Progress of My big block 598ci TFS Ahead mustang

richter69 wrote:dont forget the vegtable strainer......

whats that for?

windsor wrote:

deliveredfast wrote:well I added a vacuum pump and wa la picked up 5 mph in 1/4 and 3 mph in the 1/8th. She's flying now. Now im looking to put a front facing lexan scoop on the cae:D

Wow, that's a big improvement from one change.  Nice!

Was it evacing somehow before or just breathers?

Just breathers

IDT-572 wrote:Congrats Charles IN RUNNING NOW.

thx    

Congrats Charles,you got it hittin a good lick now.   

deliveredfast wrote:

richter69 wrote:dont forget the vegtable strainer......

whats that for?

keeps the rocks and such out of the combustion chambers

richter69 wrote:

deliveredfast wrote:

richter69 wrote:dont forget the vegtable strainer......

whats that for?

keeps the rocks, birds, small children and such out of the combustion chambers

Fixed.

I will be at milan tomorrow with the car. Gonna finally do some grudging   Anyone plan on going, feel free to stop and say hello  

Video's  

1 video of me on my way up to the bumper. I had a ruff nite. First pass I got pushed back, they said I had a big oil leak but it ended up being water. My fitting split on my water pressure sensor.

2nd pass the line guy held us on our trans brake for like 6 seconds which felt like for ever. it was pro tree we both turned on 2nd lite and went on brake and they just held us  

3rd pass I actual had a real race, 1st actual race for cash. I won, the other car had a problem tho.

4th pass I took hood off and put lexan forward faceing scoop on. Car left like ususal with small wheelie about 10/20 feet out then suddenly the car started to go up higher and higher like I hit the nos but. My buddy said rpms started screaming as well. How ever I do not have spray yet. well I was not ready for that and paniced and took foot off gas and buried the front end. Smacked the oil pan pretty good but no major damage. I did catch 1 of my trans line under the pan and put a hole in it, which I fixed imediatley.

5th pass I tried it again with scoop, car was spinning during the 60ft and I got out off it further down track and back in it. Right out the quarter at 159mph fluid started covering my windshield in the darkness of the nite. I could not see anything so I just started braking. Brakes locked up at 1 point and had car sideways. I didnt know where I was at. I caused the car behind me to spin out as well. niether of us hit wall and both are ok.

The screw on the front bowl of carb that lets u adjust the float was gone and I got nothing but fuel spraying the entire windshield. Looking at the race pak it appears it happened after I was off throttle, but now I have to do some checking to be sure it didnt get sucked into the carb  

To top it all off when I got home somebody parked their truck accross from my driveway, it took for ever to get my trailer in the driveway and just as I got it in my truck died. battery took a chit and would not charge. What a freaking day/nite. I will post video when the guy puts it up..

Coulda been worse. You could've eaten a bad piece of fish and got a case of the runs.  

maverick wrote:Coulda been worse.  You could've eaten a bad piece of fish and got a case of the runs.  

Oh did I leave that out? yeah I woke up wit da chits. My 5 year old was in my way and almost ran him over trying to get to da chitter  

deliveredfast wrote:

maverick wrote:Coulda been worse.  You could've eaten a bad piece of fish and got a case of the runs.  

Oh did I leave that out? yeah I woke up wit da chits. My 5 year old was in my way and almost ran him over trying to get to da chitter  

Now that's a full day of fun right there.  Funny how a case of the "green apple quickstep" will get you out of bed faster than a smoke alarm.

Sounds like it's coming along Charles   

Nice...Track that sucker!...Whoomp there it is!

Charles,it was actually a good night. You made it home w/o wrecking the car,major breaking of parts,and walking and breathing. Sounds like the car is making great power. Nice  

bbf-falcon wrote:Charles,it was actually a good night. You made it home w/o wrecking the car,major breaking of parts,and walking and breathing. Sounds like the car is making great power. Nice  

yeah I looked at racepak and it says its still spinning on off in the 60ft and still gave me a short time of 1.19 on the last pass. I can now say with confidence, This thing is a beast   lol

Video of my :eek: moment. It popped the lil wheelie as usual then it started to go up fast and I planted the front end to the pavement. Go to 3.47 mark in video. It doesnt look to bad in video but it sure felt like I was on my way to tipping over lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2bQZDN5AvE#t=237

Ouch.

Hey that ain't no bike...Nice Wheelie!

A long story short, I went to track yesterday and went to make a pass. I did my burn out and as I was flipping the switch for the racepak I heard the most horrific noise ever. It was my motor clanking and what not. I shut it down immediately. Pushed back to my pit area and turned it over with out ignition and again clank clank clank in the bottom end:( Well thats it, Im thinking Im done for the year.

So last night I started tearing the car down so I can take out motor. I removed motor today. Snatched out motor and trans together.

And while it was out I weighed it as well:D. So I separated the trans from the motor and as I was about to remove the flywheel so I could put motor on engine stand I noticed every last bolt was loose and flywheel moved back and forth:D hurray hurray. I am 1 happy camper. yeah I need a new flyweel as the bolt hole are ovaled out but thats fine by me.

What bolts? Tourqed with loctite? I've got a freind that had 2 or 3 sets of converter bolts loosen up. I had been instslling loctite and hitting them with my 3/8" impact. Finally, with the next converter 7/16" bolts vs 3/8" on the older unit, I decided to torque them (50 or 60#), flat washer, red loctite. So far so good.

J.Toney wrote:What bolts? Tourqed with loctite? I've got a freind that had 2 or 3 sets of converter bolts loosen up. I had been instslling loctite and hitting them with my 3/8" impact. Finally, with the next converter 7/16" bolts vs 3/8" on the older unit, I decided to torque them (50 or 60#), flat washer, red loctite.  So far so good.

Arp flywheel bolts torqued but no loctite. Im gonna get a new set of arp bolts and loctite this time for sure.

I'd bet dollars that the bolts were a hair too long and that they never were able to fully seat. We've seen it a bunch. Call me if you want to talk about it

yellowhorse7 wrote:I'd bet dollars that the bolts were a hair too long and that they never were able to fully seat. We've seen it a bunch. Call me if you want to talk about it

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:cheers:good call!  

yellowhorse7 wrote:I'd bet dollars that the bolts were a hair too long and that they never were able to fully seat. We've seen it a bunch. Call me if you want to talk about it