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AeroCoupe · Jul 11, 2023

We seriously need an emoji that does the leg humping thing. Kidding aside that looks super clean man.

TOOLOW91 · Jul 11, 2023

AeroCoupe said:
We seriously need an emoji that does the leg humping thing. Kidding aside that looks super clean man.

Thanks dude . I wish I had it done already it’s just so humid here . Tomorrow maybe I will get it wrapped up

AeroCoupe · Jul 11, 2023

Will be 97 here tomorrow with a heat index of 113 so no garage time for me.

TOOLOW91 · Jul 12, 2023

shot it with some satin trim black for now . When I Powder coat my new box r intake I will have it done as well

TOOLOW91 · Jul 12, 2023

AeroCoupe · Jul 12, 2023

Looks hideous...

Rdub6 · Jul 12, 2023

Winner!!

Gotta get that power steering return to an “AN” fitting…… you know….. just because!

Seriously though, looks awesome….. hard to believe you drive it as much as you do with how clean it is!

TOOLOW91 · Jul 12, 2023

I tortured it . I had it running in my garage - it’s 91 degrees here. Hood closed for 40 minutes no fresh air flow . Hottest I saw was 207.

My fluke gun read 111 on the ceiling in the garage

So I opened the hood . Hood open 193-194

Took it for a ride . After I heat soaked it to death . Driving it had been running 2 hours at this point .

Idles like 196-198 . It will creep a touch if you’re not moving . But the minute you start moving again within 3 traffic lights it’s 186–192 and if you aren’t stop and go it hangs 185/186 again in 91 degree heat and heat soaked .

My mistake I made was I was brain dead and put 50/50 in it today . Need to drain that and put distilled back in it . It does help.

Pic 1 heavy stop and go . Pic 2 cruising for a short while .

The gauge does read slightly higher than the holley cts as well .

I hate driving it in this heat anyway . Anything over 85 and I’m like f this . So this was a great test .

hoopty5.0 · Jul 17, 2023

GAH I wish you had AC, purely for selfish reasons to see how it reacts

TOOLOW91 · Jul 19, 2023

hoopty5.0 said:
GAH I wish you had AC, purely for selfish reasons to see how it reacts

I’m certain it would run warm lol

TOOLOW91 · Jul 22, 2023

Street car stuff .

May or may not have had a wide body hell cat try to come from behind me off a light and shoot past me at 10 mph roll in the right lane .
I saw his headlights shoot up , then All I saw was his nose and fender by my door by the time I clicked it into high gear he was a car and a half behind me LOL

Monkeybutt2000 · Jul 22, 2023

Love the plate,LOL

Noobz347 · Jul 22, 2023

TOOLOW91 said:

If you built your own computer, I'm betting that it looks similar inside.

ThinBlue502 · Jul 24, 2023

TOOLOW91 said:
Street car stuff .

May or may not have had a wide body hell cat try to come from behind me off a light and shoot past me at 10 mph roll in the right lane .
I saw his headlights shoot up , then All I saw was his nose and fender by my door by the time I clicked it into high gear he was a car and a half behind me LOL

Goals man. I ran a Hellcat from a stop and had almost a full car on him from the light until I put it into 3rd gear and then he just left me. I need to boost my car.

TOOLOW91 · Jul 24, 2023

ThinBlue502 said:
Goals man. I ran a Hellcat from a stop and had almost a full car on him from the light until I put it into 3rd gear and then he just left me. I need to boost my car.

They are so impressive - but they are boats . Quick no doubt but they give a owner false sense of what’s really fast

TOOLOW91 · Aug 13, 2023

So the blower belt and I have been doing some battle Since I reassembled the car with this combo like 6 years ago .

The front edge of the belt would show signs it was always pushing up on the edge of the pulleys and eating itself . But for years I was just cruising the car only over the last year or so have I really began to get on it and let it do it’s tning .

Well from time to time it would shred a belt up or roll a rib off . Last time I drove it I was messing around and right at the end I heard it loose the belt .

I pulled the crank pulley off etc to check for anything going on . Checked the acc belt side - all good which I figured because I never loose that belt .

What I did find is my Vortech 2.95 pulley lines up perfect . My grip tech does not . Talking to another friend he tells me he has to either shim or mill alsmot every hub he installs at work . Well here are . The blower pulley is .06 out from the crank because of the grip Tec hub .

First pic is with my old Vortech fire wheel

bird_dog0347 · Aug 13, 2023

So it's just the pulley that is the problem? Are they different sizes for different boost levels or are there other differences? Can you not get the same thing in a Vortech pulley?

TOOLOW91 · Aug 14, 2023

bird_dog0347 said:
So it's just the pulley that is the problem? Are they different sizes for different boost levels or are there other differences? Can you not get the same thing in a Vortech pulley?

The hub is problem it’s a common issue apparently . Just has to be turned down .06

I like being able to quick swap pulleys and it looks way nicer than a stock Vortech .

Doesn’t matter what size I use with the grip tech it’s off the same Across every rib . Put a standard pulley on like the 2.95 I have and it’s perfect .

TOOLOW91 · Aug 19, 2023

Here it is after 60 thou machined off .

Noobz347 · Aug 19, 2023

In my head at least, it's better to do what you did than to have it too thin and have to shim something like that.

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