Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback

famous bob said
wood is lookin good! be a shame to haul stuff in it and mess it up. fired the barracuda again after changing the oil-filter, went to 15w40 helped the hot low oil pressure when idleing. also shimmed the oilpump relief spring w/ a .058 s.s. washer. seem to have got the oil pan leak stopped, (fingers crossed), ran it through the gears on jack stands. had to readjust the dist. a little, timing on the hand held is spot on now. dropped the timing back to 18, and 34 total. 17" mechanical fan in a close fitting alum. shroud took care of it this time. new elec. fan came in , installed it in front any way, the fast 2.0 will trigger it at 200. got to get a nuetral starter switch on it, so my dumb a$$ doesn`t do something stupid again . when it warms up, going to get ti down and drive it around the neghborhood. still need a front end alignment on the aftermarket front end bad--------------------happy happy happy !!!!!!!!!! love the fast 2.0 so far!:blob:
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I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't have painted the box floor instead. I definitely didn't want to turn the truck into a show only vehicle. I guess I'd rather risk marring the floor than use it as a venue to show off my somewhat limited woodworking skills.

I've been telling my son about your FAST 2.0 build. We're anxious to hear more about how it behaves when you get it on the road. Today I talked to him on the phone and we were kicking around more ideas about the issues we've had. I'm still researching info online. I know that the top of our throttle body is blackened. It's probably due to the early time when we'd first installed it and had some backfires. What I don't know is if any of the sensors could have been damaged a long while back when that happened. That is just one of the ideas we'd discussed.

I'm glad to hear that the temperature issues you had seem to be settling down. I still recommend that you (and everybody else) check into that Evans coolant. I've never had an engine that we put a bunch of miles on that didn't have a lot of crud in the water jackets when it came time for a rebuild. (even on motors that had regular coolant changes) That's got to affect cooling. I know that we haven't been using it very long yet but if the info we read about it is accurate we won't have to worry about that anymore.