Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Ken on shrinking photo's i made a internet album that i copy them to. Here i resize them for email and posting . This way i can still print clear pics and view them at full size from original albums.

Don i had abit of your life yesterday also. The middle boy was here and went at helping me get cpe work done . He's learning but what he did while here freed up a few hours for me and made good headway. Oldest son stopped by too , he was here visiting then went and washed his new Mustang LOL. Hard to get some dirt under his nails .

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Ken, I have always used a marine water seperating fuel filter with a spin on element, simply because I worked in that industry and could get them reasonably, and also because they do a real good job. But I didn't have room on the T for one, so I had to go with an inline one from Speedway. It is a pretty neat looking finned one, and very compact. It also has a replacable paper element.

I was going to work on my starter tonight, but got sidetracked helping Dan lay up a new frame he is doing. I am going to get that thing shimmed right if it kills me.

Don

PS: How is the picture shrinking coming Ken? I see you got your Avatar looking good.

Don,
Resizing is my next project (I promise). I'm sure you will figure out the starter problem.
Is this the filter you have? This is the one I'm having problems with, it's not catching anything. I had to stop on the freeway last Thursday because a hung of junk got by it and held the needle open and flooded the engine. That's fun to do out here
Ken

Bobby, cool that you got to work with the Kids. Not only that, but it is cheap labor (sometimes)

Ken, well mine is sort of like that, but has a bracket to mount it. Speedway sells both versions, is that where you got yours? Sorry to hear about the trash getting by it. I notice you have the arrow pointing toward the starter, which leads me to believe that is toward the rear. I can't read what the arrow says, is that direction of flow or "in"? Dumb guestion, is there an element inside for sure, maybe it was Friday on the assembly line.

You are right about my starter. I was determined I was not going to quit today until I had the starter problem solved. I checked the shimming, pulled it back off, and rechecked all the alignments, cleaned up the mounting surface, and bolted it back on. Then I went to West Marine and paid their ridiculous price for a red number 2 and black number 2 marine grade battery cable. $ 86 later I had 6 feet of each, and installed the correct ends and shrink tubing on the ends. Clamped it to the frame every foot or so, and got the cables hooked to the battery. I decided to run my ground cable right to the starter to insure a good connection.

Then the moment of truth came, and I hooked up a solenoid wire and touched it to hot. SUCCESS AT LAST!!!!!!!!! It cranked just like it should, and man Ken, you were right, that little Oddysey Battery is supercharged!! Any fears I had about it having enough CCA's to spin this engine were put to bed today. I hope that is the end of my starter issues, and now I can move on to the fuel lines. Gonna have Goodyear Rubber locally make up braided lines with AN fittings.........not exactly oldtimey, but they sure work well.

BTW, we didn't get Don's frame painted like we hoped yesterday. We actually worked from about 10 AM til 6 PM sandblasting the frame and all suspension pieces out in the hot sun, and we were both fried. So tonight we are going to try to get the frame spot puttied and maybe shoot some primer on it. Didn't want to rush things now and screw it up.

Here are some pictures of my battery cables, and also of Don sandblasting his frame. Uncle Bob gave me a great suggestion about putting a plastic barrier around us while sandblasting...........it really did contain the sand much better, and cleanup was a cinch. Thanks Bob. That sort of makes up for some of those "women?" you posted pictures of........sort of.


Don

Don - I knew you would get it It's just ashamed you have to work so hard sometimes on something so simple.
The arrow is the flow of fuel, mine comes out of the pump rearward then up to the fuel rail to feed the carburetors. I'm going to take it apart tonight and see what day it was manufactured Mine had a little clip on bracket but I didn't use it. Gotta love that little battery
Ken

Pretty in pink . . .

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

Pretty in pink . . .

I have looked everywhere for that pink cable, but could only find RED

Nah, it's red. Just photographed pinkish. Besides, I'm secure in my masculinity.


Don

Don never thought of it as free labor when there around it still costs me . LOL


$86 for some 6ft's huh . Marine grade will stand up to any weather even the salt i guess.

Yeah Bobby, each strand is individually tinned for corrosion resistance. I used to get a deal on it when I was in that business, but I pay retail now and it hurts.

Don and I got his frame DA'd tonight and filled some low spots with filler. One quick sanding with 320 tomorrow night and we can shoot some epoxy primer on it, then some surfacing primer. He is going to paint it gloss blue, so we need to make it as smooth as possible before the top coats go on. All in all it isn't looking too bad so far, but is taking longer than we thought.

Don

Don it's looking like your going to make both cars to turkey run this year. It's nice you get time to work with your boys. The work, style, and fun you all have shown us is great.
Brad

Thank you Brad. I think you are right about us possibly making it in time. Sure hope so.

I finally did some work today that is sort of post-worthy. As you guys know, I am running Sanderson Limefire headers with no other exhaust system. My Sons are convinced it is quiet enough with just open headers ( ) but I don't think so. The T is going to be conspicuous enough to the police, last thing I need is open headers to boot.

I knew I wanted to have some type of baffle system to slip into the headers, and went on line and found a company that makes them to fit Sanderson headers. The price is $ 160 a pair. I actually dialed the number and hung up before they answered because from the picture on their website the baffles were nothing special, and came unwelded. If I was going to do that, I might as well build the whole thing myself. So yesterday I started.

The first thing I did was cut 2 triangular shaped plates out of 1/4 inch flat stock to the exact shape of my header collector flange. Then I punched 3 bolt holes in them an a 2 inch hole in the middle for an exhaust pipe to slip into. I went to Advance Auto Parts and bought an 18 inch piece of 2 inch exhaust pipe and cut it in half.

What it ended up looking like was this.......................

Then I had to punch some holes into the tubes because that is the way the ones were on that website. They had a bunch of little holes shaped like "scoops" throughout the tube, I guess to break up the sound waves or something. Since I don't have a degree in muffler science, I did the next best thing...........I stole their design. First I drilled a bunch of holes and intended on using my air chisel with the pointy attachment on it, but Dan had already gotten to it and welded some attachment on it for something he was doing. So I just hammered a punch into each hole and shaped it like a little forward facing air scoop.

Then I welded the tube into the flange from the backside so no weld would show, and bolted it on the headers.

I couldn't wait to fire up the car to see if it was quieter, and I have to say it is only marginally so. But this is my starting point, and I plan to add some diffuser rings and some stainless steel scrubby pads inside to see what that does. Maybe when I get the car out in the sunshine it will be acceptable as is, but inside the shop it is still pretty loud.

Now I just have to temporarily paint the flanges with header paint, then after Daytona I will get them Jet Hot coated like the headers. Another advantage is that I think the hot exhaust gasses will now blow by my body rather than scorching it like the open headers might have done. If they are still too close I will add turnouts.

Don

Don, can you put a v shaped piece in the end of the pipe to disfuse the sound, the end going into the header. That might force more back around to your holes.
Brad

What do you think it should look like Brad? How big, etc.


Don

Just enough to block about a third of the pipe, a reverse v pointing into the pipe. The wide end towards the engine.
Brad