IanF
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Howdy all.
For the past week I've been in the process of converting JerseyGirl's Spitfire Baldrick from his single Z-S (with a stuck water choke) to a pair of SU HS4's purchased from Carlisle a couple of years ago and recently rebuilt (as well as finally installing the Bell header to go with the rest of the Bell exhaust). After some initial problems and some great help from Ben Pender, I finally got the car to start and run reasonably well. However, I have a couple of problems that are plaguing me.
1. The engine has horrible pick-up and won't rev much past 3500 rpms. My first thought is to change the damper oil to something lighter, but I also think the cable may not be pulling on the linkage correctly. So tomorrow/Monday I plan to fab up a new stop plate for the linkage similar to a car I found in the BCF classifieds. (a white '79 w/ what appear to be the exact same carbs).
2. The engine has developed a terrible oil leak. Like really bad... Oil is practically pouring from the rear of the block... I'm not 100% sure if its from the engine or the transmission. After doing some searching, I found the page on Teglerizer where he talks about a similar issue. My concern is we had the leak when the vent was disconnected entirely while I was still sorting the carbs out. The port for the crankcase vent on the valve covers was simply open and we were still getting this leak. This leads me to believe the engine "wants" to be under vacuum to prevent leaks? There is a threaded port on the intake manifold for the OE PCV valve, but I don't see me being able to get one soon... besides the fact it cost no small amount of money... I'm wondering if an adapter, some hose and an inline PCV valve could work.
Thoughts? Suggestions? We're in somewhat panic mode right now as we really wanted to take the car out to Carlisle this year... :frown:
Ian
(p.s. I won't be able to check this thread again until Sunday afternoon, but please keep ideas coming! )
For the past week I've been in the process of converting JerseyGirl's Spitfire Baldrick from his single Z-S (with a stuck water choke) to a pair of SU HS4's purchased from Carlisle a couple of years ago and recently rebuilt (as well as finally installing the Bell header to go with the rest of the Bell exhaust). After some initial problems and some great help from Ben Pender, I finally got the car to start and run reasonably well. However, I have a couple of problems that are plaguing me.
1. The engine has horrible pick-up and won't rev much past 3500 rpms. My first thought is to change the damper oil to something lighter, but I also think the cable may not be pulling on the linkage correctly. So tomorrow/Monday I plan to fab up a new stop plate for the linkage similar to a car I found in the BCF classifieds. (a white '79 w/ what appear to be the exact same carbs).
2. The engine has developed a terrible oil leak. Like really bad... Oil is practically pouring from the rear of the block... I'm not 100% sure if its from the engine or the transmission. After doing some searching, I found the page on Teglerizer where he talks about a similar issue. My concern is we had the leak when the vent was disconnected entirely while I was still sorting the carbs out. The port for the crankcase vent on the valve covers was simply open and we were still getting this leak. This leads me to believe the engine "wants" to be under vacuum to prevent leaks? There is a threaded port on the intake manifold for the OE PCV valve, but I don't see me being able to get one soon... besides the fact it cost no small amount of money... I'm wondering if an adapter, some hose and an inline PCV valve could work.
Thoughts? Suggestions? We're in somewhat panic mode right now as we really wanted to take the car out to Carlisle this year... :frown:
Ian
(p.s. I won't be able to check this thread again until Sunday afternoon, but please keep ideas coming! )