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Nice Improvement
Created on 2008-05-14 19:39:27
Got the car back from the garage today, my guess was right - the injector o-rings were shot and must have been leaking like hell. The car feels like twice as fast. I need to get it out on the highway to see if it fixed the overrun problem too. Feeling a lot more confident for the trip to Oregon in a couple weeks.
Finally got some nice weather so I picked up some 1/8 vac tee fittings and plumbed the boost gauge into a fresh 10cm x 3.5mm FPR line, reading 15 inHg vac at idle and about 5 psi when I floor it in neutral. Living downtown it might be a while before I can open it up on the road and see what the max boost really is. My neon orange 3.5mm vac line from Hose Techniques kinda rules, I'll have to go and replace everything now.
Got a bunch of PVC fittings at Home Depot for building a pressure tester and an old valve stem from my local shop. I'll take lots of pics and do a write-up after I pressure test my system.
Finally got some nice weather so I picked up some 1/8 vac tee fittings and plumbed the boost gauge into a fresh 10cm x 3.5mm FPR line, reading 15 inHg vac at idle and about 5 psi when I floor it in neutral. Living downtown it might be a while before I can open it up on the road and see what the max boost really is. My neon orange 3.5mm vac line from Hose Techniques kinda rules, I'll have to go and replace everything now.
Got a bunch of PVC fittings at Home Depot for building a pressure tester and an old valve stem from my local shop. I'll take lots of pics and do a write-up after I pressure test my system.
Summary of Previous Journal Entries
Showing previous 10 journal entries:
| Title | Date | #Pic | #Cmt | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Cleaning On The Corrado | 2008-05-13 | 1 | Finally getting around to a lot of stuff I've been meaning to do. Taking it into the shop for new injector o-rings tomorrow, hopefully that will fix the overrun prob... | |
| 1966 Project Tub Acquired!! | 2007-12-19 | 2 | Thanks to the amazing help of fellow members Dick Price (morbach) and Chris Roop, the tub I posted about in my last entry has been retrieved from Portland and is now in storage in ... | |
| Trying To Get Another MGB Tub | 2007-12-14 | 4 | Got a line on a mostly complete 1966 tub in Portland, just trying to arrange for someone to grab it for me until I can pick it up in early January. Could this be the start of the ... | |
| Ouch... Corrado Holiday Parts Bonanza | 2007-12-10 | 2 | Well the fuel pump is making those awful whining noises again, I guess its probably going to croak soon. I really don't want to get stranded somewhere this winter (even though I'd... | |
| Checking Out MGB For Sale Near Seattle | 2007-05-20 | 8 | 1 | A member from the boards forwarded a Craigslist ad to me for a good running MGB project car in the Seattle area. It's about the right price, and the right year, and the right colo... |
| Engine & OD Trans Located! | 2007-02-08 | Just got off the phone with CB (formerly of British Sports & Spares) and he does indeed still have my engine and OD transmission. Yay! I'm coordinating with a friend in Seattle to ... | ||
| My MGB - Lost Cause? Trying One Last Time. | 2007-01-30 | I got the email about Gary's Run and I got inspired to make another "push" in trying to track down the shysters that have bits and pieces of my MGB. So far, not so good. | ||
| Testing New Journal Site System | 2006-07-22 | 3 | Just testing - please ignore. | |
| New AutoShrine Site - NW Corrado Club | 2006-04-18 | 1 | 2 | Spent the last few days tweaking the code to be truly car-site independant, and put it to the test by launching the first new site with the same code-base as The MGB Experience. T... |
| New Mgb Experience Website Launched | 2005-07-28 | 2 | 3 | I've been backpacking around New Zealand for the last 8 months, and when the weather's been bad or we've been stuck somewhere for a few days, I take out the laptop and bang away on... |
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