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As an update...
Hi fellas, as an update wanted to write that I have had the time to run the rig super super gently for almost four hundred miles and I am now starting to push the thing more and more. In summary, I could not and should not be happier; the rig is faster and smoother than ever.
To recap, along with the HG, the rig now has new thermostat, clutch, cap and all the extra orings that are not actually part of the valve grind kit for the cooling system couplers etc. It also has relatively new (8K) plug wires, new turbo specd plugs, new distributor cap, new distributor rotor. It has new belts, new hoses everywhere - everything from heater core hoses to rad hoses to all the bypass hoses to all the vacuum line hoses are all replaced. It has new alternator brushes. It has relatively new fuel filter (10K). It has had lots and lots of head work - milled off 8 thousandths for perfectly flat, all the valves, valve seats, valve seals etc were perfectly and precisely worked from the shop that robbie highly recommends. The injectors were completely cleaned and came back to within .6% from the highest flowing to the lowest flowing one and they are all over 302 in flow. Lastly, the two intake plenums, the throttle body, the head, even the valve cover were all completely cleaned as well as the piston tops, the cylinder walls, the block top, etc.
Fellas the results are absolutely amazing. Robbie is an absolute master. The rig always worked well but the thing is totally transformed, well as much as a rig that already worked well can be. The responsiveness and smoothness is easily doubled, perhaps tripled. The engine revs up and down like a high-end, high-precision sewing machine plugged into a rapid response reostat. The powerband seems straighter, more linear, less lumpy then before although lumpy is the wrong word cause it was never lumpy, just less linear than it is now. The economy is incredibly improved although I want some more time to track that cause it seems too good to be true. I am grinnin from ear to ear.
Two things that were not changed at all: the operating temp is exactly the same and the idle is still somewhat stumbly...with the operating temp keep in mind my rig never ever got hot on me so no reason to think that the temps would drop but at least its good (and bad) to know that the failing HG was not producing higher temps, ..., and with the somewhat stumbly idle keep in my that the turbo specd plugs are purposely super cool running and I wonder if at idle that is the thing thats causing some stumbly - I know its not the injectors now which is what I was always wondering about before.
Anyways, another hats off to the masta! As I started, I could not and should not be happier with the results.
Hi fellas, as an update wanted to write that I have had the time to run the rig super super gently for almost four hundred miles and I am now starting to push the thing more and more. In summary, I could not and should not be happier; the rig is faster and smoother than ever.
To recap, along with the HG, the rig now has new thermostat, clutch, cap and all the extra orings that are not actually part of the valve grind kit for the cooling system couplers etc. It also has relatively new (8K) plug wires, new turbo specd plugs, new distributor cap, new distributor rotor. It has new belts, new hoses everywhere - everything from heater core hoses to rad hoses to all the bypass hoses to all the vacuum line hoses are all replaced. It has new alternator brushes. It has relatively new fuel filter (10K). It has had lots and lots of head work - milled off 8 thousandths for perfectly flat, all the valves, valve seats, valve seals etc were perfectly and precisely worked from the shop that robbie highly recommends. The injectors were completely cleaned and came back to within .6% from the highest flowing to the lowest flowing one and they are all over 302 in flow. Lastly, the two intake plenums, the throttle body, the head, even the valve cover were all completely cleaned as well as the piston tops, the cylinder walls, the block top, etc.
Fellas the results are absolutely amazing. Robbie is an absolute master. The rig always worked well but the thing is totally transformed, well as much as a rig that already worked well can be. The responsiveness and smoothness is easily doubled, perhaps tripled. The engine revs up and down like a high-end, high-precision sewing machine plugged into a rapid response reostat. The powerband seems straighter, more linear, less lumpy then before although lumpy is the wrong word cause it was never lumpy, just less linear than it is now. The economy is incredibly improved although I want some more time to track that cause it seems too good to be true. I am grinnin from ear to ear.
Two things that were not changed at all: the operating temp is exactly the same and the idle is still somewhat stumbly...with the operating temp keep in mind my rig never ever got hot on me so no reason to think that the temps would drop but at least its good (and bad) to know that the failing HG was not producing higher temps, ..., and with the somewhat stumbly idle keep in my that the turbo specd plugs are purposely super cool running and I wonder if at idle that is the thing thats causing some stumbly - I know its not the injectors now which is what I was always wondering about before.
Anyways, another hats off to the masta! As I started, I could not and should not be happier with the results.
