Fire in the hole, smoke in the pipe
Well this is the worst nightmare I’ve ever worked on. I pulled the intake earlier this week and I checked everything for square. I Mopar buddy of mine came over and gave me another set of eyes. Honestly we couldn’t see anything wrong on the gasket sealing side so I took a long fine file and slowly worked both sides. Port matched another set of Indy intake gaskets and sealed it in place. The next day I installed the carb and hooked everything up and on startup she was billowing smoke again. I ran it several times to make sure it wasn’t leftover oil in the pipes and oil started leaking out of my Hedman header joints. I backed it out of the shop and started cleaning up and taking my lift apart. Plans are now to change both heads and intake ( do a valve job to my old set I ran 9.74 with and a Victor340 I ported earlier this year)
to see if I can get it done for next weekends three 40,000.00 races. A buddy wants to buy my 600.00 entry if I can’t go and I told him I would see how things are going by Sunday night. Heck it’s almost September so it I don’t make next weekend’s race in done for the year. Plans are to get my fishing boat ready for some Fall fishing. I bought this for myself when I retired in 2010 and have never used it yet. It may be calling my name.
Well this is the worst nightmare I’ve ever worked on. I pulled the intake earlier this week and I checked everything for square. I Mopar buddy of mine came over and gave me another set of eyes. Honestly we couldn’t see anything wrong on the gasket sealing side so I took a long fine file and slowly worked both sides. Port matched another set of Indy intake gaskets and sealed it in place. The next day I installed the carb and hooked everything up and on startup she was billowing smoke again. I ran it several times to make sure it wasn’t leftover oil in the pipes and oil started leaking out of my Hedman header joints. I backed it out of the shop and started cleaning up and taking my lift apart. Plans are now to change both heads and intake ( do a valve job to my old set I ran 9.74 with and a Victor340 I ported earlier this year)
