Author Topic: Project Shur'tug'al [AKA 75 Pinto street toy] (Read 32604 times)

hellfirejim · « **Reply #30 on:** January 21, 2008, 08:02:09 AM »

I have started the modification of the intake manifold. To make the throttle linkage work I have to mount the carb "backwards". This will have the primaries over the secondary part of the manifold and the secondaries over the primaries. This really shouldn't make a difference in the flow. I am opening up the plenium on the secondary side of the manifold because when I am in the secondaries most likely the turbo will be in boost. As a side note, no mill here just hand tools. Slow and steady but then again I have at least two months before i can even begin to think about working on the car.

I am starting to have concerns about clearance about the "box" and the cylinder head. Might get interesting.

jim

Pictures...... ...........VVV VVVVVVVVVVVVVV VVVVVVVVVVVVVV V
http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l66/hellfirejim/Manifold%20Mods/

FCANON · « **Reply #31 on:** January 21, 2008, 08:51:34 AM »

Looks good Jim...We're all waiting for the next step....keep it up.

Best of Luck
FrankBoss

hellfirejim · « **Reply #32 on:** February 17, 2008, 03:48:53 PM »

Due to a about a foot od snow outside, I am posting something different but really important down the road. My income check came in and I bought a air compressor. Basically it is 110volt unit that pumps 6.6cfm at 90 psi.

http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l66/hellfirejim/Air%20compressor/

jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #33 on:** April 04, 2008, 07:54:26 AM »

Well the sun will be shining and it is supposed to get up to the mid 60s this weekend. I plant to start the dig out and get back and start working. It has been waaay to long. Hopefully I will have some more pictures to post.

jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #34 on:** April 15, 2008, 09:13:23 PM »

Well I actually have something to post. I pulled the radio and opened up the plastic panel. I then made an aluminum front plate to house two mechanical gauges. Water and oil. The pictures show the panel and fasteners. I will paint the panel black before it gets bolted back in the car. When that is done I will take a picture if anybody is interested or I might just post it anyway. : )

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bobscat · « **Reply #35 on:** April 16, 2008, 07:56:09 AM »

Looks good, glad to see your back at it again, it has been a long winter! I know I am sooo ready to get back to working on my cars

hellfirejim · « **Reply #36 on:** April 16, 2008, 01:21:35 PM »

Oh Yeah, I was slowly loosing it. Rain on Sat but sunny and 65 Sunday so you know where I will be.

jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #37 on:** April 19, 2008, 09:32:00 PM »

Something worth posting about. I now have the dash panel and the 3 pod all pre-assembled and ready for install tomorrow.
The dash panel first.

And now the 3 pod from Mike.

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The top hole is empty awaiting the A/F gauge. Then it is a voltmeter and a boost/vacumm gauge. Yeah i know it is a silver ring but I will take care of that later. First i need to get it up and running. I will do that when i start on the interior.

The only part that bothers me is drilling two blind holes to mount the A pillar pod. I guess i should have mounted it empty first and then put the gauges in it. DUH!!!! Oh well might just do that anyway.

I will post the finished deal when i am done. Next is the rest of the engine compartment on the drivers side.
jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #38 on:** April 21, 2008, 11:38:49 AM »

Well I got the dash and 3 pod installed. They are not wired up yet as that will come when I have better access in the engine compartment. Here is a picture.

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And since I was on a roll I also installed the oil breather tank. I just have to add a hose barb and then run the hoses.

Good weekend, 73 degrees.

jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #39 on:** May 05, 2008, 07:42:40 AM »

Morning all. Well it was a good Sunday as I got to work on the car for about 4 hours and made some real progress and all of it was in the engine compartment.

I took off the carb and intake manifold. That was interesting when you get to the bottom 2 inner bolts..... :amazed: I cleaned up the left front inner panel and relocated the voltage regulator. Yeah I know but I will get an internal reg alt later when I have money. Next started to clean up the wiring and got my brackets painted to mount the new coil hopefully next weekend. As you all know this just take time but it does feel good to be out there working and getting it done. Oh, did I mention I feel old?

:lol: Not used to leaning over a fender for about 4 hours.... But it is a good hurt.

jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #40 on:** May 18, 2008, 03:05:05 PM »

I have made some more small steps.

This picture shows the voltage regulator up front. This will be gone when I get an internal Alt. It also shows the Accel coil mounted and the fuel reg with a pressure gauge next to it. The fuel comes in the bottom and then over to the carb.

This is a better picture of the air breather tank.

Still have a ways to go to sort it all out. Wires and stuff everywhere.. : )

jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #41 on:** June 09, 2008, 11:11:27 AM »

To all of you who have been following the project [ over 2000+ views :surprised:] thank you. This is just to let you know that the project is coming to a halt or barely moving as the cancer is back and I am going to be busy for a while.

Not to worry as I will be back at it as soon as I can....

jim

bobscat · « **Reply #42 on:** June 09, 2008, 11:51:39 AM »

Sorry to hear that, but hang in there man! You have been doing an awesome job with the car, and if you apply that kind of determination to everything in life, you will be back on your feet in no time! Take care, and keep us updated on how things are going, both with you and the car, as I am sure you will be in lots of peoples thoughts.

dholvrsn · « **Reply #43 on:** June 09, 2008, 11:54:45 AM »

Get well soon!

71pintoracer · « **Reply #44 on:** June 09, 2008, 10:05:52 PM »

Our thoughts and prayers are with you fellow Pinto lover!

hellfirejim · « **Reply #45 on:** June 14, 2008, 10:55:39 PM »

Thanks for the kind words.

It was so perfect outside roday that I had to go work on the car. I installed the oil and water sending units through the firewall.

In the oil sending unit the top plug will be for the oil pressure cut off for my electric fuel pump.

Not a lot of work as i had to stop and rest a lot but it is one less thing to do.
jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #46 on:** June 15, 2008, 06:17:39 PM »

Amazing enough I actually got to go outside and work somemore on the Pinto.

Here is a picture of what the wiring looked like:

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this is what it looks like now.

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Just one more thing done.
jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #47 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:11:04 AM »

This is more of a heads up from my experience. I had a sunpro mechanical oil pressure gauge and i decided that if that feed line for the car was coming inside I did not want plastic or copper. I found a braided hose at a decent price. I went to connect it to the gauge after running it through the firewall and found it would not fit the gauge. It seems that gauge only had compression threads on it and there was no adapter available. So I bit the bullet and bought a VDO gauge.

On another board I read of a number of people that have had problems with this sunpro gauge leaking or filling up with oil, I was spared on shear blind luck which is ok and appreciated. The real deal here is don't short cut on things like gauges and such as it will come back and bite you in the butt.

jim

bobscat · « **Reply #48 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:37:37 AM »

Hey Jim, thanks for the heads up, and glad to see you are up and around fiddling with the car!

hellfirejim · « **Reply #49 on:** June 21, 2008, 09:59:05 PM »

I am down to finish wiring the gauges for dash light power. [see question in help section] That plus a ground and the gauge part is done. Then I get to the fun stuff, the intake. I get to finish modifying it and get it installed.
jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #50 on:** June 22, 2008, 08:54:36 PM »

Well I have finished the wiring on the car and i thought I would be happier... This Scot K death thing has hit me pretty hard. As a racer I understand why he does it but if you have never raced at that level, you simply cannot comprehend the height of the dangers involved.... Only by the grace of God have there only been a few.

maybe some pictures if anybody wants to see the finished work.
jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #51 on:** June 28, 2008, 03:56:40 PM »

today, sat, is a good news day. I was out working on the car and just came in before a big storm hit... :lol:

First thing I did was clean up the mess and tools from all the wiring work. What a mess. Then I painted my new claipers and NO I didn't pain them red.... :nocool:

i finished porting the intake manifold and took it over to my buddies to bead blast it. Came out a funky aluminum color but with faint blue stripes. hard to describe, I will get pictures tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow i start with an oil and filter change and then I actually start puting things back together. It is posible that by the July 4th weekend this may be running.... we shall see. it would be really cool to have this running before the surgury....

jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #52 on:** June 30, 2008, 08:18:14 AM »

Yesterday was a good day. Between dodging rain showers I managed to first get the oil and filter changed. That oil filter sure is easy to get at with no intake manifold. :amazed: :lol:

Most importantly I got the intake manifold installed and plumbed. Here is a picture:

I am hoping that with the three day weekend coming up I can get it running....

I also wanted to express my amazment that almost 2700 views of my project, I am humbled.

jim

beegle55 · « **Reply #53 on:** June 30, 2008, 12:38:22 PM »

Glad to see you hanging in there and getting some progress. I hope you can make a full recovery. Best wishes...

-beegle55

hellfirejim · « **Reply #54 on:** July 05, 2008, 07:23:26 PM »

Today is an important day. Today it is alive for real!!!!! This is with the new coil and new intake manifold and new carb. i fired it today and my, my, my..... It was responsive. In the sense of fairness it does have a few issues but I can fix that. it idled clean and responded very well.
There is a whole lot to the story so it will take a number post to fit it all in...
Here is a teaser.

PS: I know the carb looks huge but it is only 450cfm and is progressive.
jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #55 on:** July 06, 2008, 06:26:32 PM »

Today is a very good day. The Pinto came down off the jack stands and i drove it. Not real far as straight pipes and draggging rear brakes discourage this. neverthe less it was great and a good payoff for the two years i have been working on this.

Here are the "beauty' shots. http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l66/hellfirejim/Running%20Free/

jim

Jinxter · « **Reply #56 on:** July 06, 2008, 09:24:48 PM »

Almost 2900 reads...!! Your perserverance is a testament to the dedication of Pinto enthusiasts everywhere. Great job - can't wait to see the turbo version!

hellfirejim · « **Reply #57 on:** July 07, 2008, 09:40:28 PM »

Thanks for the good words and i am truly humbled by 2900 reads of my little car....

I am going to try and explain what i did to get the carb, manifold and linkage to all work together. if it gets too long I will stop and I will do another post.

Ok first is the manifold. stock it is an offy 360 that I have modifed the plenium area. Next is the holley carb and it is a 450cfm that was gone through by a friend Walt Bainey out of Ohio and he did an excellent job. I ended up using a stock accel cable holder but modified. That word seems to come up a lot.

The carb is mounted backwords so the linkage is facing the fire wall. The linkage post is at the bottom of the linkage and yes it does open all the way.

Mounting the accel cable holder i first had to make a plate to move the holder to the right about 1 1/2" just used a flat plate. I also used button head bolts to hold the plate to the manifold for clearance. With the cable popped on that carb I set the cable holder down and realized the angle was way off. So i did the first thing that came to mind and grabed the whizzer and made two cuts so I could bend the piece flatter to improve the angle. Don't know what angle it ended up at but it works. I took the piece over to the guy who does my welding and he cut two fill pieces and tigged it for $7. i gave him $10.

looks to be agood place to split the post. be back in a minute. here are the pictures to compare to what I have written.
http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l66/hellfirejim/Its%20ALIVE/

hellfirejim · « **Reply #58 on:** July 07, 2008, 09:50:36 PM »

Part 2:
I then placed the carb on on the manifold and realized that I need to get 1/2 " of height to make it all work. So I first went and got longer carb studs. Then i went looking for a 1/2" carb spacer. Nope ain't going o happen so i then remembered the guy i bought the Pinto from had a shelf full of ..stuff. Iswung by there and got a free 2" spacer that he didn't need. Well lo and behold each end had a 1/2" flat plate cast to a 1" spacer to get 2". I simply cut off the plate and with the longer studes bolted it in.

It is an open spacer and i really need a 4 hole 1/2" spacer to make it right. Anyway i fired it up and happy days. it ran but wasn't "right". Sunday i raised the fuel pressure from 4 to 6 lbs. i then took it down off the jackstand after 2 years and set it on the ground. I hit the key and it fired like it was fuel injection. I ended up driving it for a 2 block trip but straight pipes and dragging rear brakes created an issue. I did learn something though and that is i am fooling myself to think I can manually operate a switch for an electric fan. i am going to get a temp controller unit.

So that's about it for now. if you have any questions please ask.
jim

hellfirejim · « **Reply #59 on:** July 12, 2008, 07:59:47 PM »

I am going to try this again. the last time the site just freaked out on me.

Been busy today. I am mounting my master cutoff switch to the side of the battery
box so only the switch handle will be visable. When i turn off the car i can reach
back and flip the switch to isolate the battery from the car.

Since the battery box is plastic i felt it neccessary to make up mounting plates
both inside and out to support the mass of the switch. It is amazing that small
parts such as these take as much time as the big parts. I had to design the shape
of the plates, then drill a hole where i think the switch will poke through. I put
a punch through the hole to keep the two plates centered and one at a time drilled
the connecting mounting bolt hole in each of the 4 corners. The challenge was to
keep it all aligned. After opening up the center hole to allow the switch to pokethrough
I then clamped onto the battery box and started the drilling and mounting of the
plate all over again. Because the box was not a flat piece i also had to make spacers
to keep the mounting plates flate. With the mounting plates secure I then cut out
the hole in the center using the plates as a guide. Did I mention I LOVE uni-bits?

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So now we are to the point in the pictures. The outer plate is painted black and
the plate where the cables go into the box is also painted black.... now that I
am thinking about it I might just paint the outside of the switch and handle black
as to maintain the stealth look. No wonder I am tired. I also made multiple
trips to the hardware store to gets the necessary bolts. why is it that you might
have the bolt but it is the wrong length?

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Tomorrow, I am going to finish the install of the switch and the cable entry plate.
Wire it all up and see if it works. Depending on what happens and how long it
will take I might startup on mounting the muffler.

Brakes get done next week if the wiring goes well. The goal is to get it on the
street drivable before surgury. Now that would be good medicene.

jim

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