Engine build

[fifity]

Its hard for me to imagine, going from that state to driving in the same day...I work so sloooowww..

Can't wait to see it up and running!

[907DAVE]

Well got it all put back together and got about 20 miles on it. I got a lot of work to do with it, but after that's all done I will go out and do some testing.

Here is a quick video of a 1/2 throttle roll on in my Daily program, as you can see boost is backed down to 50 psi until I can get some testing stuff on it.

[cleatus12r]

I have NEVER seen a pyrometer move that fast. PHEW. Looks like a boost gauge.

[907DAVE]

You should see it in a race program, it pegs almost instantly..........

[F-127]

That video is NASTY!

[907DAVE]

Well truck died tonight.







Interesting find though...................a open in the IPR harness, with dual IPR's is enough to keep the HPO reservoir from building enough pressure to trip the oil pressure indicator. And with both IPR's wide open it will still build around 300 psi.

Gonna catch a ride home to pick up some new connectors and get it going tonight.........hopefully.

[cleatus12r]

Hope for the best. Good luck.

[907DAVE]

Success!


Two new IPR connectors and all is well again.

Guess they were starting to loose a little tension from being taken apart about a thousand times.

[907DAVE]

I took the truck for it's first voyage out of town today. The trip totaled around 140 miles with 100 of it being in the mountains. I was able to top off the tank right before we got into the mountains and again on the way back. I averaged 18.2 mpg in the hills, and keep in mind this was either climbing a hill or going down one. There was NO flat land at all for this part of the trip, and these are not your average hills. Truck preformed well, there is still more fuel that needs to pulled out and a few shifting adjustments that need to be made but all and all I was happy. I was concerned that the fuel mileage was going to suffer with such large nozzles, but turns out they get similar mileage as the stockers. I cant wait to get this thing out on the open road and see what kind of MPG's it can do.

[muns53]

That beast sounds SO sweet in the video. I was trying to figure out which guage was the boost guage - those are some nasty EGTs!! It's been fun following this thread and your mods - congrats on dialing it in!!