Need some help and information

[btroadman]

Hello all, this is my first post here. I recently purchased my first Grand National. It has many extras listed below. The owner took care of this machine and included many extra parts.....

New 4 core radiator, water pump, 160 thermostat.
TE44 turbo and silicon intercooler hoses
Walbro 307 pump with Caspers hotwire kit
Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator with rail mounted guage
SMC single nozzle alcohol injection kit
40lbs "red stripe" injectors
Full stainless ATR 2.5 exhaust complete with stainless test pipe
Mark Huffman Big Mouth Cold Air induction kit
Autometer white faced 30psi boost guage
Caspers white faced knock guage mounted on dual A-piller pod
4 chips included: Jay Carter street, strip, and emissions chip, and Jim Testa chip for alky
New Brakes front and rear
New plugs
New MagnaCore wires
Bilstein Shocks
Recent NEW GM complete powermaster
Art Carr shift kit

Now here is where I need the help. The shift kit is not installed, and I really don't know much about alcohol injectors. I would love to get some good speed and be street legal with this car. Can someone tell me which chip I should use and what I should do to tune the alcohol injection? Is the shift kit worth installing? I appreciate any information as I am still in the learning stages. Thanks in advance.

 

[Razor]

Welcome aboard

I'll do what I can to answer your questions. Some may be cut and dry.. other stuff will just require a learning curve.

First and foremost, to keep your motor together, keep that knock sensor from flaring. In other words, knock... also known as detonation.. will kill the motor in short order. Especially when you have a turbo that is capable of blowing enough air into the motor and severely hurting it. So in all fairness, your first lesson is watch that knock guage. And understand the consequences of not watching it.

With that said, you will need a scantool now or eventually to be able and set the motor up, and monitor how its running. You can search the board under the scantool section and do some reading.

As far as the alcohol, which is what this section is for, i'll do what I can to answer your questions.

Its basically used to control knock at higher boost levels. In other words it allows you to run higher boost without having the knock sensor go off. Thus letting you make more power, in a safer way. Your kits maker recommends the use of denatured alcohol and the addition of a lubricant with the alcohol to assist with lubing the internal pump. But your only source of reading anything is that knock guage. Which isnt much. hence my scantool suggestion.

The scanmasterII is my favorite for ease of use, and information relevance. There are laptop versions the turbolink, direct scan, and otc. as the top three others.

As to your shift kit question.. depends on the tranny and its state of wear. I would recommend you drop the pan and inspect for clutch material and anything out of the ordinary, before increasing pressures within the transmission. Also running higher boost will tax the tranny even more so increasing its wear. So if the transmission is operating correctly, a shift kit will help. If its worn, it will drive its life expectancy down.

HTH