We fired up my little roadster today for the first time (hopefully HAMB friendly in spite of disc brakes, electric fan, anodized fittings, etc), I'm pretty excited- needs a little tuning, timing set etc. Still sounds pretty good though. I video'd the first startup: Thanks! Dave
sounds great, i found it very easy to overlook the "un"traditional items. that is a good looking ride. keep up the good work.
You are a brave man indeed. Your face right next to the stacks on a first fire up... guess you never had one pop back on you. But it revs great like an injected engine should. Sounds fairly quiet do you have baffles in the pipes?
Yeah, the pipes are baffled- I was surprised how quiet it is as well. My dad (brave man setting barrel valve)and I have built countless injected motors, this is the first one for the street. We set it up on the rich side for startup. Thanks for the Compliments, Dave
The headers are Sanderson zoomies, I'm going to build a set of custom collector "street roadster" type headers for it as well- trying to make the Roundup, so these are going to have to do for now, I'm happy w/ them. This car started out as a gigantic collection of junk that I bought off of EvilBay as a "nice little car that needs nothing to be daily driven." When I went to pick it up I realized it was a cobbled together piece of crap. But, I liked the body (although ROUGH)- an ancient fiberglass piece w/ short cowl and pushed back "altered" style, and the frame was narrow and had some "character" for lack of a better description. So, I thought I would tear it apart and start from scratch building an injected "Street Freak, Altered, Drag Roadster" type car. We spent hours getting the body as straight as I could (its still pretty potatoe chippy) and cutting horrific brackets, cross-member, etc. off of the frame. Just need to finish the interior, hopefully will be cruising around Austin next weekend. Thanks Again, Dve
Sounds awesome. Have you ever messed witha crower injection setup? I have one I am going to run on a vdrive boat. Can you set these up for pump gas? Or do I need to stick with alky? Man that is one bad to T roadster Injected motors have such nice throttle response
Dave, that's one Killer Ride! Nice to see real injectors and not the Mock style that fit over a singLe 4 BBL! Keep us posted!
Thanks for the kind words guys, I really respect what this board is all about, and its members- the positive feedback means alot to me. The motor is just your standard little 30 over sbc, 2.02 heads, vertex mag, -80 pump, etc. 9 inch ford rear, full manual 350 trans w/ 2800 stahl converter, which is where the cam comes in (I plan on putting a 4 speed in it @ some point). The above video is on regular 'ol 93 octane pump gas. Abone1930: Alcohol is a lot more forgiving, but you certainly can run your Crower setup on gas. There are some key things that must happen in effectively setting up any mechanical fuel injection system- pm me if you need some help w/ it. I am going to put a rollbar on the car! Thanks Again, Dave
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