dont you have a chop saw? those work wonders for wht your doin and give nice squaire cuts. you must have a large gas tank on your mig huh? cant wait to see the final product. we still need to line them up though now that you'll have some nice drag tires.
chris

 

What did you do? Get one of those dinky bottles? I haven't shanged mine yet and I've had my welder for 2 years. Are you shutting the gas bottle valve after you're done welding for the day?

 

I do shut off the tank, but I dont know if it's a small tank or not. It's about 2 1/2 feet tall, weighs about 50 pounds when filled. It's bigger than my toteweld oxygen tank, and I probably got 4 or 6 hours of welding time out of this tank. I'm running it at the recommended flow rate, and I've used about six or seven pounds of weld wire from the spool. I did a lot of fixing out at the farm this last summer: Tractor, farm implements, barn door, etcetera.

Two years on the same tank, huh? :hmm:

Chris, I'll certainly line it up with you once I've got it sorted out. I hope to get it over to CARS this spring to get the EFI tune nailed down, and I wont be using the nitrous until I get a few more electronic sensors online, namely nitrous and fuel pressure. I want to log that information for each run to ensure I dont run into trouble. I can't afford a meltdown! Even without nitrous, it still ought to be fun to jump it down the track next to you!

 

No I see, Dan is using the smallest bottle like I have. Al, I think the bottle you have is the biggest one you can get unless it's for a business. Take pics of your tanks. Here's mine: http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q.../2006_2207.jpg

 

hahaha.

dan, no nitrous for me yet. let me know when it goes to sean's cause I live exactly 1 mile down the road from him. I'd love to come hang out. he's goin to do my dyno tune in spring also. so we'll be able to directly compare dyno #s too.
what cam do you have? and what heads? thought I remember you had a pretty sweet eng. setup. just cant remember any of the details.
and I still havent seen the car since the new paint so that'll be cool too.

 

Chris
Save me a dance!

 

you talking to me? you talking to me? you must be talking to me, I dont see anyone else standing here?

come get some.

hey kev, whats a 2.3 package? Im a little bit behind on my LT1 data. is that the 3rd version, of loyds stage 2 heads? what cam you got? I'll kick all your ***'s.

 

I'm talking to you
3= 383 version cam
How's this
.60x/60x
.23x/23x
10X

Check out the Super chevy show coming to Milan this summer
looks very interesting.

 

yeah I missed it last year. we should get together and check out the show this year. wanted to run my car there last year but too much goin on. your cam sounds VERY close to my cam. mine is 233/239 .580 lift ( with 1.6 rockers though) but mines on a 112. who did your tune? what kind of #s you get? Just curious. I cant wait for F'n spring already. gosh!

 

I have a 230/236 112 LSA, .550" lift, I think. It's in a Minirammed 385 with AFR195 heads, and 30 lb injectors that are fired by a FAST XFI ECM. Last I checked I was running at 85% duty cycle at WOT. I might have to upgrade to the next size injector. Did you notice that our SIGs show us as running within a quarter mile per hour of each other? It ought to be close enough to put grins on everyone's faces!

Now, what I need is a line for a local shop that does ceramic thermal barrier coatings:



It's almost ready to mount. Just need to fabricate and weld a little tab onto the merge collector for the exhaust hanger.

After that, it's time to button up the engine, verify cam timing, then tidy up the wiring harness!

 

damn, thats alot of welds! but it looks great. I know Ive seen on here where someone posted a local place that can do that.

mine also has 30lb inj.s, but never paid attention to the duty cycle yet. figured it was OK. guess I better look.

even if we had exactly the same dyno graphs, your gonna have a hard time matching my ET. stalled auto's just get off the line easier. but, once you get the hang of launching that sucker, your mph will be higher then mine. it will be an interesting race.

we can have a little 3 way race. how bout you and kevin race, and I'll race the winner? what gearing do you two fella's have? I got 3:73's for now. not sure how much longer they goin to last though. both 10bolts? kev you got some good tires? we need to do this.

 

started ordering parts for mine this week, wont be "working on it" until april though gotta get it ready for IDD (its a w-body thing)

Duke, were one of you guys driving by my girlriends apt ??
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17...g?t=1172496979

 

When found in those situations, I usually say, "Let's race a mile and see who's out front."

 

Iv'e got ET's bolted to my 12 bolt(4.10's) I am also running 37lb injectors (bigger for spray eh)
I'm game
3 rules
1. Full exhaust ( cut out is fine)
2. NA runs
3. Driver with the slowest reaction time buys ice cream

 

That ought to work, Kev--
I dont mind buying icecream-- Too bad I can't enter the minivan for this race, I was cutting .080 to .032 reaction times with that at M11-- Hitting within .050 of the dial-in too. I would've made the fifth round had it not been for that -.014 breakout...

I'm not nearly as consistent with the manual: I need to re-learn how to do it.