My new drag toy. 93 lx coupe carbed LS1/th400. (pics) by JRracing

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Well the motor guy called me yesterday and reported that I need two rods, the crank needs turned, ball hone the block, larger bearings, new rings, new timing set, new oil pump and the normal over haul supplies for the motor.

He said it looks like the bottom of the bell came off the oil pick up tube and it starved it for oil. It is a stock pick up tube. I dunno how it came off other than tons of vibration from the 700 or so passes on that motor.

I am going over there to pick up the crank and take it to a guy to turn it down. I will try to get pics while I'm there.

This gonna cost more than I thought as it normally does.... But it is either that or throw together a 100K+ miles stock short block together that I have and stuff it in there that I have. This would cost a little bit also. It would need a diff cam and some other things.

9-21-2012

pics of damage.

9-22-2012

I got the mickey 325/50/15's mounted yesterday. I dunno if I will like these as much as the Hoosiers.
The Hoosiers seem to have a softer side wall, a large deep trench of rubber where the tire bead meets the rim, and a squared profile on the surface. It may be cause they are bald as **** lol.

The Mickey's seem to have a stiffer side wall, a normal bead like any ol radial has, and a rounded profile. Maybe they will be squared one they wear down. I dunno. But the old 275 Mickey's I had on 8" wheels worked good once they got some wear on them.
I hope I don't have to wait for them to come in to there "zone". My first race back together may be the LSX shootout. If this is the case I will be doing "John Force burn outs" at the line lol.
I hope these tires do not spin on the rim much. I will not put screws in these rims. I hate that. I would rather find bead locks.

I will post pics of the Mickey's on the car soon.

9-26-2012

My motor is done. Yeah buddy..
The crank was bent .007", they had to shave .020" off the rod journal and .010" off the mains. **** is custom now lol.
It starved for oil when the pick up tube lost the bell on the bottom of it due to a strap breaking on the tube holding it to the motor. It is all welded up now. It will not happen again.

It will be a mad dash to get it back in and ready for some test hits after an extremely short break in..
I have a vac pump to get mounted and plumbed. Then a few other odds and ins and it will be ready for the shootout...

10-4-2012

Probably a good idea at this point. But I'm broke for now. This put a dent in my sock lol. There is a lot more I want to do but money is the big factor right now.

Future plans are a motor plate/mid plate, new Strange front brakes and new front struts and get the laundry put on the back..

I will keep this 383 nitrous motor in it for a while. A long while unless it blows up.
If it does as good as the last rip (3.5 years) then I'm good. It is a deadly consistent 10.0 index car. And I plan on kicking some azz in Rumble this year.

I worked on the motor a bit tonight. I got a guy machining a adapter plate for the drive mandrel I got from Moroso that does not fit my balancer. I figured out how to mount the vac pump but I need a few fittings and the stuff back from my buddy to get it all together.
It should be running by this weekend. I hope to get a few street miles on it and try to get one test session if the weather gods bless us with good weather.

10-17-2012

Well now that the shootout is over I have time to post a few things. It was a mad dash to finish the car up for the race but we got it all done and made it. Not with out a few problems of course.
The Moroso vac pump was a bitch to get mounted and hooked up. It was one thing after another. pos. It works now and pulls about 13" at wot.

We left the baby jet's in the nitrous plate since the motor was new I did not want to get carried away. And I knew it would go 9.0's easy with this 67n jet. The car was right were it left off before the spun bearing.
It cut a new pb 60' with a 1.260 on the first true street pass. It went 9.089, 9.064 and a 9.146 on the third run. And that was good enough for third in the 9.0 index lol.
Then in Rumble I won the first round and went out in the second getting beat at the light. It was late and I was ready for bed. I was almost happy to be done at that point in the morning..

I'm not totally sure what winter mods I will do but I want to put strange front brakes on and get new front struts. My strange front shocks are in need of replacement. I might do a motor plate also.

Next year it will be in the 8's for sure. I might even step up to real street for 2013. But they will be in the 8.20-8.40's next year lol.

5-2-2013

Well This Saturdays race got canceled due to a div 3 race that got rained out the week before. They need the track this weekend.
I got the chassis cert today. And cleaned the car up this evening and put a few miles on it. It felt good to go. I got a month left of my belts so I took the pass belt out and mailed it in to Racers Choice Inc to get recert.

I would like to get this parachute mount put on and buy all the **** needed for that. I plan to push the car to the 8.50 et cert that it has at this years LS Fest and shootout.

The future mods include front Strange brakes and put my motor on a plate. Maybe next winter lol.

My motor is fresh and ready for some "live action"!

7-9-2013

Dave here is a few video's. The night video was testing last year after putting motor together. The track was perfect and great October air.
The day video is from last Friday at Muncie dragway. The track was very slick and it would not cut a 60' for nothing. I was turning the nitrous on 2-4 sec off the line cause it was slick.

If you can't tell, my shifter noid is not pulling third gear. It looks like it's low on voltage and can not pull it back.
I think I need to take the power from the relay and hook it to straight to the battery.

7-26-2013

Here is a cool picture from the other day testing at IRP.

8-22-2013

I picked these wheels up from a local buddy in town. The bs is .75" out further then my normal wheels. They fit fine with this little 26x8.5" outlaw slick. But when I put a 28x10.5 or larger tire it might hit the quarter panel. And I plan on putting a larger tire on it if I keep these wheels.

Here is how it looks now. These are 15x10 with 3.75" bs. My normal wheels are 15x10 with 4.5" bs. You guys think it will work?

Next to a 275 pro on my 4.5" bs wheel.

I painted the rusty rotors and axles.

9-10-2013

So some of you know I crash at the LS Fest. For the ones who don't know, I think my car over heated and pushed water out of the over flow or water pump wheep hole and the car went hard right spinning out of control at around the 1000' at about 135 mph..
Here is the end result.

GoPro in car view.

I put it on a frame rack tonight and started getting things back in shape. Lucky for me this is what I do for a living.

The right frame rail is mashed back a few inches on the right side. It will get cut off after pulling a little.