VdubJoe
03-19-2023, 10:06 AM
Its been a long 9 years since i pretty much came to a halt on the Cobra. I guess im shooting for the longest build.
Back to work on it and hope to make some good progress.. Life had a funny way of kicking in and changing alot.
Still see the original build thread is still accessible.
Finally got the engine assembled and loaded onto the test stand i made. Looks a mess but i haven't tidied up all the stand wiring. I have a bunch of engine assembly picts but as usual i cant seem to find where i stuck them. Hope to start soon and ill try to have a video.
Injection is a FITech unit. Just got done taking some web seminar's classes they had and learned a whole bunch.
Being im a carb guy this is all new to me.
Got the engine in. Used my 2 post lift to do it. Went pretty well. Used the hooker headers for now but switching to Gas-N ones shortly. Header was a tight fit on DS, Removing valve cover helped a bunch. Barely got it off with studs .I used ARP 12 pt 5\16 head bolts. Worked great i could use a long ratchet head wrench on all of them. After running on test stand i found nice leak where one header tube had been welded to flange. Fixed that. Got the ride height set and set the pinion angle . Had to make a 1 inch spacer for tranny. Now im going to tackle the wiring.
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Back to work on it and hope to make some good progress.. Life had a funny way of kicking in and changing alot.
Still see the original build thread is still accessible.
Finally got the engine assembled and loaded onto the test stand i made. Looks a mess but i haven't tidied up all the stand wiring. I have a bunch of engine assembly picts but as usual i cant seem to find where i stuck them. Hope to start soon and ill try to have a video.
Injection is a FITech unit. Just got done taking some web seminar's classes they had and learned a whole bunch.
Being im a carb guy this is all new to me.
Got the engine in. Used my 2 post lift to do it. Went pretty well. Used the hooker headers for now but switching to Gas-N ones shortly. Header was a tight fit on DS, Removing valve cover helped a bunch. Barely got it off with studs .I used ARP 12 pt 5\16 head bolts. Worked great i could use a long ratchet head wrench on all of them. After running on test stand i found nice leak where one header tube had been welded to flange. Fixed that. Got the ride height set and set the pinion angle . Had to make a 1 inch spacer for tranny. Now im going to tackle the wiring.
181759
181760
181762
181762
181763