1979 Fairmont Drag radial/x275 project - "The Cream Dream V2.0" by tirefryin_s10 & bmxarmy

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Well after a CRAZY thrash to get the car done to be at Power to the pavement the car gods kept me from going....

We (myself,Leanne,Nolan,Jordan) and a bit of help from a few others literally worked on the car for 48 hours STRAIGHT.... a few people napped for about an hour or two but I kept going with no sleep trying to make it happen.


Keep in mind the car had no engine in it the sunday before and we still had to :


Build a complete turbo kit
Finish cold side piping
wire and plumb boost controller
Install windsheild
Plumb entire fuel system
Plumb brake system
Plumb tranny lines
Plumb turbo feed and return lines
Plumb blow off valves and wastegates
Install driveshaft
Install shifter and cable
Install seats and seatbelts

I am sure there was a bunch more I forgot to list but those are the big things......Saturday at 3am we got the car pretty well done and put it on the dyno to try and get a half ass tune put in before trying to make it to the hat.
First half ass pull on the dyno and the tires grew enough to hit the wheel well and shred the sidewall on a brand new MT 315 radial.

Anyone that says that radials dont grow at all is full of shit at 165 mph they grow!

At that point I could barely keep my eyes open and decided it was just not meant to be and threw in the towel.

The good news is the car runs stops and drives... there is a fair bit of finishing that needs to be done before I would consider it good enough to show off but overall its looking BAD ASS!

6-14-2012

Thanks for the kind words guys.... as for the valve covers/heads,yes the heads are taller then stock and honestly have not tried to get them off with everything fully assembled yet... I did cut down the tubes the bolts run through so we should be able to slide them up towards the intake then off.

We were having an issue with the turbos pulling the dirty exhaust air back up into the inlets causing crazy air fuel ratios so no real power pulls got made.... soon though!

6-19-2012

Drilled the new wheels for nutserts and they are now at IMPACT coatings getting a nice black powdercoat job and then we will be back in buisness!!

Gonna work on getting a bunch of the little details taken care of this week and with any luck some testing this weekend!

6-24-2012

Just an update for some of the followers out there..... We have been thrashing on this car like mad to get it out to the track.... or even to drive it around the block LOL but basically I had a hell of a time tracking down a water issue that seemed like water was getting into the engine somehow (IE: Heads leaking,bad head gasket etc etc) what I eventually found was my intercooler was leaking internally.... this was all fine at an idle or light load but as soon as it got into boost it carried the water into the intake and that was that. Currently the intercooler is out of the car and we are going to see if we can weld it up or find the leak and fix it, if not I guess it will be a new intercooler.

Once again just wanted to say a few more BIG thank you's to a lot of people who have stuck by me to try and see my idea of my "Dream Street/strip terror" come to life:

Leanne with her never ending support and effort!
My family for always supporting/helping me.
All of my Horsepower Solutions/WCR crew for being there for thrash nights etc
Nolan - CCC - No explination needed HOURS upon HOURS of amazing fab work and wrench time!
"Flyin"Ryan Bell - They might out spend us but the WONT out work us!!
Jim Bell of Dix Performance/JB's Power Center
Rick Sparks @ Comp Cams for getting me the bumpstick/lifters I need.
Tom @ Alamo Turbo for getting the boost train rolling!
Rob @ Modular Turbo - Always hooks me up with all the turbo/boost related parts I need.
Ken @ Enviro Airtech
Stefan @ Performance Fuel injection
Bruce @ Impact Coatings - Keeps me lookin good!

I am sure like always there is more I am missing but I just need to keep saying thank you to these people because without them the car would be nothing at all!


Man I can NOT wait to put the hammer down on this thing!

7-3-2012

Here is another update for the followers


Intercooler I bought used was leaking water into the charge side,we tried to fix it but it continued to leak. The guy I bought it off did the right thing and stood behind the product and gave me back my money. I made a few phone calls and luckily Robert @ Chiseled performance was kind enough to come in on his day off and get me a cooler built so I expect that today or tomorrow!

Also had Bob @ AEI CNC build me this killer bracket/mini mandrel for the belt drive fuel pump:




So I hope to have that today as well and get that on the car asap.

We have an annual big car show here for canada day and I didnt wanna miss it so I had nolan glue together a little "U" pipe to go where the intercoolerwas so I could cruise the car around a bit, first cruise..... POURED rain lol





Luckily for us it dried up into a nice sunny day and we got a little more cruising in before parking the cars and really celebrating our homelands birthday!





Me and my lady out for the first cruise






I will have some more pics and hopefully some dyno numbers etc soon!

Gonna need to put a bigger rad in the car for sure!!

7-11-2012

Long awaited update!

The car has continued to cause grief and not cooperate but we have pushed through it and things are looking up finally! This last week Neil brought the car back over to my house to install the new intercooler, and radiator.....Existing rad just wasnt going holding up to all the street driving Neil has planned! haha
While the car was at my house I went over the whole thing again with the power polisher, In certain light you could still see some wet sanding marks. After that was done I pin striped the color split. I didnt take any pics of the new rad we worked late and Neil took the car next morning....Im sure he will have some pics of that.

Half the hood done.



















We are all heading down to a car event this weekend in Lethbridge, AB Neil is taking the creamer and I hope to take my ol Rambler, Should be a good time and Im sure there will be some good updates from that. The car is also going back on the dyno today to hopefully.....finally....(fingers crossed) make some good numbers.

Nolan

7-17-2012

We had a killer weekend as always at street machine weekend in lethbridge. My boost leash crapped the bed on me for some unknown reason but randy will get it fixed up for sure but that kept power down to around 680 rwhp for the weekend.

Here is a few pics from the weekend we will post some more when I get them loaded up:


The crew out for dinner

From left to right:

My creamer
Matt- Twin billet 67 6.0 chevelle
Nolan - Rb25 1961 Rambler
James- 91mm 408 LS S10
Zig - 69 Firebird convertible 400
Fury Dave -66 Fury wagon 413




Rolling in for the 100 ft shootout:





Cars first launch ever:





Underhood shot, still not finished but working none the less:

And the sweet surfboard we won for "Best Engineered"

8-21-2012

Sorry for not giving more updates to those following the build,I have been fighting all kinds of transmission problems with my input shaft/pump but have finally got the car out and started getting it sorted out.

So far its been 8.60@162 with a 1.38 60ft and 5.5@128 in the 1/8th
now its time to turn it up and get the thing to do some work in the front half of the track.

I am always seeing cherries in the mirror lol:

9-4-2012

As Ryan said, I do appreciate all of the intrest from everyone and appologze for not keeping everyone up to date but basicaly I have been chasing some tuning/running issues for a while now.

Here is some pics of the car and another video of the bumper dragging pass, I had to peddle it to get it to drop the nose then I stabbed it again and it came down nice and soft.





Rubber on the bumper :

My response to the wheelie:





I am hoping to get these issues sorted out sooner then later here and actually make some decent passes as we are quickly running out of season here.