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So i drove the car to work yesterday. All seems to be good. There still seemed to be an exhaust leak on my way home so when I got there I was able to tighten up the vband quite a bit so hopefully that takes care of it.

Also the only other issue is that my oil pressure is really high. It's been just about pegged at 100psi cruising at 3k rpms. On my way home it was down around 75psi at 3500rpms so that's a good sign not sure if the oil pumps need to be broken in or what not. I have almost 200 miles on it since getting it running again.

So plans for this weekend are to port the oil relief valve in the ofh and switch to a good 40wt oil vs the 50wt I have in it now. Then check everything over to make sure it's ready for the dyno next Tuesday.

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Sounds good, hurry up and port that housing!

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Will be doing that this Sunday

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What time is dyno?

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It's at 6pm

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haha if you want I can try coming up and bring the go pro again!

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Haha. If you don't have anything better to do that's fine with me

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Ill try and make it.

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Awesome! Just let me know

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I ported the pressure relief valve in my ofh and it seems to be a success cold start oil pressure was 50-60 psi compared to pegging the gauge at 100psi before. Just gotta finish putting it back together and drive it and see how it is when it's warmed up

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So the oil pressure situation is in check. It used to pegging the gauge at 100psi at 3500rpms. Now I'm seeing 75psi at 5k rpms. I snugged up the bolts on the front case some and made sure all the fittings in my ofh were tight But there is still an oil leak. I think the front case will have to come off to fix it :-\. Nothing I can do about it now. I just have to drain the fuel fill it up with fresh e85 and swap to the 40wt oil I have then she's ready for the dyno tomorrow

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Dang i forgot about this. Good luck tomorrow be positive and when in doubt

MOAR BOOST!!

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Shawn. I am very very drunk right now but please win at the dyno!

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Good luck on the Dyno. What time is it going to be on? I drive past DB evey day on my way home from work. I wouldn't mind stoping in and watching a few pulls.

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Thanks! I'm doing my best to stay positive!

Haha I will do my best to win at the dyno! Have a few for me! Preferably something with whiskey ;-)

The appointment is for 6pm. Stop by if you want!

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Good luck man!!! You got this haha

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Thanks!

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Best of luck on the dyno!

Did you take a picture of the OFH porting?

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Thanks!

And I didn't :-\. I should have. Idk why I didn't. There is a lot of info on tuners about it. I basically just used a small carbide bit and widened and elongated the hole.

It's pretty easy. If its something you're going to do and want a hand let me know

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Yet another trip to the dyno and yet another failure. Apparently the right rear axle was broken so we couldn't do anything with it today. I'm fed up with the car so said screw it and am just going to have db fix it. The next tune date is set for august 6th

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:(

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Aww crap!

This shit never ends.

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Indeed! I'm getting sick of it lol

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well at least it didnt blow up lol

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I dropped off an axle at DB so it should be fixed. You coming out tonight?

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Haha true!

Thanks Again! Probably not. It's been a long week probably going to bed early lol

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What time on the 6th? Mine is at noon on the same day.

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Nice! I'm tuning at 6

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Picked the car up last night. Can definitely feel that welded diff again lol. Right now I'm trying to get my tune moved to next week. Possibly next Wednesday at 3 but not sure if I can get off work for that. Hopefully Shane can do something in the evening next week.

Also it appears that there is some oil on the tbelt. So that means my oil leak is originating from inside the timing cover. So if I'm feeling ambitious this weekend I will pop the timing cover off clean it up and run it with the timing cover off and try and find the source of the leak.

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Depending on the amount of oil on it, you may want to replace it. :eek:

If it's just a little and can wipe off easily, do that. I've seen a couple of timing belts on these motors just loose their teeth on a startup after being oil soaked for a while.

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Yeah I know. It doesn't look like much. I will clean it up for now and try and figure outthe cause of the leak. But either way this belt will be replaced soon.

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Well not much to update just needed a break from the car. I pushed the tune back to the 13th. So we'll see if we can finally get an actual tune in the shitbox.

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Hope all goes well, the car should rip. Making through a successful dyno session with a DSM is like winning the lottery.

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Thanks! And indeed it is like winning the lottery! This will be the 5th trip to the dyno since I've owned the car lol. At this point I just want a tune in it. Even if it doesn't make the power it should

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:drive1:

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Aaaannndddd the never ending shitbox saga continues. More fuel pressure issues. We're kinda stumped. Thinking maybe it's in the tank. Idk if it's not a cheap/easy fix the car will probably sit until next year.

I might just completely redo the whole fuel system over the winter and go from there.


And a couple more crappy charts with dropping fuel pressure

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So i putzed with the car a little bit last night. I ran the pumps one at a time and used the pressure regulator to raise the pressure to 110psi. One of the pumps sounded good and strong at 110psi the other got so quiet you could barely hear it.

So I'm going to run the return line into a gas can and the flow for each pump at 85-90psi.

If the one pump comes up bad I still have those ford gt pumps so for testing purposes I'll see what those flow if it's close to the 255 I'll put a video camera on the fuel pressure gauge and do a couple high way pulls and see what happens

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Is there a specific reason you just don't get a single proper fuel pump and be done with it?

I know we've discussed it before, but it just seems penny wise, pound foolish compared to a incomplete dyno session.

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Well I wasn't expecting this to happen this time lol. Mostly for the simplicity of trying to stick with what was in the car and trying to get it on the road this year so I could have some fun with it.

Plus Shane was most of the single pumps that are big enough for my goals aren't very streetable. since this isn't a dedicated race car yet I'd like to keep it somewhat streetable.

And then most the single pumps large enough to support I would have to sump my tank or install a surge tank, and probably run bigger lines, new fuel rail, etc. So it's not just slapping in a pump ya know?

But I think just completely redoing the fuel system from the ground up is something I'm going to do this winter. I know a lot of people don't like fuelab but there pumps can be dropped in tank so it would make the transition a little easier. Idk

Also i will say if it's a pump that is the issue this time it's completely my fault cause I bought used pumps cause I was broke when I got these pumps and was trying to get the thing going

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Would a wally 450 with a BAP be enough for this car?