Mullet gets the World's Best Racing TH400!!

again everyone and welcome back to the ksr youtube channel today it's me and mullet and we gotta get this turbo 400 installed to get it ready for the pri show that is next week for those of you that don't know pri show is kind of where a lot of the racing companies all come together display their new stuff you can meet a lot of the faces you can meet a lot of the people that you talk to on the phone like for us when we're dealing with you know different companies say like holly or any of the other big giant companies that we deal with you talk to people on the phone for months now you might get to meet them in person maybe go have dinner with them something like that talk about business stuff at the trade show but it's real good time but mullet is gonna be on display at the pri trade show as well as ruby which i think there's some uh something new and exciting happening with ruby maybe i shouldn't say too much about that but heard some rumors can confirm they're uh they're kind of cool but anyways both ruby and mullet head to pri next week but right now mueller's got no transmission i mean it's got a mock-up turbo 400 in it but we got to put this beautiful piece of equipment in there so right now that's what we're going to do all right well while you're here please click the subscribe button give us a like give us a comment and click the little black bell icon so it keeps you notified whenever we release a new video and of course we appreciate you coming back and watching us we are i think right at 250 000 subs i'm not sure if it'll happen before this video comes out but so as it sits right now we're 50 subs shy of 250 000 subscribers even just saying that it just blows my mind i mean it's just awesome you guys are awesome appreciate you following along and uh let's go ahead and jump into mullet see if we can get some work done on this thing so along with the transmission install we've got to do a few other things to the car to try and make it uh make it better some of you saw on the world cup video seems like we're having some problems with now that we've switched the alcohol combination it's making more crankcase pressure i haven't done a ton of alcohol engines i'll fully admit that and the ones i have done have been eighth mile cars and on an eighth mile car you can kind of get away with a little bit more stuff than you can get away with on a quarter mile car so if you build a little bit of crankcase pressure by the eighth mile well by the time you go from the eighth mile to the quarter mile cars really make it a bunch of power making a lot of you know it's pushing some blow-by around past the piston as you might imagine that uh that extra three seconds yeah three seconds that extra three seconds from the eighth to the quarter that's when a lot of bad stuff can happen and we weren't having really a whole lot of engine crank case pressure problems so if you look on here we've got this this little hose right here right there that comes off plums over to a map sensor that is right there and typically what you want to have in your engine is no pressure so the pressure inside the engine right now is the same as the air pressure outside the engine which i guess that makes sense but i install these sensors because if you heard a piston you can see very quickly that there's a huge very quick spike in the crankcase pressure it's just good data to have you know typically by the time you when you have egts on the car also you can also see a correlation in temperature and then a verification with the crankcase pressure so just lots of data not data that you want to see but if you ever do have that failure it helps you diagnose it quicker move on to then fixing it but for us back when the car was on the e90 racing fuel didn't really have any kind of problems with crankcase pressure i mean it would maybe make half a psi maybe one psi in the crank case all right so what i forget to mention here is that with the alcohol combination we've noticed as much as nine and a half psi in the crankcase and with the switch to alcohol we noticed that with the old engine went ahead and still ran it on the quarter mile pass and looking back on it i think that could have been a contributing factor to the engine hurting itself with i'm going to nip the head gasket and vent the rod on the 724 run so kind of what i my theory behind that is you've got crankcase pressure underneath the piston and it can unsettle the rings and when it does that it can allow oil to get into the cylinder and oil in your cylinder effectively lowers your octane rating of your fuel so if you're on the edge with timing and all of a sudden you lower the octane rating by a bunch well detonation happens nox head gaskets out bends connecting rods lots of bad things can happen so what we're going to do with that i kind of got to looking at things now that you know now that we're looking for a problem and these valve covers are only 12 a.m on the inlet side here so what i'm going to do is first we're going to go to 24 and we're going to add a second line on the driver's side valve cover run it all the way to the back of the car to the tank and then on the passenger side we're gonna just take this hose and hook it up right to the valve cover so i'll remake both of these actually i probably won't even remake i'm just gonna make new ones to where i weld the piece of pipe right to the valve cover and then i'll put a 20 am bung right on the valve cover here so that there won't be this restriction that's in this uh in this little fitting right here so kind of just chasing every little thing that i can chase right now to try and make the combination of parts better from kind of what i've been seeing the 16 a.n dual 16an should be plenty but if we can add an extra line to the back and completely eliminate that pressure i would really really like to see that all right so along with that you guys know we've got to cut up the floor a little bit to fit the transmission so right now in the car the transmission tunnel is touching right here on this corner of the transmission and that is without having this spacer in there so if we're touching here well now we're going to be touching there which means we need to make room right here but also this stuff right here is going to be in the way i don't really want to redo this stuff i could probably re-engineer things and put them at different angles but everything's made to fit perfectly here and i'd rather leave it exactly like they send it to us so that if there is any issues you know maybe there's if we were to add a 90 it could affect the flow volume and if they've got data with how this transmission works like this i don't want to change it i'm already going to be cutting the floor so might as well cut the floor make enough room for all that stuff hopefully it doesn't interfere with the seat or anything like that but that's kind of where we're at but let's go ahead and get started on this thing see if we can uh make this fit into that let's go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right well it's time for the moment of truth so you guys might have seen we ran into a little issue with trying to get the bolts through so regular small block big block chevrolets are 3 8 bolts but an ls is 10 millimeter so i had to drill that out on my little bench press drill over there and i did loosen and take this bracket off because i think by just remaking the bracket to mount this piece right here in only about a quarter of an inch i think it's going to clear the transmission tunnel now so about to stab this thing in see if it fits i do have to get some more bolts because this part of the bell housing is even thicker but i have bolts that'll handle here here and uh three will be enough just for mocking it up here we're not racing down the road tomorrow which we're probably not cranking tomorrow anyway but we're gonna try um anyways let's see if this thing will fit foreign all right looks like i need to widen my cut out here in the back even more why silver markers hardly ever leave a mark i'm gonna see if i can wiggle it up in there and then i can see just exactly how much left i've got to cut i gotta come back even further there too [Music] oh that is close all right well doesn't fit it's close but let's see i had to like i got it up in there with some wiggling but we don't want to have to do that and especially trying to rush and have all these sharp edges so we're going to take another cut widen that out a little bit there still gonna try and avoid cutting over here because that definitely saves me a lot of time and it's looking like it will fit maybe you can see up in there yeah i'm just gonna have to make a bracket to tuck that holds this solenoid right up against the case but let's pull this back out double check that the converter's in the transmission all the way because i mean the transmission is tilted right now but i'm seeing you know finger width gap up here good 5 8 of an inch three quarters of an inch and then down here i've only got finger tip i do know that it's it's tilted a little bit so that's going to affect the fitment but uh got some got some more work to do so let's do another time lapse do a little more chopping so my goal is to get that up in there tonight where it's holding itself and then tomorrow i'll come in and have a transmission cross member drive shaft's already here so that should just slide right in and then we've got to get down to wiring hopefully the transmission cooler lines hook right back up i think they will nice thing about having flexible and transmission lines you can kind of just tweak them until they line up where you need them to line up let's get back to it see if we can test fit it and make some more cut [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right well lookie here it fits we just have a giant flintstone size hole in the floor and this may look a little big right now but you know the transmission is all the way up it has to go around the flex plate so i wanted to give our give us a little bit of room to make sure that that would clear and i may even i may even bring that up a little bit higher just because of how close how close this is to the floor there so i've either got to come out here with a hard edge and then come down and tie back into that with a piece probably mess with that more tomorrow but for now it's at least in there so we're going to use this rear cross member here that used to go under the overdrive we use that for catching the the transmission mount here and beyond that just gotta patch the floor there do some wiring you can see we actually have a bit of clearance in there can't really see that much can you yeah i can't either but there is a gap between the solenoid and the wall here yeah maybe quarter inch something like that so i'll make a new bracket for that when i take the transmission down maybe i don't need to take the transmission down yeah i'll probably still take the transmission down but one thing another thing i want to show you guys so you saw on the time lapse i took some pads off right here and i did some measuring from the face here to the face of the converter and then from the face on the mid plate to the back side of the flex plate right on the front of this converter there's a spec that says 8 of an inch to 3 16 of an inch of pull out and what they are meaning with that and this is common for all gm transmissions as far as i know you basically want to bottom the torque converter out in the pump all the way into the transmission here and then it should pull back forward 1 8 to 3 16 of an inch so the easy way to check that i got an eighth inch drill bit here and then i got a 3 16 drill bit so eight should slide in oh it doesn't slide in well that's a little bit of a problem so either i'm not all the way in the pump yeah that's close so i obviously have a little bit of a problem there and that's gonna warrant a call to mark mickey in the morning to see what we've got going on there because what can happen if there's not enough room there as the converter is doing its thing and making lots of pressure and you know you just need room for everything to grow and expand in there and if there's not you risk wrecking the front pump in the transmission wrecking the thrust bearing in the engine well obviously we don't want any of that to happen so i got a weird light on my place so we're going to try and see what's going on with that hopefully i don't have to chuck that really expensive torque converter in my lathe and machine some off of it i'm hoping that maybe the converter is not quite all the way in the transmission but i can't really find that out 100 until drop it back down again now you saw me kind of wiggle it i really thought it was in all the way and maybe it is in all the way and this flex plate is a little different than what they expect i can murder for so it's just a spacing issue let's see what i can we'll see what i can figure out with working that out but in the meantime i think that's going to wrap up this video so we'll probably bring you one maybe two more videos on this car for the turbo 400 install and upgrade and the breather line fix and we also have one new thing that just showed up today so we'll also be installing those and hopefully they go right on without any kind of other problems but that's going to do it for this video if you need some ksr merch win with ksr.com as always we appreciate the support from you guys it's been nothing short of fantastic and really mind-blowing for me to have all you guys tagging along with us and all the great comments and you know just it's got a real good feel to it so thanks again for watching and 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Channel: KSR Performance & Fabrication

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Length: 24min 30sec (1470 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 03 2021