ATTN: Black Foxbody Mustang 5.0

[Caleb]

with Chrome Mag wheels.

Your shit is more than likely stock and slow.

P.S. Don't Rev at me on Blairs ferry to look cool, you'll be left looking at my tail lights :-)


Story: A couple days ago, I was waiting to turn on to Blairsferry by the walmart/metro buffet intersection road when I noticed a Black Fox Body Mustang with the 5.0 badge and nice looking wheels. I turned and proceeded to do my thing and just put doing the speed limit about a 1/4 mile down the road from said intersection. I looked in my rear view mirror and noticed the mustang probably doing 45 obviously catching up to me beings hes getting up to me decently quick.

He decided to give me the once over and then drop it into gear and mash it and it wasn't even impressive at all. Then he preceded to merge in front of a car in front of me. I didn't have that shit, so i just put it in second to get up a little and mashed it back ( broke the tires loose, just to have a little fun ) and they looked over seemingly impressed and decided to follow me out on to blairsferry passed Edgewood Rd on a Two way. That part was annoying, but bleh I would have smoked their shit. ( metaphorically speaking for the smart asses out there :-) ). I'm in the mood for racing since that lol.

Also got one of the 350 blocks dropped off at D&R for my 2nd engine build to see if the block is good. If it is, watch out for a little fun car coming through hopefully by the end of summer :-)

[LT1Dan]

Hatch or Notch?

The only one I know of on the board thats here in town is a black hatch but I'm pretty sure he was in CF working all day.

Either way, Mustangs are slow and have no chance against GM power. ;)

[Deimos]

Lol you keep tabs on everyone Dan?

[LT1Dan]

Lol you keep tabs on everyone Dan?

Haha No I was actually talking to him (88blackGT) today. I'm on vacation with nowhere to go so I was looking for someone to hang out with this afternoon. Now that you said something, it sounds like I'm stalking him. lol

[AutoMods]

dan has live gps data on all mustangs in the area

[Deimos]

this was like two days ago when this happened to caleb

[Caleb]

Yeah should have specified it was a couple of days ago, but I'm pretty sure it was the Hatch style, but not 100% on that. Didn't care enough to scope his car with other cars in front of me.

[LT1Dan]

dan has live gps data on all mustangs in the area

You said you wouldn't tell anyone.

[Deimos]

whatever happened to the guy with the sn95 style mustang that was black with a supercharger?

[LT1Dan]

whatever happened to the guy with the sn95 style mustang that was black with a supercharger?

The one that runs around with us (SIN)? Thats Johnnys brother. He still has it. He goes to school up in CF so he's not around as often but it should be out this summer I'm sure.

[Deimos]

Yeah but did he own it ike 8 or ten years ago?

[LT1Dan]

Yeah but did he own it ike 8 or ten years ago?

Oooohh, No way. Two years now I think. 8-10 years ago I barely had my school permit, so I didn't know anything. (I still don't but thats a different story.)

[black88gt]

Mine hasnt left the garage but if I see you I'll be sure to rev obnoxiously and do a ricer flyby. Fuck y'alls mullets

[Caleb]

Hahaha, ok. :-D

[Domestic Disturbance]

it was definitely 88blackgt that ricer fuck

[stangvortech]

lol wow did you get your first rev? freak out much?

[JustinS]

it was definitely 88blackgt that ricer fuck

hahaha, actually made me chuckle.

[Deimos]

I think EZ money is who I was talking about.

[EZ MONEY]

I think EZ money is who I was talking about.

??? Me??? None of my cars have ever been in Iowa before

[Deimos]

Lol yeah it wasn't you

[EZ MONEY]

LOL no but Ill be back soon with the notch and its new setup. Kinda miss the old days back in 04/05 when everyone used to meet up on 1st ave with Jesse and his Evo and drive in a big ass pack and the choppers always spot lighted us.
Hows the racing scene now? Im sure its died down alot

[JustinS]

What did you used to own back then?

[EZ MONEY]

98 Trans Am WS6

[Deimos]

the red one?

[EZ MONEY]

No mine was Black,it was just boltons nothing special. Heres a comp vid that was made back then, theres a scene of me racing a C5 Vette @ 1 min 20 secs into the vid
http://www.streetfire.net/video/street-racing-video-preview-from-cedar-rapids-iow_13882.htm

[JustinS]

Black ws6 that was on the bottle? If that's right I think I remember you lol.

That vid brings back a ton of memories!

[Deimos]

the dude that worked at walmart in the auto center?

[EZ MONEY]

Yeah with a bottle lol.

Yeah at walmart

[DustinsDuster]

whats your name? i think i remember you.

[EZ MONEY]

You remember me Dustin, we've talked before.
Zach

[DustinsDuster]

thats what i was thinking. cant want to see the notch running around.

[EZ MONEY]

Im actually buying a house out in Marion, Ill be back here in Iowa in 2 more years. I have a 12 month deployment to Afganistan coming up in April and then a year left after that still in Hawaii and Im out of the military for good. Its been a long 5 years I tell you lol.

Anyhow sorry for thread jacking lol.

I plan on keeping the Notch for a very long time so Im sure Ill be out and about once Im back in Iowa for good.

[Drifte]

Oh man the vid starts off with a race against seth in his old GST, after that I knew it was gonna be a classic. Looks like the STI/Evo race was on that shitty road by general mills. Damn that one does take me back.

[Caleb]

lol wow did you get your first rev? freak out much?

Its not my first rev sir lol and no freak out. Just a call out to a slow Mustang. Just in the spring mood to get the cars out and messing around. Gonna be a fun summer.

[Caleb]

Bah, was out messing around tonight and my white turd is still having hesitation under hard acceleration from a dig. Ive tried an a notch up for an earlier acceleration pump shot, and no fix. Seems to be running out of gas. I stomp on it in first and it was squirrely and strong, and when i went in second, it started mumbling and not wanting to go and I left off and gave it a shot of gas with the pedal and it stabilized a bit and I let off and it smoothed out. I googled the issue and the carb is still at stock float levels and proper 5.5psi for the carb. I was thinking step up springs and raise the float levels just a bit because this was one of the things to check for hard acceleration issues. The Jets have been balanced, 4% leaner on cruise and 4% richer on acceleration from stock, and the plugs are still burning great since changing it. But if I changed the float levels, how much should I raise it to have it at a safe haven? a Few mm's?

[AutoMods]

makes me glad i have fuel injection

[Domestic Disturbance]

makes me glad i have fuel injection

Haha I like that answer

[Caleb]

Well shit, you guys are worthless to me lol...

[Domestic Disturbance]

I figured out how to fix your setup :cool:
http://www.fuelairspark.com/ezefi/default.asp

[Caleb]

Yeah If I had an extra $1900 laying around to just outright buy it, I would consider it. So I'm just doing trial and errors right now, I changed to a stiffer step up spring and took the car out and launched the piss out of it multiple times from a dead stop and stalling it out as well, so far it hasn't given me the same real bad hesitation shit like it was before. I'm still skeptical so I'll keep tinkering with it and experimenting. Last thing I wanna do is take it to the track when they open to have another disappointing day up there. I hate getting in one low 13 second pass with problems. I know the bitch has at least a mid to low 12 in it with a good launch and slicks and no stupid issues.

[AutoMods]

i'm not sure if this applies to a carbed cars but the cars i have seen do not bog if they are a little bit off on the mixture.

It takes afr's in the 9's area to make dsm's bog unless its running high boost. perhaps harder to make an NA car bog. My ls1 I have never made it bog by running rich. On the ls1 I can definitely feel the loss in power in the high 9's afrs but it still doesn't bog. Never played with the 8's because thats getting ridiculous. I aim for low 11's. Being a naturally aspirated car you should aim for maybe mid 12's afrs. As for running lean, no bogging either. I notice idle stumbling leaner then 18:1 but I don't play with leaning it out at wot because its dangerous.

My point is that i'd guess your fuel would have to be probably be at least 15% from normal to make it bog. I noticed you mentioned making a 4% change above.

Once you get spoiled with great tuning tools like widebands and logging everything on your laptop and sitting in your living room changing your tune its hard to imagine doing it any other way. I mentioned it before but I have $130 Innovate widebands here, might be a good investment for you. Not sure how many carb guys run widebands. Seems odd to me for a carbed car to have a wideband because its old school mixed with a modern tuning tool. don't see why it wouldn't be helpful though.

[z28z34man]

I want a wide band on my camaro and i would like to log a few other parameters with it.

also an fyi i have heard most carb issues that people can't figure out are timing issues

[Caleb]

I may look at a wide band, probably wouldn't be a bad idea with my near future build coming up. I'll look into it.

[Deimos]

you better build something a fuel injected supercharged monster, you're gonna need it...

[Caleb]

Purchased a return bypass fuel regulator, see if this fixes the issues, I'll keep to updated Friday :-). My guess its vapor lock since its only a dead end regulator. Well see.