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At Last, the Cortina is insured and on the road.. Much went wrong in the final hours of sorting, like the front wheel bearing seized on the way back from the exhaust shop ( Note to self, don't repack original bearings, even if they only have 30k on them..). The starter packed it in after about a day of playing with it, so the motor came out again to notch my cross member for one of those gear reduction starters which I had in reserve. I swear nothing really fits well in this car. The exhaust is beauty though, nice and quiet, and tucked up high for lot's of clearance ( the car is quite low.. )
The car was bloody slow and detonated like mad, even reving it in neutral.. I forgot that I was running regular gas with my old motor, and it was a year sitting to boot..
After the wheel bearing incident, I looked the throttle over to find that I was getting about 1/4 throttle. After figuring out that I really couldn't take up any more slack in the cable ( it was working at full throttle with these carbs on the old motor (, I realized the gas pedal was bending, limiting it's travel. When I tried to bend it back away from the floor, the gas pedal broke off the cross bar. The cheap factory weld just let go! Out came the heater box and up went the assy to the weld shop. While repairing that I was testing the throttle cable to make sure it wasn't unduly tough to pull, and the lead end on the carb side of the cable broke off.. That was a new cable.. Sometims you just have to laugh! Anyway, that was an easy fix for a change.
Anyway, the car has done it's worst, and I got it going anyway. Now that I have some good gas in it, it runs pretty fine. I'd say the motor makes a little less power than my Lotus, or maybe the extra 300 lbs of weight in the Cortina makes quite a difference, but it pulls strong.
And the sound! That BDA sounds like nothing I'm used to.. The most noticable thing is the whine of the timing belt, sounds like a gear drive.. it revs fast and has a pretty flat torque curve. It doesn't appreciate my close ratio tranny though, it's difficult to move off the line, so tonight I swapped back to a wide ratio tranny, which is just waiting for a trip to the store for some gear oil.
That will give me a nasty drop into third gear, but off a light should be much better.
Thanks everyone for all the kind words and support over the last year with this dumb thing.. So far the work and expense have been worth it. I think I have the only street BDA around these parts! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif
The car was bloody slow and detonated like mad, even reving it in neutral.. I forgot that I was running regular gas with my old motor, and it was a year sitting to boot..
After the wheel bearing incident, I looked the throttle over to find that I was getting about 1/4 throttle. After figuring out that I really couldn't take up any more slack in the cable ( it was working at full throttle with these carbs on the old motor (, I realized the gas pedal was bending, limiting it's travel. When I tried to bend it back away from the floor, the gas pedal broke off the cross bar. The cheap factory weld just let go! Out came the heater box and up went the assy to the weld shop. While repairing that I was testing the throttle cable to make sure it wasn't unduly tough to pull, and the lead end on the carb side of the cable broke off.. That was a new cable.. Sometims you just have to laugh! Anyway, that was an easy fix for a change.
Anyway, the car has done it's worst, and I got it going anyway. Now that I have some good gas in it, it runs pretty fine. I'd say the motor makes a little less power than my Lotus, or maybe the extra 300 lbs of weight in the Cortina makes quite a difference, but it pulls strong.
And the sound! That BDA sounds like nothing I'm used to.. The most noticable thing is the whine of the timing belt, sounds like a gear drive.. it revs fast and has a pretty flat torque curve. It doesn't appreciate my close ratio tranny though, it's difficult to move off the line, so tonight I swapped back to a wide ratio tranny, which is just waiting for a trip to the store for some gear oil.
That will give me a nasty drop into third gear, but off a light should be much better.
Thanks everyone for all the kind words and support over the last year with this dumb thing.. So far the work and expense have been worth it. I think I have the only street BDA around these parts! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif
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