My latest redblock geekout

[ryanfay]

Originally Posted by 11110000

I have been told the Chrysler ICU will pull timing under boost. I have not verified that it does yet. So far, it seems to work well, whatever it's doing.

The turbine is the standard T3 wheel.

Cool thanks
Glad to hear such success with the high comp turbos.

[ryanfay]

Ive been throwing ideas around on how to make an old automotive head flow better. With no way of knowing what flows better, I decided to build a janky backyard flowbench.
I got as far as the manometer.
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And the spark plug fitting
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Which is really a hollowed out spark plug jbwelded to some fittings I had laying around.
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I screwed up and bought the wrong fittings to connect to the house shop vac to the head, so I'll fix that the next day of the one after.
I also made a device to depress the valves, with the help of a dial indicator, will do so somewhat precisely.
If anyone has done this, what do you feel is the easiest way to connect the vac to the cyl head? I got a sheet of lexan that I can cut a shop vac hose sized hole in and seal to the head. Air tight of course.
I am not too concerned about getting volumetric flow rates now, just percent change. Plus any attempts at quantifying cfm seems somewhat suspect. Again do chime in.

Thanks

Ryan

[GreatDaneShane]

There's a thread somewhere with flow rates of various mods/porting on a 530 head floating around here somewhere.

[NateDeville]

Stoked to see this build!
I like the backyard flowbench :-)

[ryanfay]

Originally Posted by GreatDaneShane

There's a thread somewhere with flow rates of various mods/porting on a 530 head floating around here somewhere.

I think that has been removed. I found flow figs for ultra performance stuff, Erland Cox head and such. Nothing stockish, havent checked thoroughly tho.

Originally Posted by NateDeville

Stoked to see this build!
I like the backyard flowbench :-)

You can see it person if you like. It was fun kickin it at the junkyard and elsewhere the other day.
The project is going to be sidelined until wednesday because school and work (they are giving me a wopping one day a week now )
One a rad note Im going to go look at rocks on zayante rd. in the santa cruz mtns today. Fingers crossed for some cool fossils.

[ryanfay]

So yesterday, I went to the stockton pnp and found:
A '78 242 flathood
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and bmw clutch and pressure plate:
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look how it fits,
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and on a getrag 265:
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This is me at a local's birthday party today (thats whiskey in my hand):
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[professor245]

Cool find man! And keep your balance, don't spill that whiskey

[ryanfay]

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The car.