renegade intake? for cross fires

yes I caught them while they were still coming up making a name for themselves as with all good rep brands either they create a good product and expand into everyone else's price range or they die off for making an inferior product. You cannot expand allot of times with out having an increased cost seen good businesses go under trying. But if I switch to a tko like I want will be getting rid of mine. But there prices are still close to the same they just stopped making there lighter performance torque converters but they also came up big with the diesel crowd.

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I got the car going again, new pump had some cup plugs in the wrong locations, figured that mess out and installed the transmission with an fti esrl converter with a 3200 stall.

I also installed the second xpipe, and finished the full 3in run and installed the flowmaster 40's.

Took it for a little sunday drive, i'm trying really hard to go easy, and really hard to not spin the tires on take off!

Also summit racing had the 3200 esrl for less than fti, and it came with free shipping.

I was seriously thinking about their billet lockup with two disk lockup, but i had to cheap out.
If i went with the billet converter i would look at a manual lockup switch as well.

And the 3200 rpm stall is much nicer to drive with the aggressive transmission, much smoother, and so far i like the instant access to the powerband.

I love the video!
I love the country side you get to drive in!
AS I'm sure your aware very few 1984 corvettes sound or drive like that nore do they generally have that power.
its nice to see you post the video showing the result of actually reading the linked info,and building a well matched set of components!
(for those that might want to re-read the thread keep in mind this is the 745 th post in the thread)
and its good to see the results of what a well thought out and well assembled engine thats been thought out and built with matched, components.
yeah! a 3200 rpm stall speed.
converter wakes that up and makes the whole combo much better matched as was pointed out.
Matched too its intended power band to its intended gearing and drive train.
so few people actually think things through and do the research !
so many guys fail to do the research and find mis-matched parts and selecting parts like a cam designed to operated well above the true intended power band is always a mistake.
CONGRATS! (on building a well matched engine & drive train you can enjoy)
do you have pictures of the custom exhaust while the cars up on a lift?

After i put it back on 4 wheels i realized i should have snapped a picture, the double xpipes look pretty neat under the car, also the 3in exhaust from the rear view of the car looks pretty neat.

I'll get a good picture soon enough, i still need to get under the car to recalibrate the wideband O2 sensor before i start daily driving the car again.
I'll snap a picture then.

I also hung the mufflers lower than i had wanted to, however i lucked out on the muffler pipe bends, it clears the tires and rear springs by inches, but it let's me get the car on the road faster, looks good enough for now.

Also one extra bonus to the higher stall, it lets me tap the throttle to hear the music. (As you can hear a few times there!)

The old 2400 stall would not let me do that with out hearing the ujoints cry at me.

It's also a weird sensation when i hit the stall speed, then the car catches up to the rpm.
It almost feels like tranny slip, however if i manual shift over 3300 rpm the shifts are quick, solid, and firm.

I have also done a fair share of tire screeching take offs, however I'm trying to hold back until the converter and pump have had a good chance to breakin.

Also for the scenery, as march and april near (and now that i have a windshield mount for my phone), there are some very scenic canyon drives i'll share.

Many of those canyons roads were the inspiration for the build!

It's nearly to cold for my tires to stick, but i went for a near wot run.

Windshield is pretty nasty, sorry about that...

Not the best picture, but I snapped a quick image while I was checking my oil temp sensor...

Dual X pipes, the second xpipe was just slightly off of the original, but I was able to give it some love and got them to mate together.






It's a little sloppy right now, but it looks better at a higher angle.
Also notice how low they are, I want to bring them up to the same height as the original, and then work the tips into the correct angle.

But this gets the car on the road for now.

yes and the dual (X) pipes tend to mellow the tone, widen the torque curve, and increase scavenging efficiency from the examples I've installed and used.

Doing a rev I notice a serious mellowing at right about 2500rpm, then it begins to really change the tone to a higher pitch right about 3k.

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Video of it idling

the oil smoke at idle , your video/tail pipes are showing usually indicates worn, or improper sized valve seals, and or worn valve guides but might be a stuck pvc valve
or rings that have not seated.
btw where did you get the ( 3" x) pipes and how much $ do they cost now?
the place I used to buy them, locally,used too cost me $45 each in STAINLESS but they went out of business recently

Being down in Florida, i doubt you have seen steam coming from the exhaust before.

And yeah, from the video, it almost looks like a slight blue tint, but it's steam.

I also had the car parked all winter on an empty tank, i noticed a lot of water dripping from the exhaust, i added some fresh gas but it's going to take a fill up or two to get most of it.

Tale tale is watching the smoke dissapear showing it's steam.

That said, it's possible i'm burning a little oil, i did not rebuild the bottom end.

And the xpipe i bought from melrose, cost was about $100, and that was one of the best prices i could find for a non stamped xpipe.

Stamped stainless ones i saw going for 45-85, but the narrow type like are on my car get very pricy.
I saw them going for nearly $200...

yeah! your correct, we just don,t get low enough temps here to see moisture in exhaust gases do that, very often!

I have been having some fun, I won't upload any videos of me spinning my tires, or speeding...

However I extracted some other corvette timing tables, the 85 vette timing table has been great, tons of power and no pings.

issue is that that timing table is for cast iron heads, I have those edlebrock aluminum ones!
...so I started on a quest for a better timing table...

First one I tried was for an 89 vette, better much better... but I did get some pings at the higher rpm ranges.
I figured it was fueling, however data logging did not show it being that bad...

so I built several bins and loaded up into ebl flash.

First one and my safe bin uses the 85 timing, then I found an 86 timing table, also iron heads.
Digging more I know that late 86 introduced aluminum heads, so digging around I finally found the late 86 timing table.

it looks a little bit like the 89 table, but it's not as wild looking.

I gave it a good run, and the engine feels much smoother, power is fantastic, tons of upper end, however once I hit 4800 RPM my lack of fueling starts to show.

I still need to do the areomotive fuel regulator but for now it's real good!


I attached as a zip file, hopefully it's accepted by the system

My fueling is pretty steep, but once I have the areomotive vafpr then it may look pretty different...

Cast iron head bin also attached!

And finally the 89 spark table bin file!