So after 90 minutes of trying to start the engine with the EMPI EPC 34s and the extractor exhaust, as well as that 90 minutes consisting of nothing but gun shots out of the carbs and exhaust, I gave up. Yeah. I could have taken a sledge hammer and pretty much just destroyed the whole…
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AE Engine – Engine Tear-Down 9
So the last 2 parts I have to tear down of the the AE engine are the crankshaft and the heat exhanger to muffler connection. And I have pretty much exhausted everything to break the corrosion here. I have used PBlaster multiple times and multiple sessions of heat and I just cannot get it to…
AS41 Engine – Reinstalling the ICT clones
Reinstalling the EMPI EPC 36 ICT clone carbs proved to be a bit more complicated than I thought since I had packed away most of the parts, as well as the linkage and such. I took the HMPX 40s off as off with their manifolds as entire assemblies. Of course, they were filled with gasoline…
AS41 Engine – First runs with the extractor muffler
Well I can say that the sound quality out of the “economy extractor” muffler I put on yesterday is just loud and disgusting and is what I basically yell at my son for when he breaks his mufflers and cat deletes them to get annoying douchey sounds. This is pretty bad. Note: I’m having a…
AS41 Engine – Muffer Change
So the never-ending drama of my not being able to tune the new engine lead me to seek out some additional advice in places I normally do not ask questions. (I was really hoping to find someone local that could come out and go over the engine/configuration with me.) Somebody from the COVVC group responded…
AS41 Engine – Still not wanting to run smoothly.
So I got it started again with the new jets and of course, am still having a rough time dialing it in. It just hates being around 850-950 rpms for idling and constantly struggles. It runs better with an idle of 1100 or so but just feels like it shouldn’t be that high. Still not…
AS41 Engine – Days 28 to 45 – A lot of missed posting
Day 28 – The first of many delays begins… 2019-07-25 So it started right up with the new can of gasoline and I had it revved up and down for a while and then it just sputtered and stopped. I’ve tried for 10 minutes and it won’t start again. I noticed that the lights have…
New Plans – October 2019 to the Future
So there I am, having spent the last few days still under the feeling like I had to build an engine for Yellow to sell him as a fully functional car and yet he was being purchased as a rolling project! I started going down the path of engine bearings and all kinds of other…
AE Engine – Clean-Up 2
Started working on the parts clean-up. It is so much nicer to touch and deal with things all cleaned up than to have the grime and oil on everything. The 10mm cylinder studs appear to have been used previously so may be original to the engine. They’ve been painted and there was quite a lot…
AE Engine – Clean Up 1
So I sat for a bit draining as much oil as I could from the sump recesses, then poured some mineral spirits in and with a brush tried to get the engine cleaned up in my bin. On the whole, while some parts of the interior were very black and oily, the exterior was really…