Nasa MSRH 2014 Event 1

[aggie97]

Well, overall had a good weekend. ended up tearing the splitter off the car in Saturday AM qualification. Hankooks could not get temp and were like rocks with no traction. Went off and did some mowing of tall weeds. Still spitting out grass clippings.

Got the car back together and made 2 of the 4 races before I found a failed rear main seal. Took a first and a second in the two races I ran in ST1.

Going to pull the motor and do the seal and revise the PCV system as apparently the seal gets sucked inward by too much vacuum. Then rebuild the nose and get it back together for cresson.

Here is a video from the last few corners of Sunday Qual so you can hear a pissed off coyote at full song!

Ok, for some reason the video won't embed. I'll try again later today.

[Mach1]

[Mach1]

Sounds like your weekend was about as good as mine

[Wish4svts]

Music to my ears.

[Mach1]

Music to my ears.

Agreed, sounds awesome!

[aggie97]

Well damn, expensive weekend. Decided to order a new 2000R knockoff nose and that was $375. Ordered new ball joints to the tune of $145. Will probably need to order a new fuel pump hat that works so another $640, then the time to R&R the motor/trans AGAIN to do the rear main seal and I am hoping I don't need a new clutch disc from the oil leak. It's all sintered iron disc so can probably clean it up....oh, and I need more new tires! LOL!

Ugh.

BTW...did I mention Hankooks suck?!

[Baron Von Crowder]

Well damn, expensive weekend. Decided to order a new 2000R knockoff nose and that was $375. Ordered new ball joints to the tune of $145. Will probably need to order a new fuel pump hat that works so another $640, then the time to R&R the motor/trans AGAIN to do the rear main seal and I am hoping I don't need a new clutch disc from the oil leak. It's all sintered iron disc so can probably clean it up....oh, and I need more new tires! LOL!

Ugh.

BTW...did I mention Hankooks suck?!

damn!

I fixed our fuel pickup issue in the cell, btw.

[aggie97]

damn!

I fixed our fuel pickup issue in the cell, btw.

what was your issue? If you told me I forgot.

Mine is uncovering the pickup in left handers. looking back on it, this has been an issue since I got the car back on track with the swap. I have to fix this or I am going to grenade the motor so I am not cutting corners any more. I am looking at the aeromotive drop in pump for the 03/04 cobra tank and maybe some fuel cell foam in the baffle to keep it from sloshing so much. I thought I had fixed the problem but it's getting worse and my fuel pump location probably isn't the best in keeping prime. The in tank hat should fix that but at a high cost....well, less than $6k for a new motor! LOL!

[Baron Von Crowder]

what was your issue? If you told me I forgot.

Mine is uncovering the pickup in left handers. looking back on it, this has been an issue since I got the car back on track with the swap. I have to fix this or I am going to grenade the motor so I am not cutting corners any more. I am looking at the aeromotive drop in pump for the 03/04 cobra tank and maybe some fuel cell foam in the baffle to keep it from sloshing so much. I thought I had fixed the problem but it's getting worse and my fuel pump location probably isn't the best in keeping prime. The in tank hat should fix that but at a high cost....well, less than $6k for a new motor! LOL!

long story short, couldnt get the factory tank to work well (in tank pump) so we bought a cell, dropped the coin on the trapdoor surge tank, it would cut out around turns after we used 10-12 gallons of the 22, put the walbro pickups in the tank and got worse, moved our fuel pump to under the cell and we can run it hard on a gallon of fuel with no cutout.

4 of these, one has a bleed off in it so we dont have to crack open the lines if we run it dry. Ive heard of people running them in a stock tank, too.

[aggie97]

I've been reading theory on fuel system design for the last two days. Ideally, they all say run the pump lower than the tank. That is great and all if the bottom of your tank isn't the lowest point on the car or if you want to stay clear of exhaust, suspension parts or possible damage from debris on track...or off. Seems these pumps can generate a ton of pressure but are terrible at generating any suction to get the fuel out of the tank.

I've been looking at all the dual pump drop in hats that are out there and they are WAY more expensive than the aeromotive setup so it looks like I am going to bite the bullet and get it. It's overkill for my little 500hp setup but hey, I'll have room to grow for when I figure out how to put a hair dryer on it!

[Baron Von Crowder]

our car wouldnt run worth a crap with less than 10 gallons in the car. After moving the pump under the cell, it will run just like full with a gallon in it.

Might give Tim at liquid iron industries a call, he was super helpful with me, and we went over everything on the car that was halfway related to the fuel system to help figure out the issue we had.

http://liquidironindustries.com/Walbro-In-Tank-Pickups.html