And I still smoked the shit out of my friend's evo's

This was great news to my ears believe or not. I was laughing when the shop told me this. Anyways, have the car back at the house. Woot! Time to attempt the install on that turbo kit...

 

Wow that title is the exact wording of the text u sent me, freaked me out for a second. Glad that's all it was, so did they replace all the bent valves or repair them? Would this be from mating the type S head to it?

 

They replaced it. And it's from me hitting 8k by accident on the bottle over a year ago. I knew something was wrong with the car since then. From that point I found the compression leak, suspected the head gaskets and valve seats, had the heads checked and they were okay, but those valves weren't. I've been driving it around with those bent valves for over a year. lol

Don't get me wrong. In over a year I put less than 1,000 miles on the car, so it's not like I drive it everyday or anything.

 

I want to get it on the dyno though one last time.

 

Keep in mind fellas I put down 318whp and 378 lbs of torque with blown head gaskets and 12 bent exhaust valves on the bottle, lol.

 

I know the feeling, the time you brought it out to show me, you said it was the first time you had it on the street and not just driving it around the block in forever. I just broke the first 1000 miles on my CL in over 2 years

 

I forgot to mention the shop threw on a 350z muffler on my car for free. I'll make a vid for you guys later.

 

OMG, I can only imagine how great that sounds

 

thats gonna sound like teh sex!

 

nice nice chris

 

damn i want to go to that shop and get free stuff

 

Have the videos uploading.

For some reason I think there's something wrong with the car again. Doesn't feel as fast. I don't know...but I'm getting some sort of vibe from it...it might be all in my head. Wish I could drive it around and see what's up. I'll dyno it next weekend and see if I'm right.

 

I shifted at 6,500 rpms by accident. She redlines at 7,200 rpms for those of you that dont know. This was just a quick out and back into the neighborhood. I taped the camera to my roll cage

 

I come out of the car smiling because I knew my neighbors were outside. I had to cut this one short because of so.




Question. Why does it post 2 of the same videos when copying and pasting the link?

 

I'm in love

 

Pretty slow car huh?

 

Chris. You have to allow your valves to sit in properly. You shouldn't beat it right away. Sounds nice though. I'm starting the work on my car again.

 

Shit...that must be why it's ticking so damn loud...

 

if you have any hesitations you must get your valves checked for the proper lash clearance. I had that problem when i finished my head. Your exhaust valves might not be opening enough or they might be opening too much. Either way it would affect performance. Ticking is usually the way to diagnose it. After valve/head work ur supposed to start the car. Have it warm up then let it cool. Repeat the process a few times. Then break in the valves for a few hundred miles.

 

That does sound really good, I'm impressed

 

cool car, too loud for me though

 

In order to check it for lash clearance, is that something that would fall into the same lines as adjusting your valves? Or do the heads have to come off for this as well?

 

nice chris. one of my stops in October. im staying at your house for a couple of days.

 

Just did my own research. It's the same as adjusting your valves, only different terminology.

Thank you. I'll get them adjusted right away.

 

Racecars tend to be loud, lol...

 

Hey Chris,does mauricio know he lost?

 

It still only has two doors

Good stuff Chris, wish the exhaust would sound better, but I guess your going all out so it doesnt matter too much.

 

OH MY GOD.....THAT CAR sounds amazing. good work cocoa

 

Now THAT is a damn race edition CL! lol.

 

You can also take your valves down further than they say they can I have mine clearanced at like 8thou just that little bit more air and goodies that come in and out.

 

good way of burning em too. it is recomeded to do on the low side such as. my intake are 7thousandths to 8thousandths and my exhaust are 6thousandths to 7thousandths and i did 7 for intake and 6 for exhaust. Would def check your valve adjustment if you will.

 

Ya my intakes are at 8 and my exhaust are at 10

 

woops other way around 10 and 8, Cocoa should def check all that out that thing was at like 7g's in that video. No need to check my vavles.

 

no i ment it as a way of telling chris valve lash clearance is same as adjusting valves

 

Sorry, Probably sounded assholish. My apologies

 

just so you know. i hate you for the mods you have and the mods i dont. haha but youre the pioneer of the CL haha

 

isorite mang

 

Update:

Have a date with Jotech to adjust my valve clearance and do another leak down compression test. I also will be insuring the car this Friday ($99, lol) for a month only. I'll be putting in the 500+ miles needed to break her in properly before putting her on the dyno. (I may or may not put her on the dyno)

If the compression looks good, odds are I'll just put the 500 miles on her by Saturday night, and get started on the install of that turbo kit without another dyno.

 

Sweet what are they setting your vavles at?

 

Going to tell them to set it to stock. Even though I have the J35 block and didn't stroke the j32 block, I am using the CLS pistons which are higher compression than the stock j35 block's piston's compression ratio, so that alone tells me those pistons are cominig up slightly higher than intended. I rather not risk having those valves touch my pistons since I don't know how much clearance there is. I'm sure I could pay to find that answer, but rather not.