Got the seats in today, wired the driver seat up and was happy it worked. Can't wait to drive this thing.
I need to clean the driver seat up a bit, what can I use to clean it while it's in the car?
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Got to take the car out after all, it quite raining sooner than I thought. I asked the wife if she wanted to go uptown for a beer to watch the UFC fight. SHE suggested we take the stang, was a nice outing. She even kept quite when the car would transition into boost and laughed when I scared a bunch of ricer kids with a flame throwing 2 step in the parking lot. Keeper.
I can remember throw'n flames and I can remember the two step, just never thought about putting the two together.
Not sure I did it at a slow roll maybe 10mph I had almost past them when it finally started to pop the flames. After I put the cats on the car it is much much harder to make happen and is very hard on them.
Basically you have to set it up to load on fuel while at the same time retarding the timing far enough (I set it lower than base timing to 5* this causes the timing to oscillate) to get the headers super hot. Would be much easier with a turbo
Basically you have to set it up to load on fuel while at the same time retarding the timing far enough (I set it lower than base timing to 5* this causes the timing to oscillate) to get the headers super hot. Would be much easier with a turbo
Sounds like a recipe for exhaust system short life expectancy....
I've seen it a bagillion times..Turbo car on the 2 step,...popping, banging, and spitting out flames while staged....but they don't have mufflers, or cats.
Few more pics of the car out in it's natural habitat. This time I temporarily installed a hot blonde in the passenger seat, My favorite mod so far.
That's why I said it's hard on the cats, I don't do it often and usually have it disabled. But they were staring us down so I had to reply.
I wish I could find the pic I had of a honda that was crushed and this big chrome fart pipe was till intact
It was hilarious.
It was hilarious.
Hey guys have a little problem here basically after the car sitting for a long time and then me driving it without checking any of the fluids I stumbled upon my radiator half empty today. Now I tested it filled it back up got the car hot and water poured out from under the radiator cap, I'm tired of messing with it I'm probably just going to replace the radiator to be done with that. My major concern is I had the car running with the radiator cap off and I noticed every once in awhile I get some bubbles coming up I'm worried I may have damaged head gasket the car runs perfectly fine and it never overheats never actually gets above 205 that's where the fans come on. I made a video of the car running with the radiator cap off so you can see the bubbles if any you guys are regular mechanics or can tag some of the guys on the site that you know that are I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
View: https://youtu.be/VTnjwT7gKsI
Thanks.
View: https://youtu.be/VTnjwT7gKsI
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I really can't tell from the video. If I were you I'd go grab a block checker tool ( head gasket check tool ) from a local parts store. They're a really good thing to have especially when we are boosting these cars.
Does the antifreeze smell like exhaust gas ?
Does the antifreeze smell like exhaust gas ?
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Whaddya think am I screwed?
Whaddya think am I screwed?
I really can't tell if it does I did smell it but didn't puck up any gas smells.
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That's a good thing. With the radiator not sealing the fluid can't build pressure. The pressure helps keep the coolant from boiling.
If the head gasket were blown the spark plugs would show signs. A compression test would also reveal a head gasket leak.
You could put the cylinder on BDC and screw in a compression gauge hose. ( take the Schrader valve out ) Hook it up to an air hose and see if it blows bubbles in the coolant. Bad rings and valves get checked this way, too.
I can only imagine what you've gotta go through to get to your plugs.
The easiest is the block tool. It uses alien pee to check for exhaust gas in the coolant.
Next easiest is to pull plugs and look for signs of coolant ...
Stick a scope in the cylinders to search for a " clean " one.
There are a bunch of ways to check. With you not running hot, misfiring, or loosing power...I don't " think " its a head gasket...
If the head gasket were blown the spark plugs would show signs. A compression test would also reveal a head gasket leak.
You could put the cylinder on BDC and screw in a compression gauge hose. ( take the Schrader valve out ) Hook it up to an air hose and see if it blows bubbles in the coolant. Bad rings and valves get checked this way, too.
I can only imagine what you've gotta go through to get to your plugs.
The easiest is the block tool. It uses alien pee to check for exhaust gas in the coolant.
Next easiest is to pull plugs and look for signs of coolant ...
Stick a scope in the cylinders to search for a " clean " one.
There are a bunch of ways to check. With you not running hot, misfiring, or loosing power...I don't " think " its a head gasket...
I got only this to add...
I had a weird instance back in 95 w/ a 460 that I learned about nitrous usage on. I had been beating on it for several instances before, running it on 93 octane, w/ 37 degrees timing, w/ a two staged nitrous system (two stacked super power shot plates,...set to the biggest power level). The day I took it to the track, It would suck the lower radiator hose shut when you winged the throttle.
But I went anyway.
The first test pass,...as soon as I hit the button for the second stage, it blew a freeze plug (an actual, pressed in steel freeze plug) antifreeze blew out under the tires, I almost crashed, and I completely fouled the track w/ coolant.
I had one of my friends go get me an expandable freeze plug from AZ, and I installed it at the track. Refilled the radiator, and waited till my match race got there.
The next time out, and during the race, the car again blew another steel freeze plug, and dumped water under the tires. I lost control, and hit the wall. Car was trashed.
I later learned that I was somehow lifting the head from detonation and was pressurizing the water jacket. The fact that the car was sucking the lower radiator hose shut had to mean that there was also some path for antifreeze to enter the chamber, even when free revved. That had to also mean that there was something wrong even before freeze plug incident....but there was no smoke or smell that clued me into that.
That was my "hard lesson" where I learned about Octane, Timing, detonation, and compromised head gaskets.
I had a weird instance back in 95 w/ a 460 that I learned about nitrous usage on. I had been beating on it for several instances before, running it on 93 octane, w/ 37 degrees timing, w/ a two staged nitrous system (two stacked super power shot plates,...set to the biggest power level). The day I took it to the track, It would suck the lower radiator hose shut when you winged the throttle.
But I went anyway.
The first test pass,...as soon as I hit the button for the second stage, it blew a freeze plug (an actual, pressed in steel freeze plug) antifreeze blew out under the tires, I almost crashed, and I completely fouled the track w/ coolant.
I had one of my friends go get me an expandable freeze plug from AZ, and I installed it at the track. Refilled the radiator, and waited till my match race got there.
The next time out, and during the race, the car again blew another steel freeze plug, and dumped water under the tires. I lost control, and hit the wall. Car was trashed.
I later learned that I was somehow lifting the head from detonation and was pressurizing the water jacket. The fact that the car was sucking the lower radiator hose shut had to mean that there was also some path for antifreeze to enter the chamber, even when free revved. That had to also mean that there was something wrong even before freeze plug incident....but there was no smoke or smell that clued me into that.
That was my "hard lesson" where I learned about Octane, Timing, detonation, and compromised head gaskets.
eeeehhhhh.... I'm the wrong person to ask because my advice is if nothing else seems off other than the low coolant, fill it back up, buy a new radiator cap, and drive it some more and see what happens. If you lose coolant again, then I'd do further investigating. My truck was doing something similar and seemed to have been fixed with a new radiator cap.
We chased this around a few months ago (maybe 8 months) I did a full leakdown test and compression on all cylinders... if I I'm gonna get the co2 tester and let it judge.
Yeah I've had problems with this thing not sealing the radiator cap, you can watch coolant run out from under the darn thing sometimes.
What can I expect when I drag all my parts from a jy....
What can I expect when I drag all my parts from a jy....