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I'll give you a wet shot

turtleman wrote:

I'll give you a wet shot

Don't make me come down there with a Fuel solenoid and a shark nozzle and force you to run a wet shot ....


Are you running a small dry shot to fight intake temps? and Is your reasoning to adding fuel to the the injectors for the nitrous to save the coating on the blower rotors or HWAT?


Much love

I'm planning to get to a point of running a ~125 shot or as high as my setup can support reliably. It's going to depend on a lot of factors I cannot predict, just have to try. It would be pretty awesome to make turbo levels of power while spraying through the blower.

It's really a nice way to have nitrous for this. Saves the rotors from the gasoline, keeps nitrous and fuel separate until the last possible moment (safer), less components, just as tunable (actually more tunable out of the box using the HSW controller).

And safer I mean like WAY safer. You can pretty much spray nitrous into the intake by accident or whatever and not be in trouble. I don't think I could cause a nitrous backfire if I tried to.

turtleman wrote:

I'm planning to get to a point of running a ~125 shot or as high as my setup can support reliably. It's going to depend on a lot of factors I cannot predict, just have to try. It would be pretty awesome to make turbo levels of power while spraying through the blower.

It's really a nice way to have nitrous for this. Saves the rotors from the gasoline, keeps nitrous and fuel separate until the last possible moment (safer), less components, just as tunable (actually more tunable out of the box using the HSW controller).

And safer I mean like WAY safer. You can pretty much spray nitrous into the intake by accident or whatever and not be in trouble. I don't think I could cause a nitrous backfire if I tried to.

Valid points Codithhhhh! Turbo power levels?!?!??! I want to see 450whp this summer!

What size pulley is the Turtle currently spinning? I don't see it in your specs.

charlieRobinson wrote:

What size pulley is the Turtle currently spinning? I don't see it in your specs.

I don't put it in there because it changes from time to time. I have a bunch of pulleys. Right now running a 2.8" s/c pulley. I see peaks as high as 14.5psi on that depending on conditions.

Guess what


Skip to about 40sec in; I was fighting with the light and stuff.

Coolant has been disappearing out of the overflow for a while so I finally got underneath a took a look. Looks like the reused MLS head gaskets are leaky. So I guess I'm going to be taking the heads off and everything some time kinda soon. yeah fuck my life

O man! This is way over my head, but it's all because of a bad gasket? Dang! At least you have the skills and experience to fix it!

Reused head gaskets? you knew that was gonna happen!

Yeah we took the stock thickness MLS take-off gaskets, separated the layers, cleaned and individually coated them in copper spray and installed. That's what they did with the 600hp turbo regal and it's ok as far as anyone knows.

Leakdown tested the cylinders in front bank. 1 and 5 were terrific. 3 was a like 7% higher and passing some pressure into the cooling system. We put a half bottle of bars leaks into the radiator and I don't seem to be loosing coolant now or at least if I am it's so slow I can't see it. Probably next weekend, I'm going to check the torque on the heads and see if the middle loosened up at all. At this point I'm not really sure when I should go at it further. I'm continuing my normal routines of driving the car and not holding back at all from beating on it. Just did a couple test nitrous runs today actually.

I never thought this would be happening but nitrous definitely pegs my boost gauge.

There's other things goin on. Spark plugs show a little leaning. Still nothing conclusive. I'll tear it down and replace head gaskets with new stock ones but if that's not what's causing my other weird issues, I'd rather focus on those.

Pretty much beat the shit out of the turtle yesterday, played with nitrous more and also did some rough tuning adjustments since I tuned on a 3.2 pulley originally (didn't have an IC or e85 at the time) and now using a 2.8. As you would expect with that, fuel trims were gradually increasing going up the maf table up to about 7-8% Seems about right with the pulley. I still had PE going to low 10's in AFR though which is rich so I'm thinking it was kinda wanting to lean out unless you enter pe and then suddenly it goes pig rich. So anyway, I leaned PE a tiny bit (so now the base values are right about .3 richer than stock values which is about what intense tunes run you at) and I re adjusted the maf table to agree with the 2.8 pulley better. I did run into issues trying to load up the car past about 50% throttle to get data because it would randomly misfire pretty bad. I know I could go for some new 103 spark plugs so I'll do that very soon but there's something else goin on here and I've got two months to figure it out or this half mi race is gonna be pretty pointless.

I do also need to purchase some new front tires since mine are about bald now - I put the summer tires back on friday and I swear they grip worse than the fresh snow tires I just had on. I want to go with 275-40-18 again for size but I need to see what's out there. Right now I'm thinking the Nitto NT555's since they are reasonably priced and about the right kinda of tire. Anyone have any other suggestions that isn't a ton more expensive than those?

Yessir!




kinda funny this is actually the first tires I've bought new for this car and they'll probably last the shortest amount of time. We'll see how it goes - I've never used drag radials before.

In other news after the 3rd attempt, I've finalized my alternator case mod to fit without washers - the stuff I've been posting in the gen V swap thread. My noises actually seem more to be coming from the accessory belt tensioner that I already replaced with a new gates one in Feb 2011. I'm getting really tired of shitty aftermarket stuff! I've got so much to try to work out with this car and stupid shit like that is slowing me down. Very aggravating.

Awesome tires man. A Riv with drag radials Think about it, it's hilarious...

I know what you mean about the pulleys. I've wasted at least 3 idler pulleys on the S/C drive, OEM and 2 different aftermarket makes

I gotta see this 265/40/18

stan wrote:

I gotta see this 265/40/18

I'm running 275/40/18 BFGoodrich tires now. I think they look sick but actually the driver side one rubs a tiny bit on the plastic molding it looks like which I didn't even notice till way after I put them on.

tire thread

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A Riv with drag radials lmfao Think about it, it's hilarious...

One of the best mods for improving 1/4 mile times, or 1/2 miles times - if only your trans can handle it!

How much did the set cost?

ohh yeah they look nice.......

charlieRobinson wrote:

How much did the set cost?

About 600.00/set.

http://www.hotrodhanks.com/products/tires/searchType/searchByBrand/manufacturerID/90/productID/5318

http://www.mickeythompsontires.com/strip.php?item=ETStreetRadialII&sku=3782R&size=P265/40R18&type=SS&bnr=y

http://www.mickeythompsontires.com/strip.php?item=ETStreetRadialII

http://www.race-mart.com/Mickey_Thompson-MIC-3782R.html

AA wrote:

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A Riv with drag radials lmfao Think about it, it's hilarious...

One of the best mods for improving 1/4 mile times, or 1/2 miles times - if only your trans can handle it!

Yup, the Mickeys hook well. Your 60' times are very important for a good E.T. Big Power + Heavy Car + Stickey Tires = maximum stress on transmission and axles.

What is the best 60' time you have seen with a front drive car?

Abaddon wrote:

Awesome tires man. A Riv with drag radials Think about it, it's hilarious...

yea its pretty hilarious

charlieRobinson wrote:

How much did the set cost?

$566.90 shipped ($275.27/tire) from Autoplicity
If you get something in the more traditional sizes, they're considerably cheaper so I did consider getting some crosslace wheels like triley did but I don't want to be screwing around with 3 different sets of tires. Can't justify getting tires only to use them for racing and those wheels are not beautiful either

Sorry if I missed it, but what tire are you running in the rear? Same wheels?

Damn...the factory chrome looks great.....