Progress! - New Cam

[Chryco Psycho]

Congrats 

[Cudajason]

Excellent!
Enjoy the brew.

Make that a Bourbon!

[YellowThumper]

Excellent!
Enjoy the brew.

Make that a Bourbon!

Lol I will have one for ya as well.

[Cudajason]

Congrats 

Thanks @Chryco Psycho i am assuming the engine would not run like that if i killed a lobe on the cam.

Is that a fair guess. 

I already have a valve cover off to start swapping out the springs and everything seems to look ok.

I am also going to shift the cam gear so the plug wires work better.
Jason

[nsmall]

I'm happy to hear you got it running. I love the first video and your persistence.  I think most of us feel the same way. 

[RUNCHARGER]

Great news!

[Cudajason]

All set for the next step!!

[Cudajason]

Killer day here in the great white north!!

Drivers side done.

I went with the lunati locks and retainers on the stock 340 springs.

The factory retainers did not look like the covers more than half the spring. I like the look of the lunati ones better. 

Lunch then the passenger side.

[Chryco Psycho]

Great , enjoy lunch 

[Cudajason]

Great , enjoy lunch 

Thanks, lunch was good...I have it all buttoned up now.   

I am just waiting on some copper gasket maker to cure on the valve cover...had a hell of an oil leak.  Then fire it up tomorrow night!!

I also adjusted to dist so the wires fit better and I should be able to get more advance out of it.

I will not likely get it out of the garage before I leave Tuesday for Calgary.  Next weekend...    

Jason

[Chryco Psycho]

AT least you made progress 
I assume you just moved the wires 1 position on the dist car & rotated the dist approx 1/8 of a full revolution .
The retarded timing was why the manifolds were glowing

[Cudajason]

AT least you made progress 
I assume you just moved the wires 1 position on the dist car & rotated the dist approx 1/8 of a full revolution .
The retarded timing was why the manifolds were glowing

Yeah lots of progress.  It was great weather and felt nice to be out in the garage some much the last two weekends.

Yeah, I sort of had an epiphany on the dist...as I was loosening it to pull it out it occurred to me that all I had to do was rotate it and move the plug wires on spot...Like wow that is so easy!!!!  it just never occurred to my before that moment.

Fortunately I had the engine at TDC on number 1, so I was able to line it all up and should be good to go when I hit the key tonight!!

I figure the timing was an issue when I saw the manifolds glowing...I was more shocked than anything.

Jason

[Cudajason]

Played with the timing a bit and here it is firing up with the new springs.

This is idling around 1100 rpm, and has 18 degrees of timing.

The vacuum is rock steady and higher then I have ever seen!

I think I will officially say the cam is broke in and I am ready to start tuning the carb / fine tuning the timing!



https://youtu.be/ADWxl5rsOjo

[Brads70]

Did I miss it in previous posts? but did you run it at 2000 for 20 minutes to break it in?

[Cudajason]

Did I miss it in previous posts? but did you run it at 2000 for 20 minutes to break it in?

sort of..I polished the bottoms of the lifters (the Shane Kelly prep), So I fired it up and ran it a 2000 for 8 mins or so.  I had to shut it down as the it was running very lean and hot, not to mention a pretty bad oil leak at the valve cover.

That is the process Shane suggested when he broke the news on polishing the lifters.

Jason