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Donation Time
It's been awhile since I posted, so I thought I'd give you guys a heads up. I probably won't be making it to the reunion unless a small fortune lands in my pocket.
I got about 500 miles on my car. I was tuning and driving it. It goes down the road like a new car. Nice and tight, in fact, a little too tight, but it' starting to loosen up.
The gears that were in there were 3.42, but after driving it. I changed them out to 3.73.
I was running 4 lb of boost for awhile, then 8 for a couple hundred, then I put some more race gas in there and went to 10. I think you see where I'm going here. About a week ago I thought to myself I might as well see what this race gas can do. I was watching for a knock under labor, but nothing, so I took it to 12 pounds of boost, then 14, then 16. By the way. It goes extremely fast at 16 lb. of boost. Scary fast . I love the feeling. Any little bump or pebbles on the road will get those rear tires spinning. And that turbo sounds like a jet. No turbo lag what so ever. 9.6 to 1 compression doesn't hurt either. Can't hammer it in 1st. All it does is sit there and spin. You have to let up to get traction. It's just unreal.
A couple days ago my kid stopped by. He wanted to show me his new car. After looking it over I asked him if he wanted to go for a quick spin. I said I made some changes. He smiled and said. Let's do it. We headed out to Afton, then it started to mist a bit, so we turn around and took off. I took it easy until 3rd, then I hammered it down. The boost shot up to 18 the rear tires broke traction and she got a little squirrely, so I let up and through it into 5th. About three miles down where it was dry we came to county road 19. A four way stop. Took it easier in first and hammered it down in second the tires started spinning the tach pegged at 7 and boost last I saw it went up to 22 pounds of boost and that was all she wrote. The Kid asked what happened? I said we just blew the motor. He said really? I said yep.
I was just going to put a new short block in it and keep it below 12 pounds of boost, but then I started thinking. It's way too much fun at 18 pounds +. It would be nice just to build around the turbo, so this kind of thing will never happen again, so I started digging and found the parts. They're very expensive Cosworth parts. It'll be worth the wait.
I got about 500 miles on my car. I was tuning and driving it. It goes down the road like a new car. Nice and tight, in fact, a little too tight, but it' starting to loosen up.
The gears that were in there were 3.42, but after driving it. I changed them out to 3.73.
I was running 4 lb of boost for awhile, then 8 for a couple hundred, then I put some more race gas in there and went to 10. I think you see where I'm going here. About a week ago I thought to myself I might as well see what this race gas can do. I was watching for a knock under labor, but nothing, so I took it to 12 pounds of boost, then 14, then 16. By the way. It goes extremely fast at 16 lb. of boost. Scary fast . I love the feeling. Any little bump or pebbles on the road will get those rear tires spinning. And that turbo sounds like a jet. No turbo lag what so ever. 9.6 to 1 compression doesn't hurt either. Can't hammer it in 1st. All it does is sit there and spin. You have to let up to get traction. It's just unreal.
A couple days ago my kid stopped by. He wanted to show me his new car. After looking it over I asked him if he wanted to go for a quick spin. I said I made some changes. He smiled and said. Let's do it. We headed out to Afton, then it started to mist a bit, so we turn around and took off. I took it easy until 3rd, then I hammered it down. The boost shot up to 18 the rear tires broke traction and she got a little squirrely, so I let up and through it into 5th. About three miles down where it was dry we came to county road 19. A four way stop. Took it easier in first and hammered it down in second the tires started spinning the tach pegged at 7 and boost last I saw it went up to 22 pounds of boost and that was all she wrote. The Kid asked what happened? I said we just blew the motor. He said really? I said yep.
I was just going to put a new short block in it and keep it below 12 pounds of boost, but then I started thinking. It's way too much fun at 18 pounds +. It would be nice just to build around the turbo, so this kind of thing will never happen again, so I started digging and found the parts. They're very expensive Cosworth parts. It'll be worth the wait.