I guess its been a little while since I updated things here.
I've been playing around with the wide band and nitrous and have gotten to a point where I thought I needed to make some upgrades. The next thing was a set of little 26x8 Hoosier slicks Do6. They helped out quite a bit on the launch but I was still spinning from the top of first gear and a ways into second.
I tried to play with the ladder bars a little but I probably don't know enough about that to make a big difference.
The next upgrades that I just added but haven't tried yet are a set of 90/10 front shocks and a progressive controller for the nitrous.
I'm hoping to get it out the weekend of 10-12-18 and see what it will do.
It's December and pretty much I haven't done anything with the vega. Ive been busy gathering parts and working on the camaro,
A opportunity arose for me to get a forged short block and since I have a better idea of how I want to run this car I'm going to redo a few things.
The last time I had it out it didn't do so well, I went up a little on the nitrous and it actually slowed down quite a bit....to the point I had to let off about a second after I hit the button, even with the new slicks.
Here is my plan as of right now, new short block with forged flat top pistons, same old heads with maybe a valve job and a shave. I'll gap the rings for a 200 shot, get a nitrous cam, use a victor 4x4 intake and switch converters to a 3500.
I'm open to cam suggestions, I'm looking at old school flat hyd cams right now.
from the sound of that run you need a shift kit or a valvebody BAD--
unless it was spinning on the shifts, in which case disregard that.....
Yes, its spinning. If you are referring to the videos I had installed a Trans-go shift kit at the time. I've since added a progressive controller, 90/10 front shocks and a set of 26x8 Hoosier slicks. I also raised the front of the ladder bars up a little.
The only thing I've been able to use were the slicks, which in 3 runs I went from 15, to 12, and finally settled on 8 psi. The tires still spun though so I'm hoping the progressive controller and 90/10's will help.
About the only few things I've been doing is since I have the A/F ratio around 11.7:1 now is play with the timing. Right now it's probably more my driving than anything else trying to get it to hook a little better but the top end seems to be getting better.
Its been a while but I have a few updates. I was able to make a few more runs with it this year and decided a torque converter change was necessary. The old B&M 2500 was only stalling around 2000 so I put in a 4000 stall. Now it goes to about 32-3300. I made a few changes to the carb along with playing with the fuel pressure on the nitrous kit thanks to the wide band o2. Basically all I do now before a run is turn the dial on the progressive system and see what it does.
They had a little race on a private air strip in Jamestown, ND earlier this year. I ended up drawing the number 1 chip so I was the first run, I tried to play it safe since I had no idea what to do other that how it does on the road by my house.
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