Getting ready for Bonneville(rebuild)

[jl222]

 Picked up the block today, bored ,honed, rings fitted and line honed.  Cam was roughed out and waiting to be finished as of Monday. Rods ? 5 weeks Friday call then.

                   JL222
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[revolutionary]

Congrats on qualifying at 292 today!!!

[4-barrel Mike]

 

Mike

[revolutionary]

Sounds like you lost a cylinder?

[jl222]

Sounds like you lost a cylinder?

 Yep....0 compression in #1 cyl all cyl had 75 lbs before run normally 100 lbs. squirted oil into cyls
this morning and pressure came up to 90 to 100 lbs even 50 in #1, like rings never seated.

 Different oil but mineral base Find out more at tear down next Sat.

  Engine way down on power compared to 294 run in 2010

  Lots of things wrong on Troy's 292 mph run oil pressure going down manifold temp rising suddenly to 200 normally 130 and fuel pressure down causing a cough and Troy shutting down.

 Fuel problem may have been because of only 4 inches in tank. We only made one run of 1 1/2
miles prior but to many warm ups it seems. Bought 15 gals, damn gas hog. Oil was down in tank
 like pump not sucking but I think problem is in valley were we advised to restrict oil by gluing
plates in and drilling a 1/4 inch hole lots of room for oil up there. Big drain lines in valve cover to pan below splash plate. intercooler pump was working this morning maybe an ice block?

           JL222

[jl222]

  Ordered 8 new Bill Miller pistons and taking to him about oil pressure and watching his video on his site

   I purchased a System One gear pump which shows more volume, pressure and vacuum from oil pam
than our G rotor pump that his video shows cavitation at 4500 rpm.

    Sunday we made up oil lines for new pump. Waiting for pistons and boring for 2 new sleeves on block.

    Every bodies behind so no Nov El Mirage.

               JL222

[jl222]

 

  Last AUG Bville we had high intake manifold temps after intercooler normally 130 or less but 200  So we took the tank out checked for blockage ECT cleaned the bottom and noticed the water lines not routed in the best way. Two 1'' hoses from 55 cal min pump go to big ass intercooler and two back to front of tank.' We made the tank with 3 bulkheads with 3 Marine portals for ice. Water from intercooler goes into 1st section under i'' raised bulkhead into 2nd section and flows over top to last section being cooled the whole way. Well for some reason we can't remember, one hose was routed to last section. We did have an overflow hose for that last section at one time [OLD VIDEO ]  maybe a quick fix.

 Pump works great and intercooler flows well so hoping that was the problem.  BUT maybe sender not
 right

                               JL222
                   

                                   

[jl222]

    Engine is together except for 1 head and manifold should finish tomorrow also flywheel clutch and bellhousing.

    New pistons and rings  2 new sleeves honed with 280 grit instead of a too fine of a hone last year, all new cleavite bearings

      Valves lapped with new 375 lb springs a SYSTEM one oil pump with up to 25o lbs + pressure and intercooler

      return line routed correctly. We also modified the fuel return line that dumps in fuel tank with a longer hoes that goes to bottom of tank and curves to the front to make sure of no aeration.

    One other thing we did was a better intake port alignment on the heads that was discovered to late last year to change.
 
  SO were hoping for the same hp and track as we had when we were timed at 294 mph in the 1st mile.

                                       JL222

           

[jl222]

  Engine is in, all together ready to fire except for gas, oil and water but waiting until after car show Sat and new graphics next week

                JL222

[manta22]

  Engine is in, all together ready to fire except for gas, oil and water but waiting until after car show Sat and new graphics next week

                JL222

Pictures?

[jl222]

  Engine is in, all together ready to fire except for gas, oil and water but waiting until after car show Sat and new graphics next week

                JL222

Pictures?

                  I was going to say, maybe some pics from Troy via Slim

[bvillercr]

Trying to figure our copy and paste options.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcCAz_RpdgZ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[bvillercr]

Frank Silva from Got Salt team did a great job designing our first ever race shirt for our team and these will be available at Speedweek 22.  We have some new graphics on the Camaro which is a throw back to our original graphics, but this is a little different.


https://www.instagram.com/p/CcY3CzNPSfd/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[Stainless1]

Well ya know what happens when you put a speed on a shirt...
Yep you go faster and obsolete the shirt....
Good luck, see ya on the salt

[jl222]

Frank Silva from Got Salt team did a great job designing our first ever race shirt for our team and these will be available at Speedweek 22.  We have some new graphics on the Camaro which is a throw back to our original graphics, but this is a little different.


https://www.instagram.com/p/CcY3CzNPSfd/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

  Link above shows engine running and throttle blip.

   We installed a new oil pump and couldn't get oil pressure and clutch wasn't releasing. So out with the engine
thinking maybe an oil plug was left out. Not so, hooked up oil lines to filter and dry sump spun engine to observe
0illig to crank and rods, oil all over the place and still no pressure. Figured out as new pump routs oil back to dry
sump verses old goes back to pump and has pressure, the new from the filter ( where we take oil pressure from)
and to dry sump is an open line and no pressure. Now taking pressure off pump. So late smart. Fixed O ring in clutch throw-out  and now HAPPY.

   New rear FAT tires coming and fixing a clutch hold down bar and we are ready for over 300 at Bville.

                      JL222

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