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10-09-2022, 07:37 PM | #44 |
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Here's one of the pistons with the kissed valve. And yes you should run a catch can.
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10-11-2022, 05:44 AM | #45 |
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Just waiting on the tuning shop now to get finished up. The anticipation is driving me nuts!
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11-07-2022, 05:58 PM | #46 |
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Ok guys it's been a wild ride. Let me say this first, I am in no way blaming anyone for the results I'm about to post it's just what it is. So after a lot of tuning and I mean a lot, my set up only made 455 whp @ 6300 and 429 wtq @ 5100 with the Cold Air Inductions lid cover removed. Now that may seem pretty low as compared to others with the SS3 VVT cam and really low once you figure that I had made 438 whp originally with the old grind SS1 VVT. So I paid the tuner again to pull the cam back out to verify that it was indeed a SS3 VVT and it was of course. But I did build the engine for boost and now it's ready for it. One of the things that may have kept it from making a little more power was the compression ratio because I was told by the machinist to use a ls9 gasket which is .054 thick which then I found out he had figured the 10.94:1 ratio with .040 gaskets. Big goof on him for that so my end compression ratio ended up being 10.57:1. Now I can always change those out to boost the compression if I decide too in the future which I probably will. Another problem we encountered was the pushrod length. We started out with a 7.375 because I thought after .035 removed from the heads that's about as much lifter preload as I wanted but something was off because the vvt wasn't working. After measuring with a pumped up lifter with no preload it came out to being 7.3. So we went ahead with the maximum amount of preload at .125 and put the 7.425 back in and magically the vvt started working but they also said that the cam phaser had fallen apart when they removed it so whatever. I think they just changed it because the vvt wasn't working. What I think was really going on was the lifters were using so much oil pressure by having too much preload and with my mishimoto oil cooler that there just wasn't enough oil pressure to activate the vvt. I was reading up on lifter preload and some say that by adding a lot of preload the lifter acts like a slow leakdown lifter and doesn't have to use as much oil. But that's just my take on it. Also after a few dyno runs without the vvt not performing as expected they then wanted to pull out my short runners from the Fast intake and out put the long runners back in which we did and I think it would have moved the peak power to a higher rpm with the short runners being that wasn't the problem with the vvt not working. So I have a few things to work on in the future but these are my results with my combination of parts that I've installed. And one more thing I would like to say is the amount of support that I received from Andrew Cammer at GPI was phenomenal and I sincerely thank him for his help through all of this.
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11-08-2022, 06:39 AM | #47 | |
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There are a lot of factors to consider on this one. Even after pouring over them all, I'm a little surprised that it doesn't make more power. The rebuild looked to be solid and done with care, and I've spent time talking with your tuner, who is experienced with plenty of demonstrated excellent results on this platform and even with this camshaft. Nobody knows where that last 15whp is. Overall, the gain is really not far off what I'd expect, based on what the last setup put down. The motor is fresh, and running great, produces a big wide VVT power curve, and despite whatever we all hoped the dyno would say, this should run very well on the street and the track. I know, first hand, all too well what it's like to chase power and ET numbers - but at the end of the day, we're chasing smiles per gallon. I think this setup is gonna deliver big on those!
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11-08-2022, 07:10 AM | #48 |
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Thanks again Andrew for all your help. I just need look to the future with a procharger.
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11-08-2022, 07:44 AM | #49 |
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It's what we do! Happy to help.
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11-08-2022, 08:06 PM | #50 |
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As far as how it runs now, it's insanely fast. For you guys that have never had a high stall torque converter let me say this. Knowing what I know now, if you want to go fast I would get a torque converter before a cam swap! The 3600 that I have in there now really woke the car up. It now goes like what I can only desribe as a rocket because it just goes now. But beware your gas mileage will suffer partly because of the increased rpm range but mainly because you can't keep your foot out of it cause it's so darn fun.
With the factory oil cooler delete and the addition of the mishimoto oil cooler, my engine coolant seems to run about 10 degrees cooler or it could be the 174* lingenfelter t-stat that I put in but I kinda dought it because I ran the factory one before the engine build which was a 187* and it would have never let the fans keep up with cooling at 196* but now it does. And I think that is due to not using the coolant running through the factory oil cooler. The Tru Cool 40k tranny cooler does great at keeping the tranny cool and never getting hotter than 160*.
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11-09-2022, 04:50 AM | #51 | |
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You have a great build there and I wouldn't fret where you are at right now especially since your planning to boost it.
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11-10-2022, 09:31 PM | #52 |
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Here's the proof in the pudding or however they say it
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11-12-2022, 10:52 PM | #53 |
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11-13-2022, 05:48 AM | #55 |
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Thank you Vic.
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