Re: Thorley update

From: Glenn & Lynn Vanderburg (vanderbu@silk.net)
Date: Mon Aug 18 1997 - 22:47:28 EDT


Wow! Best sell job I have heard so far. I just loved it!
Wonder if the wife is taking note of things I want for Christmas?
Glenn

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> From: Michael Clark <mclark@wt.net>
> To: dakota@ait.fredonia.edu
> Subject: Thorley update
> Date: Monday, August 18, 1997 12:00 AM
>
> Nelson Sendino wrote:
> >
> > With the mods I've chosen there was a significant gain with the JBA
> > shorties. You just need to give the truck a couple of days for the
SBEC to
> > figure out that the truck's breathing a lot better.
>
> Yepper, I'm currently in that "let the SBEC learn" mode myself. Torque
> is getting better and better. Just drove it again tonight, and already
> the headers have given me the performance boost that I was hoping to
> get, and things have just started to "tune out". I've only driven it
> for about 30 miles so far. When I had the flowmaster put on it took
> roughly a week to fully adjust. Man if this thing keeps gaining torque
> I'm gonna have a drive shaft laying in the driveway.... I had heard
> people say that DT's did amazing things for torque. I didn't really
> believe all that but now I see what they were talking about. G-forces
> have increased, (wish I had one of those things that goes on the dash
> and reads out G-force, horse power, 1/4 mile....) My butt-dyno is
> already off the scale, but then again it's not a MBD ;-)
>
> Also, as to the pinging caused by the MP SBEC.... Sam had said that when
> he installed his DT's they eliminated ALL of the pinging. Well make
> that 2 for 2. I have yet to hear so much as a tick of detonation since
> the headers went on. I have had detonation problems from day one with
> the MP SBEC. A colder tstat helped a lot but it was still there a
> little. If anyone is having detonation problems because of the MP SBEC,
> I'd say do headers. My engine has never sounded so smooth under
> high-rpm load before. A good description is that it sounds "healthy"
> and wants you to give it more....
>
> Well, I'll report back later as things get settled.....
> --
> Michael Clark mike@snakebite.com
> '93 Mark III 4X2 V-8 SWB RC auto
> MP SBEC, K&N FIPK, Flowmaster cat-back dual
> Doug Thorley Headers
> http://userv.wt.net/~mclark/
>

 



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