V3.2 build (F2 procharger , 427, etc. ) by 1dirtyz

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well we put the thing on the dyno ( finally ) and made two pulls before the belt lost its teeth
first time the car only made 10 psi , and remained flat at 10 psi from 3500 to 6500 rpm. after scratching our heads we found out that i forgot to remove the little cone filter i had on the blower and that the spring we put in the BOV might be too soft.
another thing we noticed is the idler would get pushed up after the run.

on the second run the belt shred its teeth which tells me the braces are working fine sice the belt did not rip . i'm thinking the idler moved up too much ( it actually did ) and caused to much slack on the belt . the cure for that would be to use the "jack " bolt to lock the tensioner in place (think of the original ATI setup ) that way when the the belt tries to "expand" it can't push the tensioner alog the slot.

other than that it made 730 @ 10 psi on a mustang dyno

5/18/2009

finally got around to fix and dyno the car

i put a holdown or jack screw ( or bolt ) on the tensioner to help keep it in place, and it seems to have done its job

did two dyno runs but the dyno was not reading rpm so we just did pulls under load to see if every thing is kosher ; and boy did it perform
we soon foundout another problem , the boost guage only went up to 20 psi
hp uners log showed about 27 psi at around 6500 rpm

so , now i have to fix a few odds and ends, like fixing the carpet and making a new tensioner idler with better walls ( slanted ) to help prevent the belt from fraying.

i also have to put the front of the car back together so it looks like a car again  , and try to get some more dyno pulls in with Q16 before our race in two weeks .

6/1/2009

we had a race coming up last weekend ( weekends over here are thursday and friday), the car was ready to be put on the trailer tuesday morning so we can be at tech inspection on tuesday evening , but wouldn't you know it , the devil (known as azooooz on this board ) talked me into swapping his regular rotation F2, gear drive and dual 16v batteries to my car from his mustang that was not ready for this round.

so the mad rush tuesday evening started and by wed. morning the car was done !
i couldn't beleive it either , the gear drive fits with the radiator i had ( bee cool ) which was only moved forward a bit .
( the shitty part is that i got a ton of pics but it seems my camera got stolen at the track )

anyhow , we head to the track and make a few passes ( not one of them was a clean pass ) , i had no idea what it would do cause i never tried out the new converter or blower , tires were old, suspension setup was a bit different and the track was so so

i never managed to stall it up on the foot brake , but flashing it netted something like 5500 rpm - but soon lost traction around the 60 ft mark. we were having issues with data logging so no data in the begining , but the inboard camera showed 27 psi on the guage

one of the passes i turned on the meth injection and the car bogged bad under wot, so i decided to ditch that idea , and finally on the last pass on friday the car launched ok , pulled HARD in 1st ,,,,, and then fell on its face after shifting into second ...... intercooler hose blew off ,,,, but i got third place over all

here are some pics i snapped with my phone (excuse the crappy quality ):





any how , the gear drive and other stuff will be returned back to the owner
and i'll be waiting for my new bracket to show up

i also have to add this :
GEAR DRIVES ROCK!!!!!

10/14/2009

well since i really liked how well the whole gear drive setup worked, i bit the bullet and ordered one.
i managed to find a straight trade for my reverse rotation F2 with a regular rotation F2 , so it just made sense to go that route

gear drive should be shipping anytime now.

as for the car , didn't do much the last 7 months but i did manage to take apart the tranny , only to find that i burned 3rd gear ( trans oil pressure issue ).

and i just finished wacking the lower core support :



only to replace it with this sexy peice of fabricated awsomeness





all i have to do now is weld a couple of tabs on to it so i can mount the stock radiator or a smaller on if i decide to go that route.


up on the list is draining the gas tank ( i know i should of done it ages ago), installt he gear drive , fab up some sort of alternator bracket , weld bigger beads on the ends of my tubing, and weld the two new ATI Race BOV's

10/22/2009

well i was wrong,,,, the gear drive showed up wednesday!

i'm going to get my but into gear and work on installing this thing today as well as other assorted odds and ends

and now on to the pics :

10/31/2009

more progress

i got the assembly all mounted up






and now i'm toying around with how to mount the alternator , i'd like to run it off the balancer of possible , but that would man running it low in the passenger side and real close to the frame.
an alternative is to run it off the output of the gear drive , but i'm worried it might not get enough rpms ( since i'm limited to 18 teeth max on the output side; wich means i have to run something much smaller than that on the alt. ) ,
any how , here are more pics






i just ordered a new radiator ( much smaller than stock) that i'll be running to the side of the gear drive, should be here soon .

i also finished up the charge pipe from the blower to the intercooler. all that is left is welding the BOV's on the inlet tube to the blower ( i have one , still waiting for the second one ) and i should be done with the piping.

11/5/2009

guess what the UPS santa dropped off





this was supposed to go on the camaro back before i got the gear drive , sooooo, this will find it's way to the mustang after i finish the block adapter and crank support

think its beefy enough