Finished my heads/cam swap and sent my pcm out to bryan since it was running like crap and lo and behold, she ran great. numbers in my sig. My only mods are
thunder racing MAF; MAC 1996 headers with ORP and Loudmouth exhaust; Comp 306 with 111 lobe seperation. lloyd elliott heads with maximum flow of 275.1/197.0 intake/exhaust at 600 lift
vortech elbow into the holley C.A.I. I know she has a little more in her but funds are low and so is my time. She also has 120,000 miles on the clock as well. So this is a shameless plug for bryan. He got the tune pretty much dead on the first time. I also reused my head bolts and did everything without pulling the engine. I had the fuel return line break the seal and the first time I started it up the gas came out of the line so bad that it caught fire and I had a valve cover off and was spraying water to douse the engine and the water obviously got into the engine so I thought I had to take the heads off again and redo the gaskets but that was not true thank the good lord above. It took me 2 weeks to complete since I had to have the cam taken to my buddies machine shop to put a new pin in it so all in all it took me 5 days of taking my time, it would have only taken 1 day of 8 hours but this was my first computer controlled car I put heads and cam in and of course the wiring is no picnic. But when you remove the wiring it is just another 350 that needed TLC. Plus it doesn't help when you have no room for anything so I removed the A/c entirely and put the 1LE A/C delete pulley in her and now I see my belt is stretched since it has slop in it. Well, just figured I would say I also have no cam surging either. When the heads were off the engine I saw very little carbon buildup so I took an oily rag and wiped the piston tops and the buildup came right off and the piston head was shiny again..

 

Congrats,and nice numbers.

 

Yesterday I took her out again and almost crapped my pants!! I came around the corner in second gear and decided to romp on it and the whole rear end let loose so I caught it and shiftet to third and she let loose again without a problem...I see now why people spin a bearing because the rpm's skyrocketed to 6500 each time within almost a split second. I do want power from my girl but not overloaded power!! I brought her back home quickly and got out and just stared for a second happy and sad at the same time. Happy that she has more power, but sad because I am not going to be able to afford the batch of speeding tickets and new tires I am going to need

 

very nice congradulations. be careful

 

Sounds like one bad momma. Congrats on the numbers.

Dan

 

How's the idle (what rpm)? Any loss of braking power?

 

Nice numbers! Is this with the stock intake and TB? If so, you'd be very very close to 400rwhp, not bad for 122k and a mail order tune. As for the rpms skyrocketing, I hope you had Bryan set a rev limiter, cause you'll be glad you have it if you miss a shift or shift too late.

Jason

 

Never thought of that

 

yup, pcmforless does an incredible job, with quick turnaround and great service. Another for bryan!

On a side note, I think your post wins the monthly award for the "longest series of long run-on sentences." Punctuation man, punctuation!

 

I really hate periods because they stop a sentence short and you have a hard time trying to hit the shift button so it makes your typing a lot harder to do at one time.

 

Nice numbers. I'm glad I finally get to see a comparision between my setup and a cc306 setup with Lloyds heads. Your heads flowed slightly better than mine, and I've got the stock TB still. Although I did have Lloyd port my intake and I'm an auto, so my numbers would've looked better with a 6 speed. With my base pcmforless tune and 5 degrees of timing being pulled due to false knock I put down 384rwhp and 363rwtq with one of Joe Overtons's small cams(~220/226). I haven't redyno'd since the knock is gone and a updated tune from Bryan, but I did pick up 3.6mph at the track. His first tune was pretty good considering its a cam he's never seen before. Another for pcmforless.