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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #165 on: December 01, 2015 - 12:55:44 PM »
Video! We want video!  :picture:

Will do sir as soon as I get it fired up.....    :2thumbs:
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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #166 on: December 02, 2015 - 09:45:54 AM »
Well, the Beast lives again....   :grinyes:  I was able to fire it up. I was not able to get a video of it last evening. The issue was that the headers had oily handprints on them and they were smoking something awful  --  while inside my attached garage. The smoke detector was raising cain and I was having trouble seeing and breathing...   :roflsmiley:   I shut it down after I got some heat in the engine. I got it up to about 165*.  It needs to have the carbs adjusted to the new engine and the timing set. I will do that Saturday and get a video of it running then and post it up shortly after that....    :cheers:

Thanks for all you fine folks support. This has been a year long journey...

BTW  --  it sounds pretty bada$$.....     :bigsmile:
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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #167 on: December 02, 2015 - 10:58:38 AM »
Can't wait to see this, Ken.


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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #168 on: December 02, 2015 - 02:08:53 PM »
Yes, we want video of this twin turbo LS setup firing up....lol

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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #169 on: December 03, 2015 - 09:19:26 AM »
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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #170 on: January 18, 2016 - 09:25:36 AM »
Well, I FINALLY got the BEAST running under it's own power again after more than a year of rest in my garage at home. I am currently putting a couple of short videos on youtube and I will link them up here in a little bit so you fine folks can hear it run. It has a vacuum leak that I will address next weekend. The leakls are causing it to idle too high, but we drove it home -(10 miles) and it ran flawlessly. I had brought it up here to the shop to repair an oil pan gasket leak. It is dry as a bone now...    :2thumbs: 

Anyway, stand by for the videos a little later today...    :cheers:
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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #171 on: January 18, 2016 - 10:30:42 AM »
Ok  --  at long last, here is the much promised video of the Beast running with the new bullet. The videos are cheesy cell phone quality and they sound crappy. Trust me - it sounds very healthy in person....

First fire up - running the transmission through the gears with no load.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPwZLA47Y_U

My son pulling it out of the shop. We decided he could drive it home for me...   :bigsmile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrzyvst9g7U

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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #172 on: January 18, 2016 - 10:36:05 AM »
Sounds real good Ken....

Can't joke about an LS motor anymore after hearing that beast!

Congrats  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #173 on: January 18, 2016 - 10:36:40 AM »

I guess you trust your son cause I know alot of kids would have taken that one for a little ride.

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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #174 on: January 18, 2016 - 12:32:26 PM »
Awesome  :2thumbs:

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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #175 on: January 18, 2016 - 03:09:18 PM »
                        Sounds Wicked Ken.    :2thumbs:   Scare the he!! out of the LS boys.   :roflsmiley:

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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #176 on: January 19, 2016 - 10:38:49 PM »
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Love the sound!
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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #177 on: January 20, 2016 - 08:19:50 AM »
Evil, yet refined!  :lol: :2thumbs:
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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #178 on: January 20, 2016 - 09:38:40 AM »
Looks and sounds great Ken

Now what it does in the 1/4, I bet you can't wait to find out.
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Re: Updating the HEMI In The Beast....
« Reply #179 on: January 20, 2016 - 09:49:51 AM »
Looks and sounds great Ken

Now what it does in the 1/4, I bet you can't wait to find out.

I'm guessing anywhere from 9.50's to 9.80's depending on the air that day.  The last trip to the track the DA was 2973 and that slowed me down 2 1/2 tenths to 10 flat.  We shall see....    :burnout:   

Have you ever taken your Beast to the track?
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