held water like i said. then came the smoke. didnt see any where there wasnt suppose to be any. fill it up again with coolant (level is still dropping be thats to be expected till it burps itself out). then try to fire it. it wasnt happy. at one point i didnt think it was getting spark. had that thought of what the hell did i do now.....looked at the voltage and was reading around 9.5. thought it sounded a tad slow cranking. now i get to try my boost points. worked like a charm!
cranks and cranks and cranks.....then tries firing. then cranks and cranks then fires up and runs like crap and stalls. try again, cranks, fires runs like crap then like a flip of a switch clears up and starts idling! yay! once again i forgot all the vaseline i used for the injectors and making the fuel lines.
then starts smoking.....like mosquito fogger smoke. only to remember there is probably a ton of baby oil in the cylinders from smoking it.
so the report card. one thing that made me real happy was how many volts it was displaying.
ever since ive had stroker motors in it, it has never made above 13.5/13.8 vols. granted the fans wernt on yet but still. i went to the back of the truck and hit the battery kill switch. it still ran and displayed 13.1 volts. nice. also dont worry about the oil pressure. it still needs to be rescaled (KOEO it reads -50). also has a hi idle. i am going to blame that on not doing a tps reset because i did have the tps off when i wanted to run the meth nozzle into the throttlebody.
and for the meth kit, today i found out that a snow meth, and aem nozzles are completely different. so this may be the problem i have with it not atomizing the way it should (my dumb, have the correct ones coming).
my vacuum pump is also not working the way it should. it will pulse like i was saying before. i am hoping the problem is with the vacuum ball and the way i drilled it. ran out to my friends place where my parts trucks are (same guy that pained evil, same guy that has my flipper parked at his place) and grabbed another ball. ever see in one of those?
sorry, a little blurry but its the best i could do holding a flash light in one hole, and shoving my phone in the other to take a picture. this is the valve that 4pointslow was talking about. i will take the new one and carefully drill the holes out or epoxy the fittings into the new ball.
she does need a little touch up on the tune however.
i remember this happening when dono was doing my tuning. i cant remember why but we had the timing retarded to something like 7 degrees. it was so hot it melted 2 heater boxes. its like this because i was having a hell of a time doing a cold start and this is the end result.
just need to finish a few small things and wait till friday comes so it can get tuned. but for now, YAY it runs. now on to helping a buddy fix his riding mower deck and bring the flipper here so i can get it fixed and for sale.
