I don't have to,...she'd hate it. The noise will be a huge problem for her, the fact that it has an automatic trans that has to be shifted will be "stupid",....The smell.......Steeeeeeerike 3!
I called places today.
I called a cam grinder to see if and how much it would cost me to have that solid roller cam reground to accommodate hydraulic roller lifters. I don't know if I'll do anything that radical,...(that is to actually do away with my 500.00 roller lifters, in favor of some chinee hydraulic roller version of the same) but the source of 90% of that noise is directly tied to that cam.
I will say that I'm not doing anything anytime soon w/ regard to that, since I believe that this cam is gonna be a
heathen....and with it, I think the engine will see as much power as it will ever make.
I sent back some summit stuff that I didn't need. That will leave a credit, and with that I'm buying a high flow cat,..I know that. This car makes the entire house reek with half of it hanging out of the garage. There's room for one directly beneath the front passenger side floor board. Hopefully,...it will get the exhaust fumes under control.
Seems that I'm not the only one here trying to solve that problem.
The transmission...It already bugs me. Already. I don't mind upshifting, and down shifting the thing when I'm going forward...It's just the process to get it into reverse when that requires I upshift into 2nd, then 3rd while sitting still. I doesn't work. The engine dies when it sees 3rd gear. I'm thinkin' that it's because the converter is too tight, and when it hits 3rd, the load on the engine is similar to lugging a manual trans in the same gear at idle.
There's just gotta be something wrong there....Think about it. Every car that has a damn AODe/4R70w does not die when the transmission is shifted slowly through the range while sitting at idle.
Thinking about it............
OK,....I installed a microswitch that closes the ground contact, so that when I'm in high gear, the push button switch that puts the trans into OD will be disabled in any other gear other than 3rd.
I know that push button switch works. The trans goes into 4th gear when I push that switch.
But the engine dies when the shifter hits 3rd gear at idle,..Just like that switch is engaged. Much the same as allowing an engine to lug to idle in 3rd gear of a manual trans.
I'll call tech at Transgo tomorrow. I want to know why there is a RPM flare between 1st and 2nd anyway.