I suppose I will go ahead and get this thread started since our season ended yesterday.
Today we got the fuel drained out of the tank, and ran a leakdown on the motor. 428 passes on the short block and the highest leak was #7 at 5%, all out the intake valve. The rest were tight or 1% past the rings.
We have quite the to-do list going for winter:
New 30 x 41 race shop going in (the extra 1 foot to clear the trailer tongue with walking room, trailer is 37.5 feet tip to tail)
- Run TV and Network cables as well as 50A 240V power conduit
- Wiring it ourselves
Cylinder Heads are coming off and going to local "retired" NASCAR cylinder head guy (still does heads for ARCA and truck teams, retired from Joe Gibbs and Hendrick)
Pull bottom end out, new bearings and rod bolts, get crank magnafluxed (approaching 1,000 runs on it)
We were going to put new tires on it, but Friday's events changed that
Re-do some wiring and hoses
Change rear pumpkins back to the 4.10 gearset
Add fan for transmission cooler
Add air lines on trailer as well as extra back-up lights
New fuel injectors in the tow rig
Cut in back door from yard to garage
And I'm sure there is stuff I am missing.
Today we got the fuel drained out of the tank, and ran a leakdown on the motor. 428 passes on the short block and the highest leak was #7 at 5%, all out the intake valve. The rest were tight or 1% past the rings.
We have quite the to-do list going for winter:
New 30 x 41 race shop going in (the extra 1 foot to clear the trailer tongue with walking room, trailer is 37.5 feet tip to tail)
- Run TV and Network cables as well as 50A 240V power conduit
- Wiring it ourselves
Cylinder Heads are coming off and going to local "retired" NASCAR cylinder head guy (still does heads for ARCA and truck teams, retired from Joe Gibbs and Hendrick)
Pull bottom end out, new bearings and rod bolts, get crank magnafluxed (approaching 1,000 runs on it)
We were going to put new tires on it, but Friday's events changed that
Re-do some wiring and hoses
Change rear pumpkins back to the 4.10 gearset
Add fan for transmission cooler
Add air lines on trailer as well as extra back-up lights
New fuel injectors in the tow rig
Cut in back door from yard to garage
And I'm sure there is stuff I am missing.