Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project

AWESOME UPDATE

So today I took a quick 5 mile freeway drive out to Vallejo to drop my dad off after work. I ran about 60mph on the freeway - maybe 65, and the car liked that, barely having the throttle open at all really- and it did not stall out as it did previously - it seemed extremely stable. Then some guy in a newer Charger was riding my tail (no respek) I was in the fast lane, but the traffic in the right lane was at a dead stop as they were all exiting, and there was plenty of room to gallop in front of me, so I slowly accelerated about a little more than half throttle and oh my gosh...

Whir...TISHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and with a little more than air being heard coming from my car I was gone, and that car would've climbed past 100 if i let it. The Charger disappeared in my rearview, and I was pleased, so I slowly let it come back down, and the blow off valve engaged, had a little bit of a compressor slow down, but nominal, and I was back in the slow lane under vacuum and drove the rest of the way. My dad thought it was impressive, so I guess that's a good thing.

On the way back I tried to just maintain freeway speed, rolling the boost at only 3psi if I had to and that was not for very far before things slowed down again. I am not really one for speeding, so I don't do it unless there's some reason to keep up with traffic- Not going to win a trophy or any prize money going too fast out here.

This car would be a lot of fun to take to a track as is, but I dialed in what I believe could be 7psi, and I'll tune from there starting tomorrow. This boost addiction stuff is scary. The power coming from my slant six - is scary.

In other news, a shop just got a new dyno in town. I may pay them a visit and see if it's compatible with my car. I don't really know how they work, but I know my car does not have a computer. And then we'll see how much power my stock slant puts down with 8psi, and hopefully make a baseline to help Bill's thread where we are all trying to figure out the cheapest way to obtain 300hp. I sure wish I hit at least 200. We'll see. :D:glasses7: