Its all studs and nuts in here.
That’s what she said, about stuff being in her vagina that is.
Have I ever told you how satisfying it is to give up on a project car that is being a complete cunt?
hahaha, gold.
Nope. Not that I expected them, but it would have been a pleasant surprise. Well, at least this vacation wasn’t a complete waste. Oh wait…
Unbelievable. Got my GPS Speedometer today. They managed to fuck up the opening ceremony. They programmed my original set of gauges, so they should definitely have known how they were configured. Check it out.
Definitely need to walk away from this fucking thing for a week or so.
Take a break, grab a glass of milk lol
What am I missing on that?
Check the tach on the left. It doesn’t swing with the other gauges during the opening ceremony. It’s delayed a second or so. When I ordered the full set a couple of years ago both the speedo and tach did this, so it looked fine. I had actually grown to like the delay on the speedo and tach. I ordered this GPS speedo and specified like 7 times that I wanted it to match this set. Well, it doesn’t. Rad.
Here’s what the opening ceremony on the original gauge set looked like.
I figured as much… what exactly did they mess up, just the timing upon power hitting the tach? That would surely annoy the hell out of me over time.
EDIT: I re-read. They should have programmed the speedo you just purchased with more of a delay. Balls.
Side bar: I love how you see a vacation with car projects as fun. I would need a vaca from my vaca if I were you!
It’s programmed that way from Speedhut. The Tach has a delay programmed into it from when it sees 12V ignition before it fires the opening ceremony. The others don’t. Basically, I need to pull out the tach, ship it back and have it reprogrammed. Pretty sweet.
Look at the bright side, once you do that all will go at the same time…
Enjoy the weekend man, and keep it coming!
Oh, and intake:
After the speedo thing, I just got sick of it and left, so it doesn’t have the throttle body or any of that jazz mounted.
I def know the feeling of having to walk away from a project car that is being a whore. At least it’s only happened a few times haha
Barclaycard just upped my limit a bunch. Thinking about dropping a couple grand on an old Clausing or LeBlond [preferably with a DRO] with a shitload of tooling and a rolling head with a handful of rolls. I could get some 4140 or even better 4150 and go at it myself. Pretty much 4150 is just 4140 with around 20 extra points of carbon, so it’ll harden more readily. With an oil quench at about 1525°F, after a temper at 1,000°F [though, I wouldn’t temper that high]; you’ll get a Rockwell of about 47RC at the surface and a tensile strength of about 160KPSI. I would temper between 400°F for maximum tensile. Either way; it’s well within the range of Grade 8. Apparently 4140 tends to stop hardening about 1/8" deep, so you can only really through harden 1/4" material. Using 4150 would harden at least the majority of the way through the 7/16" portion and a very good portion of the 5/8" cross. Should bring the tensile up a bit as well. At any rate, the pre-load at 75ft/lb isn’t much. According to Futek, 81.15ft/lb applied to a hardened 4140 7/16-20 generic Grade 8 bolt yields 11130lb clamp load. It doesn’t specify dry or lubed, but I’ll guess lubed. Anyway, that fucking stud shouldn’t be snapping. And I could theoretically make my own.
Fuck this guy.
Holy fuck. Maybe get my motor back together tonight? Only 27 days after I placed my order…
So, the studs definitely showed up. I screwed the replacement into the block, dropped the head gasket and head on and torqued those bitches down. Zero issues. All ten torqued to 75 pounds perfectly. Just reinforces the conclusion that the original stud was garbage. Whatever, at least he replaced it for free after a week and a half. So, 27 days after my initial order I’m finally fucking done with this asshole. Amazing feeling.
Heads torqued down:
Then I had to reset the timing chains and tensioners after getting cylinder 1 to TDC. You can see the cam holding tools in the photo above. After you get the cams in the appropriate position, you drop those onto the hexes cast into the cam shank and they prevent them from spinning so you can get your chain sprockets on. Pretty ingenious, if not super simple.
Then I got the front cam cover installed, and upon attempting to install the rear; discovered that the gasket was beyond swollen with oil. It wouldn’t fit in the cover at all. It must have grown like an inch. Here I just have the rear cover sitting on the head and the intake sitting on the heads. Looks pretty alright.
I just ordered a set of cam cover gaskets from Pep Boys to pick up along withe some fresh oil tomorrow, so I should be able to have the engine fully assembled and maybe even back in the car. Really trying to drive it this weekend…
I saw the garage where this is a few days ago. I’m close by so if you want a can of gas and some matches, just let me know.
No way, this thing is amazing. I can’t wait to see this thing on the road… need some videos. That engine has so much potential, especially now just begging for boost.
Path to the dark side this is. Not more income you have, only more potential debt. Beware young jedi.
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