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At The Track / Return of the AHRA
OK, heres the deal at this point. Things will evolve but here is where I'm starting.



  https://youtu.be/ZOvj3YUC9C8    AHRA is Back Baby!

  https://youtu.be/NOEhpsNkjG8    Performance Based Payouts

  https://youtu.be/cyRPcqN0vV0    AHRA Stock Sale (Own Some AHRA and Make the Decisions)

  https://youtu.be/qEStV-UveFU    Super Gas Assassin

  https://youtu.be/EDjsnGDVKpQ  GT Class Announcement

Find the rest on Facebook at American Hot Rod Association or website will be up by Monday Morning at http://www.AHRAonline.com
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Other Vehicles / "F" 250 as the ultimate tow rig! Can it be?
Ok, I suck. I did not get any pictures of the harness and the install this far. I will go snap a few tomorrow morning, but I'm almost done. I did fire it up today. Here is the list of stuff I did.
1. Made an injector harness from an old 88 bird harness, pinned out each injector and moved the 7,3 and 5,4 injectors to work with my Tbird SO camshaft firing order.
2. Made an O2 harness from the same old bird harness. Placed both O2 sensors in the same place on the 4" exhaust since the injectors are shuffled around. The computer may have been confused if I left them for each bank and it would be controlling the wrong injectors. This made them read all of the O2 total but would see changes.
3. Removed upper intake and cutout injector harness from truck existing harness.
4. Placed the "layover" injector harness in the truck and moved pin 8 to 19 and 11 to 32 and 51 to 38 to start. I then pulled all the original truck pins cooresponding to the new harness and plugged in each pin.
5. Placed the O2 harness in the truck and the sensors, plugged in the pins and ran a chassis ground as well as a +12 volt to the O2 heaters. The +12 can only be hot when the key is on or it will burn up the heater leaving it on all the time.
Lastly, I dropped in the MAF and harness, plugging in the pins 50 and 9 and piggybacking 37 and 40 to get the MAF up. I then had to cobble together an air intake using some of the existing piping and the factory elbow.
I was so excited to hit the key, kind of expected it not to start, but it fired right up. Adjusted the idle and tps in the ball park and drove around the block.
I did notice the motor revs so quick now, timing and fueling must be way different on the MAF computer vs the truck speed density. The idle is so nice and smooth as well as the drivability is way better.

I need to install the computer in the holder and cut back some of the removed pins as well as clean up some of the wiring tomorrow. I'll shoot some pics, I promise, and upload them. I'm also gonna drive it on the road tomorrow and see how it goes.
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Other Vehicles / "F" 250 as the ultimate tow rig! Can it be?
OK, so I was screwing this up. The truck has 3 digit codes and that would make it another test on the scanner. Codes 33, 25, 38 turned out to be 332 and 538. EGR and rack the throttle open. That turned into 332....which is no issue since EGR is not installed. Then I pulled the memory codes. Appears that 128 is an issue (Not sure of the code but think that was it), damaged or inoperable MAP sensor hose.....That's telling me that the computer is not getting the correct vacuum signal and is outside of calibration.

I'm going Mass Air this weekend! 1993 Cobra X3Z computer and factory MAF. Will work well with 5 speed and 24# injectors. I'm in the process of cutting up a harness and making a few things to make this work. Decided to go with a "Layover" harness, that lays on top of the existing one to get the job done now. I just need it to work correctly and be able to tow my race car. I'll take some pics of the harnesses and install. I have already pulled the required harness pieces out of my gacked 88 Bird harness to get what I need.
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Other Vehicles / "F" 250 as the ultimate tow rig! Can it be?
OK, so I've had enough of this Speed Density system. Its impossible to tune out the issues since I changed the heads and cam. It's gonna get real for the truck cause I'm going 1993 Cobra X3Z computer and Mass Air. I am sick of the erroneous computer codes and Full rich check engine lights. There is nothing left to replace or eliminate.

I'll post pictures and a write up as to why some things are the way they are! I am not using a 302 HO  or 351 camshaft, so gonna have to move some injectors in the harness and consolidate the placement of the O2's.
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At The Track / The Offical 2017 Drag Strip Thead.
Quote from: deathbypsi;460342
Goal is to run better than 12.50 on the 17" street tires and break into the 11s on slicks. Going to be hard since I built the car to handle the turns and daily commute instead of racing.

That's going to be tough since the suspension most likely is not really supportive of weight transfer considering that is what you want to minimize during a cornering event.
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Other Vehicles / "F" 250 as the ultimate tow rig! Can it be?
The key to this one as Aerocoupe said, the fuel pressure is fluctuating all over the gauge as well as the rail did not hold pressure after the key was off. These trucks have issues with the 1 way check valve on the fuel supply side that normally causes issues. This was not the case for me as it was not filling from tank to tank, which is the usual characteristic.

So I did find the issue. The regulator was hanging open. I pulled the rails and 19# injectors out and blew through the inlet and air was coming out the return. That should not happen until the adjusted pressure is reached. Since I did this by mouth, I doubt I reached 40ish lbs.

I replaced the rails with a stock 1994 set with a factory regulator as well as I crawled underneath to look at the fuel filter. It had a cheap Chinese duralast filter, so pitched it in the trash and installed a Motorcraft. Bang! Easy 30 hp and 100 foot lbs of tq. Now it's impressive! I'm excited to tow with it again!
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Other Vehicles / "F" 250 as the ultimate tow rig! Can it be?
Quote from: Aerocoupe;460407
Hope that is part of the problem but dips in pressure also indicate lack of enough volume.

I agree, but feel some of the volume is being limited possibly by the regulator returning needed fuel. I will cross that bridge once I determine if replacing the regulator makes a difference. There may not be an issue after that. After all, these pumps also fed 460 powered trucks, they should be enough for a 351 with heads and a lightning intake.
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Other Vehicles / "F" 250 as the ultimate tow rig! Can it be?
I think I found the problem. The regulator is not working well. Under load the fuel pressure drops off. Not sure if it's the regulator seat or plunger. Appears the diaphragm is still fine but something else is not working correctly. I have a stock fuel rail and regulator and I'm gonna try that with the 24# injectors.
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Other Vehicles / "F" 250 as the ultimate tow rig! Can it be?
BTW, I noticed that with my fuel press gauge installed on the schrader it was jumping around and that when the key was turned off, the fuel press went immediately to 0. I thought the rail maintained pressure. Not sure if the jumping on the gauge is the bank to bank vs the SFI I am used to. That is 4 injectors firing at once and not 1.
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Other Vehicles / "F" 250 as the ultimate tow rig! Can it be?
19's are just a no go on this thing. I had to run the fuel pressure close to 85#s to get it to run correctly. I have a set of 24#, but I'm wondering if that is futile. May need more! A tune would be great, but I do not have that kind of cash at this point. Looks like for a truck it costs quite a bit more than a car. I was quoted $750 from JBA and that includes Dyno time. Not really what I'm looking for. I wonder if 24# and mass air might correct the issue. Should I start looking for a set of 30's? Butt Dyno is all I can afford at this point.