A Day In The Office

[La Hot Rods]

Good news bad news at the office, the Cadillac owner can't afford to have me work on the bad wiring harness so he is towing it off.
The bad news I get to pull the cylinder head off this PT Cruiser. The car was built by so magazine I heard. So I spent half the day just getting the Wippel Charger off.

 

[Don Jacks]

What did you do to deserve this kind of punishment? Or who did you piss off?

 

[La Hot Rods]

Luck of the draw.

 

[blkblk63ss]

Are you on commission?. Or by the hour?

 

[skipxt4]

Short Straw?

 

[La Hot Rods]

By the hour on a job like this.
Skip, I am the only one working in the shop, so I get all the straw's.

 

[Iowa 409 Guy]

Another day in Paradise, huh James?

 

[DonSSDD]

By the hour is good, you get paid for scratching you head and your arse while you figure out a fix.

 

[55Brodie]

The blower is probably worth more than the car!

 

[La Hot Rods]

The advantage I have is that I enjoy working on cars, just some more than others.

 

[La Hot Rods]

This fancy aftermarket set up has a very bad port match up

It does move the injectors to the bottom of the ports.

 

[La Hot Rods]

That wasn't so bad. half a day work and the head is off.
4 bad intake valves. Number 4 piston looked funny so I pulled it out, but didn't show much. But this got me to thinking, generally when you go to forced induction or nitrous one should open up the ring gap. Something tells me that this aftermarket kit probably didn't address this.

 

[303Radar]

That wasn't so bad. half a day work and the head is off.
4 bad intake valves. Number 4 piston looked funny so I pulled it out, but didn't show much. But this got me to thinking, generally when you go to forced induction or nitrous one should open up the ring gap. Something tells me that this aftermarket kit probably didn't address this.
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When I told my builder I wanted forced induction, he had a cheat sheet which indicated how much to gap the rings. I know it was based on pressure/PSI, but off hand I don't know how much the gap was.

Here is an article I found:
http://blog.wiseco.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ring-gap

 

[La Hot Rods]

 

[Don Jacks]

Detonation personified.

 

[bjburnout]

By the hour on a job like this.
Skip, I am the only one working in the shop, so I get all the straw's.

.............

 

[La Hot Rods]

A little change of pace. Haven't worked on one of these for some time.



He said it took him 11 year to get this far, wonder how many hours it will take me to get it right.

 

[Jim Sullivan]

My 68 Datsun roadster had the same carbs. Once I rebushed them, I got the carbs adjusted pretty well. But it did take some fiddling and lots of reading.

 

[blkblk63ss]

Put a sign out front,, No foreign cars please.....

 

[Don Jacks]

Put a sign out front,, No foreign cars please.....

Why,Those Datsuns were simple and reliable.There's no real problems with the early 240 carbs,the early 74 260's were troublesome due to "smog"restrictions,they went to a better carb design in mid 74.Looks like a good place for a W engine.