land-speed
[Top] [All Lists]

A successful Saturday...

To: "land-speed@autox.team.net" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: A successful Saturday...
From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:34:23 -0700
Well, we got Gary's water plumbing nearly finished. Just needs to be 
painted and installed. Then GAry just has to find the odd little hoses 
to make it all work. He will be running soon!

I managed to check out my oiling systems today... oiled the shop floor 
pretty well in the process. Good that it wan nice new oil. Gary cleaned 
it up for me and did a great job. I had left oneof the oil supply hoses 
to the driver's turbo really loose, almost off. When I hooked up the 1/2 
in electric dril to the oil pump, I oild it all. Really really well. Oil 
pressure is 70 psig on the drill, even bypassing a lot of oil to the 
turbos. So I am happy, life is good. Next os putting fluid into the 
tranny through a surrogate oil filler tube. My real locking one wont be 
here until after Em, so this one has to do duty for a bit. Once 
convinced that I have the tranny up to level then I can finish the water 
injection wiring (2 wires, one switch), put the plug wires on, rough 
time the diustributor. Then the only major systems not checked is the 
fuel system and the brain box. After seeing the effects of oil pumping 
onto the floor, I think I will hit all the fuel hose ends one more time 
with the wrench... I want to bleed the brakes and I will do that with a 
vacuum system. The put the wheel back on and offer a chicken for 
sacrifice and hit the starter. As I run through the tranny with the car 
on the jack stands, I need to count 733.38 revolutions of the rear tires 
to calibrate my speedometer. How am I gonna do that? Anybody got a quick 
and dirty method of counting rotaions? In any case not a bad day for the 
pahrump wannabe...

mayf






<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>