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1-25-2011
It'll be tricky for sure. I should have it in the next few days and be able to lay it up there to see what can be done.
We got her started today. I'm fortunate to have already tuned another car with similar cubes (380ci) and the same injectors with the Holley ( http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/forced...r-225s-15.html ), so I used that as a base tune. She fired right up and idled like a kitten.
Tomorrow we put the interior back together, tuck away some wires, top off fluids, and double check everything as the weather should be pretty shitty. Thursday is test drive time.
1-26-2011
Got all the wiring cleaned up tonight and put the interior back together. Going to take her out tomorrow morning to stretch her legs a little. It's pretty much done. Just have to make sure that the cooling system is burped really good and give her a batch.
No meth. E85 all the time now. It's kind of a pain in the *** to get a hold off and the **** goes fast. You would think that West Palm Beach, being one of the major Florida cities would have it somewhere, but we don't. Have to make a 1 hr round trip to get it and it's almost exactly the same distance away to the north as to the south. I think I get like 11 mpg on the corn fuel. LOL
I got some stuff coming from Race Parts Solutions today to make a cold air setup. It isn't on there yet. It'll be a 4" 45* coupler to a 45* aluminum pipe thru the frame notch and a 9" cone filter on the end inside the fender. No ram air or anything fancy. I think that I'll need to get an inner fender cover for that side. I had removed them both since the car doesn't get rained on since the A/C got taken out.
Factory cluster is dead. The Holley computer does not support it. I'm sure that I could get a couple of the gauges working but only because it's a 98 cluster but that would require me to double up on sensors.
You would have to replace the pgitail on the Holley harness and then find the appropriate wire for each. The oilpressure, yes, you can set conditions if it goes low. I was not able to get the stock fuel level to work wired directly to the sender in the tank. I ended up buying an Autometer with the same ohm range and using it instead back when I had the AEM.
Not sure about the speedo thing.
She finally got some street duty today. Drove her to Tint King to pickup the touchscreen that the Oops man dropped off today, then swung by Murray's to order some little push tab things that I broke while getting the LM1 gauge out of my pillar and then to see Ron (96bboy) at World of Sound. He got the nod to figure out how to mount this thing in the cluster as it will be tougher than I anticipated. Here was my best attempt, but you can see the problem. Apparent;y Ron has a plan. I'll be sure to show the after photo once it's in there.
This E85 burns way too fast. I burnt thru almost 4 gallons of it from Steve's by the time I left World of Sound (about 35 miles total). Had to put pump gas in. Surprisingly, the Holley computer just corrected to it. It bucked a little and got fat on decel but cruise was a good 13.5-14 AFR. I am going to make a pump gas tune for all of our cars and we'll just run the E85 as race gas for the track until it becomes available a little closer to home.
Also got a box from the good boys and girl at Race Part Solutions with the stuff that I needed to make my cold air setup. Went back out to Steve's and got it done.
From underneath
Going to try to get Dave to make the cap for the radiator tomorrow evening and then I'll be done under the hood. Then she'll get a good bath under the hood to match the bath she got after I left Steve's tonight.
