I think its going to come down to you two guys. You guys have a score to settle

 

LOL Joe! Best thing is even if I lose its 1-1, if you lose you should just turn the wheel at 160mph and say goodbye

 

lmao ^^^ good one

 

haha....I can assure you I didnt' tune his car with nitrous. So unless Eagle is crazy enough to hook it up and run it without a retune.......

um....actually....eagle???


Hey Julian....I love the new banner!

 

what with the nitrous talk? if he said he didn't have it, he didn't have it.

no one has any reason to make anything up for the sake of a story!

 

Luie,

You are a lucky son of a gun... well, unlucky for having it happen, but supremely lucky for the minimal damage since it did happen...

Glad everything seems OK...

 

hopefully thats the only piece that was down there...and nothin smaller got down there already


best of luck

 

Glad to hear everything is all good man!

 

Its amazing that little chunck of aluminum didn't bend your valve or get sucked in.

Wow!

 

Yep Wow!

I guess it a good thing I don't have big valves

 

Sad to see, but at least you broke it while pushing the car and not just cruising down the street.

Isn't there a moto, "if you don't break something, you're not driving it hard enough"?

 

Man you're lucky. That's a good sized piece, all of the other little pieces must have all blown through. I wonder how your turbo blades look. If they're fine, you really dodged a bullet this time.

 

Its all good! Its called racing!

When you race you break things thats just how it goes.
I want to run @ 10.5, that half a second faster. I will be changing the FD to a 3.3, and some help with a new shifter/better 60ft, and stay in 4th through the traps, and I think I can get close.

 

I like the way you think....I thought I was the only one that was nuts
You got to pay to play, so to all you little weenies take your cars and go home. I LOVE MILLER LITE, honey get me another one

Well that didn't go so well,she gave me that look

 

You should install 1 or 2 manifold pressure relief valves to keep from killing parts if it happens again. I think some of them are set for around 35psi, and other for 70-80psi. I found a few with a quick search. The nitrous crowd uses these alot, but I have seen them on blower cars too.

http://www.speedtechnitrous.com/newProducts05.cfm
http://www.wilsonmanifolds.com/shop/...ct_detail&p=55

 

Great info, Im gonna look int ordering some to prevent this BS from happening.

 

Ok so just got off the phone with Speedtech and Wilsons manifold. These are NOT designed to operate with boosted vehicles. The guy at Speedtech told me that he doesnt recommend it, and I brought up Luie's meth explosion as an example. He said something like "if he bent the hood and blew apart the upper plenum, even if he had this valve it wouldnt have saved him, thats like putting a stick of dynomite in a mailbox, whether the door is open or closed the thing is gonna blow" LOL!!

Wilsons told me they are "supposed" to open at 35psi, so running say 20psi "shouldnt" open the valve but he hasnt heard back from customers running FI if they work. Some have leaked and you can tighten the screws down making the pressure higher needed to open the vlave, BUT then you are limiting the travel for that valve to open should it need to so thats not ideal.

Basically good idea, but not something Im willing to mess with at this time! Last thing I need is these springs weakening over time and having boost leaks.

 

the dynamite and mailbox analogy is great, lol.

 

haha, priceless, good analogy.

 

That was funny!/\