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1-9-2015

Happy Holidays guys. I hope everyone got to relax and enjoy the time you may or may not have had off. Let me fill you in a little on what I had going on. The last 6 weeks have been quite busy with travel and holidays so I haven't had a whole lot of time to post. So before I talk about the car I want to update everyone on a little trip myself and a few other friends got to take and are very proud of doing. Thanks to the great company Summit Racing Equipment myself, Andrew Hines, Jason Line, Greg Anderson, Dan Runte and Alan Reinhart get to do what we call Operation Appreciation.

See us lucky racers get to travel all over the world to places like Bahrain, Djibouti, Ethiopia to do meet and greets with some of the real hero's in the world, OUR TROOPS. Not many ever think about the people that fight and serve our country to make sure we get to go racing and live free etc.... but I feel this trip is well worth mentioning to everyone. So before you say "you went where"..... I will say it was one of the greatest trips if not the greatest I ever took. We get to meet and see a lot of great people that love motorsports. I have had quite a few troops come up and say hi that know about this build telling me that follow the updates I post here but I have also made friends along the way that I keep in touch with and come to races after they get home so I truly enjoy doing it.

This is us with our buddy Capt David Meron... He is a huge drag race fan and follows it more then anyone would think.

For anyone that would like to check out some of the stories please click on and read the links I posted below. I'm sure you will enjoy them.

http://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/0...eciation-2014/

http://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/1...ourney-begins/

http://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/1...hting-bahrain/

http://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/1...enture-africa/

http://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/1...seeing-africa/

http://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/1...-andrew-hines/

http://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/1...at-jason-line/

http://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/1...eciation-wrap/

I hope you get a chance to check them out!!!!!! Next post will have some car stuff in it.

1-11-2015

So as you guys can tell the build process is coming to a close. It has taken roughly 3 years and a small fortune to complete it but in the end I wouldn't have done it any other way. I know I may make it sound like the build is over but really it is just starting. The easy part is done and now the hard part is about to start. That's racing it and making it all work together. Easier said then done. So here are the first pictures of the car ready to run on the ground.

This was an exciting part for me

So the next step was to actually load a map in the Bigstuff ECU and fire it up. Up until this point the engine has never been fired and my plans of dyno testing just never happen. I wanted to try to fire it up to make sure it runs and has no major issues. So I needed to get some parameters and base settings into the ECU to fire it up. Now I know enough to just get me in trouble so I thought getting someone with some experience to help would be a smart idea. I talked with Eric LaFerriere from DMC and he sent me a base map he had and walked me through a few things getting all the data in. Next step was to actually see if it runs. I had no doubt that everything was right so the next step was to crank it and hit the ignition switch.

First thing I did before cranking the engine was to pull the oil pump belt and prime it up. I hooked up a drill and spun it and in about 5 seconds I had 60 PSI oil pressure. I ran it for about 1 minute making sure everything had oiland then put it all back together. Next thing was to add fuel. I got a can of VP C16 and filled the cell up. I'm running a mechanical fuel pump driven off the cam so I pulled the main fuel lines coming out of the pump and poured a little fuel in them to help it prime. Once that was all done I cranked the car for about 10 seconds with a line on the fuel rail open until I started to get a little fuel. Once the fuel started to come out I tightened everything up and double & triple check the engine bay to make sure all was clean and good. Next was to crank the engine and actually hit the ignition switch. Here is what all happen.