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Tough getting anything done #1255558
06/22/12 07:57 AM
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All week long it's been one thing after another keeping me out of the garage. Everytime I think I can steal away to the garage something comes up. Wednesday nite I finally sneak into the garage and start setting up for some dyno pulls on the 605. The throttle linkage dies, so I take off to the shop to fabricate a replacement. Get back and fire the motor up, set the timing and make a pull. Hum, power is way down, I go to recheck the timing and I'd bumped the dial and I'm at 44degrees, Hemi's don't like 44 degrees. Reset the timing to 33 degrees, engines pretty much heat soaked now. It makes a clean pull to 6500 but my EGT's are getting high at the end. Look at the report, engine is only using 1050cfm@6200rpm. Need to decrease the HSB, carb is a 1140cfm unit. It makes 778.2hp@6200 and 755.8ftlbs.@5000. Before I can change the bleeds we loose power to the whole town. I loose the data from that run as I hadn't saved it yet. By the time we get power back on it's to late to crank things up again.
Thursday nite comes and I'm going to crank things up again, power goes out to half the town, my half. Being Mayor one of my jobs is to locate the problem and get a crew in to repair it. It was 11pm when we got the lights back on.
Tonite I have prior commitments, this weekend I'm straping my BFR on and nobody better bother me. Dave

Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: quickd100] #1255559
06/22/12 08:19 AM
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I hear ya... we lost power yesterday for 1/2 of the
day... so the wife took me out to dinner... I didnt
get much done so I gotta get more done today... LOL

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Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: quickd100] #1255560
06/22/12 12:47 PM
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All week long it's been one thing after another keeping me out of the garage. Everytime I think I can steal away to the garage something comes up. Wednesday nite I finally sneak into the garage and start setting up for some dyno pulls on the 605. The throttle linkage dies, so I take off to the shop to fabricate a replacement. Get back and fire the motor up, set the timing and make a pull. Hum, power is way down, I go to recheck the timing and I'd bumped the dial and I'm at 44degrees, Hemi's don't like 44 degrees. Reset the timing to 33 degrees, engines pretty much heat soaked now. It makes a clean pull to 6500 but my EGT's are getting high at the end. Look at the report, engine is only using [Email]1050cfm@6200rpm.[/Email] Need to decrease the HSB, carb is a 1140cfm unit. It makes [Email]778.2hp@6200[/Email] and [Email]755.8ftlbs.@5000.[/Email] Before I can change the bleeds we loose power to the whole town. I loose the data from that run as I hadn't saved it yet. By the time we get power back on it's to late to crank things up again.
Thursday nite comes and I'm going to crank things up again, power goes out to half the town, my half. Being Mayor one of my jobs is to locate the problem and get a crew in to repair it. It was 11pm when we got the lights back on.
Tonite I have prior commitments, this weekend I'm straping my BFR on and nobody better bother me. Dave






Hook that Hemi up to a generator, you can power
the whole county.


Snap your neck, mega G-force launch, is all I want!
Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: BDS871Cuda] #1255561
06/23/12 07:41 AM
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Bummer. Been in the same boat for a while, one thing after another. Good luck with it Dave


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Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: gregsdart] #1255562
06/23/12 08:12 AM
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a month ago we were going to pull the engine from the car, 10 mins into it, power failure. a car had taken the corner too wide & took out the pole. so no power for the rest of the night we ended up saving the beers in the frig from going warm instead. cold beers by candlelight is nowhere as romantic as it sounds

Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: rebel] #1255563
06/23/12 10:59 PM
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I hear ya!!I'm in the towing biz,I could be there 10 minutes and get a call and not make it back for days when it's busy.All I can do is keep chippin away

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Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: hemi-itis] #1255564
06/23/12 11:25 PM
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Today was one of those days you end up slapping your forehead and saying,'what was I thinking'. Wednesday I made one pull at 787hp. Today the best it would go was 762 and the EGT's were getting high at the end of the pull. I pulled .0035 out of the HSB's and jetted up 5 jet sizes and it was going backwards. Tryed adjusting the timing, nothing worked. Finally decided to throw the tunnel ram on. Pulled the single plane off and found the intake gaskets weren't sealing completely. I guess the 10 concussions I've had have taken their toll. I should have thought of that after the first pull.
Someone want to give me a swift kick in the azz? What a damn BONEHEAD! Well tomorrow the tunnel ram will get tuned, (I hope) and then it's coming off the dyno and going in the truck. Someone just kick me please. Dave

Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: hemi-itis] #1255565
06/24/12 12:04 PM
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I hear ya. For the second weekend in a row work called w/ a big disaster. Meanwhile the engine sits w/o the topend on.



Yeah, it's got a smallblock.
Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: quickd100] #1255566
06/24/12 12:58 PM
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Don't worry,Dave! It will come around!!


Need your rear end checked out? Contact Grizzly!!
Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: tboomer] #1255567
06/24/12 03:24 PM
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Don't worry,Dave! It will come around!!




Ted; Refer to my new post exceeded my goals. Dave

Re: Tough getting anything done [Re: quickd100] #1255568
06/24/12 05:05 PM
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Dave, if you need any help putting the motor back in; just let me know...







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