Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
I'm waiting for a relay to come for the battery shutdown switch, hoping it's here soon so I can go to the drags next wednesday.
Yesterday I popped the valve cover off and went through my valves, they were a bit tight, and I was pulling 7 inches of vacuum. I backed them off to the proper setting and now I have 15 inches of vacuum, no more stumble idle, and it runs great. I'm working on ideas of a new turbo manifold, trying to decide to use the stock one (which will be cut) or invest some time and money into a regular header-type manifold made from an exhaust manifold flange set from ebay and a "build your own header" kit. I think I could do it as far as tacking it all together, then bring it to the muffler shop I use and they could weld it all together for me. It's still a thought.
But for today, I'm prepping for a car show tomorrow. I cleaned the whole car which felt nice since it hasn't gotten a bath in weeks, did a tech wax, and now I'm pretty happy with it. It'll be fun to talk to people about "why would you turbo a slant six?"
Sorry I have not been doing much turbo work lately, when the car started overheating it was sitting in the driveway for a while so I started building other things for it. I'll be back on it soon though.
I'm waiting for a relay to come for the battery shutdown switch, hoping it's here soon so I can go to the drags next wednesday.
Yesterday I popped the valve cover off and went through my valves, they were a bit tight, and I was pulling 7 inches of vacuum. I backed them off to the proper setting and now I have 15 inches of vacuum, no more stumble idle, and it runs great. I'm working on ideas of a new turbo manifold, trying to decide to use the stock one (which will be cut) or invest some time and money into a regular header-type manifold made from an exhaust manifold flange set from ebay and a "build your own header" kit. I think I could do it as far as tacking it all together, then bring it to the muffler shop I use and they could weld it all together for me. It's still a thought.
But for today, I'm prepping for a car show tomorrow. I cleaned the whole car which felt nice since it hasn't gotten a bath in weeks, did a tech wax, and now I'm pretty happy with it. It'll be fun to talk to people about "why would you turbo a slant six?"
Sorry I have not been doing much turbo work lately, when the car started overheating it was sitting in the driveway for a while so I started building other things for it. I'll be back on it soon though.