lookforjoe
True Classic
Bonjour, Hussein la prochaine fois que tu viens au Québec tu dois nous faire signe afin que nous puissions se rencontrer.
I'm writing in French ... it is a start for you
Yes, indeed! I told my wife that next visit we have to allow for a couple of possible meets!
Today I removed the plenum & I spent hours on planing the plenum to get it flat - it must have warped again when I re-welded the AC mount ear
Clear evidence of the carb clean soaking through to the port all around the outer perimeter of #1
The outer rim of #1 appears to be bowed outward, and there is no bolt to pull it in
I ran over it carefully with the belt sander to cut back the entire plane, then block sanded the entire surface using much 240 and finally 400grit to get the outer ear level again
made another gasket (actually 3rd attempt). The phenolic gasket is too thin around the ports, and measuring it, is uneven in thickness around #1 - can't risk it leaking again
To get the plenum back in, I needed to remove a stud I added to the top plane, and the forward lower stud for the TB adaptor spacer - both made it very hard to remove the plenum in the tight quarters I have.
While I have it all apart again, I decided to also remove the exhaust & deal with a slight leak - I smoke tested the exhaust & found the slip coupler had a slight blow-by, made an annoying 'fart' sound. When I welded the collectors, two of the runners ended up longer than the others, and so the shorter pair were not fully seating in the flared sections. I cut about 5mm or so off all four collector legs, and leveled the four tube ends on the header side so they would seat fully. I ran out of time, so I'll smoke test it tomorrow after work & see if this fixed it
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