Its volume capacity does have me a little nervous about being able to return that much fuel to the cell without issues. I'm gonna build my own cell, probably a 3-4 gallon unit that will mount up front, and I have some ideas for some trickery on the inside to keep the return fuel from blowing the fuel off the outlet.

 

I was cleaning up some **** in the garage tonight and ran into this. This is what started it all........The original piston out of the truck with a staggering 14,000 miles on it.

 

Seems as youve always been a fan of buttload of timing

 

That's interesting, but not surprising. My buddies car drinks fuel, we burn through a 55 gallon drum every 3 weeks, on average.

410 sprints are a great class to watch, stupid light and stupid fast

Who is the motor builder you are using? The highest HP motor on the track I go to is ERD, they are a canadian engine builder

 

Yes I have, lol. However, that one wasn't my fault. Some guy named Jason that used to tune at a place called MTI in Houston did that. Blew up my brand new truck in less than 2 days. Told me it was safe.


Engine builder I'm referring to is now semi-retired. His name is Jeff, shop name is Custom Automotive Machining out of Houston Texas. He was ***** deep in the Outlaw Sprint Car **** back in the 80's, 90's.

 

Thats a shitty deal, what was all done to truck for it to melt like that

 

Like I said, truck was 100% bone stock with 14k miles on it.

I did a 4" cat-back exhaust that I made with a 4" magnaflow and part of a system for a diesel truck.

Fuel upgrades where a 255 in-tank with 44lb injectors (still returnless)

D1sc blower with their 3 core intercooler and a 4" pulley.

MTI charged me $725 for a dyno tune.

Thats it. Was planning on driving it like that for a while till I could figure out a different daily driver situation. Like I said, 2 days after they dyno tuned it, it blew up and I was out shopping for another new truck.

On MTI's dyno, it made 450 rwhp with the above mods. I have no idea of timing or air/fuel. I was there when they tuned it and I drove it home. Probably made about 10 dyno pulls and I got on hard about 10 times in those two days. I actually had the thing trailered back to them so they could put the scanner on it and see what the check engine light was. It showed miss fire on cylinder 7 (imagine that). Then proceeded to ask me what type of long block I wanted to build for it. I politely told them to **** off, did my own thing and learned to tune myself from that point forward. My next motor lasted 4 years with plenty of street driving/racing and eventually ran mid 10's at over 4500 lbs and never once had a valve cover off of it. I actually sold the motor to someone on here and last I heard it was in Indiana and still fine to this day.

 

I tried going back and searching but couldn't find it, how much weight savings was there with the coilovers over the stock coil springs?

 

You know, I never weighed the coil springs, but the way I did it by cutting that big bucket off and all that ****, it is a lot of weight.

 

I may have you do a "courtesy drop in" this week if you're willing. Let me know.