Thanks Steve.... Still thinking about a 69 - 72 corvette for it... I think I'll get the nova running with the old 400 thats in it and enjoy it like it is... But time will tell...👍
I had an oil flash fire under the hood once after running a BBC with the same style plastic oil pressure sender tube. When the headers became very hot it melted the plastic tube and high pressure oil sprayed onto the hot header pipes and after a few seconds a big ball of flames came out from the engine compartment. My friend and I had two fire extinguishers handy and we stopped the fire in a matter of seconds but there was still some damage. I used copper tubing after that to carry the oil pressure signal. This was also during an initial start up after a rebuild. It was a big rush of adrenaline.
A funny thing is when I was installing it I had that feeling.... I should install that copper line that I already had, but used what came with the Gauge set....
Always love your comments hybrid muscle.... Still might end up putting this thing in a Corvette... kind of looking a little bit... Nova has a pretty good engine in it so... I don't know what I'll end up doing...😀
Thanks HYBRID... Your to kind on your comments... If I had your Cool early 70s Camaro you have on your channle, well I definitly would put it in it..... 👍 Also liking your z28...
Man that is awesome. Great job! Looks like your gas tank was large enough after all. How much fuel do you think you used and how long do you think it would run on a full tank? Seems like I seen this question asked in one of the build up videos and you was curious to find out.
Thanks Doing Stuff Seeing Stuff.... The gas tank is 2 1/2 galllons and I never filled it up.... Lol.... I still don't know how long it would run on a tank... But definitly over 30 min for a cam brake in..... Well my project is over... I guess I'll go on one of your hiking adventures... 👍
Thanks for the nice comment... The old distributor is more for racing with no vaccum advance.... I dont run timing setting like the factory so some things they do would not work for me.
What was the oil pressure when the engine was at temperature and was idling? Would like to know as a frame of reference for my engine. Mine was around 15 psi after engine had a few thousand miles on it and I always felt it should have be higher. I only had platigauge available to check the clearance on the crank journals and the mains might be too lose.
Hi Mike... I didn't have it idling long before it ran out of gas and had beem fiddling with the carb idle bleed screws..... (I think) I saw around 25-30 psi @ 900-1000 RPM...It has comp cams break in oil 15w50 and a high volume pump...
15 psi may be just fine (outside a setup where it should have more pressure with what pump and clearance you used). But rule of thumb is 10 psi per 1,000 rpm. Can get in touch with Driven and see what oil they'd recomend (probably 10w 40 - 20w 50 depending on your clearances and oil temp). If you've got 50 psi at 7,000 rpm then I'd be concerned. But if you've got 15 psi at 800-1,200 rpm and 70 psi at 7,000 hot, then I wouldn't worry. And if you've got 80 psi at 6,000 rpm I wouldn't worry either... Now I've had a truck where I knew the guy that built it (SBC). It had a high volume, high pressure pump and it had 10 psi at idle around 800 if I recall. I knew there were problems... my friend took the truck, tore the engine down and told me he didn't know how it ran so good, was junk. As far as clearance, a decent rule of thumb is 0.001" per inch of journal diameter. Better parts and you can run slightly tighter like 0.000825" per inch with like a Bryant crank, Callies coated bearings... And up to 0.001225" per inch is generally considered alright. Different people do things differently. Some power adder drag stuff may be different, idk don't have experience there.
episode #15 @1:02 there is a shot of the cam card. @0.5 inch lift, int. = 242, exh. = 248, with a lobe separation of 110 degrees. Total lift is 0.646 of an inch for the intake valve and 0.653 of an inch for the exhaust. With heads potentially flowing 345 cfm with that cam the hp potential is a little over 600 hp. You can see more about the heads in episode #11. Now we can year the cam overlap in the exhaust note. Sounds great. I don't know this RU-vidr in person but wanted to say I have been watching Meyers Metalworks for years and think he is a very good engine builder who also makes fun RU-vid videos?
