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Well drove the car to MS and back and to be honest it performed VERY well... the fuel pump on the other hand that I chose to use... well that's my fault, It failed between Harrisburg and Tenn. Might have something to do with me pulling out an old pump that was under my bench for 6yrs and deciding to use that instead of the one that I had in there last year... IDIOT!
But beyond that I can't complain. I averaged around 28mpg on the highway with it on the way back... now that's something I can live with. It also still had quite a bit of stout power when I would go WOT with all my luggage in it... In previous trips to Bfest I always felt like the load made the car slower and this year it felt like it had way more pickup than last year with nothing in it... so that's a good sign for power improvements.
A few issues on the way is my passenger axle boot hit or rubbed something at some point which then ripped a hole in it so it sprayed grease everywhere... Axle grease is now on my list of hated car fluids... I just pulled that axle out last night tore it all down and replace the outer boot... man I hate that grease. Other action items were to replace the temporary fuel pump I put in down in TN for the one I ran last year. I'm trying to keep the bucket in tact this year to see if that works and can flow enough into it to prevent the pump from starving itself but that would also give the pump better cooling when the tank does get low since it stays submerged. The last issue I had were the rear spring bump stops were dead and on every bump on my way home I would bottom out and due to the Neon rear disc swap my tires would rub the quarter panels. I need to do something with that configuration that will tuck the tire in just a bit more so I don't have to worry about rolling the rear quarters or something like that. SO I pulled the upper spring mounts and ripped out the bad bump stops and installed some universal poly ones so hopefully that will prevent against future bottom out's and protect the shocks better.
I got my new converter back from RevMax... Not sure when I will swap that in but I guess it wouldn't hurt to do that prior to going to the strip at any point but we'll see what else I have to get done and how soon I can get there. I may run it with that converter at the Dyno just to see what it has and then try it with the other one at a later date.
Direct port nitrous is still on the back burner... Way too much to work on all at once and I still have so much to settle off when it comes to this.
But beyond that I can't complain. I averaged around 28mpg on the highway with it on the way back... now that's something I can live with. It also still had quite a bit of stout power when I would go WOT with all my luggage in it... In previous trips to Bfest I always felt like the load made the car slower and this year it felt like it had way more pickup than last year with nothing in it... so that's a good sign for power improvements.
A few issues on the way is my passenger axle boot hit or rubbed something at some point which then ripped a hole in it so it sprayed grease everywhere... Axle grease is now on my list of hated car fluids... I just pulled that axle out last night tore it all down and replace the outer boot... man I hate that grease. Other action items were to replace the temporary fuel pump I put in down in TN for the one I ran last year. I'm trying to keep the bucket in tact this year to see if that works and can flow enough into it to prevent the pump from starving itself but that would also give the pump better cooling when the tank does get low since it stays submerged. The last issue I had were the rear spring bump stops were dead and on every bump on my way home I would bottom out and due to the Neon rear disc swap my tires would rub the quarter panels. I need to do something with that configuration that will tuck the tire in just a bit more so I don't have to worry about rolling the rear quarters or something like that. SO I pulled the upper spring mounts and ripped out the bad bump stops and installed some universal poly ones so hopefully that will prevent against future bottom out's and protect the shocks better.
I got my new converter back from RevMax... Not sure when I will swap that in but I guess it wouldn't hurt to do that prior to going to the strip at any point but we'll see what else I have to get done and how soon I can get there. I may run it with that converter at the Dyno just to see what it has and then try it with the other one at a later date.
Direct port nitrous is still on the back burner... Way too much to work on all at once and I still have so much to settle off when it comes to this.
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