Blown3.8
07-14-2012, 07:53 PM
Well during NSHS it was obvious we needed to do something about IAT's in Sherm's car. At the end of the day we were starting at 130* IAT and ending at 17x at the finish causing timing to be pulled at 150* and loosing power.
The old setup was two trilogy HE's and no fans. Another thing I didn't like about this was the HE's weren't boxed in, so alot of air was probably going around the HE's instead of thru them.
So I got to thinking. I have had a griffin radiator laying around I picked up for a t bird years ago. So I decided to see if it would fit in the car. Guess what it fit. It was tight but I got er in there. Another plus about having a 15x24 radiator in there was to be able to attach a single fan to it to keep air flowing while in the staging lanes.
I had to cap off the 1-1/2 hose fittings on the rad and weld 3/4" tubes on to adapt the rubber IC hoses. Also welded some tabs on the bottom of the rad to hang the rad and one more on the top.
Also hooked the Snow meth kit back up in the car. Installed a single 625ml jet in a empty predrilled port in the back of the whipple.
Took the car out to Fun Ford Weekend in richmond for its first test. Started tweeking the tune to run 11.0's in the true street class. Got it down to 11.09 if I remember right. So we go out on the cruise and come back for the runs. Make the first pass at 11.1x thinkin thats pretty good. The next quickest 11 second run was 11.2x. Anyway Sherm came around and I checked the log for the IAT, started at 109 and ended 140. And in the time trials we were seeing the same thing. Which was alot better that NSHS the ambient temps where about the same between the 2 events.
Then the second pass of the 3 back to back when Sherm lifted off the gas at the finish a big puff of smoke came from the car. I though ah heck just blew it up. Car ran 11.2x. Can't remember the IATs on that run. Ended up being the torque converter seal got pushed out. Lucky the trans fluid didn't get under the tires.
All in all i think I'm getting it under control. Need to play with the timing next time to cut thru all that octane of race gas and meth. Anyway on to the pics of what this thread was about. The coolant capacity was doubled with this rad over the already doubled cap of the 2 trilogy HE's.
The old setup was two trilogy HE's and no fans. Another thing I didn't like about this was the HE's weren't boxed in, so alot of air was probably going around the HE's instead of thru them.
So I got to thinking. I have had a griffin radiator laying around I picked up for a t bird years ago. So I decided to see if it would fit in the car. Guess what it fit. It was tight but I got er in there. Another plus about having a 15x24 radiator in there was to be able to attach a single fan to it to keep air flowing while in the staging lanes.
I had to cap off the 1-1/2 hose fittings on the rad and weld 3/4" tubes on to adapt the rubber IC hoses. Also welded some tabs on the bottom of the rad to hang the rad and one more on the top.
Also hooked the Snow meth kit back up in the car. Installed a single 625ml jet in a empty predrilled port in the back of the whipple.
Took the car out to Fun Ford Weekend in richmond for its first test. Started tweeking the tune to run 11.0's in the true street class. Got it down to 11.09 if I remember right. So we go out on the cruise and come back for the runs. Make the first pass at 11.1x thinkin thats pretty good. The next quickest 11 second run was 11.2x. Anyway Sherm came around and I checked the log for the IAT, started at 109 and ended 140. And in the time trials we were seeing the same thing. Which was alot better that NSHS the ambient temps where about the same between the 2 events.
Then the second pass of the 3 back to back when Sherm lifted off the gas at the finish a big puff of smoke came from the car. I though ah heck just blew it up. Car ran 11.2x. Can't remember the IATs on that run. Ended up being the torque converter seal got pushed out. Lucky the trans fluid didn't get under the tires.
All in all i think I'm getting it under control. Need to play with the timing next time to cut thru all that octane of race gas and meth. Anyway on to the pics of what this thread was about. The coolant capacity was doubled with this rad over the already doubled cap of the 2 trilogy HE's.