Yeah the new engine is installed and I'm slowing getting it dialed in. I have about 70 miles on the new engine. It's now a 426 ci stroker with ported heads and a larger cam. It took me awhile to get the clutch bleed and its still not as good as it was, so I'm going to try and bleed it again now that I've put some miles on it.
With the larger engine, I bought a set of 42 lb injectors because I was worried about running out of fuel with the stock injectors. So because of that the whole fuel curve needs modified. I’m trying to take it slow and not screw it up again, so I hired a guy who's a FAST expert and teaches EFI classes. When I first got the car running he logged in remotely to my laptop and made real time changes while I was on the phone with him. It was good because he would explain what each of the setting do at the same time. So since then I’ve been driving the car under specific conditions (for example, holding 2000 rpm for 30 seconds, then 2200 rpm for 30 seconds etc.) while data logging. I send the tuner the log file and he sends me back a new tune. I'm on the 9th revision now and it’s getting dialed in however there are still areas of the fuel curve that need work.
On Friday for the first time I did some full throttle runs from 2000 rpm to 5300 rpm in 3rd gear. The car pulls really, really hard. That's from ~30 mph to ~85 mph and from the data log it took 6 seconds. Once it’s all tuned it should be an easy 475 rwhp.
It actually has a slight lope in the idle now with the larger cam.
Here's how it sounded with the stock 6.1L
The engine looks the same externally so no new pictures to post. I’ve been meaning to take some video when I’m out driving the car, but I’ve been focused on other things. I’m just glad to have it running again.
While the engine was out I removed the Nu-Relics power window kit (same as XV’s kit) and installed an Electric Life power window kit. The Electric Life kit works good. For whatever reason I could never get the Nu-Relics working on the passenger side and so I’m much happier with the Electric Life kit. I took a bunch of pictures of that and some video and I’ve been meaning to make a power window post. I might be able to get to that later in the week.
Travis
72 Cuda
