So I've been lazy lately.. kinda. Had some other things around the house, over the weekend, that needed done and I'm mostly waiting for things to come in. We had a warm weekend and it was my last chance to get those damn helicopter, whirlybird things from maple trees out of my gutter guards.. They were insane this year. Never seen them this bad!
Anyway, things are in motion and just waiting. I was tempted to pull my steering column and start eliminating all the column shifter and indicator.. but decided to hold off until motor is wrapped up. I haven't totally researched disassembly and not totally sure how to mod the column in the engine bay. I'd like to make it like a standard column and move the bearing all the way up to the firewall, eliminating the shift lever... I'll figure it out, now's not the time tho.
Last week, while cleaning things up, I discovered that all of my coils were ****! I pulled all the boots and was going to add a little dielectric grease to everything and BAM. I couldn't believe just how bad they were. The old 6.4 was a 2019 with 32k-ish miles. It didn't come out of a wrecked car either.. was pulled for a Hellcat swap. I have no idea how I wasn't having misfires. Fortunately, I had another set on the shelf from the longblock that I bought.. the guy threw in a set of valve covers and the coils were much better.. still a little corrosion. So listen kids.. check your ****! They started adding resisters between the spring and coil around 2016(?) I was going to grab a set of earlier style boots and springs to eliminate the resisters, but everything cleaned up ok on the other set and it was 100-150 bucks that I didn't want to spend.
Earlier this week, I bought several AN fittings from Amazon, to try to find a way to make my TRX oil filter adapter work out. 1 of the 180 12an fittings was too wide but another was pretty damn close. Had to give it just a little squeeze in a soft jawed vice to make it work.. centerline was about 1/8 too wide. Unfortunately, I'll lose my (idiot) oil pressure switch that I had wired in to a plug that was previously in one of the ports. I may try to T where my added oil pressure gauge sending unit is. The oil cooler bypass looks like it'll work tho.. hope so. Really didn't want to spend another $200 for the Ram 1500 one.
This weekend, I should should be able to get the front and bottom sealed up.. FRP Trident Cam, HC lifters, timing chain, phaser lock, new cam bolt, TC gasket, HC oil pump are here (or will be today) and a New Edge street stall is ordered .. should stall around 3600. Heads with new PAC springs and Manley pushrods should be ready to go in/on in a week or so. So glad the old 6.4 sold last week lol. I've got a few weeks off coming up at the end of the month, so who knows, I may actually get it stabbed back in and start focusing on other details. I don't think I'll be able to slide it in with the 8hp attached like I did with the 904. It'll be nice to switch gears and move onto something else.
BTW, I have an extra set of new PAC 1232X valve springs if anybody needs a set.. make ya a FABO deal.
I'll upload some pics in a minute. Here's a video of what the FRP Trident sounds like...