UPDATE: 9/01/03
Well there is alot of news to report. The Turbostang is running, and very good I might add.
On the other hand, I had a slight problem with a guardrail. I'll explain later.:(
On to the good stuff.. I finally got the car running, but with problems.. on the first day or so.. It overheated.. due to a seeping headgasket from the previous run time in N/A mode.. I dont know how.. most likely from me not re-torqing the headgaskets. Anyhow it overheated pretty bad and warped both heads and consequently popped both gaskets.. I had the heads surfaced.. and now it runs at 210 during the heat of the day with a cheap-o 3 row copper brass radiator.
Now that the car is running properly I wanted to check out the boost.. I have 6 p.s.i. springs in the wastegates to keep the boost at a safe level for street driving..which I do alot of. I made a couple of short blasts down the street in 1st and 2 nd gear to check the EGT's and the were only at 1350* after loading my tuneup in the TWEECER.. So I left it well enough alone..I went to the track on that following thursday night to make some street tire runs.. It was almost useless.. it ended up running a best of 8.08@98 on my bald Nittos...then on friday night I went to the track again.. with slicks. It proceeded to run a 7.18@101 on the first pass.. later it went 7.10... I was totally happy with this considering it left with absolutely NO boost at all... Oh and these are 1/8 mile passes.
This is all I have for now with pics to come at a later date. Keep checking back because I have videos too.. :) |
