Great to hear from you again! Please be frequent here like you used to be...

Also great to hear you got things sorted out with your work situation. It sounds like you are even better off than you were before when you worked for someone else.

And best of all, looking forward to seeing the new build!

Blower injector plate and everything mocked up on my bench

 

These builds always have little challenges. So these throttle bodies are a lower profile than normal carbs. This means the throttle arm ends up higher than the filter housing seat. Need to figure out what sort of riser to use so I can use my scoop. Any ideas?

 

I knew there are reasons why hoarding is a good thing! Riser problem solved!

Thanks for the update and glad to hear you are healing!

Well, got my heads sorted...

 

 

Installed the injectors into the injector plate and installed the correct plug on the harness for the injectors

 

 

 

ACK! Still waiting on the engineso little jobs it is...

finally decided on fuel line routing. Mounted the regulator on the front of the blower. all -8 lines. In from the tank pump to a Y block behind the blower, into injector rails, out front of injector rails ro regulator then return line back to the tank. All AN/ORB fittings on order. Will go together soon as I get the fittings.

 

 

-- Edited by koolconvertible on Thursday 7th of December 2023 03:07:24 PM

Well, this has been a long process....finally been progress. Crank and pistons in with added crank girdle tried fitting a crank scraper but had problems due to the girdle. So no crank scraper.

installed the cam, the cam specs are in the photo. Heads are ready to install. This is going to be an absolute monster.

had to sell my turbo 400 and buy another one which had a heavy duty case so I can get it built to take the horsepower. That will cost another $4500.....

I have actually stopped counting. Real horsepower is not cheap. I'm not far off retirement but will keep working until I have the car back on the road then drop my hours. I can do that now I am working for myself.

seriously considering upgrading my fuel injection/engine management system as knock sensors would come in handy. A lean out would cause a lot of damage...

I have also been working on my fuel system. The intank pump I had for the other engine was only good for 500hp normally aspirated. SoI bought another twin aeromotive intank pump system from marketplace in perfect nick. I left the original pump in and installed the twin pumps as well. This at least gives some reserve/redundancy. I made an access hatch in the boot Enabling easy access for checks and repairs if required. Taking the tank out would be painful.

I also made a marshalling/fuse/relay box to control the pumps. As the battery is in the boot, it made it easy. Made a new 5 control wire loom which goes up to under the dash to pickup the ecu control wiring with a couple of extras.

anyhooo...check out the pics and let me know if you would like pics of something specific. Lots to fit up yet.

 

 

Well, heads on. Final torquing to be done. Need 8 more studs. Gave me a chance to stick the blower on. 
extended oil pickup fitted, bottom end torqued down and ready for sump.

still need the head hardware, rockers, studs etc in. Roller lifters and pushrods.  That should be in by the weekend. Pnce that is done we can degree the cam in. Once that is done we can put the timing cover on and fit the sump.

We need to do some porting on the intake manifold, very possibly machine the head surfaces down to align the ports. 
Then I can start measuring up for blower snout and pulleys, then water pump plumbing and fuel system. 

so much yet to do.

 

that oil pickup was going to cost me $260 when ordered through a performance shop in australia. Bugger that! Bought one on amazon, free post from the US and was herein a week costing me $120. We really do get ripped off in australia....

 

 

 

 

 

Gonna be a Cool Convertible with you peeking around that blower.