jdbaugh1

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Lol me too. Well just the head but I did assemble it in my living room.

Henry3959

[QUOTE=chevygirl2006;7672503]Beautiful

How did the piston to wall clearance turn out?

chevygirl2006

Haven’t measured it yet and the crank does look like that. It’s clean though.

chevygirl2006

And we did it in my bedroom. After we are done with the bottom end we are bringing it to the shop to put the head on.

Henry3959

The pistons must just be sitting in there without rings.... since one is backwards.
What did you decide on for ring end gap?

chevygirl2006

They aren’t backwards. They have a letter F on them for front and they all all facing the front. And those are installed. It’s not top dead center though. And went with what John said. .020 top .025 second and .015 for the oil rings

chevygirl2006

Nevermind I see it. You’re right

chevygirl2006

But no big deal because we had to order one more set of rings because one got bent so we are waiting on that

Henry3959

You can't check piston to wall clearance with rings on...

chevygirl2006

Well we didn’t really plan on checking. But might as well take them out and check. It didn’t take long to put them on

chevygirl2006

FIXed the piston and the piston to wall clearance is .0045-.0048

Henry3959

What's John recommend for the boost your running? .004" is a minimum NA spec. Street / Strip applications up to 15psi of boost usually gets another .001" to .003" .001" to .002" for boosted drag racing depending on piston alloy.

Do you know if your Diamonds are 2618 or 4032?

Slowbalt2000

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diamonds are 2816. I believe i run a .005 ptw or .0055

chevygirl2006

Those are the specs he gave me. And diamond also recommends that. They are closer to .0048

Henry3959

This is what I received with my Diamond pistons.

Henry3959

Do you have any plans for manually shifting it? Maybe a nice B&M shifter?

chevygirl2006

Na. Just gonna leave it in drive.

Henry3959

That and HP Tuners is what your using fro drag racing?

chevygirl2006

Ya and then the line lock and wot box. And messing with the shift pressure. Took a while to adjust the shifting with the shorter drag radials.

2slo3oh

Nice build so far. Glad to see the damage from the hurricane wasn't too bad.

chevygirl2006

Ya I got lucky. I thought it was a goner.

06blackbalt

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How’s the wot box work on the auto

chevygirl2006

Just allows me to press the gas all the way to the floor and it will hold atthe highest rpm the car will go. Since I have a 3k stall the rpms will hold around there. Then the line lock comes in with it so I just release a button and the car launches since my foot is already all the way to the floor.

06blackbalt

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Nice I might pick up another auto car soon

jdbaugh1

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I'm not familiar with these setups so forgive me if I am missing something but am having trouble figuring out what your WOT box would actually do. Your torque converter will not allow the RPMs to go above 3k given that the engine generates enough torque to get up to 3k. Your engine is putting out all she'll suffer while your brakes or line lock holds the car in place which will preload the transmission. Your torque converter is what holds your RPMS. I always thought you held it at wide open throttle against the torque converter to load up as much as possible but that is just an assumption so I could easily be mistaken. But if that is the case what does your WOT box do? Does it limit the engine torque or preload on the transmission?