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Audrey wrote:Some may have seen the post on FB of the abomination of what some hack called wiring. If not, here you go. There is no solder, no shrink wrap, no relay, just twist and pray with all 10ga wire. I fixed this using the proper size wire, solder connections and shrink wrap before putting it back together. This pales in comparison to the ground strap to the engine block that I just pulled out of its connection. Fixed that. And the fuel pump relay that wasn't even wired in. Fixed that. Oh, and my ignition box power wire that should be run to an ignition circuit 12v instead of a battery 12v source.
For the love of Pete. I'm dreading the complete re-wire next winter. However, I do believe it will be one of the most satisfactory accomplishments in my lifetime.
Further down you'll see I get frustrated with wiring rather easily, and needed a break. So I polished things....
Ajax wrote:We should make ramps for your car and transport it to the track in my 5-ton.
Ajax wrote:Audrey wrote:Some may have seen the post on FB of the abomination of what some hack called wiring. If not, here you go. There is no solder, no shrink wrap, no relay, just twist and pray with all 10ga wire. I fixed this using the proper size wire, solder connections and shrink wrap before putting it back together. This pales in comparison to the ground strap to the engine block that I just pulled out of its connection. Fixed that. And the fuel pump relay that wasn't even wired in. Fixed that. Oh, and my ignition box power wire that should be run to an ignition circuit 12v instead of a battery 12v source.
For the love of Pete. I'm dreading the complete re-wire next winter. However, I do believe it will be one of the most satisfactory accomplishments in my lifetime.
Further down you'll see I get frustrated with wiring rather easily, and needed a break. So I polished things....
Most people don't have a clue about electricity. It's "magic." What you've found in your car is common on cruising boats with lots of house loads. Yeah, it's satisfying (but tedious) to re-do shit like this.
We should make ramps for your car and transport it to the track in my 5-ton.
Ajax wrote:Whooooooooo!!!
Benno von Humpback wrote:Ajax wrote:Whooooooooo!!!
Those your truck graphics?
BeauV wrote:I know zip about dragsters. But, wouldn't it be better to have the nitrous oxide bottle in the trunk, just in case something bad happens. I've always considered a bottle like that a sort of bomb.
Jamie wrote:Nitrous can get exciting, but usually it's not the bottle that pops. A customer wanted to add nitrous to his Lotus Exige. It already had a supercharge with higher speed pulley added installed. Something happened to the regulator and the nitrous blew a big chunk of the head - which was rather thick alu - all over the shop. It was kind of like a shaped charge - people next to it didn't have a scratch as the fragments went in a focused spray backwards( (transverse mid-engine) and out the front door of the shop and peppered a deliver truck.
Ajax wrote:We should make ramps for your car and transport it to the track in my 5-ton.
Audrey wrote:Jamie wrote:Nitrous can get exciting, but usually it's not the bottle that pops. A customer wanted to add nitrous to his Lotus Exige. It already had a supercharge with higher speed pulley added installed. Something happened to the regulator and the nitrous blew a big chunk of the head - which was rather thick alu - all over the shop. It was kind of like a shaped charge - people next to it didn't have a scratch as the fragments went in a focused spray backwards( (transverse mid-engine) and out the front door of the shop and peppered a deliver truck.
Doubling up on power adders can get interesting very quickly. Because of the cooling effect of nitrous, it's works almost twice as well on a forced induction motor and should be tuned for such. For a lotus, start with a 25hp shot and tune for 50. Then work up. Detonation, whatever the cause, will destroy any engine.
Never underestimate how fast things are spinning inside a motor. They can quickly come out of the motor with speed of a bullet. I never stand near a car on the starting line or the dyno. There was recently a harmonic balancer that came off a car and broke a guys jaw and knocked out another bystander. Both went to the ER.
Jamie wrote:... my ears can't take it without protection.
LarryHoward wrote:He does recommend you approach a known race car shop who has done this work before and knows what is acceptable to tech inspectors. You may have to tie it back to the cage. Welding to the unibody may not be satisfactory.
Audrey wrote:No video, but did get a test hit on a back road that's waiting for more development. One of the benefits of living in data center headquarters. Took it up to about 70-75ish pulled the chute and although it took slightly longer to bloom, it did work. I'm not crazy about packing it with the giant spring pilot chute but even at those low speeds it definitely "assists" the deceleration.
I'm playing around w/ the carb a bit more, need to revise my fuel system and change out the springs in the dizzy but that should be completed by this weekend. Hoping to make it to cars n' coffee nearby and go for a test drive. My 'strip' is a new road of sufficient length, 4 lane divided highway. And the car seems to be pretty happy with the current fuel pressure and timing. 18 lbs in the street tires also helped get it moving. There is a legal "street racing" event at a track about 1.5 hours south of me I may visit this Sunday.