Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Bad340fish]
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08/22/16 09:13 AM
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Billy I am glad to see you are already driving it around before drag week.
My dad and I got mine out today for a good 50ish mile jaunt in and around town today. It feels good, sounds good, and I am starting to get the hang of the EFI stuff so its manners are getting better and better.
I am still having a problem with the fuel getting hot. I am quite certain I heard the fuel boiling in the tank when I shut the car off today. I can't make any other sense of what the sound would be that lasted 30-45 seconds after I shut the car off. It looks like I will be working on a fuel cooler before drag week. Efi correct could the noise your hearing just be the fuel return line draining back into the fuel tank....just a thought Good luck
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: turbo toad]
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08/22/16 11:07 AM
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Working on getting Joel's dual fuel system plumbed. The car will go down the road using pump gas in the stock tank, and a Holley Red pump, and can easily be switched over to race gas in the 3 gallon fuel cell.
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: turbo toad]
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08/22/16 12:02 PM
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Efi correct could the noise your hearing just be the fuel return line draining back into the fuel tank....just a thought Good luck
Thought about that, but the tank should be 2/3 or more full and my return is lower than that. I went back and checked my mileage, we were out just under 3 hours and covered 75 miles which is the longest trip with the EFI so far. This is the first time I have heard that noise. Jericho, that setup looks good!
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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08/22/16 12:32 PM
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Got mine out to the track for the first time with the EFI. Ran decent considering the weather. Also tried the 30" tall tires with the 3.55's to see how it would fair. I really don't want to swap tires during the week, but the tall tires cost me 0.08 in the 60' alone.
Looks like I might try the MT ET Street SS tires, they appear to have a bit more tread than my current Hoosiers. Anyone try them yet?
Also logged quite a bit of street miles, rolled up to Woodward, and got caught in a few nasty rain storms.
Don't have much more to do. Long wheel studs just arrived on my porch, so I will take care of that tonight just in case any tech guys want to hassle me.
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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08/22/16 04:42 PM
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Against my better judgement, I put my shortblock together before i had the heads ready. These heads have never been on this shortblock, and wouldn't you know, it has valve to piston issues. So I have to tear it apart and cut the pistons. Arg. I worked on that for a while, but got kind of frustrated and tired of it. so I opted for a change of pace and worked on the wiring. That should be easy to finish, then I'll get back on the motor. At least my trunk monkey woke up long enuff to get something done while I was going backwards....
[img]http://i.imgur.com/boeexFms.jpg[/img]31 Plymouth Coupe, 392 Hemi, T56 magnum RS23J71 RS27J77 RP23J71 RO23J71 WM21J8A I don't regret the things I've done. I only regret the things I didn't do. "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. ~ Plato"
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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08/22/16 11:22 PM
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Looks like Jeff may be taking that trunk monkey moniker a little too serious!!
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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08/24/16 09:01 PM
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Why does the wiring always take so long? Even when I pare it down to the bare essentials, it is a challenge. The steering column had to come out just to make room to get at stuff. I'm too old to be working under the dash like this...
[img]http://i.imgur.com/boeexFms.jpg[/img]31 Plymouth Coupe, 392 Hemi, T56 magnum RS23J71 RS27J77 RP23J71 RO23J71 WM21J8A I don't regret the things I've done. I only regret the things I didn't do. "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. ~ Plato"
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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08/24/16 09:13 PM
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HAHAHA no way is all that from under that dash!
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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08/24/16 10:26 PM
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God I hope we don't have wiring issues on Drag Week...
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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08/25/16 12:39 AM
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Hey that looks like my EFI install lol
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: JERICOGTX]
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08/25/16 12:03 PM
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Just for info... the MSD tech support trailer will NOT be going on DW this year... you can call the tech line for help
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Re: The Road to Drag Week, 2016
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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08/26/16 01:06 AM
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Mike are you sneaking around on Facebook? haha that is where I saw that announcement.
I am hoping to hit the track tomorrow(friday) night if all goes well.
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