I put my old exhaust system on and we started it up. I big puff of dust came out and then out popped a big mouse! WE chased that bugger down for 10 mins! Fast sucker! Guess he had a nest in the muffler. Bummer we did not have the camera going.
Getting close, just have to cut a few more holes in the instrument panel then install the gauges and hook up the engine. An operational question: Since the intake is angled to allow for the engine being higher in the front than the back when installed in the car, did you raise the front of your stands to level out the carb pad when you ran the engine?
Getting close, just have to cut a few more holes in the instrument panel then install the gauges and hook up the engine. An operational question: Since the intake is angled to allow for the engine being higher in the front than the back when installed in the car, did you raise the front of your stands to level out the carb pad when you ran the engine?
I just made sure my fan fit the shroud perfectly ensuring the air flow was maximized. Engine almost level. It is about 1/2" higher in the back than the front of the engine. Carb is therefore not exactly flat.
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What about you Chief, yours looks like it's and angled manifold did you make sure your carb was level when testing?
I'm using a 4150 style carb and want to set the fuel bowl levels before I run it. I could block the front of the stand to get the carb pad level before hand, I never thought of it as I was building or I would have made the rear support so it could tilt and have the front swivel adjustable.
What about you Chief, yours looks like it's and angled manifold did you make sure your carb was level when testing?
I'm using a 4150 style carb and want to set the fuel bowl levels before I run it. I could block the front of the stand to get the carb pad level before hand, I never thought of it as I was building or I would have made the rear support so it could tilt and have the front swivel adjustable.
I can adjust my rear support in order to make carb level. The engine runs great now and when I start it it's on my slight slopped driveway. I have my stock QJ installed. Do I need to set the float bowl levels? Can you set them up on the bench instead?
If it's running great now it's most likely adjusted where it needs to be, if you're having some flooding or starvation problems the float level may need to be adjusted. I always found it easier to adjust on the bench. 4150s are adjusted differently than the Quadrajets. One doesn't take the top off and measure down to the float, instead the float adjustment screw is turned until fuel is half way up the sight glass, or level with the bottom of the opening with the sight plugs removed. easier with the carb on the engine and able to pump fuel.
If it's running great now it's most likely adjusted where it needs to be, if you're having some flooding or starvation problems the float level may need to be adjusted. I always found it easier to adjust on the bench. 4150s are adjusted differently than the Quadrajets. One doesn't take the top off and measure down to the float, instead the float adjustment screw is turned until fuel is half way up the sight glass, or level with the bottom of the opening with the sight plugs removed. easier with the carb on the engine and able to pump fuel.
Where in Alberta are you Gus?
Sounds good, what is a 4150? Edelbrock or Holly?
I'm on an acreage, just south of Edmonton
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Hope you guys in Canada don't have to deal with this watered down with ethanol crap gas. I'm not ever putting that garbage in my car again. When the temps get around 90 degrees and above here in AZ it just boils away inside the carburetor and fuel line and vaporizes when you drive the car and shut it off. Takes 30 seconds to a minute of cranking to start it back up. I put race gas in and no more problems. Cranks and fires right up.
Chief, Yes, the powers that be have there heads just as far up there collective [censored] as they do down there. The more money you pay the less ethanol. really tics me off when my tax money is subsidising the production of that crap.
Gus, Sorry I should have said, Mine is a clone of a Holley 4150 double pumper style carburetor. A few guys started to make copies of the 4150 with all the mods they thought would improve on the original. Most didn't improve squat. I believe Holley now owns the cloners and sells them from their Holley store. There was an Edelbrock EPS 800 on my car when I bought it, easy to tune but seemed I had to keep doing it. Holley had QFT Q series on sale at Christmas so I picked one up. The base plate was defective so that had to be changed, the fuel bowls and metering blocks had metal filings and flakes in them, and the jets were drilled off-square so the holes came out through the threads. I don't know if they are made in the USA any more, but I'm not impressed so far. Every carb has their pros and cons, hard to beat a Quadrajet though.
My sister and her family used to have an acerage in Strathcona county near Ardrossan. Went up there a lot. Are you going to the car show in Red Deer this year?
Ok, that is one bitchin looking motor and stand ya got there Bluebird. Hopefully there are no close neighbors or they are real cool.
Nice set up.
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Thanks Man. A lot quieter after I installed the reducers and mufflers. Seems quieter than it did before I did the rebuild, kinda strange. Basically the same except I went from a 230/236 hydraulic roller to a 236/245 with solid roller lifters. Nearest neighbors in the direction the exhaust is pointing is a couple hundred yards away. He's been torturing a small chainsaw trying to buck up some 3" diameter fir all week, so I'm not worrying about him. My next door neighbor the other side likes to run a pressure washer what seem like 24/7 so I don't think I'll get any complaints. Have to restock the beer fridge though, seems every time I start it up someone comes down the driveway to check it out and that usually ends up in quaffing a couple. I only have the stack on there for test and tune, I'd have to have a hole in the hood to run it in the car.
Happy so far, ran about two hours in three days. No leaks, oil pressure is 65 at 1000 plus and 25 at 600 idle. Temp cycles between 160 and 180 depending on rpm.