hpfiend

 

Dead spot is gone and it runs like an animal!!!!!

 

Finally.

 

 

 

Haha. Well weren't those some famous last words...

We took it back to MCIR and tried our best to get a clean sub 13 second run with the "fixed" carb. Leaving just above idle it would leave cleanly but as soon as we tried to really launch it we either couldn't hold it back without power brakes or it used so much accelerator to get it to around 2000 rpm that our "bandaid" accelerator pump modifications (50cc pump in the front with a blue pump cam in position 2.) were only half functional at best so it would dead spot. The best it ever ran was a 13.2 at 101.X MPH.

My dad insisted that it was starving for fuel on the instant transition to the back barrels. Even though we did this initially with little effect we again disabled the mechanical secondary linkage and romping it on what used to be "back country roads" to the neighbors delight, did not dead spot once. We had fixed a lot of other issues since the first time so maybe this was the final issue.

I was hesitant to change as I had already purchased a very expensive CSU blow through double pumper carb for BOOST.

Well as chance would have it we realized the carb on his '87 F350 truck was a Holley 600 CFM vacuum secondary which was about the perfect size for this mouse of an engine.

I will give it a few days on here before I put it on craigslist

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It's actually in pretty good shape from what I recall. Black leather. Not mint by any means but not shredded to hell either. Dunno what you mean about the rear end- you mean where they did more sanding or fiberglass work?

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Came across this car at a building I manage.

1989 C4 Corvette Convertible. Aftermarket exhaust, C5 5 spoke wheels, body is fully prepped and primed for paint. Automatic. 138K

3.000 OBO

Seemed like a good deal for a running and driving complete corvette.

How many words is a video worth? My 90 Fox Mustang Coupe...

Almost bought it back twice now heheh

Have you read anything about rearend/transaxle reliability on these? I just helped my sister buy a Q50 S non red sport (silver sport) and it is def a sleeper. seems like a nice platform if it holds up...

And why can't you hear the turbos whoosh or whistle?

Best of luck to you man and I would love to take a look at it when you are done!

I think the cheapest aluminum setup is the 98-02 f-bodies followed by the LS2 in Pontiac G8 and SAAB 9-7x then the 05-07 corvettes. The 97-04 vette ls1 is also a good one but not many available when I looked.

I bought a salvage title Silverado with the 6.0 and parted the rest out for my gremlin engine but it has an iron block.

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It was a disaster. It had double the horsepower of the 95 hp Audi engine it came with but with the added torque and no lsd on 185mm tires it would just smoke the one wheel. The hydraulic Tilton throwout bearing setup was like a switch so near impossible to be smooth with, all of the heat from the headers destroyed a gm high torque starter when they were new and expensive in under 50 miles, and the first RH owners suggestion of using a geo metro master cylinder brake booster combo would not fit and we tried to use a 911 non power setup which made it near impossible to stop. I will say that this was years ago when I was just a kid with my dad, the Internet was just starting, and fuel injection know how was very limited. We paid over 1000 for the v6 and almost as much for a harness and chip to get it running without the automatic transmission. We never ran it long enough to see how it would handle but I am sure worse than before as the iron v6 was the same weight if not heavier than the Audi engine and it was an understeering pig before. My dad sold a 1967 corvette convertible to buy this car new. To say he was disappointed would be an extreme understatement. He did make a lot of friends in the Porsche club and had a lot of fun back in the 70s.

This is why I personally would swap a 951 engine in or stick with a proven 4 cylinder combo now as the engine bay on the 924 at least is extremely tight and the lower torque and 951 transaxles becoming rarer. The 4.3 is a 90 degree v6 so it is almost exactly the same size as a 350 but 4.4 inches shorter. They did not have hydroboost brake setups swaps as proven as they are now or I didn't know about them. A 60 degree six might be neat.

The problem with the very affordable and awesome 5.0 HO is that the front sump oil pan is difficult to fit with the crossmember/sway bar but I believe people have done it now.

When it appeared the new owners of RH had figured a few things out many years later and people were putting ls engines in I was amazed and impressed. Especially when they figured out to use BMW and 911 brakes as it was looking like a complete package with the 951 transaxle. The issue was the total cost of conversion when I looked into it was in the 25k range And non zo6 c5s were almost there with the same layout, and more than 15 years of engineering progress in the rest of the car.

Take this with a grain of salt OP. I was 14 and had nowhere near the knowledge I do now and email was state of the art. There were only two 924/44 swaps in the country when we did ours and neither was fuel injected. The one guy that was doing it with us scrapped the 3.8 Chevy v6 he figured out how to put in for a Buick grand national engine.

The best thing about that project is the time I spent with my dad and I learned to oxy acetylene weld the headers good enough to get it done which has come in handy over the years.

This reminds me I need to update my gremlin build l had clay unlock.

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Thanks all!

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That's what I was thinking- any particular venues? Or is craigslist the hot ticket for bikes?

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Hey all-

A friend of mine inherited a 2003 Dyna Wide Glide from her father with only 24k miles. It is a 100 anniversary edition. This bike has custom color change painted fender flares, gas tank, chrome bits, sissy bars, new wheels and upgraded struts (forget what they are called on motorcycles). Most of the original parts have been located except for one rim.

What does CR think it's worth? Any advice on getting the most out of this baby?

Thanks,

Andrew

Oh sorry, did not read carefully enough to see you had a kit picked out- wasn't familiar with TPC. We bought ours from the original RH that went out of business for incompetence

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Before you get too far in- hit up renegade hybrids for a set of their headers- from someone that put a 4.3 vortec CPI v6 in a 924 and built headers from scratch, let me tell you, they are worth every penny. Also apparently the easy ticket is to put the engine in from the bottom. The flip

Up headlight mechanism, and hood latch with mounted expansion tank make it very difficult to go in from

The top.

Also, lastly if it were me again I would put a ford 2.3 turbo or try to convert a 4g63t to longitudinal. Good luck!!

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Was at 7k for a while

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Sold for 5k

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Make that three people

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Hey all - does anyone have a better feel about what these cars are worth? I threw it on a bunch more sites today and have two people in less than a few hours willing to drive hours to buy it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated - thanks

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According to the owner it is the original automatic and from my cursory research it appears to be a c4

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Thanks bro! 4 engine hoists (yours and 3 leaking cylinders on mine) later I finally have it mounted on its own!

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Hi all-

Not sure how to reach a mod but can you re-open my build thread, I want to add more to it

http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96261&page=2

Thanks!

Thanks Clay and Scott,

Hmm other than exchanging this bender for the larger one, what else is involved?

I guess just a bunch of threaded to 3/4 box adapters instead of 1/2 and the fittings. I was under fill at 1/2 but if I am going to the trouble, why not.

Thanks!

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Hey all-

I am listing this for a friend of mine. Very rare only 1 of about 2000 cars ever built. 5.0L, 4 speed auto, 103k miles, does not currently start but the engine turns over. It has been parked for about 10 years but ran before parking. It was his father's car. Will currently need towed from worthington. It could probably be parted out for a lot more than asking price. If it doesn't sell AS IS, I am going to help him get it running by spring.

$2500.00

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Sold a few weeks ago sorry

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