Ah, Kody, yeah, he's the most mellow out of all of them....... until you set him off :suspect:


You planning on attending Tray's Oct run? Wanna follow back to CT then up to VT?


I've seen a few detailed pics of that hood, the first riser is what kinda turns me off. After all is said and done though I'll probably have close to $3-400 in materials and about 40 hours into the hood, it would've been cheaper for me to buy one, but then I would be breaking a cardinal rule for this car....... no bolt-ons allowed :rofl:

Thanks man. She's doing well, pulling <50kpa vac, idling like a horny kitten, smooth as silk to 4500, haven't been past that mark yet and about 160 miles on her. Wednesday I'm heading out to Dave to discuss some tranny options for the winter so I'll return with ~460 miles. Then another 10 days of nice easy breakin, will probably get back to him with 1200 miles on her and a fresh set of platinum plugs....... Bumming me out becuase the original dyno day was supposed to be 8/8...... now it's 8/29 but what can ya do. Rather not rush it.

Clean, lookin' forward to the finished product. :icon_tup:

He looks like the one that would tear your throat out while you sleep, lol.

Nah, hadn't heard/read anything about it. Doubt I could swing it right now though, I need money...lots of it.

:rofl: He's actually the calmest of the three.

Well, the hoods painted, just need a little more time to finish the cut 'n buff.

Here's something VERY annoying though. Drove out to Dave's yesterday to discuss some winter projects. When I left I had ~38psi of fuel pressure @ idle. On the drive out I was getting CRAZY fluctuations... as in steady state cruise it would bounce from 30 - 39 psi. By the time I got to KDR, the Fpsi was ~35psi @ idle. By the I got home last night, it was <30psi @ idle. Looks like my MOTHERFUCKING FUEL FILTER IS GETTING CLOGGED AGAIN!!!!!! Not concerend about the engine as I jacked the tip-in and added 15% fuel across the board. L was always in the .8-mid.9's except in tip-in she would go lean for a split second but not buck at all, would hit 1.1-1.2. Still not boosting the engine so all should be fine. I'm calling Tim shortly to order 2 paper filters and talk to him about cleaning the stainless one. This is really pissing me off.

Damn man. WTF is the deal?

I wonder if I should get a fuel pressure sensor linked to my datalogit. I really dont know what my pressure is doing while cruising.

wow.... that is incredible. that takes a lot of skill man. did you just make that out of a factory aluminum hood? im so impressed i dont even know what to say:beatdeadhorse5:

I think a few filters are definitely what you'll need for now! That is craziness with the fuel clogging up....

You may be a good candidate for a fuel cell, lol... this whole thing has me nervous about redoing my fuel tank over the winter.. I want to get it blasted and coated, but man not if its going to cause all these issues!

I wonder how fast you will have to drive before you pull enough vac to pull the air through it.

I would, without a doubt. Right now I'm viewing on the dash, L, MAP, Fpsi, ETemp, Opsi, and Otemp.

Thanks man, I got some pics last when I got with her in the garage. I need to get a few money outdoors shots. That paint looks fucking SAWEEET in the sun. I'll post the ones I got tonight after I'm done cleaning that fucking filter.

I thought about the fuel cell thing but decided against it. Alot of work and I want to retain the factory fill. That's the hard part is the factory fill. Aside from that, and talking to Tim Marren and him pulling sand, yes sand, from a few of his filters from the ethanol breaking down some of the plastic cells, I'm all for it :rofl:

Not very, right before I blasted to Daves yesterday I stopped for fuel and one of those do-it-yourself car wash places was right next door so I stopped. It's like 20' from the highway. I got on and watched all these little beads of water hit that trailing edge and shoot up and way over the vent before they nose dived for the area where the washer nozzles once were. What I want to do is put a few telltales on the hood an go for a drive while videoing them. I also want to install my old steel hood, go for a drive, monitor intake temps, stop, pull the hood and hit say the UIM with my lazer temp do-hickey, go home, put the new hood on and repeat and compare the results.

Aight, I'm going to clean a fuel filter................. AGAIN

Wait - so the hood is painted now and we still dont have new pics? I dont care if it is almost midnight damnit!

Now just send your hood to Shine so they can make a mold and our cars can have even more in common :)

Those damn fuel filters. It's not even my car, and I'm getting frustrated :rofl:.

Oh yeah, shot her on Tuesday.... then worked until 6am on wed to get the vent area cut and buffed and the interior put back together. Then I drove out to Dave, hung out there for a few hours, BARELY made it home by 8, was asleep by 8:15 and woke up 8:30 this morning....... fun times:icon_tup:

Regardless, here are some pics....


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and one of my dog for ejay

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:rofl: There is an evil forum member somewhat local to me that owns a fiberglass shop that was very interested in the PanSpeed hood that Shine was offering but more interested in an Atihun hood that an aqcuaintance had. I've given some serious thought to going to him and having him use my hood to pull a mold for a "stud" fee if you will. Mainly becuase I would love one in glass or CF and it would be nice to be able to have another one without actually making another one, in case of an accident or something. Fucking Shine man, I spoke with him on 7/12 and he said 1.5-2.5 weeks. Here it is almost 6 weeks later and not even an update. They had a starting point, I didn't. i was able to make one from scratch and get it painted IN MY FREE TIME, in about half the time that they have spent saying it'll be done........ That's all I'm saying about that

:rofl: No doubt! Look at the shit that I pulled from it tonight. Fucker sat in some lacquer thinner for about 1/2 hour before I scrubbed it with an SS brush, blasted it with carb clean and 135psi of air. She flows good now though, right around 43.7psi. Tomorrow I'm going to pull the MAP line from the reg, drive around for a bit and then pull the datalogs. They shoujld be steady @ 43.5ish psi. Also, need to do some work on my stereo so when I do I'm going to pull the pump and look at my brandy new prefilter and see what kinda of shit is clogged up in there. It never ends, where is this shit coming from?:banghead:

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Have I mentioned I hate you and your awesome fab skills?? Just checking... thats one thing I am not good at - bodywork/fab work. Mainly because I have limited experience with it..

That hood turned out great... and I'm with you on the whole Shine thing. Thats my frustration right now. I was in on a few GB they put together but they take FOREVER.. I want to place a bulk order for the parts to save on shipping... but they havent given a realistic timeframe on when to expect parts, so I'll probably just start ordering them separate and hope after the 3rd or 4th order they'll cut me some "slack" for being a repeat buyer so much.. they were awesome when I bought the fenders, but ever since.. not so hot..

If you get that hood to an FG/CF guy, I'd take one if CF tomorrow... and I could pick it up :) We need more east coast fabricators...

Hood came out awesome :icon_tup:

Man you really do great body work you mofo!

WTF is going on with your fuel system? I am trying the think where the foriegn contaminent could come from..??...?

Thanks man:icon_tup:

[QUOTE=WE3RX7;94754]Have I mentioned I hate you and your awesome fab skills?? Just checking... thats one thing I am not good at - bodywork/fab work. Mainly because I have limited experience with it..[\quote]

Yeah, once or twice. I had no experience when I started either. Looking back at some of the things I built when I first started, they're disgraceful. But practive makes perfect and all that shit. My car was the first car that I ever painted too. Looking at some of the pieces that I painted first, well, they were painted more than once lets just leave it at that ;)

Ken seems like a good guy and he puts out a decent product. The one thing that I CANNOT stand is, "Oh yeah, it'll be done in two weeks," and then 6 or 7 later all we have is a rough glassed scoop. Something that should've taken 3 days. Whatever, I'll be surprised if it's ready to be shipped by the end of the year.

Thanks Sean.

I dunno where this shit is coming from. The only thing that I can think of is that I missed it when I cleaned this tank out. That shit is dirt and grit. This is my buddies tank that sat for a year or two, somewhat opened. It also had 2 or 3 holes drilled into the top of it. I dunno. She's on stands right now, I'm going to clean the main filter and the pre-filter again before tomorrows dyno. Should have some numbers, pics, and a vid or two up tomorrow night or sunday morning.. woot!

I've got the vid camera all charged up :)

I hope to practice painting and fab work more in the future, right now, my two car is too tiny, lol...

Don't keep me waiting ;)

What are you Running for a fuel pump Brian? Just thinking the impeller might be eating it self, fuel lines could be eating it?

He said 'should' EJ, damn... Give 'em a break, lololol.

Awesome, pray for me, I'm going outside to drop the tank, AGAIN:banghead:

See above, I'm trying my best.

Cosmo fuel pump. I found that the short little piece of fuel line in the tank connecting the pump to the fittings ate itself, along with the sock being clogged again as well as the main filter. I grabbed my buddies full S4 TII assembly to snag a sock and that short little piece of fuel line from his.


:banghead: BLAST! You jynxed me!!!!!

So I had a few little things to finish up today, hardwire the GPS, replace a trun signal bulb, little shit. I figure once I get those done I'll clean the filter and the sock again as the Fpsi was down about a pound. I dunno what the fuck I did but I put everything back together and there was like 10-15psi......... limped home and now I've got the tank drained and cleaning the tank, replacing the sock, the little piece of fuel line, I've cleaned that main filter a FEW times with just about everything I can think of as well as blasting fuel through it bakcwards. I think what I may even do is run like five gallons through it backwards, as in hook up the fuel filter in reverse, throw a bunch of gas in the tank and run it through the filter in reverse back into the fave gallon container and then run that through the lawnmower or something..... Every time before I head to Dave's something happens and I'm up almost all fucking night.

You can bet your sweet sweet BAW ass that I'll be pulling that filter once I get to Daves though before she gets strapped down.

Oh, filled the lines with brakeklean and blasted 135 psi of air through those as well and some ..... interesting shit came out. Repeated that until the entire can was spent........ so fucking pissed...... SOOOO FUCKING PISSED!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not an angry person but I think I may have to find a circus midget to rape and then stab in the eye later on tonight

No way, I'm the reason he gets stuff done so quick :rofl:

:rofl:

YAY!!!! for all nighters........... no wait.... that's not right.... BOOOOOOOOOOO

Off to KDR

Ugh, that little piece of hose took so long to put on too.

Looks like you may wanna take you tank out and take it to be cleaned, then run all new stainless AN hardlines to and from the tank.

Sounds like it's worse than my car.

The tank is pretty damn clean and has been since I stole it from my buddy. The fuel lines I already replaced with -6AN stainless and I'm not going to be doing that again. I pulled EVERYTHING from the filler to the filter. I found a metric shitton of corrosion on the filler tube and spent a long time with a few scotch brite pads and assorted screwdrivers and picks and cleaned it out the best I could.

The tanks filler was painted on the inside, just the short little section and it was flaking so I scotchbrited that down and then flushed the tank until I could get no more contamanients out of it.

The filter I think I'm going to replace with a pysically larger one. I spent hours cleaning that filter and I'm not convinced that it's clean, or ever will be for that matter. It's fucking epoxy for crying out loud that plugged a 10 micron filter. I think it's fucked forever.

Yeah it was. My dumb ass had to cut the one that was already on there too. I've since chanced that out to a -6 coupler, then a -6 male to 1/4"npt and a 1/4" npt to 5/16" barb. That other fitting was for -6 so it really was the wrong size. Now when the pump sits in place it's about 1/4" below the barb fitting. Can't thank ya enough for your help with that Scott, hopefully next year all these stupid little problems will be gone and we can actually enjoy ourselves.

So yesterday @ KDR was............... interesting. Bill came up which was really cool and his FE put down some really nice numbers for a bone stock 8, I'll let him fill you in on the details as I was only there for one pull. In my sleep deprived state I got lost on the backroads and ended up driving through cornfields, litterally.

I am now referring to my Most Ungrateful Mistriss as a Dyno Queen. Why you ask? Because every time we go to the dyno, we strap her down and she just sits there, all day, on her thrown doing nothing.
So we strap her down and the conversation with Dave goes like this,
What do ya wanna do Bri?
Obligitory compression test of course.
You really wanna know?
I think so..... if somethings off I'd like to know before we chunk the motor.
Good point, ok lets see what we get.

Front rotor was perfect - 115 on all three faces. Rear was like 120, 120, 120, 120, 88, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 88, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 88, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 125, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 88. Sticking apex seal :banghead: Not every revolution mind you, ever third or forth it would hang up just a touch and miss. The fear Dave had is the seal will get stuck out as it crosses the minor axis and shear off, chunking the entire rear. So we bullshat the rest of the day until it was time to leave, then Dave tells me,
Get this piece of shit outta my shop, I wanna go home and run my dozer :rofl: So Bill and I left and had lunch and dealt with all the country bumkin stares and comments as two rotaries pulled into a very locals type place that Dave sent us to for food.

So now the plan is to pull the engine, clamp the int plate to the front plate so nothing shifts in the front, pull the rear rotor and find what we think is a sticking corner seal thats holding the Apex seal up. I do remember when I was clearancing the rotors that one corner seal wouldn't pop up ever time. I moved it to a different corner and the seal was fine, this tells me the recess in the rotor itself is a little off. So I grabbed a different corner seal and tried that. Better, but not perfect. So I worked that recess until I was happy. Apparently not enough. Oh well.... Bill made a good point, it's not a rebuild so we can't call it engine 5, we're calling it 4.5 :rofl: Hopefully I'll get it done this week and I'll be back @ KDR next Sat :001_005:

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Don't lie... you forgot the camcorder, made like 400hp, then were like "oh shit! Ejay demanded video..... um..... excuse....excuse..... uhhhh STUCK CORNER SEAL!" :rofl:

FFFFUUUUUUU- :rofl:

Good luck, good thing you found it before it went bad.

:rofl: I wish! Bill was all set with the camcorder than he put it down becuase comp tests are boring..... never picked it back up

Thanks, yeah it is, still pisses me off though

rotors are a test of patience and determination.

There is no limit to my stubborness...... just ask any of my ex's :rofl:

i think i fall into the masochist category, myself.

:lol: I want to know what I did to anger the rotor so

A good friend of mine has a TII that we're ground up restoring and dropping an LSx into it. I stole your avatar a while ago when I started an acct on V8RX7forum :rofl:

I'm going to try to keep a daily log this week complete with hours of how long this actually takes
Tonight - engine is ready to pull - time = 2 hours

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All I can say is there needs to be an award for "the most patience with a rotary ever" and that Brian should get said award right now...

I got a call from Brian at 11pm Friday night getting the low down on the current situation and when we got off the phone about an hour later, I couldnt believe he was going through all this again with the fuel system! I received a text at 6:45am that he had just got the car together and was on his way down... thats NO sleep from 11pm all the way through.. this man is dedicated!!

I told Dave my history of bringing bad luck to the dyno's and to not let me dyno first, and this is what happens!

EJ - to his defense, I was sitting ready and willing with the video camera, lol. Once they pulled the comp test, I thought it best to put the camera down - no need for evidence of what may have been the destruction of a perfectly clean FC caught on tape :).

I'm more than impressed with Dave though at KDR, the man is awesome... I really cant wait to see you yank that year rotor out and find it be as simple as the corner seal!

Engine 4DOT5 is the one... I can feel it! It'd be sweet if you get that comp test sorted out on the Motec though too... at least that will save you some drive time...