tenn-gsx
15+ Year Contributor
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- Apr 25, 2006
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Fort Worth,
Texas
I got to redeploy early so I cam home end of Nov 08. I immediately got busy on the car. I removed the eng and trans. Gutted the stroker short block and took the rotating assy to a local shop to have him source a new block and assemble the short block for me. While waiting on this i decided to purchase a TRE stage 4 tranny and a Full Blown dual pump hangar. I replaced my complete fuel system with -8 braded lines and aftermarket filter assy.(dont remember the brand)
I recieve the tranny and the new short block and get to work assembling everything. About a week later she is all back together and Im ready to start her up. Power on pumps start humming and POP!WTF Fuel pumps stop. Over and over I replaced the fuses and finally figured out one of them was bad out of the box. Get a new one a few days later and try again. Car fires right up!
Start tuning and getting little stuff worked out. After a couple days I notice the car is constantly smoking. Do some diagnosis and find that my new turbo is COMPLETLY shot!
Never got a definate answer from Fp or Comp turbo as to what was wrong. One answer wasnt possibly the cause and the other was just speculation. Orderd a custom turbo from Comp turbo and was back on the road a week later. Durng all of this Im having problemd with clutch engagement being inconsistant as hell. I bled the system probably 20 times. The car continued to smoke a little but the only time it was bad was if I left it idling more than 3 min or so.(still dont know the cause of this, I believe it to be bad valve seals) Between the clutvh engagement ans smoking I was Getting VERY frusterated and decided to really look into things. I just randomly decided to check my crank end play and found it was WAY out of spec! Pulled the main girdle planning to replace the main bearings and found that the ASSHAT that assembled my block took a little short cut. See the short block that was damaged in shipping was a 95 block. Dude sourced me a 98. Rather than telling me about this he just decided to hack off the thrust surface to make it all go together. So over a $65-$70 part I just ate a 4k setup. LOVELY! Car got parked back in the garage and has been there since MAY 09. This was with only 880 miles on the new set up.
I recieve the tranny and the new short block and get to work assembling everything. About a week later she is all back together and Im ready to start her up. Power on pumps start humming and POP!WTF Fuel pumps stop. Over and over I replaced the fuses and finally figured out one of them was bad out of the box. Get a new one a few days later and try again. Car fires right up!
Start tuning and getting little stuff worked out. After a couple days I notice the car is constantly smoking. Do some diagnosis and find that my new turbo is COMPLETLY shot! Never got a definate answer from Fp or Comp turbo as to what was wrong. One answer wasnt possibly the cause and the other was just speculation. Orderd a custom turbo from Comp turbo and was back on the road a week later. Durng all of this Im having problemd with clutch engagement being inconsistant as hell. I bled the system probably 20 times. The car continued to smoke a little but the only time it was bad was if I left it idling more than 3 min or so.(still dont know the cause of this, I believe it to be bad valve seals) Between the clutvh engagement ans smoking I was Getting VERY frusterated and decided to really look into things. I just randomly decided to check my crank end play and found it was WAY out of spec! Pulled the main girdle planning to replace the main bearings and found that the ASSHAT that assembled my block took a little short cut. See the short block that was damaged in shipping was a 95 block. Dude sourced me a 98. Rather than telling me about this he just decided to hack off the thrust surface to make it all go together. So over a $65-$70 part I just ate a 4k setup. LOVELY! Car got parked back in the garage and has been there since MAY 09. This was with only 880 miles on the new set up.
