Thanks for the compliments. I have a constant need to make things. You guys should see the cart I'm building at work for my set up techs. I have over $2500 into a 36*24" cart on wheels. I weighs at least 300lbs right now and i dropped it off the forklift yesterday from 5 feet up. It landed right on the casters. No a scratch in the wheels. I guess $600 in four casters was worth it. It should handle 5000lbs easy. But its tricked out with tool holders everywhere.

No the car is the same. I was getting ready to finish the firewall and my 86 to a crap. Thought it was the fuel pump but after replacing it, nope. Then the guy who built the truck fabbed brackets to hold the fuel tanks in. They weren't made to ever come out since it has new tanks. I can't check the lines or pick up. So I bolted my fuel cell in the back. then made a length of braided stainless line. It ran for about 20 min. and died. No fuel again. WTF In my hurry to hook it up I didn't install a filter. I think fuel cell foam got sucked up. I hope. But when I looked for my filter I realized it was at my buddies on the LS Ram project. He brought it back with my Holley Blue. So this weekend first thing i'm converting to an electric pump and probably cutting the 1/4"x2" plate straps the PO made for the tanks.

 

Been a month or so since you posted an update, just wondering if anythings going on?

 

I got this new gauge. Thats about it. OVERTIME is still in full effect. I had about a day and a half off. I will get halloween off but that is to take the kids trick or treating. Then the next day off is my sons birthday party. And the one after that I need to do some leaves. Seriously 12-14 hrs everyday. I can't take much more. But we are going back to 8's soon. AEM Wideband Fail-Safe - Bing Videos


This bad boy does it all. A/F and vac/boost. The failsafe mode trips a ground lead that can either make the ground or cut it depending on how it programmed. So you put your foot down on that wild new 572 you got and the carb is a bit off and it goes lean at 5g. This gauge can be wired to cut the ground to your MSD and kill the ignition instantly saving the motor. Or it could trip a two step and turn on a rev limiter. On a turbo app. it can dump the boost by tripping the boost controller. The way I want to run it will be with a Megasquirt ECU and it will trigger the computer to pull 1.5* of timing and add 1% of to the fuel table across the board. Pretty cool huh?

 

Yeah that sounds pretty sweet. Does that just basically have an o2 sensor and get its info from there?

 

02 plus a vac gauge. It also gets a signal from the tack for datalogging. It does that all on its own. The gauge keeps a two hour loop running log. So hook up a laptop and you can see where it was lean and what the vac level was.

 

Got my gauge today. It ws on the steps when I left for work. So on lunch I came home and grabbed a header and set off to install the bung after work.

Here is what came in the box. The sensor, bung, vac tubing,four faces, two bezels, and a wiring harness that could be on a OEM. It's that nice.


First thing was to get the rust off.


Then I punched a hole with a unibit. I measured the step on the bung and then painted the step on the bit where i needed to stop. This was a perfect press fit.


Anyone know this guy? The stig?



No really its me. Hi guys.


Then I shoved this in my bung hole. (insert joke here)


From the inside. The instructions say the O2 sensor has to be at 10* to the horizon to let any moister roll out of it instead of in. I mocked it up on the motor at lunch, I hope I got this right. Setting the header on the table using the bottom two primaries showed the same centerline I had when I mocked it up. So I used a protractor (yes I have a machinist one in my box at work) to set the pitch to 10*. This is eyeball not laidout perfect but damn close.


Ta Da! Finished real nice for an amateur TIG welder, no?



Now to program the gauge and get the car running to see how it works. I think I'm going to get a non weld style bung to install this in my truck for some tuning. The non weld style is basically a band clamp with a hole and a gasket. 35 bucks though. I can make it for about that much though so I will buy it.

 

Bungs are pretty inexpensive, why not just put one in your truck with a cap? My daily driver will get one when I put in the headers so that I can hook my wide-band up to tune. I don't want or need it all the time so the bung will just be capped when I'm not tuning.

 

The truck has manifolds and a single exhaust. I'm pretty sure the studs will break when I try an pull it to drill the hole. The bung will have a plug in it when I'm done though. I'm with you on that. I make buy another bung for the other side of the Camaro so I can read both. Curiosity drives that move though. I need to make up my mind before I wrap the headers though. The bungs are cheap but the cost to ship it is the same as the part. I believe Summit has a handling charge of somewhere around $10. I will need to save up again and get a few other things to make that a better deal.

 

Very nice Tig work, better then i can do thats for sure.

 

I guess I'm spoiled living in metro Detroit. There are any number of places I could just drive over and pick one up. I'm so envious of the tig welding! Nice job, it looks great.