Today the monster rolled on it's back and let me scratch his belly.
The car finally is starting to come around, and see things my way.
To start things off Nick has asked to see into the airbox. Who am I to argue?
I think I'll keep it.
I said that I cut the throttle bodies apart, and this is a testimonial to that..
Now while I they look much better this way, nobodies gonna see it,...The airbox will hide them.. The side benefit to doing this is that it allows me to correct some of the warpage issues,...so all in all,......it needed to be done. It does come with a whole box of gremlins though, as each TB now has to be aligned for twist, and the manifolds need that, AND their height dicked with. And dicking with these things to try and get them close enough to free up the shaft took most of the day. I got to come up with a way to locate this junk so I can put it back together before the RTV I'm gonna use as a gasket set up.
But as with everything else, they finally came close enough to move on, and see how much of high school geometry I've forgotten....
That would be....most of it. I struggle trying to figure out where to put the fulcrum to help the short leg. I don't know whether I can move the thing around to reduce effort, or increase travel. Or whether or not if you get one, you sacrifice the other. Suffice it to say, my little cardboard "L" didn't tell me nothing about reduction of effort, or whether or not putting it here or there would make it travel longer...So I did what I always do........
I winged it.
In case you've forgotten how to get to grandmother's house, let this be your map, because this is about as "Over the river, and through the woods" as anything can get. The cable linkage doesn't snap on the ball, because I used one I had in my drawer, and didn't check to see if it was the right size...
It was wrong.
So, I'll have to cut the current one off, and put one there that does. Then put the head back on the block, re-hook up the throttle cable to the gas pedal, and mat the thing to see if it opens all the way. If that works, then I can say Da-done-dah, and move on to finish porting the head.
Once that's done I can take the head to a machine shop for a new valve-job, and reassembly, and get the new forged rods transferred onto my pistons..
Then...just in time for summer,....the Gila Monster will crawl out of his hole, and find himself a nice flat place to sun himself.
And I'll get to answer the dozens of people who ask:
What am I lookin' at here.