Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
Well, I limped the car over to my shop, then went and got a 50ft garden hose and a T valve that goes in the upper heater hose to blow the water system out. I drained all the coolant, then ran a hose on it for about 15 minutes, till everything was clear, then I took the hose out, and inserted my air compressor hose onto the fitting, and created a large volcano of water, some little debris and all sorts of junk came flying out of the radiator. Then hosed it again, then air, then filled the system.
170-180 degrees constant now. Awesome.
The T-clamps on the turbo piping are starting to drive me nuts. I'll have to buy new ones. These cheap chinese ones keep coming apart. I was making 2psi boost pressure and thought I had another problem, looked under hood and two of the T-clamps were loose. Tightened them as much as I could, and naturally they stripped before actually being tight, but making 8 psi again. Maybe if I find some better ones I'll find that I can make 14psi easily.
In other news I am beginning to engineer my master shutdown switch. I am going to mount the lever activated moroso switch I have laterally in the trunk, then drill a hole through the arm, and attach a rod there, then remove one reverse light bulb, and drill a hole through the tail light lens where the reverse light was. Then I will grommet that section, put my "OFF" indicator over the rest of the reverse light lens. Then it will have a chrome knob, that you push, to throw the lever forward and turn the car off.
The problem now is I need a relay to shut down the field side of the alternator, since the car will keep running even if I disconnect the battery. I spoke with a tech and they said they would normally have you run the car, then hit the button and see if it stops. If it stops in a sec, you pass, if it still runs, you fail. All because the battery is in the trunk.
So I'm working on that, because I do want to get some times in at the track, just for fun at least. I also don't want to put the battery back in the engine bay, I am very invested into this setup.
Well, I limped the car over to my shop, then went and got a 50ft garden hose and a T valve that goes in the upper heater hose to blow the water system out. I drained all the coolant, then ran a hose on it for about 15 minutes, till everything was clear, then I took the hose out, and inserted my air compressor hose onto the fitting, and created a large volcano of water, some little debris and all sorts of junk came flying out of the radiator. Then hosed it again, then air, then filled the system.
170-180 degrees constant now. Awesome.
The T-clamps on the turbo piping are starting to drive me nuts. I'll have to buy new ones. These cheap chinese ones keep coming apart. I was making 2psi boost pressure and thought I had another problem, looked under hood and two of the T-clamps were loose. Tightened them as much as I could, and naturally they stripped before actually being tight, but making 8 psi again. Maybe if I find some better ones I'll find that I can make 14psi easily.
In other news I am beginning to engineer my master shutdown switch. I am going to mount the lever activated moroso switch I have laterally in the trunk, then drill a hole through the arm, and attach a rod there, then remove one reverse light bulb, and drill a hole through the tail light lens where the reverse light was. Then I will grommet that section, put my "OFF" indicator over the rest of the reverse light lens. Then it will have a chrome knob, that you push, to throw the lever forward and turn the car off.
The problem now is I need a relay to shut down the field side of the alternator, since the car will keep running even if I disconnect the battery. I spoke with a tech and they said they would normally have you run the car, then hit the button and see if it stops. If it stops in a sec, you pass, if it still runs, you fail. All because the battery is in the trunk.
So I'm working on that, because I do want to get some times in at the track, just for fun at least. I also don't want to put the battery back in the engine bay, I am very invested into this setup.