MR HYDE IS COMING TO LIFE

[f5journal]

[Dr Jkel]

Originally Posted by f5journal

That is my exact feeling....I am waiting on the fuel injection lower and upper air intakes along with the risers to get back from the Vendor....The are flattening ( Milling) all the appropriate areas flat and then re-chroming the pieces......They told me it would take about 2 weeks but I am leaning more towards 3 but wouldn't be surprised if it took a month if you know what I mean.....This Friday will be one week.

[f5journal]

Thanks for the update. I look forward to meeting you at CF5. I noticed your post about maybe leaving on Tuesday. My wife and I were beginning to think the same after realizing the length of the drive and the logistics of filling up 200 Camaros at one exit :-). I still may just join the CamaroSpike pack

[f5journal]

Bump

I know if you had anything to add you would. I just wanted to move the thread back up

[Dr Jkel]

WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

I am still waiting on the fuel injection unit.......Those people really don't have a clue of what is going on over there. I have called and each time I call I get a different story. One guy says it shipped last Monday but can not provide a tracking number, one guy says it is still in Chrome and no one really knows if the machine work has been done.

I am waiting on a call from the owner right now so we will see what story he comes up with....Just really frustrating.

[garcmol]

How long has this been going on???

[Dr Jkel]

Well about 5 weeks or so ago I sent the fuel inection unit back because of the vacuum leaks. I sent it back around the end of February and was told 2 weeks...yeah right.

Now no one seems to know what is going on so now I am waiting on the Owner to call me....He was unavailable a little while ago when I called them.....

[Dr Jkel]

The SAGA continues.....I finally got the fuel injection unit back.............

We unpackaged it and it looked "OK" but was in no way show quality chrome by my standards. I ordered some new intake manifold gasket cause they sent me the wrong ones...go figure.

Once the new gaskets got here Saturday...Matt came over and we were going to install it and get it running.

Since I am a little cripped up right now from my surgery, Matt brought a friend with him...( Drag Racer) who know alot about performance and motors.

Initially they checked the "flatness" of the intake to see if the surface that bolts to the heads was flat/straight.......Yep you guesses it........it was not and dipped in at the runners about a 1/4" out from the middle. This would have cause a massive vacuum leak....kinda the reason I sent it back in the first place....

Then they started measuring the intake runners and the head ports........simply do not line up properly

The heas I have on this motor are Fast Burn heads and have big ports...the intake manifold has small ports. Basically it is not made for these type heads.

At this point I simply want to get a match.......Matt and Tim say they can " Make it Work" but if anything ever went wrong then I would be stuck where I am at and would have to have it trailered home....A thought I didn't like in the least little bit.

So then they started measuring everything........this truck would have never ran like it was designed to....simply not enough air flow into the motor. Sure the motor is capable of making near 500 hp but I would be lucky to get 300..... Of course I was extremely upset...wait 3 months and still not right.

So today I called Street and Performance and basically told them this system will not work and I wanted to return it........I can not return the wiring or computer since we had modified it to work properly. They said once they get it back they will check it out to see if it has any damage and refund accordingly...whatever that means.

Matt did some checking and came up with an Intake manifold that is made for Fast Burn heads and that is fuel injected, a 1200 cfm throttle body, fuel rails, IAC sensor, TPC sensor plus the appropriate hardware to install it......

Should take a week or so to get......

The only issues I have are the new Intake manifold will not be chrome and it will look like a carburated engine with a standard type air cleaner on it. Looks like I will have to get it powder coated because of cost and time but at this point if it works properly then I will be good with that.

So they got the transmission installed, new cross member installed and all we are waiting on now is the new stuff.

One day, I promise, I will drive this truck.

[Dr Jkel]

Here are some pictures of the new stuff we are ordering.

[garcmol]

That will give it the retro/period look and still have the benifit of a modern fuel injection. Just trying to find a silver lining in here for you.

Glad your doing better and no more pain in your shoulder. Maybe some aches but they'll go away.

[Dr Jkel]

Yeah....feelling a little better just kinda sore but that is to be expected.

I am looking at air cleaners now to see what is available.

[f5journal]

Originally Posted by Dr Jkel

Yeah....feelling a little better just kinda sore but that is to be expected.

I am looking at air cleaners now to see what is available.

Air cleaners....that was going tobe my comment. Hopefully you can find something very cool that does not simply have the open element 69-70 Chevy look. Unless you just want to go there.

edit: like maybe ...

[Dr Jkel]

Originally Posted by f5journal

Air cleaners....that was going tobe my comment. Hopefully you can find something very cool that does not simply have the open element 69-70 Chevy look. Unless you just want to go there.

edit: like maybe ...

F5....do you have any suggestions or websites I could look at. My basic knowledge only knows the old round kind.

[f5journal]

I just went to Jegs and found those. If I see anything else Ill let you know. I think one is Holley or Edelbrock, the other was Mr. Gasket I think