The Project Pad

Beast!

oh baby

had a 98 dakota on dyno today and figured I'd share. just for you, Taco.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjXHOQrx4zs[/youtube]


(dont worry, it didn't explode. idle is hella shitty and it stalls out immediately when going off throttle at high rpm). smokey from a shitty breather setup.

What was the setup? Who tuned it?

AngryTaco wrote:What was the setup? Who tuned it?

forged pistons, 10:1 compression, 100 shot of nitrous. dunno who tuned it, SCT programmer (which I hate, crap interface and lousy tuning support).

Marc wrote:

AngryTaco wrote:What was the setup? Who tuned it?

forged pistons, 10:1 compression, 100 shot of nitrous. dunno who tuned it, SCT programmer (which I hate, crap interface and lousy tuning support).

Agreed. Unfortunately, it is the only option for JTEC computers.

Lots of little things getting done! Truck now moves under it's own power. Waiting for the weather to clear up to go take a drive. Had to remove intake manifold because I was a dumbass and put the lifters in 180* out. Had to rotate them to get the oil feed hole lined up. More of an inconvenience then anything. Tired of working on it.....want to go DRIVVEEEEEEE


On the harness below. That is a Ford foxbody TPS sensor that I had to convert to a Chevy connector. The adapter harness then converts the Chevy connector over to the Dodge style.

I now have a functioning TPS sensor along with an IAC. Super excited!!!

Test and tuning tomorrow!!!!!!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRUypwjRRI0[/youtube]

Well......

Motor is fucked. Got a whole 18 miles out of it.



I am now switching machine shops after using these guys for 9 years. They ground the crank wrong on #5/6 journal and now I have dead engine.....AGAIN.

It's a cheap fix but I am LIVID. He actually told me it's my responsibility to find his mistakes. Well....I FOUND IT. I'm fucking done.



I will say this though....on the 2 or 3 runs I did 3/4 throttles on, this thing MOVED even with the weight in the bed.

That is so messed up! If we told that to people that we do business with here, we would be out of business!

Thats exactly how I felt. Imagine doing a brake job on a customer's car and then telling them it's their problem when something makes noise or doesn't work right

Wow, what a sack of shit.

I have about $1200 of work in his shop thats leaving immediately too

Sorry taco - they just wanted to make america great again

Seriously though if they are admitting fault and you paid for specific work to be done and do not want to help I do not see why you don't have a small claims case - if this is really the case this shouldn't be on your dime to fix. Labor, Parts, everything. That is the reality.

Hope to see it up and running soon.

Back up and running.

Bad machine work wont keep me down!

As far as the shit machinist goes, it was found that he left out 2 5/8" oil galley plugs on the front of the engine. Someone is getting a nice certified letter in the next few weeks.

Glad to hear you got this running again. I know how a bad experience a the machine shop can really make things worse


When will work resume one the Baron?

Jesus that's a sad story still. So what happened, you saw the oil pressure take a dive and decided to stop running it?

DE80q wrote:Glad to hear you got this running again. I know how a bad experience a the machine shop can really make things worse


When will work resume one the Baron?

Probably Spring Time. I have been secretly and slowly collecting all the parts needed

88a5tq wrote:Jesus that's a sad story still. So what happened, you saw the oil pressure take a dive and decided to stop running it?

Started hearing knocking and my wideband started going all wonky again. But yeah pressure took a dive and became non-existant

In other news, I now have about 700 miles on the rebuild.


The transmission is dead. I actually laughed because I expected it. All the rebuild parts for a proper trans build are being ordered on Monday.

Pulling transmission today. Finally said fuck it all and pulled my own rig in. Going to tear it down this weekend or early in the week and then order the parts.

Putting a nice 10" billet 3500 stall in while out too

Trans is out and dissembled. Direct clutches are welded together, forward clutches are metal on metal, 2nd gear band is metal on metal, everything got HOT.

Oh well....at least this time around its getting built by someone who knows what they're doing....ME!!!!

Where's the psycho selfies?

audifreakjim wrote:Where's the psycho selfies?

agreed.

$2500 worth of awesome transmission parts ordered today.

Billet 10" 3500 stall on the way.

This bastard will finally be able to handle the power