I'm eyeballin the spacer between the manifold/t-stat housing. Diggin the temp port :biggthumpup: Absolute best location for accurate temp.
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I'm eyeballin the spacer between the manifold/t-stat housing. Diggin the temp port :biggthumpup: Absolute best location for accurate temp.
Just an FYI... keep an eye on wires going into the water pump, mine were loose and ended up shorting out inside the motor, my temp gauge was pegged on the return road.
Wiggled the wire and and it started working so I made the next round.
Thanks Dave.
That is all getting rewired with different connectors
Big stuff is done being wired on the motor. Came out real clean. Still need to finish wireing fan and water pump and fuel pump. Getting real close now. Finally got some time to work on it, between the 5-6 week outage I work, then thanksgiving and Christmas, I couldn't buy time:fml:
Motor is timed and ready to fire up when I finish wireing the accessories
santa brought me new valve covers with breathers:rockwoot:
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Nice....
Pics of your old Spintechs mounted?
engine bay is about done, it is all wired up just needs plug wires and new valve covers put on. I'm stopping at vp fuel to buy some e85 tomorrow for its first start up saturday:rockwoot:
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Oh damn that looks good....Nice job.:hail:
Dibbs on the old covers.....LOL
I've been looking, will yours fit lowly Magnum heads?
Shit is getting real now!:biggthumpup: Can't wait to fire this thing up, it has probably been a better part of a decade that this club has been following this motor over two different owners and two different builds. ill say it for you guys- ITS ABOUT TIME!
old thread from when Dave Downing owned it and it was a 425, for the newer members that wasn't around back 10 years ago.
www.dakotart.com/forum/showthread.php?1235-My-425-now-with-install-pics-)
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Damn...I was a young 54 years old.
I have abandon all hope of finding a tall deck R3 48* block, gen III hemi going to be my next engine.
My next engine is going to be Angel wings.... And hopefully not a shovel.
all my accessories are spaced out 1/2" due to the need of adapters with the use of w-5 heads.
But surprisingly the innovators west balancer required no spacer. So if it was used with accessories on factory based heads it would probably stick out 1/2". I got lucky with this one I guess
That looks clean! :hail:
Tomorrow is start up day. All the money, hours of work done. Time to hear this thing run. :rockwoot:
I might not be able to sleep tonight
Why sleep? crank that bitch up. :rockwoot:
:biggthumpup: :biggthumpup:
It's tomorrow now...:bored_work:
Waiting..... gahhhh