Alright, i spoke with some vendors regarding upgrades on this 318.
Crutchfield says firing order when added together should always be 36dB. I'm not sure what he means by that, but wouldn't anything less or more than a V8 be wrong? like v6 and inline 4 engines? I'm confused on that statement.
when speaking with summit racing, i told them about the 7803 timing kit, and advancing the crank 4 degrees. It was praised it was a great idea and it'll help me get closer to the compression ratio of 14.7:1 with the difference of intake duration and opening, which is needed to burn regular fuel without spark knock using a performance thermostat of 290*F. And apparently i'll need to run straight antifreeze, or upgrade to steel radiator hoses for boil pressure, which i thought was weird. Am i supposed to use unions or something??? At that point go oring boss or JIC? Seems reinventing the wheel on that one.
Anyways, from the timing advance, i was having starting issues when cold. So i got on the horn with Jegs, and speaking with one of those techs, he made two suggestions, and they should be followed together.
1, i should upgrade my starter to something that is lower RPM, especially with a battery having low voltage, since the altimiter isn't charging during cranking. A cold engine needs to turn over slower to give the cold fuel time to burn.
and 2, i'm supposed to run spark plugs that are a big longer, they almost have to touch the face of the piston @ TDC (apparently when cold, they will set themselves into the piston face once hot, almost like bedding new brake pads to a rotor), so they protrude further into the chamber for better spark reach, and when the engine does get running and hot, the ends will glow and help burn the fuel like glow plugs in a nitromethane model toy engine.
What's your guys opinion? I think for all this stuff to get an extra 15 ponies, i may as well just go with a 440 or something. Seems like less work, and far less complicated.
Crutchfield says firing order when added together should always be 36dB. I'm not sure what he means by that, but wouldn't anything less or more than a V8 be wrong? like v6 and inline 4 engines? I'm confused on that statement.
when speaking with summit racing, i told them about the 7803 timing kit, and advancing the crank 4 degrees. It was praised it was a great idea and it'll help me get closer to the compression ratio of 14.7:1 with the difference of intake duration and opening, which is needed to burn regular fuel without spark knock using a performance thermostat of 290*F. And apparently i'll need to run straight antifreeze, or upgrade to steel radiator hoses for boil pressure, which i thought was weird. Am i supposed to use unions or something??? At that point go oring boss or JIC? Seems reinventing the wheel on that one.
Anyways, from the timing advance, i was having starting issues when cold. So i got on the horn with Jegs, and speaking with one of those techs, he made two suggestions, and they should be followed together.
1, i should upgrade my starter to something that is lower RPM, especially with a battery having low voltage, since the altimiter isn't charging during cranking. A cold engine needs to turn over slower to give the cold fuel time to burn.
and 2, i'm supposed to run spark plugs that are a big longer, they almost have to touch the face of the piston @ TDC (apparently when cold, they will set themselves into the piston face once hot, almost like bedding new brake pads to a rotor), so they protrude further into the chamber for better spark reach, and when the engine does get running and hot, the ends will glow and help burn the fuel like glow plugs in a nitromethane model toy engine.
What's your guys opinion? I think for all this stuff to get an extra 15 ponies, i may as well just go with a 440 or something. Seems like less work, and far less complicated.
