Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
Dang man I hope all that is behind you! Good on the manager but holy crap I think I'd have fired that kid before it got so far. Find your happy place, take a few days to relax and not think about the car, and then back to it at your own pace. Excellent work so far.
Well, I did go to my happy place. The car is my happy place. haha. Intake and carb off, girlfriend took the intake to the backyard and painted it black. Looks good.
Now in theory you'd just open the hood and dump all this in and you're done.
But there's more to it.
Exhaust manifold that was poorly mated - gone. Look at that exhaust leak stain. Whew. Scraped it off, repainted.
The new gasket, manifold and all is mounted. It looks good. I kicked the old exhaust pipe out of the way and shoved it back, then put the turbo manifold on. I did not like the final fit. I cut the flange off, cranked it about 1/16th of a turn, and rewelded. FIT GREAT after that.
It pointed towards the radiator, so my filter won't fit... guess thats what happens. I'll have to do the window screen filter.
I mated the oil lines up. Not done with the filter sandwitch. There were a few complications to the adapter bolt fitting over the stove pipe of the pump. I'm almost there with that side.
I did not reclock the turbo housing after I dropped it in. I just guessed on where it would go, and I think I was pretty close...
I ran into a 5 minute setback mounting the intake manifold. Girlfriend had to hold the turbo manifold while I undid the two bolts on the flange and backed it off a bit to scoot out of the way. After that it went onto the studs, and the turbo got remounted.
The carburetor bolted on. I had to modify the adapter plate a little bit, but just to mount the interior bolts.
LOOK AT THE CLEARANCE It barely sweeps above the exhaust. It is clear across it's whole spin. The only thing I have to figure out is a bracket to mount the throttle cable to to pull. The stock one will work. It's a tiny bit long so I have to make my angle of attack from the bottom. The spring return is the stock return from the exhaust manifold stock setup bolted to the frame of the manifold I built to hold the pipes together. It also supports the bleed boost control. It's a very functional bar. I'm glad I put it in.
You can see the spring in this picture. I got the cold side completely strapped in and it fit well enough. It's not as few pipes as I was trying to go for, but it wasn't bad.
And this is what's left to do either tomorrow or the next day. It may even have to wait till Saturday. The fuel regulator is mounted on the fenderwall above where the stock fuel line was (sort-of) and I will plumb the fuel line back and the return. That will take a while I'm sure, then I have to swap distributors, valve covers, and attach the MSD system. Then figure out all the boost referencing. I think I need to add a couple nipples to the hat. One for fuel regulator, one for the gauge. I'm also trying to figure out what the T is behind the boost control. Maybe that goes to the fuel regulator? It is just off the snail shell.