Now put the hood back, on, and push it out into the lot...

No celebrating until it has left the property.

Werd. Shut up and get it out of your sphere of liability! :lol:

almost congrats ! let us know when the owner picks it up :) *Crosses fingers for you*

It's parked outside as we speak! It's kinda nice to have BOTH of my bays back!

As soon as we get the check from the machine shop, he can come get the som-bitch! And then I give him my express tail-light warranty: As soon as I can't see the tail-lights anymore, WARRANTY EXPIRED!!!! :lol:

And it drove away on Saturday! GC8-Love's BF Lonnie and former Integra owner Chris were even here to witness it. It was beautiful!!!!

I almost shed a tear...

And the peasants rejoiced.


YAY!!!!

And then they celebrated with a fine dinner at Taco Bell.

Oh wait, it was a late lunch at Del Taco... Same Diff.

Del Taco > Taco Bell. IMO.

It was a "Demolition Man" reference...

In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell?

I just sharted a little.

Oh, I got it, just pointing out that I'd prob. kill myself if all restaurants were Taco Bell! :lol:

Congrats Cory !!! :)

No need. The food does that for you.

Wait a minute... Maybe Cory is Simon Phoenix... He'd kill everyone if all the restaurants were Taco Bell. :D

I'm cool with Cory becoming an archcriminal, as long as he leaves out the Dennis Rodman fanboi look. :lol:

The food does that for you too.

I don't think I could pull off the blonde high-top fade and orange suspenders anyway...

As long as you had matching shoes you could! :lol:

Well, I DO have white and orange shoes... :D

Doo eet! :devil:

bump...

First, I need to quote myself, and install a disclaimer:
Disclaimer: Never knock on wood. It's a scam.

SO, after an entire YEAR at C&C, it's on it's way back. Dave has been working on it off and on for the last 12 months, but there's still some little shit that needs doing, and Dave really just doesn't have the time. Boost controller is limiting at 15 lbs, instead of the 25 it's supposed to make, think the solenoid's crapped out, so I'm replacing that. The TB's need to be removed so bungs can be welded on for the N20 foggers. Subframe bushings, brake pads/rotors/lines, shifter bushings, new plugs, (<that's 3 hours alone...) alignment, and a small host of other crap.

Dean always asks me if I miss the old pig just to be able to suck up some hours on when I'm slow, well Dean, wish granted! Cool thing is, the car is running good, and on 15lbs with no N20, it's making about 450rwhp. Not too bad. It's owner also says he wants to bring it out (without the Nos!) to some SCCA track days or auto-x events as well, see if he can make it handle as well as go fast. we'll see...


say a little prayer for me guys.

HAHAHAHHAHA

Hang in there man. Without ZON, it probably won't bite...

Bumpity! Motor needs to come out again!

The oil pressure regulator (spring loaded ball pintle) appears to be stuck, and not regulating as it should. At idle, the car's got 50 lbs of oil pressure, and 120 at 2500rpm! Spec is 60 max at 3K rpm! The pressure has blown out the rear main seal, and caused a leak at the oil passage at the back of the RH cylinder head, through the gasket. In order to even pull the pump, you've got to pull the motor, remove the timing cover/belt, and drop the oil pan off, seeing that the oil pump is run off the front of the crank, behind the timing gear.

Good news is, I'm not really upset by this at all, cause I'm not the poor bastard who's pulling the engine!! My boss has pretty much told the owner that there's NO WAY IN HELL we're removing that engine from the car again.


just thought I'd update the saga...

Hey, I remember that one..

HMMMM...... souds like knocking on wood is a good thing to me.... now this polished turd is someone elses pain in the ass.

I sure as hell hope so! I've really tried to help the guy out, but it's like for every item you fix, there's two more fucked up!

im not going to lie. when i saw this thing the other day i was kinda disapointed. i expected a full out race car, not a daily driver looking car. :lol:

I think it definately has some sweet potential, but it needs more work for sure.

I had to come bump this again... Talked to the car's owner yesterday. Specialty Z down in CA yanked the motor, fixed a bunch of crap, and got it back together, and it runs great! At 30psi, without N2O, it put down 713 whp on their chassis dyno! (don't know what dyno they're using) They plan on tuning it for 36-38 psi, and then adding the spray! :eek:

He ran it on the holiday weekend out at Fallon, and said he was putting down mid-10's with *major* traction problems off the line! :lol:

not bad at all.

One more bump... The owner called me late Sat. evening, to tell me that Specialty Z dyno tuned the car during the course of the day. At 38psi with the 150 hp shot of N2O, they put down 1,009 whp. Damn.

Wow. Normally big number cars start to bore me after a while, but that is pretty impressive.

wow, thats pretty bad ass

Impressive? Yes. Badass? Not until it's got a way to put all that power down.

Right now, that Z is just a really impressive burnout machine! :lol:

If you can't put 713 to the ground, there is no way making 1009 on a dyno is going to help. :)

Glad it is running again though.

Yeah, he described multiple HUGE burnouts on the dyno, until they loaded down the rear of the car, had 3 people sit on the boot, and got the tires REALLY warm and sticky...

Someone has been watching too much Top Gear :lol:

Count me in the group of people that would not be caught sitting on the a 1000+ hp car's trunk while its strapped to a dyno.

QFT!

I'd rather do that than do the parasitics test on a Mustang dyno again :lol:


*shiver*

Oh cmon, 180 mph on a dyno without straps is no biggie.

Yeah this looks like a blast!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHcj1v2FqY

:eek:

Lack of understanding of physics always amazes me. Why do people strap to sprung attachment points without fully compressing the suspension on driven wheels just boggles my mind.

Especially in RWD, enclosed axle configurations, it should be trivial to keep the tires hooked up by using tie downs on the diff and axles themselves like this car was

Yes, you need to keep the chassis as a whole from moving as any video search of dyno accident will show, but downforce on the tires should be done with straps, not putting people's lives in jeopardy...

This was almost fun....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGaXtdW_NNo

Oh, that part's well and good.

Jacking up the rear end to get it off the rollers while said car is spinning at 160+, that's the fun. :huh:

WTF? Why in the hell would you put a jack anywhere near a car running on a dyno, much less at 160+???:huh::huh::huh:

Parasitic drag test... you gotta let the rollers spin down from high speed so the dyno can be calibrated to correctly factor out the rolling resistance of the rollers themselves.

Really? I figured you could run up the variable load based Dynos on their own. If the resistance is magnetic/electrical, not pure mechanical, I would think they would be just like a locomotive traction motor. Electricity in = motor, resistor bank = load.

Dyno Chart.

http://www.specialtyz.com/dynos/sz_stevem_big.jpg

35 PSI... :eek:

That is a big number! They are all big numbers. Other than a rubber version of the Flintstones wheels and lead or tungston in the trunk, I don't know how you put that to the ground in a front engine car...

Bump-a-rooni. We should have taken bets on how long it'd last... Crankshaft snapped clean in half between #2 and #3 journals, according to the owner. Poor bastard.