Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
Alright, so I stripped the engine of all of it's external bits, and started doing some planning and work.
The builder put a 1/16" hole in the thermostat, something I also did on my current slant in the Dart. Also something I didn't notice before is one bolt was broken off in the block on the alternator bracket. It's the rear one so it doesn't really hurt anything, and it won't necessarily leak with the bolt still kinda in there. I'l probably extract it though.
The other thing I didn't notice is that there are GRade 8 bolts used almost everywhere. Clearly the builder was trying to do a nice job. The fuel pump I pulled out, and there's no oil on it - just some assembly oil from putting it together and where it touched the cam and that's it. The distributor gear was similarly clean and clear. I reached in the dizzy hole and tried to touch the cam - succeeded and it's only the assembly fluid. Dipstick is dry - nothing in there.
I'm so far feeling more and more like this was truly rebuilt - so this may be the motor I use while I build the '68 block. I'm at a situation where I say "why rebuild a rebuilt engine, why not rebuild the crappy one?"
I'm still taking it apart, I have to ensure it will handle low boost and fun.
The castings on some of the brackets kinda sucked, so I knocked off as much weird looking metal as I could, sandblasted, and repainted all of those copper.
Some of it needs to be ground off more and redone, but that's later.
I've changed the color of my slant from red, to blue, to purple, to silver, and was thinking of orange, or whatever, and it came to my mind that pretty much all of those colors I've seen a slant six in.
So I cleaned up the entire block, spent an hour or so with some compressed air, and some simple green (it wasn't that dirty) left the thermostat in and the crappy oil filter on as effective masking solutions of their respective holes, and plugged everything else up, painted over the plug tubes because I'm replacing those as well - so they served as perfect masks for the holes. The valve cover is being removed and modified so it just served as a mask for the head. After this I'll take the head off, and likely the oil pan to make my oil drains and whatnot and see what we got here. But like i said I wanted something different, so I give you....
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A white slant six! Yes I know the gaskets better be in good shape.
This'll be the first White slant, with black valve cover, black intake and exhaust, and solid copper lines instead of rubber vacuum lines routed cleanly to their respective locations, with small pieces of black rubber connecting them to each port. At least it'll be the first one I've seen like that. Not saying it doesn't already exist.
Alright, so I stripped the engine of all of it's external bits, and started doing some planning and work.
The builder put a 1/16" hole in the thermostat, something I also did on my current slant in the Dart. Also something I didn't notice before is one bolt was broken off in the block on the alternator bracket. It's the rear one so it doesn't really hurt anything, and it won't necessarily leak with the bolt still kinda in there. I'l probably extract it though.
The other thing I didn't notice is that there are GRade 8 bolts used almost everywhere. Clearly the builder was trying to do a nice job. The fuel pump I pulled out, and there's no oil on it - just some assembly oil from putting it together and where it touched the cam and that's it. The distributor gear was similarly clean and clear. I reached in the dizzy hole and tried to touch the cam - succeeded and it's only the assembly fluid. Dipstick is dry - nothing in there.
I'm so far feeling more and more like this was truly rebuilt - so this may be the motor I use while I build the '68 block. I'm at a situation where I say "why rebuild a rebuilt engine, why not rebuild the crappy one?"
I'm still taking it apart, I have to ensure it will handle low boost and fun.
The castings on some of the brackets kinda sucked, so I knocked off as much weird looking metal as I could, sandblasted, and repainted all of those copper.
Some of it needs to be ground off more and redone, but that's later.
I've changed the color of my slant from red, to blue, to purple, to silver, and was thinking of orange, or whatever, and it came to my mind that pretty much all of those colors I've seen a slant six in.
So I cleaned up the entire block, spent an hour or so with some compressed air, and some simple green (it wasn't that dirty) left the thermostat in and the crappy oil filter on as effective masking solutions of their respective holes, and plugged everything else up, painted over the plug tubes because I'm replacing those as well - so they served as perfect masks for the holes. The valve cover is being removed and modified so it just served as a mask for the head. After this I'll take the head off, and likely the oil pan to make my oil drains and whatnot and see what we got here. But like i said I wanted something different, so I give you....
...
...
A white slant six! Yes I know the gaskets better be in good shape.
This'll be the first White slant, with black valve cover, black intake and exhaust, and solid copper lines instead of rubber vacuum lines routed cleanly to their respective locations, with small pieces of black rubber connecting them to each port. At least it'll be the first one I've seen like that. Not saying it doesn't already exist.
