Tom Ginefra
True Classic
I can now confirm "first hand" that this car is a f*cking rocket ship!
The round trip was 2800 miles? I’m reading that wrong, right?Couple small updates to keep track of things - 2850K miles when I left for MWB open house.
Oil temps are better with the duct I added - never went up to 220 (mostly around 200, I'd gauge) even with hours of driving @ highway speeds in very high ambient temps Thursday & Friday on the way to Carlisle PA & then Columbus Ohio
Switched to conventional 5W30 motor oil - makes no difference to oil consumption - used a quart over the course of the past 3 days. No visible oil smoke on deceleration with the VTA breather setup though. Definitely have oil smoke when idling hot & then accelerating from a standstill.
The AC hoses have held up for over 700 miles of driving the past 3 days, with numerous spirited pulls that would stress the fittings, so the revisions with brackets seem to be doing the trick. I noticed on the drive that the AC seems to drop out under higher load/acceleration - however on Friday morning I was driving for hours with no AC - and I observed that the heat was coming on (I have a bay-mounted vacuum controlled heater valve with an ancillary reservoir) - so, I need to revise the system to maintain vacuum to the valve under those conditions.
I really would like to have cruise control for these long drives also
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Friday - following Brian in his wife's 500 Cabriolet - it was great to have company & enjoy their tremendous hospitality
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Hussein has quite the impressive car! Glad to be able to meet him.
That little excursion was much funI can now confirm "first hand" that this car is a f*cking rocket ship!
The round trip was 2800 miles? I’m reading that wrong, right?
Yes they put the bump over the top of the struts apron sometimes in the 1979 model production year (but I have seen some early 1979 without it). I'm sure they added it for a reason, probably to get more strength. I had to cut mine on my 1980 when I fit a set of universal Carrera camber plates. If you don't already have plate doublers underneath, I would consider them if you remove that bump, especially if you have the intention of doing some off-road anymore!probably going to have to remove much of the cross brace & revise that. At the very least, I can cut back the top - the early cars don't have that - I saw this one (75?) @ MWB:
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I doubt smaller injectors will affect the rich condition at heavy load. The ECU should adjust for that. I have 440cc injectors in my UT with much smaller displacement and they are big enough to run E85 I think. The only issue I have is to get idling adjusted to 850rpm. My engine idles at 1000rpm but I can live with that.Swapped out the injectors for the brand new Honda-packaged Denso 410cc (RDX) injectors to see if it makes any difference to the top end rich condition
I doubt smaller injectors will affect the rich condition at heavy load. The ECU should adjust for that. I have 440cc injectors in my UT with much smaller displacement and they are big enough to run E85 I think. The only issue I have is to get idling adjusted to 850rpm. My engine idles at 1000rpm but I can live with that.
May have to stop in NY on my way to Vermont to try this thing out on roads more appropriate to its capability…
Only two more weeks to go.
Sounds like fun.You should text me with possible dates - we will be up in Saratoga & Lake Placid next week, then home for a couple of days, then 'camping' for 2 days after that.