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bwaits 04-20-2010 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TitaniumTT (Post 116289)
Specs on the FB? Engine bay pic?

12A Street port, SDJ headers, 47mm Fuji Racing throttle bodies, running on a megasquirt. It simply goes like stink!

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PinkRacer 04-20-2010 07:40 PM

We are now back in Canada and 4 hours from home. Got to visit Gettysburg on the way home so that was neat. God willing, we won't have any troubles in this last stint *knocks on wood* .

Thanl you all again for a great vacation! Stay in touch!

TitaniumTT 04-20-2010 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by bwaits (Post 116305)
12A Street port, SDJ headers, 47mm Fuji Racing throttle bodies, running on a megasquirt. It simply goes like stink!

:icon_tup: Cool!

Kentetsu 04-21-2010 08:31 AM

I actually ended up in better shape than I started. :) All the way down there, and the whole time I was playing around on the Dragon, I had a bad ignition breakup issue (I thought). I found that the negative terminal (the clamp part on the end of the cable) had split, and was making only intermittent contact. Drove a screw into that to tighten the connection, but didn't seem to help much.

About halfway home it occurred to me that I had never opened up the fuel pressure regulator after installing the motor the previous weekend. Once I had enough fuel going to my poor starving Sterling, holy shit! I hadn't driven the car since last fall, so I hadn't realized I was that far down on hp. Wish I had found that out before running the Dragon, but I still had plenty of fun.

I took a twisty route home, so finally made it after 16 hours of solid driving. I only spent about 20 minutes on an interstate, all the rest was backroads through NC, TN, Kentucky, Indiana, and Michigan. :)


Oh, and that fb with the torn up rear end, I think the screename is DJ55B. I was eating dinner on the patio when he got if fixed and started giving out rides. Listening to him run up and down that road was impressive. As Billy put it later that night, that car is WICKED fast. Wish I could have taken a ride.

I only got a chance to take one passenger through the Dragon this year though. Duffman, what did you think?




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darthrotary 04-21-2010 06:09 PM

Rotarywall (EDD) blew his engine just making it into the drive way in Savannah. Thinks he cracked his rear iron. Kevin, that was the guy in the Turbo II that stayed at Holly's with us. He's at the bottom of a bottle right now, so Im posting for him.

ZGN 04-21-2010 06:16 PM

Tell him to lay off the bottle and get to pulling that motor. I'll hope to have mine out by this weekend! maybe sooner.

Whizbang 04-21-2010 07:43 PM

my car did just fine in my driveway in idaho... : (

darthrotary 04-21-2010 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by ZGN (Post 116490)
Tell him to lay off the bottle and get to pulling that motor. I'll hope to have mine out by this weekend! maybe sooner.

Liquor is cheap, seal kits are not. He just spent a shitload having it rebuilt and hit the breakin miles on the way to Atlanta.
Good luck on yours though! Planning anything special?

ZGN 04-21-2010 09:35 PM

True true, Just plan to fix what is broke and maybe a larger IC :)

cewrx7r1 04-22-2010 03:20 PM

Barry;s FD was shod with Falken RT-615Ks. We had periodically checked tire pressures since his tires were fairly new and low mileage.

About half way to New Orleans, the left rear inner sidewall failed (multiple bubbles/bumps) on about 1/3 of the inner sidewall. Instant flat was the result.
A can of Flat Fix fixed the resulting leak, but the tire was now out of round.

Thus a slow slightly bumpy ride back.

ZGN 04-24-2010 02:36 PM

Just had time to finally check out my blown motor... All three faces on front rotor are dead and testing with a piston compression tester shows about 58PSI all faces on the rear rotor. :(

Pulling it out now!

helghast7 04-25-2010 01:38 AM

new engine i think is on the list ^

:)

ZGN 04-25-2010 10:46 AM

Yeah.. DGRR definatly helps stimulate our economy!

staticpat 04-25-2010 11:40 AM

Damn you don't waste any time. Are you going to rebuild it yourself?


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