Chronicles of a Lemons Daytona (Page 3 of 9)

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I just  picked up a  88 daytona  z  for  the  motor .The po  had it  set up  for  autocross and  was  running  245  50 16 tires  with  wheel  adpters.  I  bought the  car   cause  it  has  the   super 60  set  up  and have  no  use for  the  daytona  parts  all the  supension  was  replaced  and  has  probly  10   autocross  events on  it .   if  intrested  pm  me  located in jersey  next  to  philly . also  has  an  complex   homade system for  storing    boast   pressure  with   3 tanks in  rear  of   car .   I  also  have  lot  of  turbo dodge  parts   .My  curse  for   growing  up in the 80's

I thought all pressurized containers were prohibited??

And this is safe because it only contains pressurized air before the carb/FI? or its downstream tanks, which = bomb?

Sounds like the po needs to be Lemons racing.

Sounds like a Rube Goldberg contraption.  I am pretty sure I saw something like that in an old Tom & Jerry cartoon.  I am also certain that my '88 Shelby would blow in to tiny bits if I tried something like that. 

Heck, we will be happy just to get the car to debut in Houston in September!

We were  going to use the  stored boast  to  presurize  the  fuel   into  smaller  vapor   forcing it  thru the  injectors  at a  riddiculouse    rate  of   speed ,  also  for  air horn and  automatic  tire  inflation  system  we  have   spent  years  developing .

Part 12 - Turbos be damned.

Monticello is less than a month away, so i decided i should probably take a look at the car and see what it needs. I was thinking a few seals and we'd be good to go since the car was running so well after october. Ha, how stupid I can be. I knew i was in for some fun when i went to take the turbo piping off and the cold side of the turbo moved. Oh great. 1.5 hours from start and I had the engine hanging from the crane. A new personal best. Next time I'm shooting to get it out in an hour with no one else helping.

So what the hell is with the turbo. It was still boosting really well in the fall, even after the race. Well here's what i found.

The hot side was apparently welded on, and the weld cracked all the way around allowing it to float. So there's probably one of the oil leaks. I'm impressed with how well the turbo was working in this condition to be honest. But this means the turbo needed to come off. Two nuts come off clean, two snap the studs. Excellent. So now the manifold needs to come off. And since I've never had this manifold off the head before, of cource it puts up a fight. Ended up grinding off two of the frozen stripped nuts. Even the intake manifold threw a fit and I ended up cutting one of those bolts as well.

Two studs are now soaking in Kroil in the hopes that they'll play nice and come out tomorrow. On the up side, the cylinder walls still look perfect. Valves tell a different story though. I think i'm losing valve seals on a couple. debating doing those now or waiting till next race.  Tomorrow or Tuesday i'll get the bottom end opened up and take a look at the bearings. Hopefully those are still in good shape and I just reassemble and run this engine again.

Checklist for Monticello
- add oil cooler
- fix fuel lines
- fix rear brakes
- get new turbo installed
- add more air ducting to the front for cooling
- wire in new switch plate

Oh, and when you cut yourself really well on a broken hose clamp, and then discover you don't own bandages, shop towels and duck tape work even better.

Well I certainly wouldn't post anything about it if i did decide to do that.......

I am a big fan of this thread.  Keep the updates coming.

My '88 is coming along nicely.  We still hope to make Houston in June.  I am currently looking for racing seats and rollcage installers.  Let me know how that oil cooler goes.  I am pretty certain we need to do one too.

Why are all of the valves different colors?  That seems strange to me.

Rob R.

You sir, have either A: more patience than I do.  Or B: less access to bulldozers.  Car woulda been the meat in a bulldozer sandwich by now.  Kudos on not giving up.

oh right. Sorry, I occasionally insert words when reading, and read it as valve cover.

yes, the valves concern me a little. until i investigate further, i'm thinking it's related to different amounts of oil getting into the cylinders, but i'm not sure.