Sunday, January 29, 2012

First Startup

I only had about 1 1/2 hours to mess with the car today which really isn't a lot of time. I was able to insert the new oil dipstick, hook up the alternator properly and add water/coolant to the radiator.


This is a short video of the carburetor being adjusted. At the end I was starting to raise up the front of the car since one of the power steering lines was leaking under the car and it needed to be tightened. The only problem is that the video quality sucks as it was taken with my brothers cellasaurus:


This last video was of the gauges inside the car while it was running. The motor was still relatively cool so the temperature gauges didn't really register yet. The motor eventually was running around 170 degrees. The oil pressure fluctuated between 30-65 or so. The alternator wasn't charging at first because we didn't have the exciter wire hooked up to the starter solenoid. 


The motor is running pretty well as far as we can tell. We'll fine tune the carb and timing to get it just right. We need to adjust the brakes and run the fuel line from the tank to the fuel filter now. We also need to get it aligned and have some pipe run for the exhaust because its a little loud right now.

1 comment:

  1. That is awesome! Congrats on the startup. I expect to see a video soon of you driving it.

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