Serj22 said

Bill, while I'm not looking for an 11 second car necessarily, I can't help but borrow from your build and the one you pictured.

The carburetor is in the mail along with the dizzy, and I'm very excited about that whole deal. Thanks Matt, if you ever jump back on here and read more of what I'm doing.

A couple last minute changes: Decided against a white valve cover and went with wrinkle black. I think that will look nice on my newly painted motor. I changed the entire color scheme again, so it's a custom electric blue 1shot mix I made.

Valve cover looks good. Kind of a cool finish for a $6.50 spray can by VHT.


While at autozone I also saw a VHT can of blue, white, or red exhaust paint. I chose blue and am going to try it again. I sand blasted the manifold this time so hopefully it sticks unlike the white. I baked the white after it was dry to the touch and that may be why it failed. I reread the instructions this time and it says to bake after it has dried for 7 days. Didnt catch that before.

Then with the manifold I'm going to find a way to jam the flap closed so it only directs exhaust downward, and maybe there's some way to seal around the top of the flap. I was thinking RTV copper or JB weld, but dont know how either would survive, or if they would survive in that environment. The carb I'm using is bolting to my supersix iron manifold with a modified inlet (one oval, rather than 2 circles). It has a provision for EGR, but I blocked that with a piece of steel I made that bolts where EGR would go.



We'll see how the manifold turns out after I bake it. I then am going to probably drill it all the way through where the larger bolt goes through to cut the chances of a bolt sticking there (and breaking again) just to make life easier.

The intercooler and piping kit showed up, along with one piece for my intake carburetor hat. The other one still has yet to get here. The intercooler is a lot larger than I was hoping for but at $120 for the cooler, all the piping, sleeves, and clamps - I'll live. I will drop the bumper and grill and get to mounting it. I am really hoping to leave the battery where it is and come into the engine bay on both sides - driver's side under the battery tray, and passenger side between the horns and radiator. I'lll likely remove the horns, paint them black and move them somewhere behind the grill if I have to. Hopefully if my measurements are correct, it will be just under the parking lights and the ends of it will be right about on the same axis as the lights. The other option is to move it further down, and maybe cut the angled bracket that goes from the radiator frame. This would put it down fairly low, and I'd risk curbing it when parking perpendicular with a sidewalk. Maybe I'll find a piece of steel to put in front of it if I go that route.

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