Ahale's 94 Build thread

[ahale2772]

I'd sure like to find a solution that would not kill this OD clutch gear

 

[ARbowhunter7]

I'd sure like to find a solution that would not kill this OD clutch gear

Seriously, call Peter at SBC or Dan @ Valair.

 

[Smokem]

The only sure fire way not to avoid failures in the NV4500, only abuse the power in 4th gear, period.

 

[Lostnwalmart]

The only sure fire way not to avoid failures in the NV4500, only abuse the power in 4th gear, period.

Truth I went through more 3rd and 5th gears than I like to admit

 

[ahale2772]

so, keeping the abuse to 4th, is that an accurate place to dyno the truck from?


or not....?

 

[Dazed&Confused]

Yes fourth is direct and the strongest gear. Dave Dunbar told me years ago to always dyno in direct.

 

[ChuMaDD]

Dodge Gear ratios:
1 2 3 4 5 R
5.61 3.04 1.67 1.00 0.73 5.61 (to 1997) 5.04 (1997 on)

 

[ahale2772]

I know its direct just didn't know 4th was ideal on an inertia dyno

 

[ahale2772]

did a bit of highway racing last night, a few 45-120 pulls against my buddies 06 Cr

truck spools like garbage when you romp on it, laying into it slow is the only way to get it to spool reasonably. I need to play around with afc spring to see if I can tune it to the point that it will ride the "line" itself. apprently its fueling a dark haze all the way through a wot pull, good, but it still feels like its nosing off a tad.

It would help if i had some gauges, i think i'll throw a half assed boost gauge on today

Going to give it a tad more timing today, I'm at 20 Right now, thinking 22, or 23

it was also quite interesting when my throttle stuck open at about 110mph, Either the gov arm fell under the afc foot, or my throttle linkage bound up somehow, revs took off on their own, finally fixed itself as i tried to limp off the highway. I'll pull the afc apart today and see if i can see any evidence of the rack sticking open.

I do miss the insta-spool of my 62, this 68 is nice, but its clearly big.

 

[ARbowhunter7]

All that and no gauges???!!! Mother Efffff...

W gears are you running? My truck would probably have to turn 7k rpm to hit 120 mph.

And what are the specs on the 468?

 

[ahale2772]

3.55 gears, 235/85 tires 72mph is about 2000rpm on the highway. at 120 the tach had been well past 3500 rpm for a while, still pulling HARD

kind of made it a personal mission to get as far as i could without guages.

its a FMW 67.7/83/.9

Ive been playing around with some tuning, turns out the large gov spring out of a 175 hp ppump works well as an afc spring, total length is about 1/4 inch longer than a 160pump afc spring, and with the starwheel almost bottomed, I can get full rack at about 35 psi, starwheel up can advance it to full rack at about 50 psi (testing on shop air). looks like my rack did stick open, the bottom of the afc foot had a bit of a nick on it.

either way this turbo will not come up on plane at all untill about 1900rpm, starts to sing at about 2200

guages are being ordered this week, need to find a not so typical way of mouthing them the burn marks on the head near the exhaust flange make me thing egt's are HOT

 

[ahale2772]

Stock bumper back on the truck... Need to clean the old girl up and make her look a little bit more classy

New clutch just arrived Via ups, very greatfull to kenneys for shipping one out quick.

Next good day ill throw it in.

 

[ChuMaDD]

Stock bumper back on the truck... Need to clean the old girl up and make her look a little bit more classy

New clutch just arrived Via ups, very greatfull to kenneys for shipping one out quick.

Next good day ill throw it in.

Hope it works out the way it should this time, nice to see people stand by their product :Cheer:

 

[ahale2772]

Hope it works out the way it should this time, nice to see people stand by their product :Cheer:

agreed... he even paid for return shipping, although i would have been happy to just because he helped me out.

 

[ahale2772]

in her natural habitat....

NV is out, new record of 45 mintues LOL

the new clutch is allready in, pedal feel is improved (threw the bell housing on quick with the input)

planning to swap cases tonight, put my 4x4 main shaft in the 2wd case

new 5thgear nut is coming tomorrow, will go together with the splined retainer I ordered a while back

hard to tell from the pics, but there is some serious scoring, looks like the center plate wasnt releasing well, inner buttons facing the centerplate are not that worn, flywheel and PP side are bad.

 

[ahale2772]

the full 5speed setup is forsale/trade in the swap meet section, looking to go back to a auto.

 

[Dazed&Confused]

Lol make up your mind already. :hehe:

 

[ahale2772]

dont even get me started lol

 

[oldestof11]

Can't beat a properly setup auto for driving.

 

[ahale2772]

the same can be said for a standard in certain applications, but I'm over it