Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

I've taken it to 5 lbs of boost and that is where it goes lean. Hopefully tomorrow I will remedy this with the missing pieces to the carb. It runs great other wise. As soon as it runs nice and fat at boost I will post the vids.
The reason I've taken so long is because I was running out of car speding money. My wife keeps telling me to stop spending money on it, but I can't because I've come this far on it. Needs a few more things.
Shut up woman and get in the kitchen and cook me some dinner! :6

Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

It's actually a proform from ebay.


BTW, I just want to thank everyone for their input on this project. I've learned alot from this site and I think that it is the absolute best car site on the web.

Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

badass :6

Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

Hows the under hood temps :l. Might be time for some heat wrap.

Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

I drive it all over town and to work and I get zero problems with anything melting or being too hot under the hood. Even the engine stays at normal operating temperature. I may heatwrap in the near future. There is definitely still work to be done.

Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

O yeah, I forgot to mention that I'm running on 93 octane with timing set at 32 deg. with the vacuum advance disconnected with a MSD boost timing master I got from a member here pulling 3 deg. per lb of boost. I will change that to pull less timing when I get the carb right.

Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

Looks good but watch out with that btm they seem to fail quite often.

Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

Thanks for the heads up. I have read that they do go bad but not until after I bought it. I've also read that for some people they work great. I am going to use it for a while and then maybe I will just go to locking my distributor.

Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

what has the whole motor and turbo set up cost you as far and what cr are you runnig

Re: My HMT 78 Chevy Monte Carlo
 

I have not really sat down and added up all the lutecini that I spent on it, but I would say about close to $1,600 for the turbo parts with wideband and all and $2,800 on the engine and transmission. I'm sure there is a little more that I can't think of that I'm missing on these figures, but I should be close. The compression ratio is at about 9:5:1.