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Old 12-12-2008, 08:54 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by Vettezuki View Post
I meant that with the deepest of respect yo. I grew up around old people, namely my pa who is 80 now. Not only do they say the darndest things, they know stuff from being around that I don't. That's what I meant.




That's why I'm quite suspicious about the real specs on the heads. All I know is that they were 4.8L truck heads that were milled and majorly ported. I don't know the mill specs.



I've run Sea Foam (nasty solvent) into the running engine right through the intake. I've done this on some cars like my brothers Tacoma, and holy mother of god the crap that came out the tail pipe for like 30 minutes was amazing, and it absolutely ran better after. On the Vette, almost nothing. Given the nature of water and heat and the nature of aluminum, water spray scares me a bit, I ain't gonna lie.




I'll look for my sheet from the last pull. It's on Vettemod I think. It's totally in line with Gen III idealized A/F curves . . . according to the pointy heads that saw it. Certainly leaner than the olden days of carburated iron blocks Imma guess'n.



What's two ranges lower than Iridium?





I'll see if I can call the tuner and have him pull up the program. I just remember that he was fairly surprised that's all he could put in. I want to say he expected to put in like 32 degrees???




This sounds great. I was planning to put headers on next year, maybe spring or so. If I'm going to pull the heads, I think I'd like to put the Sodium Filled valves I have in, change the rockers to some gucci ones and maybe even the lifters to those trick Caddy ones developed for their racing team. Poof, we're talking some scratch now. I'll pay you in all the beer and pizza you can handle . . . after working.

NOTE: The tuner offered to retune my Vette for free. To be honest, the place we used was having some screwy issues with its A/F equipment. It took all day and he said usually he can dial in an LSx in a couple hours and like 5 pulls. I did over 20. He said he got the best it could be at that time, but offered a free re-tune cuz he's a swell guy. When we dynoed at Dynamax, Richard said it had been well tuned so I don't suspect bad tuning, but something fundamental with the engine setup itself, namely higher than advertised compression . . . My point is that I wanted to do these other mods like headers, rockers and maybe lifters, before retuning. I'm also running Torco now, and that's ok. I wasn't running it during the original tune. I'd love to get to 450WHP on my N/A 346 so I can harass Sean and his pullied Cobra even more.



Ruh-roh. Que es quench?




Hell, I'm saying that it's at best incomplete.




I'll check but I don't think so. I remember they were gal durned big and rectangular. The assembler and installer of my swap (ls1z28) said they had gone absolutely as far as they could with the porting as I recall.

Quench= is the distance between the top of the piston to flat portion of the head. If it is too wide you will get detonation. .045 is considered optimum, but I have .052 and I have NO issues.

I was hoping to get a picture of the CHAMBER not the ports.



You are going to be there Sat nite? We could converse then.


If you ever compare me to old people again.................you get the picture.
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