Not too shabby. I need a new gas line to the carb, it has a pin hole leak in the tube (not the fitting). I guess it didn't like being pulled up 1-5/8" to meet the new carb height. I need to track down a coolant leak. Before I even started it I had a small puddle on top of the intake. It's coming from the front, near the bypass or the water neck. Not a lot though just a little. Temp only got to 170° even after running for 25 minutes. I don't know what the new fan sensor is supposed to kick in at, but the fans were running at 170°. Oil pressure was 90 at start up. It was 45° outside with break in oil. Warmed up it dropped to 60 then 40 at idle. Timing set at 14 with no vacuum advance hooked up.
Oh I almost forgot. The factory tach wire goes to the MSD tach wire, not the coil! I was like, where's my tach???
Sounds Flowmaster good! Gotta luv those roller cams. You're almost there, gotta see if that qjet will feed that Sp3 motor....
Sounds awesome, I’m running flowmasters on my 350 build as well. Lot of people don’t like the flow master drone but I think they sound great. You guys got very in depth and to be honest, a bit over my head in this thread. I’m a diesel mechanic by trade but I’m not an engine expert so I took mine to a performance builder. Very happy with how she runs.
I am curious too. If he doesn't have many issues with the quadrajet it may cause me to start looking elsewhere for solving my bog.
Putting in a new temp sensor for the fan switch. The website says its a 185° on and 170° off sensor, but the paperwork that came with the kit says its 185° on and 160° off. When I did my start up it must have hit 185° and kicked the fans on. It dropped to 170° but the fans never shut off. I'm running a 180° thermostat. Either way, neither of those (on/off) are what I need. I just ordered a 200° on and 185° off sensor. I don't want (or need) the fans running until it hits 200° and I want the fans off below 185°. I also ran a switch inside so I can turn them on (but not off) manually.
Your video with a bit of cloth hanging out of your jean jacket and your hand an inch from the spinning belt/pulley freaked me out. Awesome sounding engine! Hope it runs for a long time.
Engine Sounds good, I had the same leak and it was the gasket at the water neck and it too 2 times to stop. I actually bought a new neck from TA just so the intake and the neck was new. I had to use the good ole Indian head gasket sealer to seal that sucker up.
Yeah, that's not me! I saw that and cringed a bit lol I was inside working the throttle so it didn't stall while he was messing with the timing.
