'68 318 to carbed Magnum 5.2: Check my checklist
Ok, couple of updates. First off, a decent photo of the dizzy (which looks pretty nice considering its history) and its cap (which looks fantastic):
A daylight photo of the engine, for once:
And here's where it gets interesting. Since I did not have any 1970+ style front accessories, given the 1968 and 1989 donors, I ordered (the cheapest) 1970 SBM alternator bracket I could find off of eBay.
I test-fitted it today, and found out one of those nagging compatibility issues that nobody tells you on Magnum swap pages ("...everything else fits!"), and you don't find out until it's too late.
The problem is that the Magnum head protrudes farther than the original heads (a known fact), but this causes interference problems with the one-piece bracket brace at the back:
It's no problem for me once I chop it shorter and put it back together with the MIG welder, but it's something you don't want to run into if you don't have access to welding equipment - or a friend who welds for beer.
Ugh. I don't care much for either-in-a-can for that very reason, though it does burn off quite quickly. The alcohol much less so - it's a very uneasy slow burn.
My video work is nothing much - glorified DSLR video work (strangely enough, for a non-profit in the injury promotion/health field; we've had an NIH grant before). You can see a portion of my favorite hand-held rig here. At the center of it is a rather mundane Canon EOS-M; my favorite run-and-gun camera for video: http://manwiththe5d.com/2015/02/canon-eos-m-anton-bauer.html
I also have some Blackmagic Cinema cameras, but they're really not suited to on-the-fly work - I used one to film the interior of the Valiant, but unless the shot is pre-planned, it's not suitable. Most of the video I shot was done with the EOS-M, a pair of GoPros (of which one Hero 4 Silver failed - it overheated and burnt its own sensor), and the junkyard footage with an iPhone 6 and 4. None of this will make much sense until you see the video.
I wish the YouTube Partnership Program would pay off on this video - a good enough return on it might actually justify making another video. I'd love to quit my job and do this Roadkill-esque stuff for a living.
-Kurt
Ok, couple of updates. First off, a decent photo of the dizzy (which looks pretty nice considering its history) and its cap (which looks fantastic):
A daylight photo of the engine, for once:
And here's where it gets interesting. Since I did not have any 1970+ style front accessories, given the 1968 and 1989 donors, I ordered (the cheapest) 1970 SBM alternator bracket I could find off of eBay.
I test-fitted it today, and found out one of those nagging compatibility issues that nobody tells you on Magnum swap pages ("...everything else fits!"), and you don't find out until it's too late.
The problem is that the Magnum head protrudes farther than the original heads (a known fact), but this causes interference problems with the one-piece bracket brace at the back:
It's no problem for me once I chop it shorter and put it back together with the MIG welder, but it's something you don't want to run into if you don't have access to welding equipment - or a friend who welds for beer.
Ugh. I don't care much for either-in-a-can for that very reason, though it does burn off quite quickly. The alcohol much less so - it's a very uneasy slow burn.
My video work is nothing much - glorified DSLR video work (strangely enough, for a non-profit in the injury promotion/health field; we've had an NIH grant before). You can see a portion of my favorite hand-held rig here. At the center of it is a rather mundane Canon EOS-M; my favorite run-and-gun camera for video: http://manwiththe5d.com/2015/02/canon-eos-m-anton-bauer.html
I also have some Blackmagic Cinema cameras, but they're really not suited to on-the-fly work - I used one to film the interior of the Valiant, but unless the shot is pre-planned, it's not suitable. Most of the video I shot was done with the EOS-M, a pair of GoPros (of which one Hero 4 Silver failed - it overheated and burnt its own sensor), and the junkyard footage with an iPhone 6 and 4. None of this will make much sense until you see the video.
I wish the YouTube Partnership Program would pay off on this video - a good enough return on it might actually justify making another video. I'd love to quit my job and do this Roadkill-esque stuff for a living.
-Kurt