Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project

Had a weird issue the other night when I was coming home from alameda, but I got back into town, and heard a ticking, pretty loud that was related to engine speed. Uh-oh, I thought, it's knocking...

I got home and opened the hood, and lo and behold - the coolant catch can came unbolted, and was on the opposite end of the engine bay being struck by all the fan blades. I moved it, started the car, and no noise. Somehow this thing came unbolted, which also meant my radiator came unbolted on the same side. I have no idea how that happened.

But needless to say my 7 bladed fan is bent on every blade end, and one blade the metal seperated for about 1/4" gap. The paint was all blown off the fan as well. The $10 catch can is absolutely fine. I am moving the catch can to the front of the radiator support, so I painted it black, and I still have no idea how two torqued down bolts came undone so quickly. I would think sabotage, maybe someone trying to steal the radiator, but ran out of time, but I think that's highly unlikely.

Once again, the car is forcing me to not cheap out, and I will just pull the 7 blade, see if I can fix it, and will be running two electric fans with a thermostat switch instead - to free up room for turbo stuff. Ugh...

The fan setup is $40 for the two fans, and $20 for the switch/relay/sensor setup. It will come on at 185* and turn off at 170*

Not exactly part of my build initially, but it's going to be pretty much necessary now. Might as well.