Another 9 second Hellion car/ now with “predator” 5.2/GT 350 heads

[Dennisn]

Did they tell why it was lifting the heads ?
Or was it a bad head gasket ?

I asked but he didn’t say. I’ve heard could be if not enough Assy lube. Heard they make new washers, if original ones spin while torquing could skew the reading. Maybe I should’ve decked the heads when I had head studs installed originally, One of the reasons I sent the whole long block. This is what they specialize in. Let them do everything and leave nothing to chance.

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[olaosunt]

Had to replace broken turbo support shafts .

 

[olaosunt]

New exhaust wrap.

 

[olaosunt]

And she is alive !

Money shot

 

[olaosunt]

He is dealing with some exhaust leaks but at least motor is running !

 

[gimmie11s]

Very exciting

Go give her the beating she deserves!

 

[olaosunt]

No , not I .

I am done beating up on her .

 

[olaosunt]

First car wash since all back together

 

[olaosunt]

But having issues with those damn aerospace brakes .
Since I installed then they have changed the descriptions of their website to say manual brakes required .
The kit shipped without instructions and we spent weeks calling and ordering additional parts to make it work .
Brake pedal was soft there was no way I would have felt safe relying on it to slow down from 150+ mph .
Line lock also quit working I had Joe install the JPC line lock .
Since I had invested so much in it I had even considered the manual brakes
but It started making scraping noises today . I think I am done with them and just going back to the stock brakes .
The street front are nice and install was straight forward so I may leave them as they are lighter than the stock non brembo

It would be hard selling a car without a handbrake anyway !

 

[olaosunt]

Should have the car back in a week and can’t wait to be able to drive it .

Brakes are “fixed” for now but will still be going back to the stock rears .

Joe will be delivering car back(He is 6 hours away in Michigan) on a flat bed with all my other spare “parts “ lol.
I am hoping I can salvage some of those parts including the GT 350 heads and block/pistons/rods .

He said the block ,rods and bearings look ok on inspection but I plan to have BES check them out.

If the block is good I will have them do the 12mm head stud conversion. If the rods and pistons also check out then I may be able to rebuild the short block or long block if the heads can be fixed too .
Head cam journals look good but the valves will probably need repacked .

Considering also using the rods to rebuild my GT 350(bent rods ) . May be I can even use the pistons (if they check out) but not sure I want to go down on the compression in the Voodoo.

I could then sell the sleeved block if it check out.

 

[olaosunt]

Got the car back this weekend .
Doing some street logs to dial in the new cams (14 mm lift ) . Car runs great so far but as you can imagine I am scared of breaking this one .

One WOT log 2500-5500 so far in third gear and looks good to me .

Will probably have to do any 7500 /WOT pulls on a dyno ... but I am sacred to put the car back one one .

 

[olaosunt]

I sent the block /pistons and rods to L&am to see if anything could be salvaged and to convert the block to 12 mm head studs if it was usable .

Below is a screen shot of what they found .
....interesting to say the least .
Not here to bash anyone but needless to say I won’t be returning to builder for any more engines
Hopefully no one will be building me any more motors except RPG when they get the Voodoo long block -yes , bent some rods on that one . Like someone said I could break a ball bearing in a rubber house !

 

[Barrel]

If you didn't have bad luck you'd have no luck at all.

 

[olaosunt]

True ... but you know as they teach us in the army you always have to “hunt the good stuff “
Heck crank could have failed at 150 mph instead of on the dyno .
That would have made a bad day !

 

[olaosunt]

Just need to get the tune dialed in on this one and bail !

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