhawk engine because I found a crack in one of the heads around a valve guide and just decided (with all the other problems) that I didn't want this turkey in my car. So this latest engine is based on the RHS block and some other brand of heads (which look a LOT nicer) that I can't remember off hand. Of course, this all took substantial time to iron out.

Anyway, here's the latest video I took last week (Thursday - 07/29) of the "coming to life" of the engine. This is the second time it was started, but Wednesday the few times we tried it would rev up to around 3800 rpm before shutting it down. Come to find out that the throttle body is allowing way too much air through it at idle. So the guy working on it put on another throttle body that seemed to be indexed correctly and that fixed that particular problem You can hear at the end that the engine running away stopped when the other throttle body was put onto the intake. And you can see that the A/F ratio needs to be tweaked from the unburned gasoline coming out of the tailpipes..

We also found an oil leak that is coming from the camshaft position sensor. Short explanation is that the sensor had to be relocated from the rear or the block to the front, and then on top of that, RHS raised the camshaft higher off of the crank, so this was pretty much a custom job (yet again). Apparently LME welded a bung onto the timing chain cover, and for some dang reason the bung is too big for the sensor itself. Consequently the O-ring seal doesn't fit tight enough and oil is leaking around it. Still working on a solution to this right at the moment, but to say I am aggravated at yet another roadblock is a vast understatement. It's now been nine (9) months that my car has been in the shop! :mah:

Anyway, here's a video of that session starting the new engine up...

 
That sucks. My car hes been getting prepped for paint for 3 months now. He originally said it would be 2 weeks max. I have a different car now. I sold the other one. This is os faster than the last one and is all motor. Nitrous to be coming soon. Can't watch the video on the ship so I will try to remember tomorrow.
 
Meh, at least it's not a Dodge... I hate Dodge with a passion. With the exception of your classic muscle cars, all are crap IMHO.

I'm a Chevy fan. All I own is Chevy, although I had an '87 Toyota 4Runner when I was a teenager. Most gutless vehicle this side of a hybrid, but I NEVER got that sucker stuck. EVER! I miss it. 496,000 miles when I sold it and still running strong. I doubt many Ford's will last that long. I doubt ANY will last that long. Once my Cobalt is paid off I'd like to get a Subaru WRX STi. Even stock they are mean little buggers! When I do get it I will gladly race your Ford.
 
Lets bring this back. ow times have changed. We thought 700 and 800hp cars were fast. I have since opened up a dyno shop. No more military for me.
 
Oh hell, that blue vette has been nothing but headaches. Would you believe it is back in a shop again? Not the two that originally worked on it and royally screwed things up. And then went to a third shop (a Chevy dealership) and they put in a pilot bushing and a clutch not up to par, that is being replaced right now. But getting a pilot bearing put in this time. And a triple disk clutch. Had to go that route to get one that would be streetable and still hold the power.

Been there over 4 months now. :time_waiting_01:

But backing up a bit, when I finally was able to drive my car home after the two shops butchered it, I put it up on my lift and wound up spending the next year or so fixing all the crap that got butchered. Then after that, I had a guy come down from Atlanta to see if he could get a tune done on it. Everything was pretty much custom by then, and the second shop claimed that the car was untunable. Well, maybe they couldn't tune it, but the guy from Atlanta didn't seem to have any problems. But he basically just did a preliminary tune, and pretty much just to reassure me that the car COULD be tuned. After that, I spent about another year figuring out the tuning and getting it to actually behave on the street and run like it should when I wanted it to GO.

During all that, the tech at the Chevy dealership discovered that the Pfadt carbon driveshaft was incorrect, and they sent one that was 7mm too long. Screwed up a LOT of stuff. Well, coupled with the fact that the second shop left a couple of bolts off of the bell housing attaching it to the block. That certainly helped things quite a bit.

I think (hope) that this last stint in a shop will get things straightened out. I guess I should have done the work myself, since I have a full sized lift in my garage, but honestly, removing the drivetrain on a Corvette with a torque tube setup is not something I really felt like tackling. Plus I really didn't know what was making that drivetrain noise that was getting worse and worse all along. I sure as heck didn't want to pull it apart, not see anything obvious, and then have to go into "shotgun fixing" mode by just replacing one thing after another until the noise went away. That would have been a REAL pain in the butt. So I decided to pay someone who really knows what they are doing, instead. Besides, although Connie would have helped me in the garage, I am really getting too old to be messing with those heavy components on top of a transmission lift anyway. Too easy to break one of my creaky old bones that would maybe disable me permanently.

Anyway, the 235 page thread about that entire mess is here if anyone has a lot of free time on their hands -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44697

And that is for the second custom engine. The first one (Warhawk) finally got rejected when I found a crack in a valve stem area on one of the heads, and after all the other crap, decided that the engine was a piece of crap. I will NEVER buy anything that World Products ever has, or ever will manufacture. The 427 engine built on an RHS block just looked so much better in the quality department.

Pretty much this is a very good display of a situation that could likely convince some people to NOT heavily mod their car. This is probably worst case, but it CAN happen to you too. Unbelievably, this has been going on for about 10 years now since I rolled it into the first shop to start the work on it.

It has been a shadow over my entire retirement. What I wouldn't give for a time machine so I could go back then and kick myself in the ass for ever having that idea.
 
michiganexotics said:
WebSlave whats you opinion on the new Corvette mid engine
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Actually, I like the looks a lot. But since I tend to like wrenching on my own vehicles, when the situation warrants it, my concern is how the heck to you access that engine to work on it? Even with someone else working on it doing warranty work, it looks to me that they would have to be climbing all over the sides of the car to access anything on the engine not accessible from the underside. I don't have all that much faith in dealerships to not assume I wouldn't come away from the experience with scratches all over the sides of the vehicle as a result.

And based on Chevy's history of screw-ups with new model releases, I sure as heck don't want to be the first on my block to get such a radical design change as this C8 model. Heck, they are STILL having problems with the automatic transmissions in the C7s.

The first year in a model change is really always a beta test release that purchasers that just have to have the latest and greatest before anyone else are going to have to deal with.

IMHO, of course.
 
Here is another video I took back in 2013 when I was doing some tuning on the car. I found a really lonely and isolated road in the national forest and while recording data from my laptop, put the car in fourth gear and eased into it until I could run it up into boost so I could collect data from the run.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUhun5zl1e8

I only ran it up to something like 6400 rpm. The trees were whizzing by me pretty quickly by then!
 
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