things have been CRAZY the last few weeks... havent even driven my car in months!
picked up the turbo car so the NOS car can be retired...
first night at the track with it we dropped a valve. the springs had about 360lbs of open pressure. and with a 600 lift solid roller cam thats not even close to the types of pressure we need. we still went 4.83@151.44mph
so the stud mount rockers came out along with the exhaust valve and new springs locks and retainers all around. had titanium locks and retainers with nitech springs installed (775 open pressure to give us some head room).
missed the race at SGMP so we could get the car back together and get more testing in. went to the final call at 75/80 had to get out of the gas a bit and went 5.01@151.46 mph so the power was there and more! just needed to get it to stay hooked up and bring it in faster!
well the 2nd pass we broke what we thought was a cam pin and bolt. turned out to be a broken lifter which scored the cam up. got lucky and no bent valves. so the whole motor is out currently getting new cam new rings rods and bearings to get rid of the heavy ass steel rods. going to GRP aluminum rods so we can free up a good bit of power. the old cam turned out to be an NA street strip cam according to bullet cams. so the new one should actually be a turbo cam.
we will be missing the last points race at cecil for the season to make the push to get the car ready for ford fever and the WCF at MIR where we will be running it out the back!
picked up the turbo car so the NOS car can be retired...
first night at the track with it we dropped a valve. the springs had about 360lbs of open pressure. and with a 600 lift solid roller cam thats not even close to the types of pressure we need. we still went 4.83@151.44mph
so the stud mount rockers came out along with the exhaust valve and new springs locks and retainers all around. had titanium locks and retainers with nitech springs installed (775 open pressure to give us some head room).
missed the race at SGMP so we could get the car back together and get more testing in. went to the final call at 75/80 had to get out of the gas a bit and went 5.01@151.46 mph so the power was there and more! just needed to get it to stay hooked up and bring it in faster!
well the 2nd pass we broke what we thought was a cam pin and bolt. turned out to be a broken lifter which scored the cam up. got lucky and no bent valves. so the whole motor is out currently getting new cam new rings rods and bearings to get rid of the heavy ass steel rods. going to GRP aluminum rods so we can free up a good bit of power. the old cam turned out to be an NA street strip cam according to bullet cams. so the new one should actually be a turbo cam.
we will be missing the last points race at cecil for the season to make the push to get the car ready for ford fever and the WCF at MIR where we will be running it out the back!