First Start (finally)

[mlewis]

Hi all,

After years of watching you all posting your first starts and after 3 years (and 1 week) working on my build, I was finally able to bring my beast to life !!

It took a couple of turns to bring it to life, then some adjustments to the fuel regulator to for a more successful second start.

Here's take 1 …


https://youtu.be/xHS279yGCdI

Here's take 2 …

will post separatly

(hopefully I did the links correctly)

Overall very successful start. I have a couple of pouch list items to chase (including a cooling question which I will post separately).

Here's some photos out in the sun (for the first time)

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Thanks to you all for all the help and support to get to this point.

Can't want to do some go carting ...

[mlewis]

here's take two ...


https://youtu.be/AL_9yOom32c

[D Stand]

Videos will not play

[nuhale]

can't see video but either way really dig that dual air intake. cool!

[mlewis]

fixed the videos (new to the youtube thing)

[edwardb]

Way to go. Congratulations!

[D Stand]

Very nice congrats!

[Mark K]

Congratulations!

[jrcuz]

Congrats!

[timmil]

Sounds awesome, CONGRATS!

[GoDadGo]

You Coyote Guys Amaze Me!
...Congratualations!

[Straversi]

Well done. Congratulations.
-Steve

[Railroad]

Congratulations on a happy day.
Which air intake tube do you have your MAF sensor mounted in?
For some reason, I do not think that is going to work, unless the sensor is down stream of the Y, which will be very close to the throttle body.
I had trouble with my MAF sensor being too close to the throttle body and had to move it.
I am not a FI expert, just what I have encountered with my cars.
If you get your tune from Lund, send them a picture and they can advise. It was helpful for me.

[JohnK]

That's awesome. Congratulations! I can't wait for the day that I get to that point in my build.

[wareaglescott]

great job! Never get tired of watching these!

[egchewy79]

awesome! I had my first start and engine break-in this weekend too! 289 flat tappet cam.

[bldr.rob]

Congratulations! Sounds vicious!

[ydousurf]

Yep, what wareaglescott said! All down hill from here. Congrats!

Dj

[mlewis]

Thanks all.

Feels good, real good (sounds good too ;))



All down hill from here.

Hope so, I could a little down hill momentum ...



Congratulations on a happy day.
Which air intake tube do you have your MAF sensor mounted in?
For some reason, I do not think that is going to work, unless the sensor is down stream of the Y, which will be very close to the throttle body.
I had trouble with my MAF sensor being too close to the throttle body and had to move it.
I am not a FI expert, just what I have encountered with my cars.
If you get your tune from Lund, send them a picture and they can advise. It was helpful for me.

Mounted on the driver side. Truth be told the passage side is a dummy (just for looks :cool:) so the MAF should work like normal (that's the idea anyway).

Heads up, I need to post a couple questions separate on thread as I need some help from the experts ...

[marshc56]

Now that's a sweet sound... Congratulations!

[Chainsaw]

It's a beautiful sound. Congrats.