A cleaned and flow matched set of injectors are installed with the throttle bodies and the coolant hoses are ready to be in the car so I can mock up the rest.
This Speedway coolant swirl pot is $50 and very nicely made.
A cleaned and flow matched set of injectors are installed with the throttle bodies and the coolant hoses are ready to be in the car so I can mock up the rest.
This Speedway coolant swirl pot is $50 and very nicely made.
Now that I'm eyeballing plumbing I got the money box out
In reply to DaveEstey :
Ok that makes sense.
I never touched a motorbike engine, besides taking out the batteries from our delivery bikes here at work last week to charge them, so I know nothing about them.
VW 8V motors on the other hand, I can rebuild one in my sleep...
In reply to StripesSA1 :
It's pretty simple really. Cam with a shim under bucket design. Take the trans off and you just have a hot little 1.3 liter engine.
In reply to DaveEstey :
Excellent color choice for the chassis. Damage will be easy to spot.
Threw another coat of paint at the chassis yesterday and it's looking fine. While it was drying I tackled something I've been putting off for a while - the wiring harness. This car was already running, so there was no reason to make major changes, but at the same time it was a mish mash of crimps, old nasty electrical tape, and wires that were snipped and left in the loom.
I'm not done, but I got a lot closer to it. Once it's Done Done I'll give it a nice wrap job.
After 4 hours of wire work I took a break to make a huge mess cutting up foam.
I think this, once I bring it closer to the drawn lines, will fit just fine. It has ample volume as well. Sadly, a friend informed me it looks like a penis.
In reply to DaveEstey :
Big dick energy ftmfw!
Flat floor is installed on all those tabs and rivnuts I've been installing.
I slapped some more paint on thin areas and will now have to wait a day for it to dry thanks to our North East humidity. After that the suspension starts to go back on for measurements!
I'm waiting for parts to come to finish fabricating the biscuit bar mount. But I'll want suspension in place to eyeball it anyway so here we go. The rear is real easy. Front... Less so.
Wheelies!
Nothing goes back on the car dirty. Aluminum gets cleaned up. Hardware gets changed out and painted things get repainted. Takes a while to do it all, but it's worth it.
One of the main reasons why I insist on refinishing things before installing is that I find things that I don't like. These upper ball joints need replacing. They feel real tight even when I tried to force fresh grease in. Turns out they're a GM truck bolt mount with a Mustang II shaft. Oddball, but common in circle track stuff. New ones were $15 each.
I also found a few heims I didn't like the feel of. Those are $12 each and I grabbed 4 to redo the steering rods as a set rather than just replacing the outers. If nothing else I'll keep the good inners as spares.
The shop has been miserably hot lately. There are no windows so getting airflow isn't happening. Makes it hard to stay motivated when you're busy mopping sweat so you can see.
The engine is all sealed up again and just waiting for a couple fittings to make plumbing my accusump easier. Sealing included an oil baffle which is a pretty nice little piece. The low profile billet oil pan was already in my collection. BLING BLING
My two cars are both 14 years old and showing their age, so I decided to take both off the road and pick up a new ride that can serve as a daily AND tow race cars. Man the truck market is screwy right now due to Covid.
Enter a CPO F-150 XLT with the 5 liter.
Here it is facing my old truck, which I sold for $1k with 253k miles to a friend who needed a truck for dump runs.
The last fabrication job on the car, at least major fabrication, is the top-link mount. Tonight I sucked it up and sweated while I tacked, measured, scratched my head and sweated some more.
I really need to do some measuring to find the centerline to ensure things are perfect, but this is close.
Packaging with the driveshaft right under it ws a concern, but I think I have ample clearance. Once everything is welded up finally I'll finish the chassis paint.
One of the most annoying things automarkers do is put car mirrors on half ton trucks, even if they have the tow package. Grinds my gears I tells ya. So I fixed it.
MUCH BETTER
Shop time has been harder to come by this week, but I snuck in a little tonight.
This is the feed line for my accusump, should pressure drop low enough the accusump will feed the main bearings directly. Good insurance.
Threading in bolts when installing the headers can be a real pain in the ole buttocks, so I installed some stainless studs to make life easier. I did have to chase one hole that had some thread damage, reinforcing why I was doing this.
The car had rubber brake lines when I bought it, which is no bueno. Converting to braided steel AN lines has been unfun due to the mystery calipers, but I finally got a system I'm happy with. 
Feel good moment - she's almost a roller again.
Lots of other bits and bobs done tonight before I got sick of mopping my face down with paper towels to be able to see.
I've been sitting on my new driveshaft adapter for a while now waiting for Hawk Machine Co. to respond to my emails about it. They haven't responded to any of them so here we go.
This thing is garbage. It isn't useable. The teeth aren't properly formed, even if you ignore the the fact that there's excess metal left everywhere and that it was machined with an old beaver from the looks of it.
Don't give them your money if you can avoid it.
In reply to DaveEstey :
Wow, did they hand-file that?!??!
Do they stock any of these? Seems really odd to not get any sort of response at all.
DaveEstey said:Lots of other bits and bobs done tonight before I got sick of mopping my face down with paper towels to be able to see.
The struggle is real. I drop sweat on everything at this time of year.
Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to DaveEstey :
Wow, did they hand-file that?!??!
Yeah, it definitely looks like it slipped in the CAD machine or it lost its reference or something.
And what are you wearing, "Dave" at "Hawk Machine"?
I think my "Fix" is going to be make my own driveshaft adapter.
I ordered 2 sprockets that will fit my larger 30mm output shaft. I'll get a piece of steel water jetted for the flange and do some welding before I send it to a machinist friend with a lathe to make sure it's all round.
Should be plenty strong and I know the teeth will be properly formed since the sprockets are made by the same guys who made the output shaft.
nocones said:DaveEstey said:Lots of other bits and bobs done tonight before I got sick of mopping my face down with paper towels to be able to see.
The struggle is real. I drop sweat on everything at this time of year.
The worst are the drops on my glasses.
Can you get the output shaft guys to just make you a couple adapters? I mean, it seems like they have the machining capabilities...
In reply to DaveEstey :
I'm going to end up building a driveshaft adapter for out Lemons car. Maybe using a Datsun Roadster rear axle wasn't such a great idea after all.
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