MACKAZ Posted June 27, 2020 Author Share Posted June 27, 2020 Removed a bunch of junk off engine. Later I'll get the steaming power reducer off the back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MACKAZ Posted June 27, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 27, 2020 Quick swap over this morning. Hasn't got a flywheel at the moment, at least I can mock up. Manual setup come out of a dirt car 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 Knock off work early today as very slow. Thought I'd spend day with wife. She suggested giving me a hand to remove the Holden. Very surprised by that. Next thing shits getting real and it's out 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post MACKAZ Posted July 2, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 2, 2020 It's, umm, substantially bigger. Dropped it in the hole, jumped the gun a bit. Needs to go back another 150mm, but need to remove old mounts as the oil filter fouls on them. I'll need to fit a Z700 (Cortina) oil filter for more room. Tunnel appears to have enough clearance. Much better than that other engine 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted July 4, 2020 Author Share Posted July 4, 2020 Went down and have hacked out the old mounts as good as I can with engine in place. Need to get the 202/auto combo sold so I can plonk the 4.0l on the ground. I've only got so much room 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 Got bargain today. EL lightweight flywheel, clutch and pressure plate. $50 off workmate, his stockcar spare one. I'll have to buy bolts and a spigot bearing. Now I will HAVE to yank it out of the chassis and separate engine and box to get thread pitch. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 Today I removed the intake manifold as its $1 reserve on trademe. Thanks to @bigfoot (who procured manifold @chris r spied at pick a part) EA tbi manifold is steam cleaned and ready for modification to fit the 4bbl Holley. Trademe auction for the 3.3/auto, twincarb setup and various parts are generating watchers so hopefully they sell. I've got a remanufactured distributor on my watchlist on ebay oz. If anyone would be prepared to school me up on getting stuff out of RockAuto and not getting stung megabucks on freight I would much appreciate it. I also built a engine trolley today so I can move motors whatever around. I'll put the 3.3 on it tomorrow. Edit. Sold the shitbox 3.3 for $250. Jerk also took bought the 4 speed I had as well. Fucking wanker has just paid for it 6 weeks later 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 Steam cleaned manifold and its come up good, too good. Looks out of place. Went to one of our companies truck body builders and asked to raid his scrap bin. Acquired a nice piece of 8mm plate and cut bottom and top plates out. Raided works scrap pile for some 3mm plate and tried to cut it into strips. Failed miserably. So bought a half length of 75x3mm. This will be cut into sections to make the riser. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 Two sides cut, two to go. Pretty much how I imagined it. At least this way if the Holley too big I haven't totaled the manifold 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MACKAZ Posted July 25, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 25, 2020 Old mate @ruff kunt automotive aka RKA tigged it together today. Needs some minor cleaning up but I'm stoked with the result 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MACKAZ Posted August 1, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2020 Another piece of the puzzle arrived this morning, fresh from the West Island. Next up is coil and leads, time it up, fire it up. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted August 6, 2020 Author Share Posted August 6, 2020 Last bits of the puzzle, or so I thought. Holley missing the bloody fuel inlet fitting. I'm now ratting through RKAs 3 yearly toolbox clean out bucket..... Edit. Nothing in the bucket. Looks like I'll be scrounging around at work/try hydraulic shops... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 Had a scout around town after work in torrential rain to try find a banjo. Nothing available. Ordered one from Proparts. As a side sharn after engine/box combo bought for the astronomical price of $50, I detached auto and tried to sell it. For $20. No takers. Stripped it, the silly manifold (and a couple of random ally bits out of the shed) I took it to the scrappy and got $48 (and an AU dipstick out of a wreck there) for that. An Intech 4.0l core engine for $2.... Punishment will be copious. Price for bolt ons Manifold $30 +$20 for @bigfoot Dizzy $192 Leads $90ish Coil $90ish Riser/adapter $37 Carb $Free Carb banjo $45. Fuel pump $yet to be purchased have one in shed that may do job. I don't think I'm going to use turbo, too spendy to set up. If this one is no good everything can be used on any 3.9/4.0l. Ill document the distributor modification when I do it 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 Started the distributor mod. First is remove jackshaft cog Next is remove distributor cog What's SUPPOSED to happen now is jackshaft cog goes onto distributor shaft upside down, but that's a negatory. Dad's only struck it once before, and cog requires a quick spin in a lathe. To be continued 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MACKAZ Posted August 9, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 9, 2020 Dad's been round and after inspection said to run new cog as original is stuffed... Turn cog upside down and fit onto shaft. Now matches with original jackshaft position Bore new hole... Fit roll pin. Ready to go.... In position. It is known that on some of these you need to have dizzy in place before manifold is on. Its not a stockcar motor which have a tenancy to snap the rotor tag off so this is of no concern.... NO more computer saying 6000rpm is too much. No more injection saying Nope. My old EL 4.0l in stockcar used to run 8000rpm all raceday. Did that for 3 years until catastrophic failure 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MACKAZ Posted August 10, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2020 Tonight removed intake, found TDC Number 1. Removed dizzy, spun rotor around to an accessible number 1 position. Determined rotor direction plug leads into cap and fed them through holes in intake. 1,5,3,6,4,2. Mounted coil and wired dizzy to it. Tomorrow nights mission is to make some gaskets for riser and intake. Getting close. Plugged up the vacuum ports on manifold. Still waiting on banjo. Also finessed dipstick bracket to fit 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Draw file draw file Oops forgot after on Holley side. Oh well. Found some super thick gasket paper and chopped out gaskets. It's all buttoned up... Fuel banjo, modify coil lead and hopefully fire it up 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 Fuel banjo arrived this afternoon. Went to ENZED and bought a 1/4bsp to 1/8th nylon tube compression fitting. Got home fitted banjo, rigged up a mechanical oil pressure gauge and made a dodgy bracket to hang it off one of the manifold heating pipe bolts. Dug out the fuel pump, found some hose. Aaaaand that's it until the weekend..... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACKAZ Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 Aaaaand intakes off again. I thought I had ballsed the timing up. Old boy was around and checked it, sure enough. His evaluation it's got a ton of spark, plenty of compression, oil smells good. Now timings right it's going to run. Unfortunately I broke a chunk out of the gasket. I'll order one tomorrow and have another go. I'll need to fix a couple of vacuum leaks as well. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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