Page 210 = The New Project!! -The Speedfoos' 383 Stroker thread!!

[ryox82]

Originally Posted by speedfoos Bah I officially suck at MIG welding. Even on mild steel. I'll finish the exhaust tomorrow. There's your update. Damn man....don't give up!!!

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[Mr_Plenty]

keep them coming

[speedfoos]

Oh I haven't given up. Just for tonight.

I spent about 3 hours in the garage cutting, grinding and welding. When I blow my nose it looks like I've been snorting lines of road tar. I have two more full tube welds to make tomorrow and a couple holes to plug from tonight and the exhaust will be done. I'm just running out of daylight now that's it's getting closer to winter.

[FoSho]

Mwuahahha, I'm back. Lost my internet for a couple days! I know ya'll missed me!

Well I've done the impossible. I have found an intake for the dezod kit without battery relocation!! Oriellys $20 custom build your own intake kit
Check the picture!


So to give ya an update....My pushing coolant problem is getting much worse...head gasket here I come, you're not alone foos!

I did however change my plugs & mess with the gap. It has completely taken away my misfire codes & rough idle on cold starts.

Now my problem is slow boost response or turbo spool.
The boost still builds to 7 psi but takes alot longer to reach 7 psi. Power is noticably different. Car ran fine after new plugs & intake. I noticed while driving in 2nd I usually build 1-2 psi @ 2200 rpm. Now I don't see shit unit about 3500 rpm. I check all my charge pipe connections, vac lines, I dunno whats going on. The downpipe is leaking slighty do to bolts backing out. That did bring down my turbo spool but not this bad. It is noticable different! The car does not drivel like a misfire is present. I figure if I have a boost leak it's gonna leak all pressure.
The odd thing is sometimes you get on it and boost is there and you're going. Then most of time it's like I don't even have a turbo. You can hear the turbo belting away but you're not really moving fast, by that time boost just kicked in and you're outta rpm. Anyone got any ideas? I hope turbo is ok!!!! All my oil lines are good.
I'm stupidfied once again

Aren't turbos fun!

[speedfoos]

Sounds like a boost leak somewhere in the IC piping. Ditch those worm clamps and get some proper t-bolt clamps, and then hairspray the ends of your charge pipes when you put the couplers back on. Also check to make you're not leaking where you plumbed your IAT sensor into the pipe.


Won the auction for my electric PS pump!!! It's from a Peugot 307. She needs a little lovin' (rezzy is cracked) but I got for next to nothing. The equivalent of $50 shipped. That should be here Wednesday or Thursday.




Oooops! Gonna be late for work!!

[Alpha 5]

Nice find, I am really interested in this. I can't wait to see how it pans out....

[FoSho]

Thats the funny part. Before my IAT sensor was loose in the silicone you could push it back & forth. Now I sealed it with alot of FIPG Silicone.
I'm gonna rip it apart this weekend & see.

Watcha gonna do with that P/S pump....I wanna see you rig this.

[MarchMadnessisM]

ahhh yes here comes another 20 pages of foos rigging this thing n trying to get it fixed, im tellin u this is gonna be like the biggest thread by the time he actually gets to 9psi and running correctly

[Alpha 5]

Yee of little faith,
want a cookie?

Name that movie.

[DsevenEm2]

I...Am....Back.

My Turn:

Ok so im in Orlando now..yay? This place is ok... could be alot better but what the hell. The town is iffy.. lots of rice in the apartment complex. The people are whatever. Im sure ill get used to it. I woke up this morning and my car is covered in like..salt? or sand.. or some shit.. i have no idea. My roommates are cool.. and school starts next week.. oh boy. Just read all this stuff and damn i didnt see any of these problems coming in but oh well...ill be waiting for the updates as usual. anyway im here again.. and my internet is bullshit... it sucks, it keeps kicking me off and pissing me off...and sometimes the pages dont load.. any ideas anybody?

good luck foos, cheer up it could be worse..

[MarchMadnessisM]

i think hes pretty happy all his parts are comin in, hes got the turbo working, and he was almost late for work lol

[speedfoos]

My name is now MIG Master. I was able to run both beads with only two little holes to patch up at the end! Woohooo!!! Exhaust is back on the car and I can drive it to work again!!! Thank God I've been hittin' the gym as not having PS until this weekend is a work out.

Although I am a little offended FoSho. I have never 'rigged' anything in my life. All of my installs and mechanical bits and bobs are always flawlessly installed with the utmost degree of professionalism. No don't look under my car. That's not a piece of braided lock wire being used as an exhaust hanger....

As for what I'm gonna do with it, I'm gonna 'rig' it to replace my belt driven PS pump that I fubar'd.

Welcome to Orlando Jose. That crap you see on your car is a mixture of sand and salt. Be sure an wash your car often as that crap plays hell on paint and aluminum parts!

HGs arrived today as well as a new pair of safety glasses. Hooray! Now I'm just waiting on the head studs.

[FoSho]

haha, all apologies Foos. However, I do recall several threads back someone talking about representin kansas with a......piece of t-shirt? to...uh make a drive belt! See, how I being from Kansas know all too well the art of 'rigging' or 'ghetto rigging" if you will

I just hope it works out good so I can copy you!!!
I wish I was in the cool club

[speedfoos]

The cool club? All you gotta do is get in the thread and claim your member number man! You've had more than enough problems to be a T.E.A.R.S. member!

That was a sock and it was just an optical illusion...... Never happened.......

[LogicWavelength]

LOL... I love how on this forum, in order to be "cool" you need to have totally destroyed your perfect-working-order engine and spent thousands of dollars. I feel so special.......


.....and I should because I started it!