Turbo-4 '89 Mustang roadrace coupe.

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

tuner community -hee hee ;D

[horsewidower]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Coming to the end of the latest engine install. I spent a bunch of time yesterday drilling bolts for safety wire. The engine has solid motor mounts, and I-4s shake like crazy. What isn't studded and nylocked gets safety wired. Its a boring pain in the ass job. And the 1/16 drill bits snap at the smallest misalignment.

The good thing is that it'll all be done by Friday so we'll start it Saturday or Sunday.

Bob

[horsewidower]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.



Engines in. Radiator, intercooler and associated plumbing is installed. Pre-oiled and full of coolant. Had only enough time to try and fire a couple of times. No crank trigger signal.

Time for the debug.

[horsewidower]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

It freakin runs, woo hoo!!! Maybe we'll make it to the track in April.

Bob



By the way, it makes into the category of best sounding engines (cause its mine and it finally works again!) and worst sounding engines (sounds like a motorboat) all at the same time.

[fast Ed]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Good work ... now get out there with it!! ;)


cheers
Ed N.

[horsewidower]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Fixed what we think is the final sensor problem, swapped from a sine-wave cank trigger to a square-wave. Thanks DG. We're shooting for a June date at the track.

Bob

[Morgan]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Where are you located. What tracks do you plan to run on? Cool build.

[mike343sharpstick]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Where are you located. What tracks do you plan to run on? Cool build.

Yeah, what he said ;)

Very cool, I am curently building a street car but race stuff is what I dream about.
What does it weigh? I am guessing that car is probably pretty easy on tires compared to some other cars, and I bet that SOB flies into corners at a disturbing rate :o.

For all who have not road raced, the trickiest part of getting around a road course is corner entry speed. When you get to the corner you obviously brake... but not to much. Then you cary as much speed as possible into the corner. Like playing chicken with your brain on every corner, takes some getting use to :o.
Man I miss it! ;)

[horsewidower]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Thanks for the enthusiasm guys. I live in Northern California and we have a bunch of tracks. I've run at Thunderhill and Sears Point (Infineon). Laguna Seca, Willow Springs and Buttonwillow are also within 6 hours more or less.

Weighs less than 2300 lbs dry. It hauls the mail.

Roadracing is a rush.

[horsewidower]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Got it running again, today. Started tuning and the LM-1 crapped out, Error 04. Something to do about the cables or connectors. So I've got to trouble shoot that.

We're trying to get it ready to run good enough to take it to Sears Point on October 23rd. We'll see.

Bob

[ct408]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Cool project and a great looking car!

Best of luck sorting it out

[horsewidower]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Did a bunch of searching on Innovative's website last night. The LM-1 read richer and richer than went to the error message. I'm running E-85 and it has a lot of water vapor in the exhaust until everything heats up. I think that may have killed the O2 sensor. A couple of posts by Klaus stated that excess water vapor cracks the ceramics in the sensor. Hmmm.

Maybe I'll have to start turning on the LM-1 after engine warm-up. I've killed two of the sensors and at $80 a pop I need to stop doing that.

DG, do you just tune initial start-up and warm-up on the fly, or do you use an AFR set-up? Matt? Anyone?

Bob

[ecniv]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Hey horsewidower, if you're ever running that thing down at Buttonwillow and want an extra set of hands to help out, or just someone in the pits to make sure the beer in the icechest doesn't get too warm, post up. I just ran the lemons race there a few weeks ago, and am considering turning that car into a CMC car, so the experience of seeing some NASA action up close would be awesome.

[horsewidower]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Sounds great. Unfortunately I won't get there until next year. But I'll post up here about when we go.

Great news today, scheduled for the dyno on Monday. Hopefully we'll survive this time!!

[horsewidower]

Re: Racin in '09 or its for sale.

Its in the trailer, set to go to the dyno tomorrow. It was a kick to pull it off the jackstands and drive it for the first time in 18 months.