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95talongirl
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- Feb 9, 2008
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On a Jet Plane,
Illinois
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Wow - I have quite a few updates to add to this!
First off, it runs and drives. In fact, the car has about 1100 miles on it now!
Secondly, it now makes 442 WHP, with quite a fun power band!
Thirdly, I need driving lessons.
Took the car on Hot Rod drag Week, where it ran great, but the driver was to scared to launch it, since the rules stated that all cars needed to run a drag radial or slick. So I had it on drag radials. That being said, the soft launches led to bogging, and really crappy E.T's. However, the car's MPH was up quite a bit. Trapped 124mph on several tracks. Started to loose boost by the 4th track. Found out one of the exhaust manifold bolts backed out. Tighned it back up, but never got another run in
Took the car back to the track about a week later. Still not launching it, but netted a new best mph of 126.4mph. By the 5th run, lost boost again, and of course this was when we started to use the 2-step. Come to find out that the wastegate was stuck open.
Fixed that. Was going to drive it to work before leaving for Dallas for a month. Looked under the car and saw a large puddle of transmission fluid. Looks like I lost an axle seal. So, hoping to get that fixed and back out to the track before the snow flies. I'd really like to see a low 11 E.T.before the end of the season.
On other note, the solid motor mounts are something else! so far had the exhaust manifold bolt back out, alternator bolts back out, and I lost the cross bolt on the front motor mount! sheesh!! Looks like the lock tight will have to be broken out