Great Success!!! Glad to hear she's back on the road and running like a beast.

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Dang that supercharger looks good, so does the whole engine bay Matt. Good job guys.

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Ok Paul, I collected some data for you. Initial condition was setting all night from a cold start. Outside temp was 62*, transmission started out at 75* and coolant was 87*.

The data:

Miles.....speed (MPH).....trans temp.....coolant temp
1.3.........35......................85..................160
2.1.........45......................96..................163
4.6.........55.....................107.................167
13.8.......55.....................130..................167
16.5.......55.....................134..................167
18.......25-35...................149..................168
26.6.....stop n go..............156..................172

I was then Waiting for Wendy to get off work and when I shut it off the transmission was at 150 and the coolant was 174. There was a 25 min period of being shut off before we headed home. The highest I saw was 167 on the transmission and 182 on the coolant and this was in the morning rush hour traffic coming through Portland.

I know this was a cool morning and I will do it again when it gets cooler by at least 10 more degrees. I will also do it when the weather gets warmer too.

Another contributing factor is relocating the cooler. With it behind the bumper where I had it, I was still seeing the temp reach 200* due to lack of air flow. Here is where it is now.

Too bad you couldn't turn it 90° for better flow along the stacked plates.

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Unless I went with a smaller cooler, there is not enough room. Where I had it before, it was being blocked by the aluminum bumper.

Not bad. Looks like the trani is taking about 15 minutes to warm up to performance temperature while mine takes about 5 minutes.
Mine also rises to 160F after about 10 minutes.
Yours stays cooler for a longer amount of time initially which is good for the track but you have to be more patient on warm up, as I suspected.
The only thing you really have to worry about is blowing an internal seal due to higher cold fluid pressures if you go WOT too early but I really haven't heard about that being an issue with our trani's.......have you Bill?

Our coolant temps are practically identical.

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An update on the Rubber Chicken:

Changing plugs today and did another compression check.

before....................now

1 = 170................170
2 = 165................170
3 = 180................175
4 = 165................170
5 = 165................175
6 = 170................170

Still running strong after 4000 miles. Hopefully get a lot more fun ones!

Wow, I hadn't kept track of the progress on your car, but I was wondering how it went so I intentionally looked for this thread. That's fantastic that you're back on the road and it's running better than ever. Big kudos to everybody involved!

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It is actually running very good right now. Hopefully this spring I can get my wideband and tuning software. I also plan on hitting the track a lot more this year.

boy i dont pop in this thread for a while and look what i missed!! that engine looks and sounds great matt! looks like its running *dang* good too!

congrats on having the rubber chicken back on the road..heres to enjoyin the time behind the wheel and letting that odometer roll on

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slow.....

well done gang,i love whine

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Love the thread and great work!

Why would you plug these ports? Is it because the car is in a warmer climate and wont be driving in the cold? Even then what benefit is there to this, cooler intake temps? I plan only only summer driving my build and might consider this. What grit did you prep the surface with?


Hey what did you do with the extra cast oil pan and oil neck?

The coolant ports were blocked for a couple reasons. One is to remove another heat source from the TB (air temp) and second, when the SC is removed the coolant does not have to be drained.

The LIM was worked over by Willwren and I have no idea what grit he used to clean it up. If I had to guess, he used his air tools.

The cast pan is sitting in my garage right now. It is from a GP and will not work on a 2k+ bonneville due to the motor mount.