Came across a good deal on a Precision Gen2 7285 and am getting it.

 

Oh **** here comes “more power” ! In a Arnold Schwarzenegger Voice lol

 

LOL, let’s say a more usable powerband.

 

More power under the curve is more power and that’s what makes you faster right

 

So when I bought the Precision 7285 I thought I was going to have to modify a bunch of things. I got the turbo mounted up and the up pipe fits, oil lines, return lines all work. The only thing that will need to be modified is the compressor housing since this one had been modified before.

Once I get it modified I will be ready to go back out and see what this can do.

 

I fricken hate welding cast to tubing.

 

Which is why I am having my buddy John from Future Fabrication handle that LOL. That guy is a bad *** fabricator and this will be easy for him to handle, I would spend more time screwing up than just letting him do it.

 

It's not really different, it's just a pain with how the casting is always dirty with inclusions that pop out. You could get the job done just fine, comparing your baffled box welds.

 

My biggest problem with this particular task is that the particular male adapter piece you see on the intercooler can be purchased the female piece cannot be purchased so I have to cut that off the Comp Turbo housing. I don't want to take a chance and screw something up.

I also have issues with figuring out the right amperage to use for certain thicknesses, good fabricators look at it and know exactly what to do, with me I have to sit there and play around awhile until I get it.

Let's just say I need more practice especially with aluminum, I've been messing around with stainless steel and that is much easier for me. I also need more practice on round objects.

 

As someone who welds quite a bit I couldn’t even give you a formula for tig welding. I personally use/feel the pedal quite a bit versus finding an amperage I can just slam the pedal most of the time. Everyone is different on temperature range. All these beautiful beads I see most of the car fabricators lay are doing similar esque things constantly so I bet they have there amperage and pulse settings down pat. Practice practice practice

 

Have your buddy send you home with a bunch of aluminum tubing drops if he has them. That's what I've been doing - welding short pieces of aluminum tube together in butt welds and to aluminum plate in round T-joints to get seat time. It's definitely helping. I've welded more aluminum in the last month than anything else.

 

Yeah the guys who do this stuff day in and out have the techniques down.

Yeah I've practiced but as of late just have not had the time, we have a big Industrial Metal supply that sells scrap and whatever you could think of.

As I find more time I will have to pick up some more stuff and practice, I actually just got a refill on gas for the tig welder yesterday because I had something small to work on. So I will have to mess around soon and do some more practicing.

 

Well the car is up and running, I was able to cut the fitting off the Comp and reuse it for the precision. I had to shift the intercooler back about 1 inch and raise it up a little, so do do this I had to make new tabs for the intercooler.

got everything tacked and fitted and then my buddy did the final weld on the housing inside and out. Got home put everything together for a final time and fired it up.

 

Looks good!

 

Let’s line-em-up AZ! I know I would lose, but it would be a better race than beating street cars around here by 3-5 seconds

 

Thanks man!!

That would be fun!! Go out and enjoy a nice Friday night would be awesome!! Next month your track should be open and ready for your 9 second pass.

 

Any updates?

 

Car is back together and will be heading to IFO on March 8th. Haven't had a chance to test with the Precision so I guess I will be testing it at the event.

Speed Factory is supposedly going to be out at this event so it will be interesting to see what they are able to do out here.

 

Awesome! Love this build and can't wait to see what happens! Excited for you!

 

‘awesome. Just monitor that air/fuel, might make a little more power per psi which could go a little lean ..... especially on higher boost

 

Thanks man!!

I will leave that up to Joe LOL, I have lean protection setup on the car though.

 

I hope team locash wins .

 

Joe is actually going out this event, I’m working on his franks fiberglass fenders as we speak LOL.

 

So Sunday was IFO, pretty damn hot that day first of all LOL. Second we has some fast cars including both of Speedfactorys cars, the FWD Outlaw and the AWD car.

So from the get go I was having issues, first pass was breaking up like crazy. Checked the logs and the secondary injectors were running lean, so Joe thought maybe they could be clogged and decided to setup to run on all primaries. Second pass was the same thing, so swapped ECU's with another M800 box and Joe messed around and thought everything was good but next pass same thing.

The only good thing was I made it to the finals for FIP to race Speedfactory's AWD car, which ran an 8.0 but I didn't make it because of a blown headgasket which was the cause of my issues. So I got runner up LOL, the car actually was 60ft with a 1.51 and getting better. This Precision is a bad mother.

I already pulled the motor and the motor is apart with the head gasket as you can see below. So, not sure why the head gasket blew and this is the JE Pro Seal. Anyway, I did buy Speedfactory L19 head studs and am moving my radiator to the rear of the car. I will get pictures of how I am going to do this but we now a couple California guys doing this that never see over 170 degrees.

 

That's pretty cool getting to line up against the Speed Factory car...how cool were your nerves?

That's a massively blown HG, lol. How soon do you think you'll be back up and running?