LS Crown Vic update

[Motorhead350]

Oh my.......

[Seneca]

Kewl! Making progress, looking good man

[71cyclone]

This is SANITARIUM INSANE MADNESS with Genius ENGINEERING [ Yes ,the Fastest Marauder in the world is Bow tie powered] and you are soon to be Top Gun in the Panther Dept ..

[CameronVic]

Fab guy threw his back out last month. He's back at it now. (It's just tacked in place now)

[massacre]

Looking good Cameron!

[71cyclone]

Nice/ Talk about Fabrication !!!!!!

[Zack]

I like your work because you incorporate functionality with the finness of a hillbilly.

My kind of Hot Rodding!!

[justbob]

Some damn good fabbin!


Self proclaimed Builder Of Badassery.

Buy it, Break it, Build it BETTER.
"Since 2004"

[Bulldog5.0]

Pretty fricken sweet!

[sailsmen]

I think you should change the name to Rail Crown Vic.

Don't forget the parachute!

[NTHE10s]

Anymore updates?

[CameronVic]

Busy with life, and it's cold. I have the car back in my garage. Putting a buddy's transmisison back together, and taking care of a few other things. The car needs oil lines, wastegate and bov lines, and a bunch of other little stuff. When it warms up, I'll get the motivation to mess with it, but it's not far off!

[71cyclone]

Busy with life, and it's cold. I have the car back in my garage. Putting a buddy's transmisison back together, and taking care of a few other things. The car needs oil lines, wastegate and bov lines, and a bunch of other little stuff. When it warms up, I'll get the motivation to mess with it, but it's not far off!

'' Blue Oval Suitt wearin a Red Bow TIE !!!''

[CameronVic]

Well I finally got the car running 2 months ago. I went to LS fest in early september with a completely untested setup (mistake), was fighting overboost issues. Long story short, I lifted the heads (but didn't confirm that until the next weekend at the track, I'll get to that).

I thought I might have too much wastegate spring in, so I took the spring inner springs out, leaving just the larger springs (should have made like 10-12). So I went to test it out, with less spring, only to find out the boost was just all over the place. It made less boost, but it would fall, and rise, and fall, etc.

Come to find out I damaged one of the wastegate's diaphragm's when I took the inner springs out. Then I found out I lifted both heads. So I parked the car for like a month and took care of life duties.

Finally got time to do the head gaskets like a month ago.

Dark spots are combustion going into the coolant:





In the mean time, I got the injectors flowed, cleaned, then re flowed. Painted the intake, got a new diaphragm, then went for a test drive. STILL HAVE BOOST ISSUES. WTF I think?! So i try a few things, nothing works.
Fast forward to today:

Finally, a good friend of mine that knows a lot more than me suggest I change the boost reference port from the compressor to the intake (my vacuum port log). I also decided I was going to put the inner springs back in because using the intake as a reference, and fixing a few other issues I had, on paper, it should make like 15-18 psi.

I have a very safe amount of timing in the tune at those manifold pressures, so I turned overboost protection basically off (set it to 28psi), and went and did a hit. Boost comes in, hits like 19psi, and falls to 16-17 and stays. Success!! (relative term)

I planned on going to Beech Bend today, but the track is closed for paving repairs on the property. So my last chance before the winter is next weekend (assuming they allow test and tune passes during the big thanksgiving weekend bracket event)

[71cyclone]

And You are still the baddest" Boosted" Vic man on the PLANET ..