I fixed the oil pressure gauge and got her fired up tonight. Crispy is the word my neighbor used to describe how it sounds. One thing I never tire of is that great feeling it gives you to hear one run after you built it. I always crawl all over a motor with a stethoscope to listen for out of place noises. All the right noises are in all the right places.
I can hardly wait to get my first et slip with it. Bill Vander Werf Bill Vander Werf wrote: > I finally got my 71 together enough to start the motor. I built a pretty > stout .030 over 454, (it's now a 460) for it and finally got it in, > wired and the plumbing done. It's got an 850 Holley double pumper carb, > an Edelbrock Performer RPM air-gap manifold, ported oval port iron heads > with a 3 angle valve job, a MSD ignition system from a 6AL box to the > billet distributor, a complete hydraulic roller cam setup from Crane > including gold race aluminum roller rockers (.587 intake lift, 226 > duration @ .050, .610 exhaust lift, 234 duration @ .050) and 10 to 1 > forged Speed Pro pistons on polished rods with everything balanced and > held together with ARP fasteners and the exhaust dumping through Hooker > Super Competition headers. All this is connected to a built Turbo 400 > and a Moser 9" rear with 3.89 gears. > > It started on the first crank and filled the garage with the sweet smell > of burned 110 octane.......mmmmmmm. I was only able to run it for a > minute or so before I realized that the line on the old oil pressure > gauge I was using to monitor it was about as old and decrepit as I am > and I got hosed down with 30w oil. That will make you shut one off in a > hurry. > > What I was able to hear in the short time it ran sounded great though, > and after I cleaned up the mess, both on the car and myself, I decided > to walk away from it until tomorrow. > > Fortunately it has a roller cam so I don't need to break it in. I can go > right to setting the timing and adjusting the carb. > > The car has been about a year and a half in the works but it won't be > long now before I'm standing on the loud pedal going down the local > dragstrip.......Yee Haa. > > Bill Vander Werf ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
