My 5.9 into '68 Dart swap
Only got a little done last weekend. Was working on cleaning up some parts that I'm going to sell. Still need to come up with a little more cash for things like electric fuel pump, fuel lines, motor mounts, a little exhaust work that i'll have to do after dropping the engine in with the new Doug's D453 headers.
What I did accomplish was I made myself a degree wheel from a printout, glued to a piece of cardboard. Then took the dial indicator off an old cylinder taper gauge and figured out how to mount it so I could find TDC, and Degree my cam.
My replacement cam is just a stock 5.2 replacement. Intake centerline is suppose to be 110, and it came out to 108 after double and triple checking. So I think I'm ok there, its just a couple degrees advanced, which is fine because it will give me more bottom end power which is what I want.
Today I'll be pulling the timing gears back off so I can install the timing chain tensioner I just bought. There was too much slack in the timing chain for my taste, so I figured the tensioner was a good idea.
update: just got the tensioner on and the gears back in place. That tensioner is great, takes every bit of slop out of the chain. I'll probably throw the degree wheel back on it and check it again now that the chain is nice and tight.
Only got a little done last weekend. Was working on cleaning up some parts that I'm going to sell. Still need to come up with a little more cash for things like electric fuel pump, fuel lines, motor mounts, a little exhaust work that i'll have to do after dropping the engine in with the new Doug's D453 headers.
What I did accomplish was I made myself a degree wheel from a printout, glued to a piece of cardboard. Then took the dial indicator off an old cylinder taper gauge and figured out how to mount it so I could find TDC, and Degree my cam.
My replacement cam is just a stock 5.2 replacement. Intake centerline is suppose to be 110, and it came out to 108 after double and triple checking. So I think I'm ok there, its just a couple degrees advanced, which is fine because it will give me more bottom end power which is what I want.
Today I'll be pulling the timing gears back off so I can install the timing chain tensioner I just bought. There was too much slack in the timing chain for my taste, so I figured the tensioner was a good idea.
update: just got the tensioner on and the gears back in place. That tensioner is great, takes every bit of slop out of the chain. I'll probably throw the degree wheel back on it and check it again now that the chain is nice and tight.
