I should it looks like it will be around 80*f and partly cloudy around 5pm. I'm running straight 93 pump gas in her now though and i have the boost set to around 22 and falling off to 17ish. My logger is acting up though so i can't check to see if i'm knocking. That's why i figured i would give it a couple quick passes with good cool down.
I'm talking to a guy on here about buying a good used trans from him since my sycros are going quickly and some gears are still hard to engage at times. Also the second and third runs the clutch wasn't grabbing like it should and still slipped a bit after slipping it on the first pass. I think that it was a new 2100 installed last fall from the receipts i have. So if i did end up going, and the clutch isn't grabbing like it was a couple weeks ago then i'll still probably only be netting 1.8 60's again like on sunday. The low 1.7's a couple weeks before that felt strong though and on on stock tired suspension i think that's about it's limit. I don't know though, but this week i've been working days at work so i would probably be able to get out of there at a decent hour. What do you think?
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
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True words. I'd really like to get this logger working again so i can keep my eye on the knock. The car is already working on getting another trans, don't want the engine to feel like it needs to move any time soon. Next time i go i'll be able to find out if the clutch is still slipping. I never had any grabbing problems with my old car on the act 2100 untill i got in to the low 12's and that was with 50-100 passes on it.
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
Travis-- the slipping clutch obviously isn't gonna help. I personally would run about 19 psi and no more. Especially on pump gas. I run 21, but it holds solid with tial external. The power at the ground from 19-21 psi is marginal with a side mount, I forget if you said you've got a FMIC on there yet. When I lived down there remember that dyno day at Altered? at 19 was 257 at the ground, 20 was 263 and 21 was 266. 9HP total at the ground. Not really gonna make a difference in 1/4 ET. Also, portwork, and O2 dump will pick up some power. So, you going tonight or is the clutch smoked?
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60' 1.48
ET 11.49
MPH 116.85
14b power!
Yes i have a punishment racing FMIC on the car which seems to help but the UICP stays hot for a while but if i cool the car down with the hood up it makes a big difference. Then again we are talking about Racing in 80*f and hotter weather here. I'll lower the boost down to 19 psi to be on the safe side, yeah i remember that dyno day. That was when i truely saw how nuts you were about weight reduction. My 1g bov is leaking by 17psi so i need to do the dodge garage high boost mod to it. Also i'm running a ported SBR 2g exhaust manifold, ported 7cm turbine housing and a heavily ported 2g o2 housing going into a stock down pipe that is dumping open.
My buddy needs my help today swaping a new exhaust manifold on his grand national which should see an 11 sec pass tonight with a decent 60'. His old manifold was cracked not letting him build enough boost off the line netting him a 12.09.
I might just take my car to local test strip and see how the clutch is grabbing. If it continues to slip, I'll have to get a 2600 on the way in addition to the stock trans i have in the works. I think tonight i'll pass on racing, i'll wait till i get my bov modded and verify the clutch is holding. Then i'll be looking for that new best. Also by then i'm sure i'll have a couple more pounds out of her. She's already looking quite slim. Thanks for the tips, and i'll keep her at 19 psi on the 93pump.
Travis
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
Yes i have a punishment racing FMIC on the car which seems to help but the UICP stays hot for a while but if i cool the car down with the hood up it makes a big difference. Then again we are talking about Racing in 80*f and hotter weather here. I'll lower the boost down to 19 psi to be on the safe side, yeah i remember that dyno day. That was when i truely saw how nuts you were about weight reduction. My 1g bov is leaking by 17psi so i need to do the dodge garage high boost mod to it. Also i'm running a ported SBR 2g exhaust manifold, ported 7cm turbine housing and a heavily ported 2g o2 housing going into a stock down pipe that is dumping open.
My buddy needs my help today swaping a new exhaust manifold on his grand national which should see an 11 sec pass tonight with a decent 60'. His old manifold was cracked not letting him build enough boost off the line netting him a 12.09.
I might just take my car to local test strip and see how the clutch is grabbing. If it continues to slip, I'll have to get a 2600 on the way in addition to the stock trans i have in the works. I think tonight i'll pass on racing, i'll wait till i get my bov modded and verify the clutch is holding. Then i'll be looking for that new best. Also by then i'm sure i'll have a couple more pounds out of her. She's already looking quite slim. Thanks for the tips, and i'll keep her at 19 psi on the 93pump.
Travis
I'm still running a 1G BOV crushed that's it. It should hold for you. Gotta get at least a 2.5" downpipe, even though it dumps that neckdown is way too small....the 2100 PP will work fine with a sprung six puck disc if your PP is in good shape and will have more clamping force than the 2600/street disc that I run. I don't remember when I switched to KYB AGX/Eibach, but, I ran a best of 1.69 on stock suspension. Whenever you can start to throw the poly bushings in and eliminate all the play in the chassis. It absorbs power that you can be putting down.
I'll keep trying to think of stuff to help you....
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60' 1.48
ET 11.49
MPH 116.85
14b power!
I didn't think the poly suspension mounts would make a big difference, but i guess with age and mileage there is alot of play instead of transfer. I guess the same principle is applied as the poly motor mounts which i feel make a difference.
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
Since i last posted i have installed a 3" turbo back cat less exhaust and have a used transmission on the work bench waiting to be installed this week. I will be running c-16 next visit out. I'd like to get the car to the track a week from today, but i plan on being at car week down at the beach then. I'll be racing the car on Oct 17th at Mason Dixon at the dsmlink drag day hoping for a new best.
My wife picked me up a used laptop, and the pocket logger still isn't working, so if this trans works ok, the next step will be dsmlink for me. Here's a picture of the transmission i picked up used after i sandblasted it and painted it 4 coats of engine paint and 3 coats of clear. About a days worth of cleaning it up as it had lots of oil and gunk on it and had been sitting, but i was told it had a stock rebuild a few years ago.
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
Yeah i saw somewhere in a thread that you were planning on racing on the 16th. I also read that your planning on picking up a orriginal owner GVR4...???
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
Yeah i saw somewhere in a thread that you were planning on racing on the 16th. I also read that your planning on picking up a orriginal owner GVR4...???
TRUE, and TRUE. Yes, an original owner, unmolested, unmodded, BONE stock GVR4. Cali car and garaged for the last 19 years! Original window sticker, manuals, and the key chain that seems to be missing with most GVR4's is present and looks like there was never a key on it! It is not mint by any means, it has been driven 190,000 miles, but, it won't be the typical rust buckets that I've been seeing alot of. For some reason, many have removed the A/C from the Galants. I gotta have A/C in my daily! I was able to afford this by selling stuff on ebay over the last 4 months!
Talk to you more on it later, don't want to jack your thread!!!!!!!!!
Good luck and kick major ass on the 17th. If I had a bigger truck and a trailer of my own I would leave our dragday on the 16th and drive down after to yours for the 17th!!! That would have been cool!!!!
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60' 1.48
ET 11.49
MPH 116.85
14b power!
In deed, that would be most awesome. Yeah i'm hopping the Tundra can get the job done pulling the laser down RT 70 with the U-Haul trailer. Good luck to you too.
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
In deed, that would be most awesome. Yeah i'm hopping the Tundra can get the job done pulling the laser down RT 70 with the U-Haul trailer. Good luck to you too.
Thanks!!! It's time....I'll have some update pics soon......
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60' 1.48
ET 11.49
MPH 116.85
14b power!
So the used trans that i picked up (said to have been rebuilt to stock 2-3 years ago) and cleaned up is now in the car. I just have to fill the transfer case and transmission with gear oil and they'll be ready to road test. I finished late last night after the parts stores were closed. I'm about to go pick up some oils now though (8:30 am), but i have a route canal at 10:30 and i'm working from 4:30 PM - midnight. I'm really hoping that any pain or discomfort after the route canal is minor, so that i can get under the car and put some oils in her and take it for the first test drive with the new used trans.
I ran into a small problem where the shifter would not go to the left of neutral. After looking at the trans gear selectors with the shift cables off, a couple friends and I noticed that the shift cable would not retract into it's self allowing proper movement of the shift linkage. Well it's cause i bent the shift cable with my pry bar when i was removing the shift cable retaining clip. So we bent it back and now it works, to an extent. I just have to adjust the shift cables at the shifter again, since i was playing with them thinking that was the original problem.
During the transmission install I ditched the heavy stock battery and battery mount kit for a lightweight odyssey 680 with the JMF aluminum mount kit i picked up used from the guys at Punishment Racing from their race car. Charged the battery up yesterday so hopefully today i'll get to crank her over. I'll update again after the test drive. Here are some pics of the progress, let me know what you think. Thanks again for the support everyone.
Travis
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
Trav- looking killer and coming together quick! The JMF battery bracket kit is awesome! I have the 680 battery and it has been great, I don't even take it out of the car in the winter and bring it inside, just wait for the weather to warm and it fires the car right up. Mine sits in a similar spot to yours but with home-made hold downs, I like that kit alot.
Well, good luck gettin it fired up and hope all is well with the trans!
The root canal shouldn't be that bad.....I had one like 9 years ago, it just a pain gettin it done!
Let me know what happens!!!!!!
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60' 1.48
ET 11.49
MPH 116.85
14b power!
Looking good! I too had a bent shifter cable once, bent it back and went on shifting! I used to have one of the 680 batteries as well and it worked great even through the winters of Michigan. I wish I still had it! Good luck getting it back to the track!
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Shane Webster 1990 14b Talon AWD
Thanks guys. Yeah I had a 680 battery in my old white talon back in the day and had no problems from it and saves a good bit of weight so i knew i wanted to use one on the laser. None of the auto stores around here sells the amsoil or redline gear oil. So i did more research for other options for trans gear oil, and the results pointed to the mitsu evo mr gear oil. TRE and other shops are highly recommending it as well as all positive feed back from users on here. The catch is it comes in a 4 liter can that cost over $80. But i wanted to get the car done ASAP and have some good oil in it. Took the car around the block, as expected the down pipe is rubbing the drive shaft so i'll have to adjust the flange at the test pipe. But the car went in and out of all gears. I didn't have a chance yet to see if any gears grind during normal or high rev shifting or if any gear pops out of gear yet.
Tomorrow i plan to adjust the exhaust and the shift cables at the shifter that i was playing with originally when the cable was acting up. Then i'll take it for a real road test and hopefully all is good so i can take it up to Mason Dixon on the 17th to see what she has.
Thanks again.
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
Do you mean what did i run in the eighth last trip to the track with the laser, or are you asking what i ran in the eighth when i ran my best time of 12.00 or my best 14b time or 12.42? The 12.00 and 12.42 where my best times on a 14b and 16g on my white talon i used to have. I might still have the time slips though. I know i have the one for the laser that calculated out to a 12.81
The route canal wasn't that bad, once they hit me up with the first two shots of novicane and then a third i didn't feel a thing, and then when i did it wasn't bad at all...and I'm a wuss when it comes to pain. After they were done they just told me to pop 3 advils every 6 hours and i had minor if any pain after the procedure.
The worst part is, one of my routes was heavily eroded and they have to go back in next week and try to cement in the gap which may or may not take. Then i go in for a check up 6 months after that to see how it took. If it doesn't hold well the tooth has to come out and i have to get a fake tooth installed! If it does take well, then it will save that tooth for another 5-10 years. So either way that tooth is coming out sooner or later.
So this Monday i went to the dentist for deep gum cleaning on the left side of my mouth, Wednesday i went to the endodontist for the first half of my route canal (now i have a temporary filling so i have to eat soft foods for a week), next Monday i go back to the dentist for deep gum cleaning on the right side of my mouth and next Thursday i go back to the endodontist to finish the route canal and get the cement filling the gap of my route.
If you look at me smile, i have nice teeth. But i haven't been to the dentist in about 2-3 years and i only brush once a day and i don't floss yet. The 4 visits are costing my wife and I over $1,200 with dental insurance. Brush and go to the dentists at least twice a year people or you will PAY!
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
The TEST DRIVE
So i took it for a better test drive today. Didn't have a chance to take it up to red line though, too many sunday drivers. The trans shifted good in all gears but i do have a noise. It sounds like a bad bearing. When i put my hand on the bell housing area at idle i could feel a vibration to the beat of the noise. I'm guessing that since the trans looked like it had been sitting out side for some time and the fluid was drained out of it, that maybe one of the bearings inside the trans is starved for oil and could be damaged. I'm hoping the EVO MR gear lube i put in will do some magic. It's also possible that noise is traveling and it could be coming from one of the rod or main bearings that could have got damaged when my balance shaft bearing spun. All i got to say is if this thing makes it to the track next Friday, I'll be glad I'm bringing a trailer.
I fixed one problem, second gear grinding, and now i have a noise that sounds like a failed bearing. FML
I'm going to the beach for car week tomorrow morning (driving my truck down) so i guess some time during next week i'll try to put some miles on the car and see how the noise does. If the trans issue would solve it's self I'd really like to get V3 and then work on my tired suspension. But this is how it goes with a DSM
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
The TEST DRIVE
So i took it for a better test drive today. Didn't have a chance to take it up to red line though, too many sunday drivers. The trans shifted good in all gears but i do have a noise. It sounds like a bad bearing. When i put my hand on the bell housing area at idle i could feel a vibration to the beat of the noise. I'm guessing that since the trans looked like it had been sitting out side for some time and the fluid was drained out of it, that maybe one of the bearings inside the trans is starved for oil and could be damaged. I'm hoping the EVO MR gear lube i put in will do some magic. It's also possible that noise is traveling and it could be coming from one of the rod or main bearings that could have got damaged when my balance shaft bearing spun. All i got to say is if this thing makes it to the track next Friday, I'll be glad I'm bringing a trailer.
I fixed one problem, second gear grinding, and now i have a noise that sounds like a failed bearing. FML
I'm going to the beach for car week tomorrow morning (driving my truck down) so i guess some time during next week i'll try to put some miles on the car and see how the noise does. If the trans issue would solve it's self I'd really like to get V3 and then work on my tired suspension. But this is how it goes with a DSM
How loud is it? You may want to pull the trans out and dissassemble to check, it shouldn't be that time consumingbut it still sucks. If it sounds rotational there's a decent chance that whatever is causing it is not going to break off but, if there is some play in there it may cause you to miss gears and we don't want that. Definitely get out there and give a couple quick 1-2, 2-3, and 3-4 shifts......don't want to see you not get the full day of racing in that you are waiting for.
Glad to hear your dentist visit went ok. I hate the dentist
I still have to get a crown on the tooth that I had my canal done on years ago, I better get with the program!
Also, off subject, two things:
One--I did find another front 1ga front bumper cover, so I have an extra now. But, if you find one, let me know, wouldn't mind two extras!
Two--Our 14b buddy SBstar needs another ECU 91+ EPROM, he is having trouble with the few that he has access to. Can you put your feelers out down there in Maryland for him?
I'm going to be talking with some of my friends that still communicate on a larger level with the local DSM community up here to try to find one. Any help would be great Travis!
Ok, I will wait for your next update! Good luck with it!
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60' 1.48
ET 11.49
MPH 116.85
14b power!
If it sounds rotational there's a decent chance that whatever is causing it is not going to break off....don't want to see you not get the full day of racing in that you are waiting for. It does sound rotational and my thoughts were the same as yours. I don't want to ignore the noise for good, but i'll go through the gears real good and if all is well, i'll look in to it more after race day. Under normal driving the trans is shifting great!
One--I did find another front 1ga front bumper cover, so I have an extra now. But, if you find one, let me know, wouldn't mind two extras! I have only seen 1gb bumpers for sale, i have been keeping my eye out as i look in the classifieds daily.
Two--Our 14b buddy SBstar needs another ECU 91+ EPROM, he is having trouble with the few that he has access to. Can you put your feelers out down there in Maryland for him? I saw in your thread that he needed an ecu, i thought he said that his buddy had one that he could sell him cheap but he was tight on cash. Either way i'll keep my eyes and ears open for a 91-94 eprom and a 1ga bumper. I might have to get on the horn and make some calls. Worst case, i'll put the word out next week at the ECM TUNING drag meet.
I added some responses above in the section that quoted you, so give that a quick glance.
Once i get back from the beach i'll put a few miles on her and do some race simulations and i'll see how the noise sounds. I'm still not used to shifting into second gear with out letting the revs come down. What a luxury.
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
Will a non eprom work to get you going? Or do you not want to deal with possible fuel cut at all?
That may be the easiest to get you going.........let us know!
DSMLink is on the way w/eprom. Got a deal on V2.5 with an eprom and a buddy is helping me out a bit for some work in return. Should be up and going to the track by next week!
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Shane Webster 1990 14b Talon AWD
DSMLink is on the way w/eprom. Got a deal on V2.5 with an eprom and a buddy is helping me out a bit for some work in return. Should be up and going to the track by next week!
Awesome!
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60' 1.48
ET 11.49
MPH 116.85
14b power!
So i got the car out for a more thorough test drive today. The bearing type noise i was hearing goes away when i push the clutch, so i'm thinking it's the throw out bearing. What I don't get is why it's making noise. The Throw out bearing was installed in my old trans last fall new, i swapped it over to the new trans and lubed everything up real good and now it makes noise???
But i took the car for a spin and the trans seems to be shifting ok around 7000 rpms. The car launched ok on the street spinning all four hard so i'm going to get some C-16 for her and get her ready for the track this saturday. Hopefully the weather works out for us all.
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Personal Best:
12.00 on 16G
12.42 @ 113 on 14b
but it still sucks. If it sounds rotational there's a decent chance that whatever is causing it is not going to break off but, if there is some play in there it may cause you to miss gears and we don't want that. Definitely get out there and give a couple quick 1-2, 2-3, and 3-4 shifts......don't want to see you not get the full day of racing in that you are waiting for.
