Got it all pretty now, just waiting for a smaller charger pulley to make more boost :Brow: Have a five inch now and going to try a 4 and 1/4 inch that is going to be sent for a trail run. Got cheap and painted to brackets the same color as the water pump instead of sending them out to have them powered coated like the timing cover and intake. will make a new video in the next couple of days.
uploaded a new video with some changes I done. Changed the clamps, painted the brackets, and did some rewireing. Still no editing......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXl9_E_mfK4
In the past couple of days I learned a few things about Procharger's tech support. Like the person that set my unit up thinks, They sell you the wrong stuff on purpose so you will buy the correct parts later from them. I know it is a guessing game on a few things, but how long have they been doing this? In my case, the pulley they said would work for me was not even close. The pulley they sent was a five-inch. After a couple of other pulleys later, I found that 4.38-inch got me were I need to be.
Looks done to me! I know lots of tuning but you should be out driving it. Are you just running you bypass to atmosphere? That's how I am running mine. Waiting for Bobb M to call and tell me to come and get my motor. Wife doesn't care when he gets it done. :laugh:
My wife would be the same way. Yes, just venting it to the atomspere for now. Look at 0:42 in the last U-Tube video
Finally made myself change the oil (seven quarts) and wash the dust off to start to get ready for Bowling Green. After I made so adjustments to the BOV valve so that it will close under part thottle, I took the car around the block. Now it is making power.
Since I started this thread, I have out grown the factory block. The bandaides would not allow me to drive it on the street and something was failing. For some reason I was getting water in number seven cylinder and the crank thrust got way up there (0.028 inch) before I found it. I thought since I was having all the trouble with this block, I would do it right and start fresh with a new block. I got up the nerve and just ordered a TA block to put all my internals into. Now I wait and work on the hood ...............
At 650 N/A horsepower, I wonder how long before I am wishing I had just done this. It probably won't get beat-on that hard or often, so maybe I will be fine. If it dies, it will probably be replaced with a supercharged LSx...
It was going well for me close to the 750 horse level. It is not only the power level, it is also the RPM you turn the engine that is so hard on the factory parts. You can only do so much to the factory block then you are just wasting time and money. There are people making more power than I am NA, but turning a Procharger puts even more stress on the block. I am dedicated to keep my car as much Buick as I can. I could have bought a complete SBC aluminum engine and put it in for what just a bare-block Big Block Buick is. My thought is anyone can build a Chevy engine but it takes imagination and skill to make a BBB run well.
My son feels your pain Michael & he to ordered the block early this year. He broke 3 blocks last year & 2 the year before. He also broke a few turbo 400's. Snapped the output shaft! The Skylark weighs 4000lb & has gone a best of 9:12@150 with a fully automatic shifting by itself at 6200. Good luck with your build. We will try to get it together for BG but at this point it is probably too late for that.
John, I thought you were going to do something like this until I saw your front cover. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Buick-400-430-455-Vertex-Magneto-Pro-Comp-Tach-Plug-Wires-/270961873146 I was also hoping to make it to Bowling Green, but with a delivery of "maybe" the new block to TA somewhere at the end of September it is not going to happen. Like Rod said it has sloved all his problems and in the long run would save money. My self I would like to do what Gary K. did (distrubitor mount), if it was not for the TA cover and new Merezier Electric water pump. Now that I look back, it would be cheaper and easier to go that way. Not sure about the oil pump though. Tell us more about that set up Gary if you don't mind. ---------- Post added at 11:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:53 AM ---------- By the way, who is E-bay handle: boywondr2bhxf ?
Mike this is somewhat how are setup is although our fuel pump is twice the size. We use a drive called a Dunn drive so most mags will fit regardless of type. The Mallory and MSD have the same base measurements thankfully. The mag in your link would be between a 1.5 - 4 amp mag while we will probably end up with the 44 amp. Speed is equal to dollar spent.:grin: When your block is ready give me a shout as I will be going your way around that time.
