had the glow plug controller unplugged for a couple days, i set van up with a battery tender plug because it doesnt get driven all that often and needed something to maintain the battery anyway. it does show as fully charged and maintaining now so thats good. i replaced controller yesterday but havent looked at it.
racetruck business;
i painted the little turbo mount i made, its oringed and the drain threads into the bottom of it (stays in if turbo is pulled) - kind of against my better judgment i made a hardline for it. really shouldnt because it goes to the oil pan and engine vibrates, should have a flex section, but its just a bad route to get it to there, too many hard bends it needs to do to get there and stay going downhill. the fitting in the pan is right by the engine mount so it should move "that" much, its soft aluminum so its not soo rigid but i think it will anneal if it moved back and forth too much and eventually break.
5" down pipe parts should be here this week, going to cost over 500bux just to get out of the engine bay
a 4" dump out the hood would have been way cheaper lol
need to order another 46mm waste gate(or two) or sandblast the housing on the one i have that is...pink, and then run dumps from each of them somewhere? prob just down thru the splash guard.
headers gonna come off one last time, need to weld o2 bungs at the collector of each, was waiting till i had more stuff to weld and then they can go back on for the last time.
trying to get underhood all buttoned up and then onto fuel system. my 1200c injectors are cleaned and all sealed up nice - prob going to stay that way. i'll grab some larger ones when im closer to startup.
i think im going to end up doing some sort of a surge tank setup.
for a few reasons:
vs current set up (stock pump and sumped big pump) im still having issues with turning big pump on and off constantly, fuel slosh, location of big pump, and i think the check valves i have where the two Y together may be failing and causing drop in pressure, worked decent but isnt a great long term solution.
vs fuel cell - my main hangup is capacity. with the stock 26gal tank on e85 i barely make 200miles to a tank, nearest station is about 30 miles away, so no more playing when i get down to about 1/4 tank and have to worry about starving the pump. the ethanol sensor only flows so much, they make fittings to bypass some of it but bleh.
with a surge tank, i can just command the stock pump to flow low psi to keep the surge tank topped off (low psi wouldnt heat fuel up, and will have to run a return/overflow back to the stock tank). i figured i can put the ethanol sensor in the line going to the surge tank so it may skew if im swapping fuels, but would mostly just need to give it time to circulate and settle. big pump in a surge tank would almost never be starved, would gain another couple gallons of fuel capacity.
