I thought I had read to the end of the thread but somehow I missed pg. 4. Once I hit submit it was too late to bring it back. My bad. I guess I should stick to brain surgery.:leaving

 

I hope that new motor works as good as it looks.

 

Looking real good. REAL GOOD! You guys do some pretty good work. If you want I can drop my car off in July sometime for similar treatment.

You guys going to have it ready for the Hooters' show? Don't think I'm going to make that one. There is another Outlaw show in June. Hope you guys can make it up for that.

BTW, got my tabs in the mail a couple days ago. I'm good to go. Woot!

 

Don't worry about it, I made that mistake a few times when I was a new member too. You start to catch it a lot easier.

Hopefully we'll be getting it started sometime today. We should both have some time to throw at it, and we'll post back with results. If it's raining, we'll just do the initial break in to seat the rings, and the first drive will have to wait until the weather breaks.

 

I love 'em both. That car is killer inside and out. Now with the new engine, it is unbelievable.

 

i think they only work on it when they can meet up...so they don't work on it every day...

 

Technically this project has been in process for many months, from inception, to build, to swap. A few extra days is nothing.



This is very true, and you are correct. This being Mother's Day weekend, I have to devote my time to both the family located here and those from out of town.

Just so everyone knows, the engine was started Friday late morning. Curt switched on the IGN, energized the radiator fan and fuel pump relays, and hit the start button, while I manned the throttle and distributor.

The engine didn't even turn two full revolutions before roaring to life. It smoothly ran up and down from idle to 2500 RPMs. The sound was amazing, and considerably more throaty and lopey than before even through the same side pipes. This was the first GM roller I have built and started, and the difference was very apparent.

It revved soooo much smoother and seemed to crave more air and fuel like nothing I have built before. It really was quite exhilarating.

Alas, we didn't have much time. We decided to save the ring seat and timing for a day when we had more time. It fired right up, sounded amazing, and that is what we were looking for that day.

We're in no hurry, with all the rain and such, we wouldn't be able to drive it to properly break it in.

In order to clear things up again, the next posts on this will be in a new thread. It will be a brief overview of how things went from start of the build to the install, and the startup. I will ask politely, to the trolls and hecklers, to please refrain from posting unless it's constructive or positive. Being negative and poking for trouble will only get you reported, and ironically it won't even be by me.

Thanks everyone.

 

[QUOTE=Durango_boy;1565409275]Technically this project has been in process for many months, from inception, to build, to swap. A few extra days is nothing.





This is very true, and you are correct. This being Mother's Day weekend, I have to devote my time to both the family located here and those from out of town.

Good luck with the rest of the project.

Bman

 

Glad to hear it came out so well. Will look forward to seeing the dyno sheets!!

 

 

Too bad. The update thread got closed from all the bickering by you guys, and I just don't feel like humoring you.

 

I'm sorry to hear things did not turn out well.

 

I hope you were at least able to save the “Built by DB” plate.

 

What happened ?

 

Nothing happened or went wrong. The engine runs great ! These guys all like causing problems and want to give the impression that it was anything but a success.

 

Wheres the video ? Lets see some smoke !

 

From what I read on other forums it's running lean (asking how to change jets on an AFB style carb), it's okay..you can ask those questions here without compomising your rep There are plenty of people here who know how to help you guys with that, no need to ask on the digital desert where you're alone in the desert looking for help.

So, let's see the vid I as anyone else can enjoy some good V8 thunder

 

No one claimed anything about caring about a reputation.

The carb needs to be tuned a bit better. I was with Curt when we bought a carb tuning kit. The plan was to do it this last weekend but I had to go out of town for a funeral. If Curt was doing a bit of unilateral research to learn more about the process then more power to him. I gave him the information on the jets I was wanting to change to and I wish I would have had the time to stay and do it but that wasn't possible.

Point being, the engine runs great and we're both really looking forward to getting it down to the Dyno for some runs and tuning.

As for the video, it ended up being 66MB and in trying to compress it I corrupted it and had to delete it. Once all this frig'n rain lets up we'll get more pics and video.

 

Hey, you don't have the prove yourself to me I know you're awesome with engines

 

Just hang in there if all you have to do is carb tune you are 99% done all new engines need carb rejeting for max peformance,--JON--