Porsche 944+Chevy V8
- freetown fred
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Should be right by the thermostat housing
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Good guess, that's what I thought but it was not there.
It turns out there is a vacant hole at the front of the driver side head. I bet that's where it goes. Someone must have swiped it off of this engine. That's what is great about this being an American engine, I can pick one up at the local General Store!
-Don
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
I looked up the coolant temp sensor specs at,
http://pe-ltd.com/assets/coolant_temp.pdf
The sensor is a temperature variable resistor. According to the temperature chart, a 3.8Kohm resistor should represent about 18 degrees C, about 64 F. That should work fine for our little test, so I just poked a 3.8K resistor into the connector.
-Don
http://pe-ltd.com/assets/coolant_temp.pdf
The sensor is a temperature variable resistor. According to the temperature chart, a 3.8Kohm resistor should represent about 18 degrees C, about 64 F. That should work fine for our little test, so I just poked a 3.8K resistor into the connector.
-Don
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
!!!!! SUCCESS !!!!!
I taped the 3.8K resistor into the ECT connector on the MSD. Cleaned up the carb innards. Installed new float valves. Set the float level checking it with a 7/16" drill bit. Float drop was about 7/8".
Connected the starter and the MSD. Rigged up a bottle with gas to feed the carb and it fired right up! It sounds pretty amazing, and LOUD!
The MSD just has two nails holding it onto the 2x4 so it can't get away. So now we know that it starts and runs and there are no engine noises so it's a good engine. This engine has a 101 day warranty so I wanted to verify that it was a good engine before the warranty ran out.
We have 4 videos covering today's activities to upload.
-Don
I taped the 3.8K resistor into the ECT connector on the MSD. Cleaned up the carb innards. Installed new float valves. Set the float level checking it with a 7/16" drill bit. Float drop was about 7/8".
Connected the starter and the MSD. Rigged up a bottle with gas to feed the carb and it fired right up! It sounds pretty amazing, and LOUD!
The MSD just has two nails holding it onto the 2x4 so it can't get away. So now we know that it starts and runs and there are no engine noises so it's a good engine. This engine has a 101 day warranty so I wanted to verify that it was a good engine before the warranty ran out.
We have 4 videos covering today's activities to upload.
-Don
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Videos of the 6.0 LS first start!
Don
Don
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Not much happening on this project this weekend. Yesterday I did open up the carb again and got the accelerator pump check ball and slug un-stuck. I put it back together, fired the engine up and it worked much better.
This afternoon, the torque tube finally arrived!!! Next weekend we will probably remove the rear suspension and everything else needed to remove the old torque tube. Then we can rebuild the rear suspension and finally start putting this car back together.
-Don
This afternoon, the torque tube finally arrived!!! Next weekend we will probably remove the rear suspension and everything else needed to remove the old torque tube. Then we can rebuild the rear suspension and finally start putting this car back together.
-Don
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Unfortunately no car progress today.
I spent part of the day cleaning up the bench by the car and the roll around tool box. I also built a shelf above the bench and now have all the suspension parts up there. I really wanted to get the rear suspension off today but it was more important to get the work area preped. I also had some other things to work on around the house.
-Don
I spent part of the day cleaning up the bench by the car and the roll around tool box. I also built a shelf above the bench and now have all the suspension parts up there. I really wanted to get the rear suspension off today but it was more important to get the work area preped. I also had some other things to work on around the house.
-Don
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Thanks!
Hopefully I can get it together and running by Christmas.
-Don
Hopefully I can get it together and running by Christmas.
-Don
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The longest movie I ever sat through was Gettysburg and I ran out of popcorn. I will buy another case right now as I have a feeling I will need it.Good plot though and very suspensful. Will the car ever run? will an Xmas finish be delayed due to winter chores. With the second coming of Christ will he ban ICEs on his return.
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you're killin me
Don I must dig out old pictures .I an son but My Car 69 R S Camaro .I brought it home in pieces .Anyway found a 66 worn 427 that I had rebuilt.Stuffed it in the Camaro .Super t 10tranny .Rebuilt the 12 bolt rear .Did I say haaaaang on.fun car jack
- freetown fred
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Why you old motor head Jack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Jack, A nice, light early Camaro, plus a Big Block, plus a Stick Shift is always gunna be a fun time!
This weekend we managed to wrestle the rear suspension out without ripping or breaking anything. Look at that puny, little sway bar. You will never be able to do any Drifting with that! Lucky we have a 19mm 5 way adjustable one on the way. That and the rest of the rear suspension bushings should be here tomorrow. Then the rebuild will begin.
Next we need to take out the heat shield and those little cross members so we can finally get the old torque tube out. -Don
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Over the past couple days we have disassembled the rear suspension. The most difficult part of this is removing the rubber spring plate bushings. They are actually glued to the spring plate so I cut them into slices, preyed off what I could. Then cleaned the rest off with the wire wheel. It takes a lot of time!
Here is some video of yesterday's activities.
-Don
Here is the left side all cleaned up.
New rubber bushings glued on. This is the only part of the rear suspension we are using rubber.
Original 24mm torsion bar vs. 30mm SwayAway torsion bar.
The aluminum spring plate end cap is also the forward and main mount for the rear suspension. We will remove the big rubber bushing and install a solid Delrin bushing.
Torsion bar, spring plate and spring plate end cap installed..
Delrin bushings installed.
It's very easy to get the ride height all wrong with one of these torsion bar setups. Before disassembly, we removed the lower rear end cap bolt and scribed a mark on the housing indicating the unloaded angel of the spring plate. Before final assembly, and with a little trial and error, we got the torsion bar splines installed in such a way that the spring plate lines up with the scribed mark.
Next we installed Elephant Racing's rear control arm spherical bearings. This is a really neat solution for avoiding any rear control arm deflection under hard cornering and acceleration.
They are an outer sleeve with a nut on one end to allow them to pass through the hole. The inner sleeve rides in 2 sealed bearings.
The control arm was a little buggered up inside so I had to clean it up with a fine, half-round file before the outer sleeve would pass through. These get torqued to 50ft pounds.
There it is, one side all back together!
With any luck, we might get the other side done today.Here is some video of yesterday's activities.
-Don