New chumpcar in the works... (Page 8/11)
thedrue JUN 12, 01:52 AM
Its been a busy week so on with the show!





I was unhappy with the shoulder harness mounting so since I had to install a new harness anyway I decided to rework the mount system. I welded in a couple threaded bungs that will allow for very easy harness upgrades in the future.



All done!



Apparently injury, death, or worse will occur!



We got our splitter painted and installed for good, believe it or not I can stand on the lip. Hopefully it lasts through the next event!

Next I focused on the master caution light, Team Pontiaxed did most of the leg work but getting the oil pressure light to trigger it proved a bit of a trick to make work. I also wanted to get the flashing shift light working and am very happy with the results!



I put a little video together demonstrating the function of the master caution light. I think its safe to say that my drivers will have no excuse for missing an oil pressure temp warning!
Pete Matos JUN 12, 12:25 PM
Man this thread is PACKED with Awesome!! I love how that car looks and it sounds perfect. Congrats on a really cool car man. Enjoy it and kick some ass on that track. Peace

Pete

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"May the grins begin when you turn the key and hear the engine roar over your shoulder" ......Gall57 (slightly modified LOL)

BrittB JUN 13, 09:04 PM
Rick called me and said you needed some help running Auto X last week, if I didn't have to work I sure would have been there! If you ever do need help let me know and if I'm not doing a work related thing I'll be there! After June my weekends should be pretty open.
thedrue JUL 04, 02:22 AM
I have a bunch of new photos to post but have not gotten around to it yet... I just figured id throw a little teaser on here...

We dynode the car with the new engine today and are very impressed.

167 HP 204ft.lbs. of torque at the wheels... Not too shabby, with lots of room to grow in the future we hope.

Stay tuned for more complete updates soon!
KillerFrogg JUL 08, 12:36 AM
Love the car, It looks awesome, and I love what you are doing with it! One thing I am curious about, do you know what VW those steelies are off of, and how wide are they?
thedrue JUL 09, 01:17 AM
Thanks for the encouragement Frogg.

Here is the info I can find on these wheels, they work great and the price has been right. Its getting harder to find them since VW switched to a bigger bolt pattern a few years ago but these wheels are out there. I got the first set from a friend for 50 bucks for all 4. The second set I got from a dealer that had them sitting around for 35 a piece. They do not use the standard conical lug nuts, so you need to get a set of ball socket lug nuts if you were to run them.

http://www.wheelsandcaps.co...rim-16x65-69723.aspx
thedrue JUL 09, 01:53 AM
Time for another update! Race day is in just over 3 weeks and Im feeling very good about the car.







I finished up the engine build, I was not going to get too specific online but the cat is out of the bag...

The roller rockers required more height inside the valve cover, luckily I have a plethora of fiero parts and sacrificed a couple sets of valve covers to make one set a quarter inch taller.





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The valve covers work great and when the time comes I will be building a set for my turbo car as well...

I also installed an adjustable fuel pressure regulator so I had a bit of control over the fueling and could dial it in





I buttoned the engine up and prepared to swap it into the car.



I did the engine swap in about 5 hours working by myself, we estimate that if a major component failed on either my car or the Pontiaxed car we could swap the entire drivetrain in 2 hours or less and keep racing.

Here is a quick comparison of the old and new drivetrain.





Note the Dodgerunner belt tensioner, a very nice addition to any v6 fiero. Eleminates belt squeal completely and self adjusts for the life of the belt.



The front lip caused some issues, luckily its overbuilt and suffered no damage supporting the front of the car.

Engine is in the car!





We fired it up, adjusted the rear toe and I frantically drove it as much as possible so when our dyno slot came it had a bit of a break in.

it runs very, very well.



Some of my coworkers seem to have a sense of humor... you would be surprised how much crap you get when you show up to work in a fiero race car!



The day came, we strapped her down to the dyno and gave her hell, I only got 300 miles on it but you know what they say about breaking in an engine like you plan to drive it...



We are very impressed with the numbers to say the least, we were able to adjust the fuel pressure regulator using the sideband o2 sensor on the dyno and it is running very well on the stock engine management with 19 lb injectors. We also optimized the timing. 166 hp at the wheels and 204 ft lbs of torque is outstanding for a 3400 with fiero intake, exhaust and heads... As for as the intake and exhaust go, we have plans. The engine should give us a bit more...

This test mainly was to prove that we were not leaning out and damaging the engine or anything, it would suck to blow it up next time out.




Luna was not happy with the fireworks, she seemed most at home and comfortable in the race car, she's a dog after my own heart!

Kinny and I wanted to do something to help relieve the under hood pressure, we went to Home Depot and came up with just the right solution.







Its a clean solution that should help, quite a bit.



Just my wife and I cheesing while we eat our burger king breakfast after cars and coffee this last weekend.

I also took the opportunity to install a new Richporter distributor, our OEM distributors are very ugly and we hope to have a better chance of making it through race weekend with this one. I did reapply the thermal compound to the ICM since it was a little dry, other than that this looks to be a very nice piece and it is all new. Car is running great on it and we hope to not have any issues, I do have a spare OEM ignition coil in case we have issues with this one.





Thats all for now, I suspect the next update will be after the race, we hope for a reliable car that will hold its own, and the primary goal is to keep it on track and in one piece!
KillerFrogg JUL 09, 02:25 AM

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Originally posted by thedrue:

Here is the info I can find on these wheels




Thanks for the info and the link, will make the search much easier when the time comes. And hey, even at $35 each, and easy to clean up and paint, they are a much better option as far as 16in wheels go compared to just about anything else.

That engine looks really nice too! Cant wait to hear how it holds up for the race.
FIEROPHREK JUL 09, 10:21 AM
Looking AWESOME ! We need more videos of the on track action!!!!!!!

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ARCHIES JUNK IS FASTER THAN SHAUNNA'S JUNK

12.3 is faster than a 13.2

hairballrm JUL 31, 01:14 AM
Two days til PIR

Auto cross last weekend for seat time
ORPCA PIR AutoX

Holy smokes! this car runs nice!

[This message has been edited by hairballrm (edited 07-31-2014).]