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Flamethrower
Wow. A fair bit more work than initially thought, but its looking a whole lot better for it
The engine bay looks lovely and clean too, only thing letting it down is the servo mainly, and possibly the hinges.
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Guest
Cheers Pabs. Yeah the servo and one of the hood hinges is a bit minging. I'll probably address those in time.
I assembled the other rocker shaft yesterday and got one of them fitted. Didn't get much done because of other committments. I need more free time...
There's a list of things that still need doing. From memory:
Add PCV to inlet and link this to brake servo
Get an assortment of return springs and fiddle with with the carbs
Connect headers up to existing system
Make an oil pump priming tool
Sort out MSD wiring and setup the distributor and test it will start the engine.
Re-route both engine earth and starter motor power so they're away from headers. Am hoping I don't need to make up new cables.
Fit timing cover, water pump etc and other front engine bits.
Fab up kickdown bracket. Fab up on a lathe a large pin on carb lever for a Lokar cable to connect to. It's tight for space on the gearbox to get to the lever. Hopefully I don't need to drop the box.
Start it up and have a beer...
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Well the car has been up and running for 2 weeks. I'm taking it easy for the first 100 miles and then I'll drop the oil and inspect the valve train.
Anyway yesterday I'm driving to a car show and the engine suddenly lost power, popped and banged out the exhaust and died. I came to a halt on the A127 under the M25. Nice dangerous place.
I expected the worse. Because of the dramatic way it died and the banging out the exhaust I new it was ignition related. The engine had compression so it wasn't the cam but I convinced myself it was the distributor shaft sheered.
Later on testing revealed the rotor position was fine and I was getting a spark from the coil. It wasn't coming out of the cap though. Checked the rotor and cap, nothing seemed wrong. Bent the centre tab up and still not starting.
Conveniently my Dad has an MSD distributor too in his Corvette. I tried his rotor arm and it started up! His is 4 years old. Mine has done 50 miles and they are identical in dimensions. I can't see what's wrong and why it failed so quickly. I'm baffled.
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That's a bummer but it sounds like it's an easy fix.
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glad its nothing too serious, i remember on my datsun i put a new contact breaker and dizzy etc in and a tiny little rivet in the new breaker had fell out and was arking causing a big misfire until it died 2 mins from home.
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Found out what's happened. The rotor has allowed spark to jump out of the bottom of it for some reason. This then ended up being the easiest route for the spark so the engine conked out.
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Very cool car please clean your inbox message, I need to pm you.
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Thanks mate. PM box cleared...
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