It's Alive!!

[lovehamr]

Put about 40 miles on the girl today and she is *****IN"! Of course I'm still working on things but am very encouraged. Changed the oil yesterday, cut open the filter and found nothing but a few flecks here and there. I changed from the straight 30wt. that I used for startup to 5-30. Why did I go that low you may ask? And I have to say mostly curiosity. With the straight 30 in the sump the OP never got below 4 bar (58psi) even with the oil @ 215+F. So I was changing it anyway and staying conventional for about 1000mi and then I'll be changing again to synthetic. So I figured the worse that would happen is that my OP would not be high enough for me and I'd have to change perfectly good oil. With this oil even after 40 miles with a short stint on I95 and some stop lights, the oil temp up to 120c (248F) the OP still stayed above 2 bar (29+ psi) @ idle. Of course any time the revs started to climb the OP immediately shot up to. I’m just gonna keep this until I change the oil again.

No real leaks to speak of either. Heck my diff leaks more than the dinosaur lump. That little speck on the floor in the pic is from the diff pinion seal. Gonna have to do something about that.

This is a pic of the side pipe this evening. Can ya tell I’ve been running leaded gas? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a pipe like that.


Tom, I’d love to some time.

879, thanks for the heads up on the gauge calibration but I got nuthin’ there. It must make intermittent contact because I have 3 miles on it now. Any hints on where I might find both the fuel and speedo problem in the harness?

As fate would have it, when I pulled up onto 95 today what was right there but a Z06 vette and a 350z driving together. Let’s just say that the Cobra was immediately noticed…………
Showing up in a group like that with a Cobra is like going to a hammer convention with Mjölner.