The Dust-Turd project.
Race cars are a never ending fun fest!
The Crower clutch that I got a good deal on (derp) isn't going to work, too much clutch and too heavy. Motor acted like the crank was spinning in mud with 70 pounds hanging on it. Had Mike at Ram build me a 8" dual disk and swapped that out. after setting it up, seems to work great.
And then............................
A big chunk of the epoxy in the intake decided to come loose and wedge itself in a intake valve. Thankfully, it was just idling in the shop to warm up.
Pull the heads and have one valve replaced. remove all the epoxy from the intake.
And then.........................
Putting the rocker shafts back on, I looked in my handy dandy Mopar book for the torque specs and tightened them to 35 pounds. After running the valves, took it for a quick ride and just when I returned it became a 6cyl. F###. What now?
Lol, my dumb *** neglected the fact that these were ALUMINUM heads and the torque for them is 25 pounds! one of the bolts pulled out the threads and broke the shaft.
New rocker shaft ($$$) and a Time-sert fixed it. Stupid sometimes hurts.
Blasted it a couple times up on the toll road and she's good now. Drove it to a local show and everything worked fine.
Now that it's cooled off, track testing this month. Might take it to the Garlit's Museum show in November. :)
Race cars are a never ending fun fest!
The Crower clutch that I got a good deal on (derp) isn't going to work, too much clutch and too heavy. Motor acted like the crank was spinning in mud with 70 pounds hanging on it. Had Mike at Ram build me a 8" dual disk and swapped that out. after setting it up, seems to work great.
And then............................
A big chunk of the epoxy in the intake decided to come loose and wedge itself in a intake valve. Thankfully, it was just idling in the shop to warm up.
Pull the heads and have one valve replaced. remove all the epoxy from the intake.
And then.........................
Putting the rocker shafts back on, I looked in my handy dandy Mopar book for the torque specs and tightened them to 35 pounds. After running the valves, took it for a quick ride and just when I returned it became a 6cyl. F###. What now?
Lol, my dumb *** neglected the fact that these were ALUMINUM heads and the torque for them is 25 pounds! one of the bolts pulled out the threads and broke the shaft.
New rocker shaft ($$$) and a Time-sert fixed it. Stupid sometimes hurts.
Blasted it a couple times up on the toll road and she's good now. Drove it to a local show and everything worked fine.
Now that it's cooled off, track testing this month. Might take it to the Garlit's Museum show in November. :)
