More Engine Work

Well taking a week off felt pretty good. I got the chance tonight to work for a couple of hours and I was able to pick up a replacement intake and I straightened out the heat shield and welded up the cracked portions.

My goal is to try and get a “finer tune” on the car this weekend. Maybe first thing Saturday morning before it gets to be 105 degrees will fit into the schedule.

This looks pretty normal but I do have a broken exhaust stud on the last one on the left.

Although it didn’t affect starting the car last week, it does seem to me that my choke mechanism that pulls the assembly down is stuck so I will need to brush up on my SUs a little bit to resolve this one.

Your normal battered and beaten out of shape heat shield.

After a little massaging and persuasion and welding and with some shiny paint on it.

And the new-to-me intake

Well tonight I reinstalled my Frankenstein heat shield, painted intake and carbs. I was able to make the choke mechanism work without much effort. They just had been sitting so long they just needed to be worked a little bit. I started the car up using a temporary gravity fed fuel tank with a shut off petcock. The car ran for 35 minutes and here were the tune up specs I observed. The car timing was set at 10 static BTDC. The car was not burning oil at all and ran very well, even the 30 yr old exhaust sounded pretty good.

1400 rpm, 26* advance with distrib vac plugged, oil 30 psi,18″ of vacuum with a rock steady reading, 185* water temp no thermostat

2000 rpm 31* advance with dist vac plugged, oil 40 psi, 185* water temp (no thermostat, 18″ vacuum steady

2500 rpm 31* advance with dist plugged and that was the maximum advance

Do these sound correct?