1965 Lemans Gets Booosted

[Sentry]

Even if you end up with a case of New Car Blues, keep at it and eventually all the issues will be sorted and it's all good from there.

[brucebanner]

That's not going to happen, I want to enjoy this thing over the summer too much to leave it unsolved.
(IF there are issues )

[JfuckinC]

Join the terminator Facebook page, lots of dipshits on there, but also lots of people solving problems! It helped me out a bunch when I was first firing mine up and had some issues.

[brucebanner]

It's alive!
I think the exhaust is going to be just fine.

[Darell_n]

Turbine muffler is the best muffler.

[brucebanner]

Closer to dyno day

[03ozwhip]

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Closer to dyno day

That's awesome man. Good work.

[Shlade]

Such an awesome car.

[JfuckinC]

Dude is that blue stuff sticky? Or just kinda stuck with static? I was trying to find sticky shit to put on my car but couldn’t find it!!

[Sentry]

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Dude is that blue stuff sticky? Or just kinda stuck with static? I was trying to find sticky shit to put on my car but couldn’t find it!!

I use carpet protector on fenders at work, it's basically a giant roll of masking tape. Sticky enough but not so much it's a pain in the ass to remove. Just don't let it bake on in the sun if you leave a car outside lol.

[brucebanner]

Thanks guys.

I'm thinking about painting the intercooler black to hide it a little but I kind of like it being noticeable too, I'll leave it as is for a little while anyways. It's low on the priority list either way.

Edit:
@JfuckinC - It's glass protection film from uline.

https://www.uline.ca/Product/Detail/...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

[brucebanner]

D day is here

[DonJuan]

I'm excited

[Ekliptix]

Ditto.

[Sentry]

Am excite

[brucebanner]

Remember my wishful thinking of smooth sailing and no issues?

Didn't get home until 11pm..

Check valve on the brake booster failed, suspect it blew out the diaphragm.. Okay cool. Pull off that line and plug the booster, get rolling again

Various boost leaks popped up.. Cool, tackle those.

While checking for boost leaks, saw something fishy on the smoothed intake, found a soft spot.

Just to be safe, swapped that out to another stock truck intake.

Springs in the gate (supposed to be 12psi) seem to be creeping too much or something else going on?

Swap the 7psi spring in, things seem to be going well. Car seems to have a shimmy 5200ish + rpm.but hey, everything else seems to be good now.

Nothing gave us reason to think it was motor / transmission. Brand new driveshaft. Think there's something going on in the rear end which I knew all along was going to be the weak link in the car, just didn't think it would show up yet.

So more investigating today + leaving the car to get dialed in at 7psi unless we figure the shimmy out.

Off memory, 7lbs made 510 / 550 ~

[Shlade]

Stout numbers to have some good clean fun. Id be happy with putting that down.

[brucebanner]

Good numbers but if I didn't say I was a tad disappointed, I'd be lying.

I was hoping to run the 10-12lb spring set up and get into the 6xx range.

There's more power left of the table currently and realistically it's plenty of power for the car, I just wanted more haha.

[Sentry]

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Remember my wishful thinking of smooth sailing and no issues?

Sucker! And yeah Ive seen guys blow out those shaved truck intakes, have to be careful when shaving them.

500 real wheel horsepower in a turbo street car is still enough to get into lots of trouble. Gonna fix the issues and drive it on 7psi for a bit, or come right back swinging at the dyno?

[brucebanner]

I contacted the guy I got the intake off of, great to deal with once again. Very apologetic, refunded me + swapping intakes with me (his shaved for a stock truck intake). I was lucky the dyno owner had one on hand we could swap to.

My tuner is back at the car again this morning but has other stuff scheduled starting at 12. I'm waiting for an update this morning, and see if they come up with something that we didn't last night.

Otherwise, my car will be off the rollers for the other 2 cars scheduled and back on afterwards. I'm waiting on a brake booster anyways, so it's not like I can drive it currently.

If no solution comes up, it'll stay at 7lbs until I get my hands on a rear end / next season as long as it holds together.