I all ways think the worst!
12-03-2006, 01:02 PM
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I all ways think the worst!
I thought I blew the motor on the dyno with the 680hp and 780tq run. It was just a fuse. I thought I had a bad piston ring when I seen on the boost gauge that I only had 5lbs of vacume (20 is normal)and couln'd get more than 10psi of boost at the track. It was a vac leak. I thought that if I had a vac leak it wouldn't idle right, but it was normal. I thought that I broke my trans, because I couldn't get second gear. I didn't, I broke the shifter and the bushing was swivleing so it looked like I was grinding 2nd gear but I was some where in nutral. The trans is a ok. Somebody up there likes me. 
12-03-2006, 01:22 PM
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man that's crazy. glad to hear its all ok.
those numbers are pretty impressive for a turbo 5.3. are you using the stock bottom end? i've been wondering how much the stock bottom end could hold up to before just disintegrating
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those numbers are pretty impressive for a turbo 5.3. are you using the stock bottom end? i've been wondering how much the stock bottom end could hold up to before just disintegrating
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Originally Posted by TURBO8
Yeah! stock short block. THanks
12-03-2006, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by TURBO8
I thought I blew the motor on the dyno with the 680hp and 780tq run. It was just a fuse. I thought I had a bad piston ring when I seen on the boost gauge that I only had 5lbs of vacume (20 is normal)and couln'd get more than 10psi of boost at the track. It was a vac leak. I thought that if I had a vac leak it wouldn't idle right, but it was normal. I thought that I broke my trans, because I couldn't get second gear. I didn't, I broke the shifter and the bushing was swivleing so it looked like I was grinding 2nd gear but I was some where in nutral. The trans is a ok. Somebody up there likes me.
Your the same type of person as I am, get something going good, something goes wrong and automatically exspect the worse. 99% of the time its a little cheap fix
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when building the dune buggy all the fab stuff was easy, but once it came to firing up the motor we freaked since we never got it to start. comes out that the relay off the starter switch was bad out of the box. I soldered it back together and it fired up. i'd never built a motor before then and my buddy and I thought that perhaps we did somethin wrong, but we fixed it.
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