I've been wondering since you started this if you had ran the engine.
We actually pulled the engine out of a truck that drove to the shop so started the project knowing the engine ran and sounded fine/didn't smoke all that jazz.I've been wondering since you started this if you had ran the engine.
I used to race NASCAR Limited Sportsman in the 70's with a '57 Chevy running a 250 C.I. six with 10 1/2-1 Arias pistons, Schooler Cam, Clifford intake with a 650 Holley and headers Trust me, I know what you mean about the sound of a hot six. Cool ride.No work tonight, had grass to cut that I should've done yesterday when it was cooler and less humid out....but was busy. Something I forgot to add earlier was there is a pinhole in at least one of the exhaust welds, I noticed condensation dripping out of the pipe after running the engine on the lower bit of pipe in front of the 2-1 merge just before the elbow. It's not an audible leak and I'm actually thinking of leaving it so it can function as that drain in hopes it'll keep the pipes from rusting from the inside out. On the off chance anyone cares I had my wife there yesterday so she was there when it fired for the first time. Don't know that it meant anything to her as such but I'm glad she was there.
The next thing, and I apologize for the lack of video evidence for this, I started the car after work today to let the guys in the shop hear it. With there being an audience this time I was easily goaded into giving it a little more RPM and the exhaust went from "that's pretty smooth for an old truck engine" to "Oh Wow that sounds good." That bit is actually a direct quote too from the unlikeliest of places, the lady at work who does the social media and has purposely cropped pictures and videos around my XS at work and whom my boss said didn't want the car there period when the two of them discussed it a month or so back. It does too, I didn't go crazy with there still being no coolant on it so without actually being able to see the tachometer and work the throttle I'm guessing 2000-2500rpm but it hit a resonance spot or something and turned into that European inline six howl. I can't wait to hear this thing with the blower on and moving under load.
Any day now we should be seeing the first lap around the parking lot!
That's the plan, there are a handful of areas that need welded on the bottom side of things so it'll get stripped to flip it and weld those. Well, I guess that's provided my boss doesn't flip out at the idea of my parts everywhere for a few days.Will the car get totally stripped down for painting?
I've seen that myself! Two different companies with the belt for the same application list the lengths as being different. I think the problem is, at least in some cases, that one gives the length as it would measure with tape wrapped around the outside of the installed belt. Then the other uses the "effective length" more or less measured at the center of the cross section of the belt. Or something like that!Taking a moment to complain. Ordering belts sucks because they often times aren't actually the measurements they are advertised as. I run into it all the time through work especially with V belts but this time the 6 rib belt for the supercharger.
I measured it yesterday, we keep a long cut belt around specifically to measure with, and ordered to the outside circumference measurement advertised. Belt comes in this morning and it's too short to go around the pulleys. So I measure again this evening and get the same number on the car, then I measure the belt and the belt is a half inch shorter than the measurement given for its part number.
And it's frustrating doubly so because it's such a stupid problem. Why not just make the measurements match?