nocooler's firechicken thread

[nocooler]

Found a possible issue. Some moron put the longer pan bolts in the front and they go above the pan rail and may cause some interference with the bell housing. Since the bolts are stainless and the bell housing is aluminum its hard to see any witness marks on the bolts. I'm hoping that was the issue and it'll stop seeping now....

[Steve Wood]

That is probably a good possibility.  I have seen things like that cause a lot of problems because they are not obvious.  Let's hope so!

[nocooler]

It’s been dry for an hour - that gives me hope. I put some fresh cardboard under it hopefully it’s dry tomorrow

[Steve Wood]

That probably did it.  At least you did not give up and someone else pointed it out to you.  Look on the bright side, you found a problem waiting to bite you in those bolt holes with bum threads and fixed them.

[nocooler]

Yup - so I shot myself in the foot when I had issues with the pan sealing.
Story of my life. Fingers crossed that it’s still dry in the morning.
Next on the list will be getting boost control sorted out on the Holley

[nocooler]

Went to the track last night and had some issues.
1st pass: I turned it up and it ended up hitting boost cut as soon as I hit 2nd gear, I lifted and shifted into 3rd and ran it out a 75% throttle to keep boost under the cut. It went 10.3@134
2nd pass: I loaded the wrong tune - 10.8@124 wastegate with a huge timing retard.
3rd pass: reloaded the correct tune - 10.8@116 I lost part of the exhaust and aborted
4th pass: it blew the coupler off the turbo and lost the clamp.

I've got some issues to get sorted and it'll be back out. That's what I get for trying to turn it up - but I've got a pile of data to look through. It's gonna need more injector for sure.

The one good thing I found out is the car weighs 3640 with me in it, so 3490ish

[Steve Wood]

Lighter than I would have guessed.  At least you are not pulling the transmission so it sounds like you are going in the right direction

[nocooler]

After getting kicked in the nuts at the track - I spent a couple of days looking at the data and thinking.
While I thought I tickled the boost cut, I actually ran out of injector, and to make it worse somehow my flex fuel signal is going from reading alcohol % to "high error". Holley does flex fuel on the fly, it's a fuel flow multiplier so when the signal goes high error it thinks it's on pump gas. Fuel flow was going from 900lbs/hr to 450lbs/hr - yup that's my stumble @ WOT lol. How this engine isn't a pile of fairy dust is beyond me.
So I need to track it down and see if it's a vibration issue, wiring, interference (it's close to the coils), or the sensor itself.
Upgrading injectors is on the back burner for now.

[Steve Wood]

Life is not boring in your shop!

Here I am pissed off because the Holley on the 440 is not getting an accelerator pump shot LOL

[nocooler]

There are a few growing pains to work through if it was easy everyone would be doing it.
One of my friends was at the track with his 86 mustang gt. It has "sealed" coyote or it was until he put an intake and valve springs on it. It's got a ram slipper clutch/geforce 101a 4 speed. The damn thing runs 10.1x@131mph. It'll go 9s with good air. I'm guessing it's in the 2600-2800lb range - 475rwhp@7300 redline 8000 sounds insane

[nocooler]

https://youtu.be/k42D1bBjoBk - stock coyote mustang

[nocooler]

https://youtu.be/1FcZcnb7zAs - in car 10.8@128 wastegate and huge timing retard

[Steve Wood]

I have heard about fast fords all my life!

[Scoobum]

Jeremy, the LS engines will take a shit kicking. Look no further than our buddy at Sloppy Mechanics.

[Scoobum]

Jeremy, from experience this is what I'll tell you. Go overkill on injectors and your transmission. I should have had the tramsmission built for 10 flat the first time...and instead of going from stock injectors to 50's, 60 then 80's, I shoulda jumped to 80's right off the hop.