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If you haven't seen the video: it's right here.
It's still here, and pretty bad... If i'm just idling, and i rev it up high in neutral, a decent sized puff of smoke will follow. It's worse than it ever was with my other motor... My plan is to get a new .030 headgasket, and swap heads with the F head that's been resurfaced and redone with new valves and components. What do i need to do it? Can i just get away with a new head that has the rocker assembly on it or do i need to go more in depth with it and get new lifters or anything else that would make it a bigger pain in the booty?
What do i need to do to swap heads? I remember we took my old engine's off, just to see what was going on in there, but i can't remember if we needed to take off the rocker assembly and pushrods like we did.
I want to take it to the drag strip before the year's over, i should've gone the day i dynoed it, but i backed out.
Now i want to strip it, balance the carbs, change my intake setup, and put on an engine fan. That after i get the head swapped, and only if i do. If the head swap requires more than just a headgasket for me to easily perform, screw it, i'll save my money. Also, will i be able to reuse the intake/exhaust manifold gasket that i just installed a couple weeks ago? Or do i need a new one? Hopefully i can figure out why i have an exhaust leak at the same time.
About the engine fan ordeal, I picked up a fan from a 89 Mazda 626 from a j/y, and was going to use it. But then i looked at how hot my engine gets now when just sitting at a traffic light. At PIR there's quite a bit of sitting... I don't know if the 10" fan will be up to it, this engine seems to run hotter than my other engine ever did, even though it read a lower temp when it had the integrated manifold on it... Do you think the 10" fan will work if i keep my hood up when at the track, and just turn the car off and push it up to the line? I might think about shimming the hood's hinges so the back of the hood doesn't sit flush with the body and allows hot air to escape when i'm not moving...? Ideas? Or does anyone have a fan sitting around that i can borrow or use? =D
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Kyle - '68 Volvo 142 w/71 b20b and m40...
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