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Lol, I've been REAL busy! I finished the deal with my buddy Chuck with the Corvettes I posted about earlier I and bought his last two Buicks along with all his spare parts which was extensive. The 67 which I posted about above and his original Turbo T that he bought new. The car was an...

Lol, right! Funny thing is I sit so low in the car that I really don't notice them driving. They will all be coming off by the end of the year for next season. I am signed up for Drag Week but don't think I am going to make it. I am kind of re-thinking some stuff and making changes...

Its been awhile since the last post which was right before Rockingham. We took the car to Sick at the Rock pretty much exactly like it was at Sick Week. Still not 100% sure what caused the injectors to lock up on us like that. It was cool event and we had a lot of fun. Car ran pretty decent...

This is like the last piece of this on going puzzle. The list of things I want to do to finish the car are getting really short! Super happy with how it turned out, Ray did the whole job while I was on vacation with the family. We are as ready as we are going to be for Sick at the...

Good eye for details guys! Martin you are correct it was an L89 my mistake. I am not sure on the Chevelle but it can definitely be a 66. Did anyone pick up on My Skylark being a 66 with a 67 front clip? lol! I think he sold that 1968 L89 unfortunately I did not get a shot at it,I think it...

More pics of the L88 A 53 Gasser he had built by the same shop that did the Turbolark One of three mid-year C2 roadster 4sp 327 cars. I may end up with one of them at some point. Another favorite is the 1967 Chevelle with a Corvette 427 and 4spd in it.

For all the time I spend drag racing and building a drag car Pro-touring with road racing and auto-x is really what I want to do more of and with this new addition I it looks like I am heading down a completely different rabbit hole! It is no surprise that this care is in my garage. I have had...

Look Squirrel lol!

Thanks, That 1st day definitely changed a lot of things for a lot of people. What bugs me is I had the class covered by a pretty good margin even with the 10.32 slip. If I would have avg just 8.30s the rest of the week I would have won, coulda shoulda woulda, it is easy to reflect on this now...

Finally a decent rip, not super fast but I'll take it. It moved us from 18th to 4th in one pass lol! We handed that in loaded up and got on the road again feeling pretty good. Orlando was next which is also a really good track and we were excited we finally got the car down the track. We...

It started out great turned into a **** show, then we started making a come back then broke down in a swamp at night 400 miles from the truck and trailer. Good times lol! There were four black turbo V6 buicks. The 2 fast ones were my buddy Tommy and I. To tell the difference I was the only...

Dyno went well FYI that is an 1/8 mile pull off the tbrake on a hub dyno, not very peaky lol!! How much boost? Lots and how much is left LOTS!! Seriously, there is still a lot more left in the turbo but I am starting to worry about the BMS crank making an exit. We are north of 1600 crank...

I haven't mentioned this project since page 3 in 2022 but it is looking like things will be happening with it in 2025. I want to make it back to the Musclecar Challenge in Sept at Pitt Race. The T-type is a Pro-touring build which I would like to do more road racing with. If you have been...

The bearing problem was definitely a clearance issue. I know the first set of main bearings I tried were 3.5 but I think I ended up using a +.001 bearing Speed-pro bearing since the original Clevites in this motor were plus one which put me at 2.5 and Clevites are usually tighter than FM. I...

Cam bearings are fine and I agree with you I don't think it is a problem with oil starvation. I am pretty sure its the caps moving around due to not having a mid-plate. I can't see it being not enough clearance with 3.5 but I can go wider as it is 3.5 with a .001 bearing! I may mix a set and...

Right now I have the motor out and apart. I actually lost ring tension on the #1 cylinder due to a mis-hap that was 100% my own stupidity. I inadvertently had a timing table for wheelie control active with a cell that added a **** ton of timing to the motor and I somehow managed to activate on...

There is no difference between a bolt together and a weld up tq conv. All of them are basically the same. A lot of them will have a sprag or mechanical diode to prevent the stator from reverse rotating but most race converters are spragless. There are certain core designs and turbines most...

Since my last post I have been to the track to test 4 times with 3 different TQ converters and had the motor out for a cam swap and I am still not done. I got the car back together with the Cam advanced 3.5 degrees installed at 111 degrees. A 2-step test looked great the turbo came up on the...

Nothing is hurt in the motor or trans for that matter. Remember all the issues I had when I degreed the cam and settled on installing it at 114.5 degrees intake centerline? Which was 2.5-3 degrees retarded from the old cam's installed intake centerline? It looks like that may have been the...

Well day 5 started off rough with a Microsoft update bricking my Laptop. I wanted to make a few changes to the tune for day 5 to see if we could get maybe an 8.70 out of the car which with the issues we have with the front half of the track was going to be difficult. I had to borrow a buddies...