mw66nova

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another beautiful day. mid 70's and clear. zz17iroc made it out with his hotrod, such a cool car. 383, fuel injected, 700r4, street driven and very fast!

i did run a new best, of 10.85 @ 124.97 so it's getting there! i ran in this order: 11.10 (throw away pass, rolled in way deep, tbrake acting a fool), 10.87, 10.86, 10.89, 10.92, 10.85. slowest mph was 124.55, fastest was 125.16.

i played with the travel limitters a bit. the car sixtied the best with the limitters set at 2" under full extension with a 1.504. the best 1/8 and 1/4 times and mphs were with the limitters off the car and allowing the suspension to go to full extension, but it sixtied slower. the best pass was also made off the footbrake, weird.
brake down of the best ET pass:

60': 1.532
330': 4.454
1/8: 6.913
MPH: 99.86
1000': 9.048
1/4: 10.855
MPH: 124.97

ZONES89RS

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Congrats man, that is about what i will be looking for when i get some heads on my car, doubt i will be so lucky, but somewhere close.

No vids? Kick *** 60.

88 350 tpi formula

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very nice! yeah I second if there is a vid.

84firebird383

where did you get that hoodscoop? what type is it? Congrats on the new best.

92 CaMaRo Rs

Awsome times man, cant wait to see the vids if u got any.

brandoz28

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congrats man, i know its been a long road to get it to where it is now!

mw66nova

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the hood scoop is a summit racing brand scoop. it (and the hood) will be for sale this winter

vids will come soon. i have to have my dad convert them to a file i can post. we got some cool in car vid too

t-top havoc

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I thought the scoop was your secret!!!LOL!!!

10.5 your target??

Congrats on the ever increasing best!!

mightymaro94

congrats brother .. now post a vid if you got it lol

TwinTurboROC

<- **** eatin' grin after seeing those pics.

mw66nova

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my goal right now is to run 10.90 in the summer heat without leaning on the car too hard. right now i'm shifting at 7000rpm, i'd like to run the number shifting at 6600ish. just to keep it more reliable. right now i think it'd run 11.00 with short shifting like that. so i need just a bit more hp, or lighter race weight.

Fast 383

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Man, your catching up to me. I got to step it up. J/K Good times though. That converter seems to be working well. I'm always contemplating an LS set up and those times are encouraging.

How streetable is your set up? Loud? run rough?

mw66nova

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it's loud, but what do you expect from 3" duals with bullets? very streetable for the stall speed in my opinion. i drive the car to school every now and then (50miles round trip). trans never gets over 160*. the engine never gets over 190-200* (195* tstat). once it's warm, the engine idles right at 850rpm and is very happy in city traffic. no surging or hiccups. acceleration is very linear, and once into the converter a bit, the car pulls like a freight train, even at part throttle. you guys built an excellent converter, and JP built an excellent trans.

for the record, i'm running a plate style trans cooler, it's a b&m super cooler. (only thing b&m i will say is a good piece, lol)

next season i'd like to make a goal of going mid 1.4x 60' times though...i feel like it would go some 10.6x's with good air and about a 1.45 60' time.

Fast 383

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I may be able to loosen that converter up a few hundred. Like 2 or 3 maybe. I'll check into it. An 8 inch would get you 1.4's maybe.

mw66nova

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i know it would...but i love the streetability of this thing so far. i'm relcutant to change it right now, lol.

mw66nova

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here's an in car cam shot of my 10.89 pass. i have a couple more, but they have even more dead space on them than this one does (sorry about that) and need to be edited. i'll try to get more vids up later today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G8NT7ltOqs

after watching the vids, i'm only going through the traps at about 6500...the car pulls to 7k. i'm currently running a 4.11 gear, think going to a 4.30 gear would be of any benefit? might get me out of the hole that much quicker?

92 CaMaRo Rs

Man, that is one nice machine sounds so good.

mw66nova

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thanks it's been a tough season, so this was a great ending!

zz17iroc

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Your car is nice Matt, it'll surely go 9's on the spray. I was hoping my car would have done better on motor, surely somethings not right loosing 3 mph. But then again those Hoosier QTP's are kinda tall. I keep forgetting that I went from a 26 in tire to a 27.5 in tire, I also was thinking about 4.10's. What do you think?

mw66nova

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what's your trap rpm? i forgot you went to a taller tire too, that makes sense that the car dropped mph.

zz17iroc

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I'm going through the traps at 5300 rpm

mw66nova

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yeah, i'd say up the gear, but since you spray the car, maybe keep it like it is, and put the big-boy pills in

zz17iroc

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I may hit the track again on 3 Dec and put the big boy pills in, lets say a 250 shot should do it.

87_TA

Nice runs! Car is strong, looks like you shifted out of first at about 7600, got a revver there huh? Nice combo

xpndbl3

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i noticed he grabbed 1st kinda late too, I wonder what his limiter is set at...?

I've banged my 7300 limiter a few times.

gtpro700

Matt sick video man the car is hauling the mail!!! You mentioned more gear but if you actually didnt mean to shift first late you might have been higher in the rpm band at the line right? Maybe you wanted to shift that high out of first though and if so disregard what I said and go with more gear. Awesome job on the car you deserve to finally click off those sick numbers.

Derek

mw66nova

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yeah, i just shifted a bit late on that pass on accident. i'm trying to do too much in the car right now, and i wasn't focused. the car goes faster the harder i spin the motor...i have four in car vids and i go through the traps at 6500 on all passes. i'd like to shift at 6500 and go through the traps at 7000.

top side limitter is set at 7800. i worry about my production ls7 lifters and my stock rockers with a trunion upgrade at the rpm i'm spinning it to though.

xpndbl3

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i'm spinning 35k miles stock truck lifters to 7300 and still haven't done that trunion upgrade although it is happening this winter, so I lucked out for 15 passes or so.

7800 is cooking though, guess I should raise my 7300 limiter a bit.

mw66nova

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yeah, i'm going to take the valve covers off this week and see how it looks under there. oil pressure is perfect. 55ish at idle cold, 40ish at idle hot. 60ish cruise, and nearly 80 WOT. oil looked good on the stick, a little dark considering it's only got 12 passes on it (this particular oil change that is.)and about 150 street miles, but it doesn't look burnt, and no floaters. i had a buddy break a rocker this weekend so i'm definitely a little reserved about the rpm's i've been turning.

ZONES89RS

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That is what the oil pressure in my truck motor looks like, stock replacement pump. My stock lifters and rockers have seen 7200 so often i guess they have proven themselves, but honestly, i am sure the rockers are on borrowed time. How much is the upgrade?

mw66nova

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not very expensive, maybe $140ish?

Shagwell

Very sweet Matt. Something you might try is short shifting the 1-2, sometimes it works better that way with the 2.48 low. - If your peak power is 68-7k, then the 4.30 should put you into power a little better and would compliment it better for short shifting as well.

Glad that trans has worked well for you. Like I said, that is the case and most of the internals that I ran 5.3x's on in my car. Fresh sprag, different shafts(haven't been beat on so hard, lol), better clutches, and the BTE vb instead of the CK. Even if you added some giggle juice to it it will last you a long time how you're using it.

I'll try to remember to check out the video sometime when I'm home.

ZONES89RS

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140 or so is not bad, how many companies are doing them?

mw66nova

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comp and harland sharp. i bought my kit through comp and did the upgrade my self.

xpndbl3

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i'll mail you mine and you can do them for me too

mw66nova

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it's so easy it's stupid dude. it's so straight forward, you just about can't put it together wrong.

greezemonkey

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AWEsome!! Car sounds really strong! The video spurred a few comments to mind, pointers if you would... The 4.30 total yes, it really comes out strong and sits flat for quite a while, so gear it up or go for a looser converter, 1-2 short shift a Must!! If you have a shift lite, really all you need it for is for the 1-2 so set it for 300-400 rpm before you want it shifted at, you can play with the rpm limits to see what difference they`ll make. 3rd gear you can pull right at peak or past peak so its easy to judge or check tachometer for that one. The 4.30 will have a traction effect, my car loved the 4.30 N/A...et and 60` best, waayyy too much for any hose though, even a 125 hit would run it out of rpm at 1000` with a 29 tire and a loose converter. That LS sounds awesome it`s got more in it for sure!

mw66nova

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thanks scott. i'm going to keep it n/a. i love the look on peoples face when i tell them it's n/a. i love the converter where it's at, so i don't want to change that, but going to a taller gear won't be an issue at all.

blue85305

sounds wicked and runs hard. congrats on the times.

mw66nova

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hey guys, the trunion upgrade is COMP p/n 13702-kit. looks like it can be had for about $130 or less.

mw66nova

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and video finally!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDbl5VZ4cpw

jbenge

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Great runs and nice video's, I especially like the in car one. I made a in car video a few years back and of course had my only catastrophic engine failure(spun bearing). Its a good thing the car was loud enough that you couldn't hear what I was saying in the video on the return road when I saw no oil pressure...lol I've never done another in car video since, but maybe I'll give it another try with the new combo next year.