My Winter Upgrades - Page 32

GsXtUrBo98 · 06-04-2009

What fans are you running? because I was informed of a car that made around 558awhp with a/c and was having overheating issues then went to the setup I'm going to run and never had a problem since... I would look into it because I want to keep my a/c aswell thats why I went with it..

**Halon** · 06-05-2009

I have a mishimoto radiator, with 2 10" fans, no shrouding. Not ideal, but it works decent. Hopefully better now that I found I had a blown headgasket also.

turbotalon1g · 06-05-2009

Shitty man, keep at it. Apparantly the shroud works really well.

MustGoFaster · 06-05-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halon

I have a mishimoto radiator, with 2 10" fans, no shrouding. Not ideal, but it works decent. Hopefully better now that I found I had a blown headgasket also.

Check your block and head for flatness.

**Halon** · 06-14-2009

I finally got around to getting my new locks installed. The theives can't use that key to get in to it anymore

GsXtUrBo98 · 06-14-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halon

I finally got around to getting my new locks installed. The theives can't use that key to get in to it anymore

Good to hear!

**scheides** · 05-17-2010

Bump! wonder if you pulled the valve cover last night?

**Halon** · 05-17-2010

Nah haven't yet. I actually left the dyno day and went home to switch cars and headed to Fargo for the rest of the weekend.

On the drive home though from the dyno day, when just cruising at highway speeds I could feel extra vibrations. If I got on the gas a little, it felt fine. So I'm not sure but something is wrong. That what I'm thinking it is as it's happened to me before, and I think we wound her up to around 8300rpm on that first pull. So who knows.

I will be doing a compression test tonight, and pull the valve cover. I just did a compression test last weekend so I have a really good baseline to compare against. My numbers last week were 155-155-155-150.

turbotalon1g · 05-17-2010

I lost a lifter the car wouldn't make boost or rev past 4500rpm.

**Halon** · 05-17-2010

Compression is 160 across all 4 cylinders. No rockers fell off.

Here's what I did find though.

First look:

Little closer look:

Shit deng!!!

The seal on that injector wasn't sealed good against the head. On the last pull I noticed something shooting out from around there, so hmm.... that cylinder was probably running lean. The wierd metallic sound we heard, no idea yet what that was. Could it have caused a spun bearing maybe? I don't hear it free revving, never heard it during a pull, just on decel.

Step 1 is to acquire a new 1600 injector. Anyone have one? Even if I can just use one for testing purposes to see if the car runs decently with the injector fixed.

TkrPerformance · 05-17-2010

That sucks.

Speedfreak · 05-17-2010

On first look, looks like it went in hard the last time it was installed? Looks crushed physically. Were all th injectors on the rail last time you put them in? Then tightened the rail/them down into the head?

**Halon** · 05-17-2010

yeah they were all on the rail, then I pushed them onto the head. You're right, that might have been what happened. Can't blame anyone but myself

A//// Guy · 05-17-2010

Thats poop! Hopefully that fixes the main issue. At least compression is nice and normal across the board.

**Halon** · 05-17-2010

Thanks for letting me borrow an injector Shane! I'm going to test it out and see how the car runs with this spare injector.

Also it appears the black plastic cap is the only thing that is damaged, so maybe I can just get a new cap from PTE or something.

craig · 05-17-2010

Man that looks messed up,hope it fixes it.

**Halon** · 05-17-2010

Well Shane's injector is installed, and the car is idling much better than before. I revved it up a bunch of times and don't hear any odd sounds. I'm going to drive her to work tomorrow and see if I notice anything.

And I'm going to try and aquire a new plastic cap for the injector. I think that's all I need.

turbotalon1g · 05-18-2010

You man beast take it easy on those little injectors next time.
You should destroy that mustang when you are ready.

**Halon** · 05-18-2010

Drove the car to and from work today. It's idling better than it has all year, go figure

Still not a perfect idle, but that might be asking for too much with these sloppy injectors.

Did a couple 2nd and 3rd gear rippers, and it pulls like a (for lack of a better term) raped ape! It misses a little bit sometimes, but it's a tiny miss that seems to hardly affect a thing. I ordered up some OEM plug wires from Brookdale Mitsu. I'm going to see if those cure that.

Called up PTE and asked them about getting a new plastic tip. They are throwing one in an envelope and sending me one free of charge

So should be here soon, and I can return this injector to Shane asap!

I'd still like to borrow some smaller injectors sometime though from someone. I want to see if the car idles better on smaller injectors, just to be completely sure that most of my idle issues are due to my injectors.

turbotalon1g · 05-18-2010

I haz FIC 950s if you want to try them. Sorry I don't make big powaz