Jason Engine Rebuild Project Pt 3 - Engine Complete
Here are some pictures reloaded from the old site of my engine rebuild project. These pictures were taken May 6, 2012 after rebuild was complete and engine was ready to go in.
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Comment by Jason Edge on September 15, 2012 at 8:41pm
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The car was running fantastic today as we cruised down to the Clayton Harvest Festival Car Show and since I knew it might be a while before I can drive it as I replace the exhaust I changed out the metering rods to 4% richer for both cruise mode and power mode. As good as it ran earlier now with the new richer metering rod jet configuration it is really running incredible. I took it for one last spin before I start removing the custom dual exhaust and it is just really running great. It will be funny to hear it nice and quite when I get the new exhaust system installed, but couldn't help taking it out for one last blast before I start the change-out. Just to back up a bit, when I had went from the ignitor II setup to the Ignitor III setup I returned the carb configuration to stock to get an ideal of how the richer jets might improve with the III setup and it really makes a big difference!
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The engine now has 347 miles on it (162,278 on the car), and changes the oil for the first time since the rebuild. I had planned to wait until 500 miles were on the engine but was anxious to change it now that I had least have some miles on it. I'm running regular "on sale" 10W30 oil and wills switch to a semi-sythetic or all synthetic after 1000 miles are on the engine...which at my rate will be some time! :-)
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