| New Roll Bar Pics II |
Subject: New Roll Bar Pics II by rklessdriver on 2009/7/8 22:07:35 Well it was a long drive from NOVA to Williamson Ga and back but we made it ok and my car back in it's driveway and with it's owner. I took some better pics of the new roll bar with all the interior put back in the car. [IMG]http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f303/rklessdriver/Corvette/DSC01049.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f303/rklessdriver/Corvette/DSC01050.jpg[/IMG] I also took the best pic (I could get) of my pinion snubber. Of course you all can see the middle bar comming down (from the houlder harness bar) and going thru the floor. Here is where it butts against the top side of the C-Beam and D44 Housing mounting point. [IMG]http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f303/rklessdriver/Corvette/DSC01047.jpg[/IMG] I'm really sorry I couldn't get a better shot but it's tight under there and all I could do was hold the camera on top of the D44 housing (pointing forward) and snap away until I got it. Now the engine is running pretty good, even thou the tune is now off badly but only at WOT on the top end. I was not able to get the car on a dyno before we had to turn around and come home but it wouldn't have mattered as my brother left the gas cap loose and the car had about half a tank of contaminated (with H2O) gas. I've gotten all that run thru it. Last night we stopped in Fredricksburg VA and dopped my trailer off at a co-workers house (he has a much bigger yard for storage than I do). I then drove the car the remaining 30+ miles to my home. Pretty much strait I-95 running along at 70+ mph. With my new 4.10 gears the car turned just under 2000rpms in 6th gear. No leaks, no smoke, no blowing oil everywhere. Other than an occasional part throttle snap out the tail pipe from the bad gas it ran fine. This morning I went to the gas station, filled it up with fresh 93 octane and after a few miles the part throttle snap is gone and is running as good as it did before I pulled it apart. I'm afraid to really beat on it until I can set up an appointement with Ed to re-tune it. Until then I'm going to keep putting easy miles on it to make sure it broken in with no problems (like last time) and ready when he is. Here is a new pic of the engine. As you can see I welded breather tubes on the rocker covers (and pointed them strait up) this time around as the spring oilers in my T&D rockers seemed to spray directly where the breather hole was located before... and those little push in breathers were always seeping oil around the gromet. All is well as it's permantaly fixed now. [IMG]http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f303/rklessdriver/Corvette/DSC01051.jpg[/IMG] I would have made you guys a new idle clip but heck it sounds the same as before. |
