{"id":44006,"date":"2013-03-18T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/?p=44006"},"modified":"2013-03-18T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:00:10","slug":"more-engine-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/more-engine-work\/","title":{"rendered":"More Engine Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PBP_IMG_0729_cropped_resized-150x110-1.jpg\" alt=\"More Engine Work\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44007\" \/>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.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to try and get a &#8220;finer tune&#8221; on the car this weekend. Maybe first thing Saturday morning before it gets to be 105 degrees will fit into the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>This looks pretty normal but I do have a broken exhaust stud on the last one on the left.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PBP_IMG_0729.jpg\" alt=\"Engine\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PBP_IMG_0730_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Engine\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your normal battered and beaten out of shape heat shield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PBP_IMG-0737_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Engine\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a little massaging and persuasion and welding and with some shiny paint on it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PBP_IMG-0741_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Engine\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the new-to-me intake<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PBP_IMG_0743_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Engine\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44012\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>1400 rpm, 26* advance with distrib vac plugged, oil 30 psi,18&#8243; of vacuum with a rock steady reading, 185* water temp no thermostat<\/p>\n<p>2000 rpm 31* advance with dist vac plugged, oil 40 psi, 185* water temp (no thermostat, 18&#8243; vacuum steady<\/p>\n<p>2500 rpm 31* advance with dist plugged and that was the maximum advance<\/p>\n<p>Do these sound correct?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PBP_IMG_0744_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Engine\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44013\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGAR2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PBP_IMG_0746_resized.jpg\" alt=\"Engine\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44014\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well taking a week off felt pretty good. I got the chance tonight to work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restoration-play-by-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namgar.com\/NAMGARMAIN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}