The Project Pad

:woowoo: impressive

secretagentman wrote::woowoo: impressive

you do know that it is a 4cyl, right?

Yeah thats super impressive. Cant WAIT to see how she runs.

That is a nice broad torque band... Damn. Was that on the 3652s they seem to give up a little early.

speeding-g60 wrote:

secretagentman wrote::woowoo: impressive

you do know that it is a 4cyl, right?

yes.

ya that was '52s.... we pulled the run @ 7800.... thats what Kevin wanted, 4k - 7800, so thats what we pulled.

No worries man, It's an awesome line. You should be ripping it with a spread like that. 2010 is gonna be your year.

bored as hell here. nothing to do, so i guess i just change stuff.

all 1/4" OD SS hardlines. looks neato to me. all perfeshinull and stuffs.

Very cool, is that blood in the last picture? Blood means you're doing it right

Looks like silver over red paint.

are those swagelok fittings? I see thousands of those sitting in the scrap dumpsters at the ibm plant where I work. Always wanted to salvage that stuff for cool automotive use. Looks nice.

yes, Swagelok and Parker A-lok. those two are inter-compatible, and Parker are less expensive. i was originally going to run my rabbit fueling with 0.500" SS tubing....

they are BUCKS, too.

if you get them from the scrap, you can just buy new ferrules and you are good to go. those Tee's were over $22 apiece. we sometimes get them from the local scrap places here, too.

and no blood Dave. its silver/red paint....

sweet...stainless tubing looks tits

i like tits better though, but it does look pretty neat

veddy nice

Hey Aaron whats the part number on that diverter valve?

speeding-g60 wrote:if you get them from the scrap, you can just buy new ferrules and you are good to go. those Tee's were over $22 apiece. we sometimes get them from the local scrap places here, too.

and no blood Dave. its silver/red paint....

Its pretty hard to scavenge here, I'm an engineering contractor here and already hated by the IBM employees. They have a strict policy of no scrap can be removed from the site unless you are the scrap removal contractor. Its painfull because there is stainless tubing of every shape and size (up to 10" diameter), tons of nice stainless flex bellows, weld el, etc. And it all goes to scrap when a new tool comes in :frustrated:

diverter valve? i dont have one of those....

if you mean the boost control valve, i get it from Kevin. i will ask him when next we speak.....

i did some things.

i checked on the head, not done yet :(

i swapped water pump housings, put in a t-stat. will try that route, faster warm up time. it takes about 18 minutes from cold (in summer ambient 80 degrees?) to operating temperature for warmup.

i also changed one ss line, i didnt like the way it looked.

and drained the rear diff. which reminds me i gotta fill that thing again.

speeding-g60 wrote:yes, Swagelok and Parker A-lok. those two are inter-compatible, and Parker are less expensive. i was originally going to run my rabbit fueling with 0.500" SS tubing....

they are BUCKS, too.

if you get them from the scrap, you can just buy new ferrules and you are good to go. those Tee's were over $22 apiece. we sometimes get them from the local scrap places here, too.

and no blood Dave. its silver/red paint....

It's easy to see the people that are exposed to an industrial setting. We use Swagelok and stainless for just about everything in I&E control work in the power industry. I've thought quite often of using hard tubing for the fuel lines and especially for E85 use. It really makes a guy sick to see all the high dollar waste that gets thrown out as systems are deleted/upgraded and new tubing is run. I came home from work just last week having to lean forward some in the driver's seat because I had stuffed a bunch of old throw away 1/4" tubing into the back of the daughter's beetle and it was crowding me some. LOL

My experience has taught me not to mix and match Swagelok and Parker. I know that they are supposed to be compatible, but I can't tell you how many times I have seen leaks by doing so, especially in high pressure hydraulic use. (>2000psi) I think that part of the problem is over tightening to begin with. Everyones tendency is that if tight is good, tighter surely is better which isn't the case with Swagelok. They can be reused as far as off and on indefinitely if they aren't overtightened or the stainless isn't allowed to gall. We try to stay strictly Swagelok here, but have some of the original systems that were installed with Parker, so at that point we either change out completely or try not to mix.

By the way.....Looking good!!

thanks

and yeah... the Swagelok have a 2 part ferrule and the Parker has a single. the compatibility issues arise from threads not matching, etc, between brands. but these two are interchangeable.

typically i do steam and hot oil trace lines, and instrumentation with the tubing.

and yes, people do tend to think tighter is better. but not so much of the time.

and it is funny, just use the fitting bodies, buy some new ferrules, and cut the tubing to scavenge the nuts. then you are in it pennies on the dollar, if so much. tubing is cheap as well.

speeding-g60 wrote:i stopped by and got the dyno's from the last session.... run 18, 3rd gear. 7700 rpm. from ~5800 til end i was >500 AWHP with a peak of 559. and from 6800 to 7700 it was >550 AWHP. and torque peaked @ 456 wtq right around 6k .

>500AWHP from a little 4 cyl! :woowoo:

Rocco16V wrote:

speeding-g60 wrote:i stopped by and got the dyno's from the last session.... run 18, 3rd gear. 7700 rpm. from ~5800 til end i was >500 AWHP with a peak of 559. and from 6800 to 7700 it was >550 AWHP. and torque peaked @ 456 wtq right around 6k .

>500AWHP from a little 4 cyl! :woowoo:

I totally agree!!! WOO HOO!!!!

Rocco16V wrote:

speeding-g60 wrote:i stopped by and got the dyno's from the last session.... run 18, 3rd gear. 7700 rpm. from ~5800 til end i was >500 AWHP with a peak of 559. and from 6800 to 7700 it was >550 AWHP. and torque peaked @ 456 wtq right around 6k .

>500AWHP from a little 4 cyl! :woowoo:

well, the first time i ran it, it made 592 AWHP while it lifted the head @ 45psi boost spike and thats only to 7krpm or so. normal running on that motor (with less boost of course) is 8500 rpm.

and that was on a smallport head with port work done, and 82mm pistons with 4 broken wristpins.

the new motor was those numbers, it is largeport head with no work and 83mm pistons.