You should gain a couple psi from that race valve I know I did.

 

Nice! I figured I would gain a little, I know this stock valve like to leak boost.

That means I really need to hurry up and mount my gauges and new wideband and get to tuning. Been slacking on my gauge setup. But this is where it will all go once done. Need to get the rings for the gauges and start fiberglassing

 

Got the big red in. Big thanks to Bigblock90 for the great deal and quick shipping.

Will get it installed in the next couple days. Need to get the truck ready for the track





Oh and I didn't realize how big this thing was. Looked smaller in the pictures.

This is it next to my son who weighs 10 pounds. Damn near the size of his head.

 

Alright. Made some progress today.


Got the new bypass tube fabbed up (found a guy locally that does awesome work.. will be seeing him again for other stuff).

 

Also started on the gauge cluster. Got all the gauges hooked up just haven't started the fiberglass and all that yet. It's just nice to have the gauges for reference now and also new wideband installed so I can start tuning some more again.







Put LED's in the gauges. Top one is LED bottom is regular.


Both LED's

 

Dude that is exactly what I was going to do no lie lol

 

LOL. I am imagining it looking pretty good when all said and done. Hope I don't mess it up.

 

Still fighting a squeak from the engine compartment. So far have replaced the alternator (it had a very obvious squeak when turning the pulley by hand), replaced the idler pulley and just replaced the tensioner pulley. It got a little better but still has a small chirp that is driving me nuts. Figured next up let's try a new belt.

I bought a new belt from Autozone on a whim and was assured I was given the right size and that it was a quality belt. Decided to try and put that on and of course it doesn't fit. It's about 1/4" to short and after fighting it for over an hour was fed up. I put the original Procharger belt back on.

Ended up chatting with Roger in his shop and he ordered me a Gates belt (should have done this from the get go). Ordered it Friday evening with the intention of it getting in this morning. Well Carquest apparently is going through some changes recently and they dropped the ball and it ended up being delivered just before closing. Roger hand delivered it to my house after he got off work so I could get to working on the truck (big thanks and props to him. Not many shops would do that.)

Got the belt on and was going to adjust the tensioner to get the belt over the pulley and just my luck the bolt that holds the pulley on stripped. So now it's sitting in my driveway and I will get a new tennsioner tomorrow morning from Rogers shop. Kinda bummed, was really looking forward to seeing if the belt fixed the squeak.

 

It's the spring in Alaska squeak

 

lil man is gettin big man! Builds looking good, you're gonna love the big red btw!