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whats the matter with eagles yet to hear of someone bending or braking them? lol

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I'm sure you will be fine.
Don't overcomplicate it and get out there.

yeah, I can tell from all the sets you have broken. I mean all the sets in the history of DSMs that have broken so easily.

I'll take any eagles you don't want since they are soooo horrible.

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Give Forced Engineering or John Whalen of Whalen Speed a call and see what they've got to say on the behalf of Eagle rods.

I have Olivers. Do you know anything about those?!

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You are right, 2 vendors that want to sell even more expensive rods. Got it.

JDM, will you running this year at all?

Get the bare minimum done to have the car run and get it running 9.50s all day.

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The car needs about 4-6 hours of work and it would be out racing. If I want to track the car I need to get mad cash for rear axles or make the 3s rear pumpkin/axles work in my car.

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Two shops that were once one and while united seen multiple Eagle rod failures. I remember seeing the posts on Facebook (pictures of the engines/rods), then after it happened they announced they would no longer sell Eagle rods. It is or has been common knowledge that when Eagle moved to good old China that the quality we have seen in the past went out the door.

Sorry to clutter your thread John.

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bring it to the street?

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Is this a question to John or myself? I can almost guarantee you a negative from myself. Just because of those little things called laws. Silly, right? Not so much.

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I'm not talking to you, I don't know enough.

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Yes I plan to drive the car on the street. 2012 was a good year for tooling around.

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Nice!!

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Excited to see that thing tearing it up on the street this year. You can pick on my bike first lol

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Damn that's not a lot of work and I'd like to see you get it back to the track. Shit maybe even get to line up with you! :woohoo1:

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I saw a set of used dss stage 5's for sale on dsm tuners today.

I'll run the winner!:nod:

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The guy with the dss stage 5's wasn't selling them at a very good price, at least to me! He wanted to trade for some of my stuff, and I said PRO LEVELS OR NOTHING!

And you know the winner of those two has to race me, then we will see who gets to race your junkbox!

I can't wait to see the galant back out there. Has Jeff Bush been helpful with info on the 3000gt rear end swap? Would you ever consider doing an 8.8" swap for weight and strength advantages, or are you in the IRS club forever?

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We have talked a lot about a 8.8, I will have to look up some fs threads before we commit to the 3s rear end. But for dyno and highway pulls what's in there now is perfect.

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That turns me on.

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3/s swap shouldn't be to difficult compared to the level of custom shit already on this car....

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If all goes well we should be up in BIR for PG #1. We have put a few miles on the motor and at WG pressure everything is looking really good. I plan to take it out for a 3rd gear hit at WG pressure tomorrow then load it on the trailer, and leave work asap on Friday. We need to finish the tune at the track so their will be some un eventfull 3rd gear runs on Saturday, then all we need is a 1.5 short time out of the thing then try for a full pass. ATM I don't care what it runs as long as it's going in the right direction. My end goal is to get a high 8, but in the 9s for this weekend would make me happy. Also with the exhaust cam timing fixed and the new super smooth Competion Clutch triple disk the power graph is looking better as well compared to 2014. And we switched to RAT k116, oxogenated 116 octane fuel. I am tired of head gasket issues and pushing my FIC Bluemax 2150 injectors to 90+ percent duty cycle. At 25psi on gas we were down to 55% duty, lol.

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Can't wait to see some numbers out of this thing this year!

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Lol at that duty cycle.
Good luck, it's been a long road.

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Bringing fully operational spare transmission in car ha just in case! We will find you guys once we arrive hoping to see some fun roll races if all goes well Sunday 2, against some of those NF subaru's if they actually are bringing that red crazy hatch out lol.

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Where to start....

So the fuel change was a good thing for the car, off E98 and onto RAT K16. ATM we are at 72-74% duty cycle @42psi and log wise the car is happy. It has not lifted the head, even though its spendy I now have some street miles on the car and built up the confidence I need to get back to the track and try and try to better our 2011 peak of 9.45@156.9.... that seems like a lifetime ago now but we are still after it.

At the end of the 2014 season we hot lapped the car and hurt the trans, and also burnt a hole in the #4 exhaust runner into the coolant passage on the center divider, and we had major clutch slip issues with the Quarter master twin disk, and we broke an ass load of rear axles along the way.

So pulled the head and valve, welded and reinstalled, ordered a Competition Clutch Triple disk and DSS stage 5 rear axels. I forgot about the trans over the year and fixed the head issue, then at PG in 2015 with the Rocket boys holding up the show we figured out the trans was hurt, and we were limited to WG boost pressure, wiring issue to BCS. But the final pass of the day was a 11.8@130 with only 21psi.

Now onto this year... after helping 2 local guys with trans builds I was trying to figure out how I could make this syncro mitsu parts trans work. I am still in the boat of no dog box, even the face plated trans at list price is out of my sights. I also worry I am well beyond what the stock gears can handle and putting a ton of money into faceplating does not make sense.

Also we were are having a hard time to get the car off the line at a sticky track, so the tall EVO 3 1st gear and 26" tall slicks proved to much. We were not able to up the power at the line enough to get the tires to spin in fear of breaking stock driveline parts, we adjusted the rear suspension to limit weight transfer, but with the hurt trans, low boost, and limited track time its hard to say if that will help us.

So over the winter I ended up using a Stock DSM 1st gear, but with reving to 9800rpm the 1/2 split is not ideal but working atm, and with a hole stack of fresh synchros I also shimmed the trans super tight, I found some info on how much more pre load I should be putting in based on HP level.

We also finalized our plans to make this a 4 speed trans to reduce weight of the input shaft and make less work for the synchros. So all said and done we were able to reduce the weight of what needs to change speed on shifts by 17%. Its a little harder to get into reverse but the up shifts have been super smooth, I also installed a trans temp gauge so we can make sure we have enough trans temp and not to much to over work the fluid. This was a easy modification and I was able to eliminate everything to do with 5th gear. So the trans is a little easier to work on now, lol.

I also picked up a dash cam and made a mount for the harness bar and we now have a little bit of good footage from inside the car and I am excited to get some footage at the track with it also.

HP wise IDK where we are at, but at 42PSI the car goes from 60mph-130mph in 4.15 seconds with a passanger. The numbers are looking good and over the next few weeks I will get updated pics and some hard data from the track.

I also raced my buddy Bill in his 69 chevelle with a 800hp BBC and a TH400 trans. He did a 130' long burn out, but pulled to my front bumper, then I shifted into 2nd and drove around him, with a 275lb passanger, this was at 38psi peak bleeding off to 32psi. still working on the ECB stuff, which is better now and around 42psi.


~John

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Very cool man. Excited to see you get out there again! What turbo setup are you on again?

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Borg Warner billet 76mm with the 83mm turbine in a 1.00 divided housing with a fully divided header. I will add the full mod list again when I get the pics updated.

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Should be fun getting it dialed in here at the track shortly :)

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Are you running boost by gear then?

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No VSS yet, but eventually it'll be a progressive boost (boost by MPH).

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Nice. That should help the 1st to 2nd gear issues too.

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Nice. I've been starting to eye their new S300-SXE line. SX turbos beefed up with better bearings, and borrowing the badass comp wheels from the EFR line. 69mm rated around 1000hp. I think yours is maybe rated close, or a tad higher maybe?

http://www.full-race.com/store/turbo...9180-69mm.html

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Awesome, great to have it up and running! And stronger than ever, rear axles will help a ton. Are you thinking of coming on up to BIR for show and go over the 4th? I plan on being there with the talon.

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Good at stuff john, lots of hours working on i it in sure. Looking forward to the new updates photos, what storeys the car weigh?

Is the car still on v1?
Is it 4 lug?