had everything together today and realized there was coolant leak in the back of the passenger side intake manifold bolt. Well, I had to pressure test the coolant system and that's when I noticed the leak from that bolt. you can see the coolant coming out around the bolt when I removed the bolt the coolant came out with good force since I had to remove the intake wanted to get all the coolant out of the block, was able to remove the hex plug on the passenger side but couldn't remove the driver's side, just a bad location. I was able to remove all the things from the top Didn't get a chance to do anything else. Gonna remove the distributor this time and make sure I have really good alignment of the intake gasket. I have a set that I can work with but will see if there is a better one.
Not really sure what size that cam is.. but you would undoubtedly gain power without much torque loss right off idle if you used a spacer under that carb. I've used these in the past(I make all my own these days and usually custom grind them to better transition into the manifold and avoid slight mismatches) and they work very well the higher you spin an engine. They're awesome on compression type builds as well. http://www.wilsonmanifolds.com/products/spacers/tapered-carburetor-spacers/4150-tapered-spacers.html From there you get into open spacers to increase the plenum volume.. which is where these street style dual plane manifolds really suffer. Biggest hurdle is getting a 2 inch spacer under the hood line without affecting the air cleaners efficiency and a 1 inch is better than nothing. You can also mill a 2 incher down to about 1.xx inches to get all you can out of available clearance but that requires a solid spacer rather than the Wilso type which is a hollow style. I have a very good plenum mod(requires some welding though) for that particular syle manifold and if you want?.. I can dig for it later on to share. And I don't usually share that one very often. lol
I kinda thought that the nitrous plate I have under there is essentially functioning as a spacer plate. I don't know how much more space I have under the hood to clear the air cleaner anyways.
Unfortunately the intake gasket didn't go on properly when we installed the intake last time. The gaskets must have been pretty crappy quality because they had frayed. We had an SCE gasket leaking around that I decided to use.
Decided to go with no nitrous plate for now so I can get rid of some of the extra wiring and clutter under the hood for now. So I got some shorter studs for the carb. I used the longer studs to align the intake. They fit very well. Tomorrow I will try to get the intake on.
got the carb on with the shorter studs.... only one return spring for now, will change that over to two later ...
i'm going to be upgrading the fuel system so I won't have much use for this fuel regulator unless I decide to keep a dedicated fuel system for the nitrous....we'll see. For now I just zip tied it to the side Here is a shot of the intake....the RTV stuff is what I put on instead of the cork gasket....I guess I don't need to mention that anymore since almost nobody does the cork anymore apparently... the installation wasn't too bad.... I got a little coolant into the lifter valley so I poured some oil there to wash everything down.... then cleaned everything really good.... used Ultra Black RTV on both sides of the SCE gasket around the water passageways and like you guys suggested, used the carb studs to drops the intake right onto the top of the engine....worked out REALLY nicely.... there was some confusion with the torque specs...basically the ford manual said to got to 20-25ftlb for the smaller intake bolts but to go to 30-35ftlb for the 3/8" bolts which is what I had...then Bryant showed me that the intake manufacturer only recommended 20lbft of torgue....I ended up doing 24ftlb ....only because I did it already without asking Bryant....should be ok....
I was told to put some permatex on the bolts and a little bit of oil under the bolt head to get the right torque specs....
man I miss driving my car....here is a nice shot of my car....well at least in my opinion. The car above my car is what Bryant is working on at the shop, really nice paint job and it's gonna be a beauty. The owner is really meticulous and is paying a lot of attention to the details....
why do I get all my advice from Bryant....because he built the rear end for this thing....enough said! It happened to be sitting at the shop today. It belongs to the owner of the shop next door....
my buddy bought a go-pro camera for surfing, he is gonna let me use it for the race, pretty excited about it. It will be nice to have a recording of the track and then go over it and see how I did. probably gonna place it inside the car so I can see how I position my hands and all.....
yes, the gopro is pretty cool. i mounted mine centered on the dash, i like the view: http://youtu.be/bOUCOD8k6z4
