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fletch (no login)
Posted Jun 29, 2009 10:53 AM
Only way I finally saw it was after pulling the second head. It was after ten at night and I was having to get really close with a tiny high output led light to see much and that's when I saw this bright curved line on the gasket metal and the groove in the face material of the first one I pulled. I couldn't see it earlier in the day when there was a lot of sunlight leaking in to the shop. Plus there is that bifocal,old, cranky PO'd aspect and focusing in on my fears that somehow my head porting had caused it.
Anyway, only see a shiny line on the head surface only. That will go away when I scuff the head with the 3M knobbly rotary gasket tool. I will pull a file across it to make sure it isn't as depressed as I was.
Phew! Of course now I have to pay for a set of heads and manifolds to ship from Indiana but they are a sweet deal for the price and I can always tweak these heads much better than the first set with the porting info I found in my desperation.
My idea for the injection using a GT40 upper & lower Explorer intakes is to cut the lower portion of the upper intake and use it for the flange to weld aluminum tubing to. That intake has staggered round ports so's I can elbow out and up into an oval FoMoCo looking air cleaner with a throttle body stashed inside. FAST and MegaSquirt both have dandy computers to drive the whole mess without the nest of snakes or M-80 in the spaghetti effect that the factory Ford setup requires. That's the simple form of the concept which will surely drive me bananas.
Now I'll have an extra set of heads to go with my extra 30 dollar 5.0 shortblock and something to mock it all up on. Once I clear all the crap from the garage there is a chance of very slow progress and grinding of neurons. |
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