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- Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1979 Malibu
- Replies: 126
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Re: 1979 Malibu
Well, I am a glutton for punishment, so I'm giving it another shot! Maliboost is officially entered for Hot Rod Drag Week 2024, Sep 15-20. I'm entered in the Street Race Small Block Power Adder class. And this is the week after the Champcar Mid-Ohio race with the 944! September is gonna be busy! -Dave
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
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Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
The bad news is I'm not seeing anything on my gas gauge. The other bad news is that I had trouble with the gas pump at Sunoco clicking off with anything but the absolute slowest pace. what the heck?? Good news -- I drove the car to Chardon over lunch and put 17 gallons without any issue and the gas...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:44 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
This was one of the the wires that got replaced after the Mid-Ohio fire. It's relatively new-ish. I should have enough stuff in inventory to make a proper replacement. Right now it's a too-long blue wire amongst a set of red wires. I'm looking forward to getting some miles on this thing in the sprin...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
Found #5 plug wire arcing to the header through a seemingly intact boot. Grabbed a spare wire and its running much better again, woohoo!!
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
Worked on the Corvette again today and made some progress. Speece came over to help and we knocked out a few things. *) internal plenum bolts replaced with low-profile button head bolts with a dab of blue loctite. *) removed exhaust, found converter was already gutted, which saved a bunch of work. I...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
Test drive complete, but the problem remains. I eyeballed the fuel filter when it was up in the air last night and it looked relatively shiny/new-ish, but found no reference to it in this thread, so I guess I've never changed it. I'll order a new fuel filter. I also ordered a fuel pressure test kit....
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1979 Malibu
- Replies: 126
- Views: 72086
Re: 1979 Malibu
I readjusted the bracket for the max clearance I could get on the crank sensor. I forget the measurement, I did that several weeks ago. A dedicated USB cable has been put in the car. I got the trans-cooler fan all wired up. I got the boost controller all plumbed in and verified the solenoid works. I...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
Remains to be seen. I still think there was some shit in there. But now, there isn't!
I'm excited to take it for a test drive this week.
I'm excited to take it for a test drive this week.
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
Lots of progress today. It even fired it up! I ended up tapping the runners and drilling the plenum and it turned out being way easier than I thought. The holes didnt need to be drilled out any bigger. I used a 5/16-24 tap. Dave Speece came over and gave me a little trick for getting the tap started...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 8:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: iAccel phone app
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2394
Re: iAccel phone app
I havent heard of this either, but sounds interesting.
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:11 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
Ehh, for me, probably nothing. Hopefully I don't need another set! But they'd be in their system if someone needed them.
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:27 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
I picked up my injectors and got started on the re-assembly process over the weekend. I got all the old gasket surfaces scraped and otherwise ready. The o-rings in the fuel rail feed & return lines look due for replacement, gotta dig up replacements. I cut the 1/4-28 screws into 4 studs and thre...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:43 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
Injector guy texted me this morning and said mine were ready. I asked if they were bad, and he said "no, not really." Hmm.. really makes me scratch my head why the car was running so poorly before I took it apart for this job. At least these will no longer be a question mark. Pretty sure I...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
Re: 1990 Corvette Z51
I picked up a gasket set for the SuperRam at Summit last weekend. I also picked up some long 1/4-28 screws that I can cut into studs. Of the 16 bolts, only 4 are really tough. Some people make studs for those 4, which is supposed to help out a little bit. I got the injectors dropped off to Cleveland...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 1:20 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: 1990 Corvette Z51
- Replies: 90
- Views: 100960
The SuperRam is a stupid intake
The injectors are finally out, but wow, what an effort to do so. This is such a trivially easy job on almost any other Chevy EFI intake I've played with -- my StealthRam, a 4-bbl single-plane EFI, Ramjet. But on the SuperRam, it is a several hour job. Actually, of those 16 bolts from the bottom, onl...