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69MyWay
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Well, it made it too and from work on Monday with ZERO defects. Yes, the exhaust is loud, and Yes the trans is noisy, but ohhhhhhh yes, does she scream for more every time I thrash her.
It appears that I will have to use a rubber type o-ring seal around the bottom of the distributor to intake mount. Right now some oil is leaking up out of the paper gasket seal. Could be the result of casting differences in the aftermarket intake.
I turned the fuel pressure down to stock levels to reduce excessive consumption. You don't really notice it until you are screaming off the RPM chart.
I took a co-worker for a white knuckle ride at lunch time. He is just now learning the difference between and exhaust and intake manifold. The concept of headers really confused him.
The idle is a little lumpy, but not too bad, and I am still breaking in the clutch, and learning how to transistion smooth from stop to go.
The heated O2 sensor was an awesome improvement. With the cooling fans finally turning on and off proper, a good 180 performance thermostat, and all the proper water passages restored in the cooling system, she runs under 200 degrees. With headers it would not have been getting hot enough at the collector to keep the puter in closed loop. However, I am jumping to closed loop very fast now and get the full benefit of computer command controls, and low operating temps.
Here is the ha ha funny part. Before I took Doug for a ride I dumped out my left over coffee on the ground. When we came back to the parking lot I was eyeballing the ground to look for leaks where I had parked it. Well, I saw a small amount of dark fluid on the ground. I thought, darnit, what is that? I parked the car, got out, bent down, and stuck my finger in it. Dooooooooh, it was the coffee I had just poured out before we went cruising.
Well, it made it too and from work on Monday with ZERO defects. Yes, the exhaust is loud, and Yes the trans is noisy, but ohhhhhhh yes, does she scream for more every time I thrash her.
It appears that I will have to use a rubber type o-ring seal around the bottom of the distributor to intake mount. Right now some oil is leaking up out of the paper gasket seal. Could be the result of casting differences in the aftermarket intake.
I turned the fuel pressure down to stock levels to reduce excessive consumption. You don't really notice it until you are screaming off the RPM chart.
I took a co-worker for a white knuckle ride at lunch time. He is just now learning the difference between and exhaust and intake manifold. The concept of headers really confused him.
The idle is a little lumpy, but not too bad, and I am still breaking in the clutch, and learning how to transistion smooth from stop to go.
The heated O2 sensor was an awesome improvement. With the cooling fans finally turning on and off proper, a good 180 performance thermostat, and all the proper water passages restored in the cooling system, she runs under 200 degrees. With headers it would not have been getting hot enough at the collector to keep the puter in closed loop. However, I am jumping to closed loop very fast now and get the full benefit of computer command controls, and low operating temps.
Here is the ha ha funny part. Before I took Doug for a ride I dumped out my left over coffee on the ground. When we came back to the parking lot I was eyeballing the ground to look for leaks where I had parked it. Well, I saw a small amount of dark fluid on the ground. I thought, darnit, what is that? I parked the car, got out, bent down, and stuck my finger in it. Dooooooooh, it was the coffee I had just poured out before we went cruising.