512 B build almost complete
Full disclosure- On pull #4 which is the one posted I noticed some steam coming out of the breather at the very top of the pull. So I chalked it up to high humidity/blowby/rings still coming in/ and relegated it to a part of my mind that is labeled DENIAL just like the river in Egypt. So I proceed to have lunch, attend to some other business functions and bolt on a 1" HVH style spacer hoping for more power and that I was seeing things--Well as luck would have it power was down a little and it kinda looked like a miniature steam locomotive was under the driver side breather from 4500 rpm and up. Ok, check the dipstick--it looks a little milky but kinda bubbly--wipe it off and re dip and it looked pretty normal- level is good too. Ok pull the valve covers and the sparkplugs half expecting to see one or more white and clean but no they all looked normal with a grey-chocolate hue. Turn the engine over with plugs out to see if water would show it self--Nope all good. So now I'm crossing my fingers and hoping against hope that a cylinder didn't decide to leave the chat and split below the ring travel which I have seen before and it did the exact same thing. Put on a different spacer and hit the starter and now the engine turns 3/4 of a turn and I hear the SuperStart grind and ZING! Great , Pull the exhaust,oil line, fuel line, etc... and roll engine forward in the cell and proceed to tear down the Superstart attachment. Sure enough about 2" of teeth were gone off of Superflow's propetary 9.25" diameter ring gear. So I break out the welder and get welding/pencil grinding and filing--about 2hrs later I'm ready to try again--Hit the starter and whaddayaknow? It turns over excellent with no plugs and it even sounds better than before. With another spacer configuration I warm up the engine and try another test--no dice-steam again. Ok tomorrow I will go to NAPA get some more oil/filter and some IronTite Ceramic seal--its a Hail Mary but I really don't wanna tear into this thing as it doesn't leak a drop of oil anywhere and it continues to make good power (not as much as pull 4 though). Well today I warmed it up and all was well until I fully loaded it and held WOT at 4400 RPM---Tons of steam and now the fresh oil looks like Vanilla Milkshake mixed with and Ice Coffee--So I head to McDonalds and order an ice coffee no sugar cuz its freakin hot here and resign myself to the fact that I am going to have to tear it down. It's gonna be a long night and I might as well find out what's going on because I won't be able to sleep anyways. Oh and I had a 6" section of 2" dyno water line that sprung a leak at the 2" NPT fitting so I changed that this morning because I was sick of the wet floor in that section of the cell--It seems like it is just one of those weeks. Hey I'm not complaining it could be worse--It could be something like cancer and that I can't fix. Fun, fun, fun. J.Rob
Full disclosure- On pull #4 which is the one posted I noticed some steam coming out of the breather at the very top of the pull. So I chalked it up to high humidity/blowby/rings still coming in/ and relegated it to a part of my mind that is labeled DENIAL just like the river in Egypt. So I proceed to have lunch, attend to some other business functions and bolt on a 1" HVH style spacer hoping for more power and that I was seeing things--Well as luck would have it power was down a little and it kinda looked like a miniature steam locomotive was under the driver side breather from 4500 rpm and up. Ok, check the dipstick--it looks a little milky but kinda bubbly--wipe it off and re dip and it looked pretty normal- level is good too. Ok pull the valve covers and the sparkplugs half expecting to see one or more white and clean but no they all looked normal with a grey-chocolate hue. Turn the engine over with plugs out to see if water would show it self--Nope all good. So now I'm crossing my fingers and hoping against hope that a cylinder didn't decide to leave the chat and split below the ring travel which I have seen before and it did the exact same thing. Put on a different spacer and hit the starter and now the engine turns 3/4 of a turn and I hear the SuperStart grind and ZING! Great , Pull the exhaust,oil line, fuel line, etc... and roll engine forward in the cell and proceed to tear down the Superstart attachment. Sure enough about 2" of teeth were gone off of Superflow's propetary 9.25" diameter ring gear. So I break out the welder and get welding/pencil grinding and filing--about 2hrs later I'm ready to try again--Hit the starter and whaddayaknow? It turns over excellent with no plugs and it even sounds better than before. With another spacer configuration I warm up the engine and try another test--no dice-steam again. Ok tomorrow I will go to NAPA get some more oil/filter and some IronTite Ceramic seal--its a Hail Mary but I really don't wanna tear into this thing as it doesn't leak a drop of oil anywhere and it continues to make good power (not as much as pull 4 though). Well today I warmed it up and all was well until I fully loaded it and held WOT at 4400 RPM---Tons of steam and now the fresh oil looks like Vanilla Milkshake mixed with and Ice Coffee--So I head to McDonalds and order an ice coffee no sugar cuz its freakin hot here and resign myself to the fact that I am going to have to tear it down. It's gonna be a long night and I might as well find out what's going on because I won't be able to sleep anyways. Oh and I had a 6" section of 2" dyno water line that sprung a leak at the 2" NPT fitting so I changed that this morning because I was sick of the wet floor in that section of the cell--It seems like it is just one of those weeks. Hey I'm not complaining it could be worse--It could be something like cancer and that I can't fix. Fun, fun, fun. J.Rob
