Yes, it has been a long time. I tore apart my coupe just about a year ago for a rebuild. The old 59L was getting tired, and smokey. I decided to turn it into a hotrod motor. I ordered my Super-Top-Secret-Cam. And dropped the 59L block and 8cm crank and rods off at the machine shop. I also ordered all my rebuild stuff from Alliance vendors. Big thanks to Eric at Riley Auto. Here is everything back from the machine shop and parts arrived. New Johnson's= yummy: Shiney new valves etc. I was able to get local HAMBer's Dad to assist in the engine assembly. He has an excellent set of tools. We finagled a few speed secrets also. Speed Secret #1: Speed Secret #2: Speed Secret #3: stay tuned.....
I cannot thank Von enough for allowing me to consume a whole weekend over at his shop. More shiney stuff; When have you ever seen a bottom end this good? After a couple long days the motor came home. and was ready to get buttoned up; It's amazing what you can get done before 8am on a Saturday: Ready to go in; And finally back in the chassis: Lots of stuff to hook up; and: So that was 2 Fridays ago, I was ready to fire it up and break in the cam. Well, me being a retard, I couldn't get the thing to light off, doubled checked everything and couldn't figure it out. Swapped the crank gear over to 59ab style, rebuilt the distributor. etc etc. So thursday nite in my frustration I tore it back out and pulled the heads. HAMBers Nate and Zach were over for a little HAMB cookout this past Friday, and we discovered my mistake. I had the right and left bank cylinder numbers swapped, as in 1-2-3-4 on the right side instead of the left. OIY! smack. We stayed up until 3am Saturday morning getting everything back together and ready to light off. Saturday dawned and we got it to fire right up, but it still wouldn't run quite right. We adjourned for later in the day and went down to the Chisolm Trail Festival in Abilene and met up with some more HAMBers. After checking stuff out down there for a few hours, we went back to my place for some burgers and dogs. Then with full bellies we diagnosed the flatty- seems in our early morning zeal, we installed the fuel pump incorrectly and mucked it up to where it wouldn't pump fuel. After a couple hours of tweaking, she lit right off and runs like a champ. We enjoyed hanging out the rest of the day and watched the new Iron Man movie on the side of the barn. Sunday I tidied up the shop and ran the sweet sounding flatty some more:
Awesome, Jay!! You gotta knock if off with that speed secret crap, though Jeff might be worried you're gonna beat him! haha I can't see the video here at work - definitely gotta go home during lunch to watch it! Way to go - I'm sure it's a great feeling to have it back together and running... Malcolm
Nice... Hey I'm looking for a banjo fitting like the one you have on your intake (vac advance/windshield) Do you have another? :]
oh YEAH... you fuckin RULE. Congrats man!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to rip around in it- I love this pic of that car...
Hey dude I just watched the video and either your CHOKE is stuck or the TOP SECRET CAM you have is the shit !!! >>>>.
PS... i know Jay's "top secret grind" but i aint tellin... ancient chinese secret, yea, its a calgon cam
That flatty sounds GREAT! I'm interested in the thought process that resulted in pulling the heads back off.
I had some coolant leakage in #1 (#5 haha) and wanted to verify TDC and relation of cam with crank indexing.
first off, I'm jealous...secondly, after you fired it up and hit the throttle, it SOUNDED like your fan may have "contacted" something. (Radiator???) I looked, and the tip path of your fan either was visible, or it LOOKED like it rubbed a bit, jsut my $0.02. Good job, and come do mine! hahah
HAHA Congrats! I was wondering who was gonna break the ice on that. yeah- the tip of one blade was hitting the radiator strap. I moved the rad ahead a scosh after I finished taking the video. Anyone notice something else wrong?
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