Got it out for the 1st time to run it. It was sounding great on Friday night when we did some short test launches and loaded it up on the trailer for Saturday. We had to laugh a little when I fired it up in the pit area and every person we could see stopped what they were doing and started to walk over to me and see what was up. I got a ton of compliments on how it sounded. I signed up for 36", 39.5", and 44" tire classes, moved the truck to the shade in the staging area and waited my turn. There is a slight flat spot in the carb where it's transitiong from the idle circuit to the intermediate. It's only noticable when I try to ease on the throttle, if I lay into it, it goes right by it. Anyway, my turn came up to run and I went to stage. Here's the truck on 35's (skinny 10.5" wide on front and 14.5" wide on the rears):



And my run:



You can see and hear they my tranny started slipping really bad and sent me to the rev limiter. I originally just figured I'd gotten out of the groove and was high centered in the mud. I shifted from 1st to 2nd at about 10', and was in 3rd by 20' seeing the shift light in all 3 gears! Pulled it out, let it cool off, gave it a quick wash down and changed tires to my 38.5x11 boggers then went back to the shade.

Here's my C classs run (39.5" and down tire size):



Same again on the shifting, was in 2nd by about 20', in 3rd by about 50'. The tranny was slipping so bad I don't even know if it actually did shift or I was still in 1st or 2nd.

Motor ran super strong, but now I need to drop the tranny pan to see if there's metal in it. I talked with several people that were there and they asked about my converter saying it looked and sounded more like that was the issue with it locking/unlocking causing the fluid to get really hot and overheat the tranny. I've got 2 weeks before the next race, so hopefully i can get it done and ready for there. For now, I'll just be a little sad it's not running. But hey, on the brite side, it sounds mean as hell!

 

I hear paul has two rebuilt c6 layin around. I would take the one with the black paint on the bellhousing if it were me









































































Disclaimer: it was rebuilt with a shift kit but it sat in the garage for 2+ years so who knows.

 

Truf!

Hey fatty, finish my motor pls.

Was this the bling *** c6 that you picked up? Or am I thinking of something else?

 

It was the mack daddy race built c6. I'm gonna pull it tomorrow and see what's the problem.

Oh, and your motor WILL be done so you can race it on Aug 7th! But your not getting that c460 cam. I went back and fixed something I missed in DD. WIth the low compression you are better off with the boat cam than the c460. Confirmed it with Lem and Freelander. Both said to get a set of TRW 2443 dome pistions and it will give you a 10:1 motor under the D3's making plenty of power with the boat cam. The c460 cam is more suited to something in the 11:1 and up motor.

 

How much power you think wif that setup? That makes it cheaper right?

 

Paul gives new meaning to teh term jew.

 

Man, I'm doing the labor part for nothing. All you gotta do is cover the parts costs. Quit trying to Cheeto me!

 

Hes savin up for a lifetime supply of viagra when all the drugs he does start to make his winky not work.

 

^truffles

gd10-cl

 

it really does sound like the converter is slipping. The burnt smell is probably from the pump not being engaged fully by the converter and the fluid baking inside.

 

Is this the same trans that was mated to the old engine?

 

yeah.

and its powdercoated purple with pink splatter paint accents.

 

Yep.a race built c6 with just about every option a c6 can have.

 

yup.

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Who cares what color it is as long as it gets the job done. My mistake was not shimming the converter properly after swapping in that new 1/4" midplate.