Great. Thanks, my friend.

As for the ignition system, I personally have the Wingz Performance coil-on-plug system as it is priced nearly the same as the Spoolin Up system.

 

OK. This weekend was pretty good. I was able to get a nice speed density intake fabbed up by Archie @ PSI in Tucson, Arizona to go with the rest of the engine bay them. I believe the engine bay is coming along rather nicely. The only thing remaining that I can see to do is replace the bland looking black vacuum lines with blue vacuum lines and the black wires protector sleeves with blue protector sleeves. I was also thinking about removing the windshield wiper fluid reservior since I never use it. Well, here are some updated pictures of the progress made.

 

http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...nt=exhaust.mp4

And here is a short video of the exhaust note for the GSC S2 cams doing their "blop, blop, blopping".

I am not sure how to get the video to imbed in the thread like I have seen others. Maybe it is because I use Photobucket, right?

 

Lastly,

Tom made a few tweaks with the pump 91-octane "water" tune yesterday. It was nearly 100-degrees during this time as it is that time of the year in Arizona. I am pretty impressed with the results and cannot wait until I start the E85 tune which should be just after Memorial Day.

I am not trying to extract every last ounce of power from this fuel as the condition and quality could get worse as the temperature increases. Tom told me that there is plenty left on the table (~ 430whp safely). We will more than likely do 1-2 more pulls once I put in new spark plugs that are gapped at .022 as well as change from the Amsoil break-in engine oil that is presently in the engine.

 

Clean your inline filter again..

 

I had it cleaned four days ago, my friend. It was is great condition.

 

Those are great #s on that **** water you guys call 91. Your gonna **** yourself in the difference the e85 will make. Can't wait to see those #s and good job guys.

 

the car will for sure wake up on e85, the only downside is its only got 1 walbro pump, so its going to be bottlenecked by about 520whp or about.

I like that blue theme you got going on in that engine bay.. looks good Levar.

Archie definitely helped us big time.. wired in the aem, helped with adjusting the idle screw, fabricating parts, putting in plugs, boost leak test, etc.

 

What? He has all that cool **** and he still didn't get the right fueling? Damn it Levar!!!!!

 

What he said, n I agree valve cover looks pretty good.

 

I, too, am very, very excited about what I know is in stored for Megatron. I am glad, from a learning perspective, that I found out just how horrible the 91-octane is here in my part of southern Arizona. I feel bad for those V8 guys that read the brochure and think they are making the "printed" power. I had this RX-7 blast past me with his turbo spooling like crazy as I was preparing to make a turn. The only thing that came to mind was, "Just wait buddy."

As for the fueling, well..., that was an exercise in learning, my friend. When I was addressing the fuel aspect of the build, the DW301 was just coming out and everyone was ranting and raving on what it was capable of doing. I saw these results from Afghanistan and the price caught my attention. Fuel pump bought immediately. Well, shortly after that, the negative results started to surface and I knew that my fuel set up was not as strong as I would prefer. The decision, see what I can make with the fuel pump. And how much power did I make? Zero horsepower as the pump failed on me before I could even get a baseline tune done. The quick fix was to throw a single Walbro 255lph just so that I could bring him home. At this point in time, a double pumper will be purchased and I will go ahead and install the Magnus 100cfm fuel rail that is still sitting in my garage.

 

Hey, my friend. I see you found the thread. As for the valve cover, I spray painted that joker over the weekend. I used two light coats of engine primer and about 4-5 coats of Old Ford Blue high temperature paint. Thanks for the kudos.

 

Without yourself and Archie helping me along the way, none of this would be possible, my friend.

For the time being, I know my fuel set-up is limited and I will settle for 500whp until I buy that double pumper from you. I have a few gifts to buy for my Queen first. Cursedsm knows my technique (remember the turbo).

As for the blue, it was just something that stuck on me as I thought about how I would want Megatron to look.

 

I love the effort you put into doing everything the proper way. Megatron will be a beast! BTW this reminds me of Calvin Johnson from the Detroit lions because his nick name is Megatron too lol.

 

I really appreciate the kind words, my friend. Yes, the name Megatron sort of grew on me. My wife even calls the car that. I am pretty geeky and I have been thinking of ways for my car alart to make the "transform" sound when I deactivate the alarm.

I do my best to do things right the first time based on what I have researched. As you can see, things and plans change with results that we receive from the rest of the community and I can deal with that. I have learned so much from this build and it excites me that I can now contribute to others from firsthand experience instead of what I have heard from "x" and "y" and "z".