AzGeo
Fair winds and following seas George.. Rest Easy..
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Work truck, now a river rat rod .
Have a little time before the Hondo comes back from paint/lettering, and so I thought I'd get this old beast back on the road .
Special ordered in 1978, delivered in November 1978 . Turbocharged January 1979, driven 221,000 miles (turbo) on the stock motor . (draw thru carb, H2O injection)
Replaced motor 1989, 2 bolt, cast crank, 3/8" (shot peened) rods, Arias pistons, balanced, Engle TC5 . Rolled up to 497,000, and then parked for over 11 years .
Motor runs good, but want to freshen the top end and do some upgrades on the breathing .
Pulled off the intake, exhaust, and heads . Checked the cam timing and it's lost 2 degrees, so it's now in a 2+, instead of 4+ when new .
Going with (fresh) 049 heads, CC'd to equalize, double springs, PC seals, Cometic gaskets, 3/8" push rods, Crane roller rockers .
On top will be a GM based Mercruiser oval port EFI system (like a Vortec truck), water to air inter cooler, and a Garrett hair drier .
Changing the EFI over to "return style" for instant fuel pressure and volume control .
It's a dual tank truck, so I'll be using the block mounted fuel pump to fill a "T" tank that I will build and mount in the right front fender area . Doing this will allow use of all the original fuel lines and valves .
Mounted below the tank fuel level will be a filter into an electric high pressure EFI fuel pump . Fuel will go up thru the rails, out thru a "return style regulator", back to the "T" tank .
Here are the starting pix of tear down, new crossover pipe (409 ss), and trying to figure out mounting a blower that is three times larger than the original .
Original mild steel crossover pipe had the Turbonetics delta gate mounted to it . I remember buying it from Bob Keller when he was back in Panorama City . (that's from the way-back machine)
Since the turbo will require a "riser" to clear the motor, I'm going to fab up a block with a new waste gate, and a bracket down to the cylinder head to hold all the weight . (then mill off the back of the alternator brackets)
It's been slow due to the heat, and all the materials must be "mail ordered" to this small town .
So, here's the start of another project ........
Have a little time before the Hondo comes back from paint/lettering, and so I thought I'd get this old beast back on the road .
Special ordered in 1978, delivered in November 1978 . Turbocharged January 1979, driven 221,000 miles (turbo) on the stock motor . (draw thru carb, H2O injection)
Replaced motor 1989, 2 bolt, cast crank, 3/8" (shot peened) rods, Arias pistons, balanced, Engle TC5 . Rolled up to 497,000, and then parked for over 11 years .
Motor runs good, but want to freshen the top end and do some upgrades on the breathing .
Pulled off the intake, exhaust, and heads . Checked the cam timing and it's lost 2 degrees, so it's now in a 2+, instead of 4+ when new .
Going with (fresh) 049 heads, CC'd to equalize, double springs, PC seals, Cometic gaskets, 3/8" push rods, Crane roller rockers .
On top will be a GM based Mercruiser oval port EFI system (like a Vortec truck), water to air inter cooler, and a Garrett hair drier .
Changing the EFI over to "return style" for instant fuel pressure and volume control .
It's a dual tank truck, so I'll be using the block mounted fuel pump to fill a "T" tank that I will build and mount in the right front fender area . Doing this will allow use of all the original fuel lines and valves .
Mounted below the tank fuel level will be a filter into an electric high pressure EFI fuel pump . Fuel will go up thru the rails, out thru a "return style regulator", back to the "T" tank .
Here are the starting pix of tear down, new crossover pipe (409 ss), and trying to figure out mounting a blower that is three times larger than the original .
Original mild steel crossover pipe had the Turbonetics delta gate mounted to it . I remember buying it from Bob Keller when he was back in Panorama City . (that's from the way-back machine)
Since the turbo will require a "riser" to clear the motor, I'm going to fab up a block with a new waste gate, and a bracket down to the cylinder head to hold all the weight . (then mill off the back of the alternator brackets)
It's been slow due to the heat, and all the materials must be "mail ordered" to this small town .
So, here's the start of another project ........
