LBZ 73 Nova

[RPM Motorsports]

How does the dry ice work out for you? Just curious how consistent it is?

We went back to Air/Water cooling. The dry ice was too cold in staging (-19deg) and too hot by the end of the track. I'm sure we could have fine tuned it with smaller diameter tubes for more surface area, but it was also 50lbs of dry ice per pass. 50lbs per pass gets expensive quick. Plus finding dry ice out of state in pellet form ate up a bunch of time. Our trip to Oregon last season I had 300lbs in a huge dry ice cooler, I lost 1/3 by the time we got to the track. I'm going to use the dry ice cooler on my pull truck and see how it works out.

Procharger like the cummins s10 out there on the west coast?!?!

I'm not sure I'm sold on that setup yet, Brads truck moves out but we have him covered with the triples.

 

[Subman]

Russ you win the lottery? I just caught up on the last couple days of this thread and what I see is a lot $$$$$$$ being spent. You tell the kids you are spending their inheritance. Good luck and looking forward to seeing both hot rods on the track.

 

[RPM Motorsports]

Russ you win the lottery? I just caught up on the last couple days of this thread and what I see is a lot $$$$$$$ being spent. You tell the kids you are spending their inheritance. Good luck and looking forward to seeing both hot rods on the track.

Haha, nope I wish though.., both shops are doing well. I'm able to drive again, so I'm ready to play! I built the Nova to compete with DirtyMax, then Brad had to throw me a curve ball and build the Willies. The Nova is a heavy street car, the Camaro should be about 1k lbs less.

 

[Yellow Jacket]

Haha, nope I wish though.., both shops are doing well. I'm able to drive again, so I'm ready to play! I built the Nova to compete with DirtyMax, then Brad had to throw me a curve ball and build the Willies. The Nova is a heavy street car, the Camaro should be about 1k lbs less.

Lol, you are my hero! I'm glad everything is doing well for you! And even better that you are actually cool enough to share this stuff and help people out instead of trying to corner a market and hoard info and try to to make a bank roll off of each customer! Which oddly enough seems to be the norm these days....

I can't wait to see the Camaro make passes! The Chevelle and Nova were my inspiration for putting a Duramax in my '65 Malibu... Now if I'd quit wasting my time and money on this damn pulling truck, I could've had a mean ass street car!!! Oh well I guess...

 

[RPM Motorsports]

Thanks bud, I don't mind sharing info. I've had plenty of people over the years help me out with things they have tried that worked/didn't and save me tons of money. I've always liked the second gen Camaro's, and have a true 70ss that my uncle bought new. I couldn't pass up the 70.5 Promod body Tim is making once I saw it. I almost went with the 2015 Camaro body until I came across the 70.

 

[Gil714]

Russ,

If you were still looking at a PSI setup, I would either talk with Gale Banks, or, DMPE inc. about a screw type blower to see what their thinking is with respect to a screw type blower. http://www.dmpeinc.com/superchargers/

Typically, you can look at insidetopalchol.com to see if some of the dragboat and ProMod guys are selling off their C type blowers.

 

[RPM Motorsports]

Russ,

If you were still looking at a PSI setup, I would either talk with Gale Banks, or, DMPE inc. about a screw type blower to see what their thinking is with respect to a screw type blower. http://www.dmpeinc.com/superchargers/

Typically, you can look at insidetopalchol.com to see if some of the dragboat and ProMod guys are selling off their C type blowers.

I was talking back n fourth with Gale about two weeks ago, he's pretty tight lipped about things being in the same class. He said his plans are to be out next March with their new blower setup running ProStock. I asked why not run a C screw instead of a small blower. His answer was "I've only showed one test setup...., not all test setups". So wether he has or he's just acting like he has, so somebody else try's it and he can watch the other persons R&D, who knows. I definitely don't have the funds and tooling that Gale does, so a $15k blower plus two turbos is quite a bit more than I'm planning on trying out, even though I would love too.. Maybe we will be able to pick up some kind of sponsorship this season to soften the blow of racing some haha.

 

[Cknight199]

As far as running a blower on a diesel, how does one keep the blower cool since don't most blowers inject fuel pre blower to cool temps and keep it lubricated?


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[56taskforce]

Blowers came from diesels... 4-71, 6-71,8-71 numbers depicting the size of blower are actually the Detroit diesel they came off of. These engines in a V configuration used a air to water cooler in the valley just under the blower.

 

[Robby05]

Just changed the oil on a bus conversion motorhome the other day with an old Detroit with the turbo mounted to the top of the supercharger.

 

[RPM Motorsports]

Day #2 progress on the Camaro. I'm only able to break away and fab on it one day a week right now, for two guys fabbing we are moving right along.

 

[56taskforce]

Wow looking really good Russ...:thumb:

 

[Kamilmk]

Awesome. So far so good!!

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[sweetdiesel]

Thanks bud, I don't mind sharing info. I've had plenty of people over the years help me out with things they have tried that worked/didn't and save me tons of money. I've always liked the second gen Camaro's, and have a true 70ss that my uncle bought new. I couldn't pass up the 70.5 Promod body Tim is making once I saw it. I almost went with the 2015 Camaro body until I came across the 70.

Stupid Brad

Interesting post on the dry ice! Glad you tried it and I didn't waste money on it.

 

[SmokeShow]

Are the Dow Brothers helping with the cars? In what capacity? They sure seem to do good work from what I've seen of their First Gen dodge and the CR they're helping build as well.

 

[RPM Motorsports]

Are the Dow Brothers helping with the cars? In what capacity? They sure seem to do good work from what I've seen of their First Gen dodge and the CR they're helping build as well.

Cole and I are fabbing/building the Camaro one day a week. He's got the chassis table, it's a 2.5hr drive each way for me. Cory has been doing the back half on the Dodge in the background, plus whatever they have going on the rest of the week.

Nova is all polished up, ready to start going back together. The paint looks much better than the 12yr old job that was on it.

 

[SmokeShow]

:thumb:

 

[RPM Motorsports]

Day 3 progress, cockpit is all fit except two bars on the FC cage and three gussets on the roof. Think we will try and knock out the back half next week when I head up.

 

[RPM Motorsports]

New 4130 housing came in for the Nova yesterday. It's 7" wider than the narrow Promod housing that I had in the car, it will fill the wheel wells and look better now. The narrow housing will go in the Camaro. Both housings are the same other than length and ends.

 

[Burn Down]

Very nice looking Russ:thumb: