Lykins Motorsports 496FE Build...

[cobrakiwi]

My vote is put it in the Cobra, any ways your remodeled garage is the new family room right?
Cheers

[blykins]

I've got a single pushrod coming from Trend so that I can verify mock-up measurements before I order all 16. I would love to use a 7/16" pushrod and still may, but want to see how much clearance I have with the T&D race rockers and a 3/8" .135" wall pushrod first.

Wife is out grocery shopping and I'm having some quality father/daughter time with my 2 year old (with the exception of taking a few minutes to post on some forums). We have already built a "fort" over a few couches using a blanket and have watched some Leap Frog videos together.

Plan to retorque the head studs this afternoon and see how well the intake fits as far as port alignment goes. I may have to have the flanges cut, we'll see.

[601HP]

Originally Posted by blykins

I've got a single pushrod coming from Trend so that I can verify mock-up measurements before I order all 16. I would love to use a 7/16" pushrod and still may, but want to see how much clearance I have with the T&D race rockers and a 3/8" .135" wall pushrod first.

Wife is out grocery shopping and I'm having some quality father/daughter time with my 2 year old (with the exception of taking a few minutes to post on some forums). We have already built a "fort" over a few couches using a blanket and have watched some Leap Frog videos together.

Plan to retorque the head studs this afternoon and see how well the intake fits as far as port alignment goes. I may have to have the flanges cut, we'll see.

Brent,
Treasure the early years of your offspring. It goes by quickly. A few minutes ago I was having a conversation with my 15 year old grandson. Seems like just a few years ago he was just a toddler.

David

[blykins]

I do David. My business takes backseat to my wife and my daughter. God has blessed me enough that my wife was able to quit her job when my daughter was born. Has made it a little rough on us at times financially, but I wouldn't do it any differently.

Our daughter just turned 2, but can already count to 21-22, knows all her alphabet, can recognize each letter (upper and lower case) when you write them down, plus can tell you what sound each letter makes. She has also memorized the first 5 books of the Bible and can pronounce them.

Sorry for my bragging bout, but my world revolves around her.

[blykins]

Oil pump is bolted on...

Checked fitment of intake manifold. Ports line up really well, but the manifold flanges are not square. It will need to be skimmed on the mill to make sure they are. You can see here that without a gasket, with the intake slid over to one side, it touches at the bottom, but there's a good .015-.020" gap at the top.

[blykins]

David,

I haven't rummaged through all of your boxes yet, but I did find a baggy of oil pan studs and a baggy of water pump bolts. Did you include all the others?

If not, do you want stainless fasteners or black fasteners?

[601HP]

I decided not to re-use my intake bolts. Would like you to provide stainless intake bolts. I think I sent all the other fasteners.

David

[blykins]

Looks like the 7/16" .165" wall pushrod is going to fit. I ordered a complete set.

Intake didn't need milled after all, it was hitting the T&D base mount on two corners, which kicked it up. Little die grinder work on the intake and a little X-Acto knife work on the gasket and we're back in business.

I plan to have her pretty much buttoned up by the end of next week.

[601HP]

Originally Posted by blykins

Looks like the 7/16" .165" wall pushrod is going to fit. I ordered a complete set.

Intake didn't need milled after all, it was hitting the T&D base mount on two corners, which kicked it up. Little die grinder work on the intake and a little X-Acto knife work on the gasket and we're back in business.

I plan to have her pretty much buttoned up by the end of next week.

Brent,
Did you close the Summit catalog and order the pushrods from McMaster-Carr under the heading of "pipe"?

David

[blykins]

Well, with the exception of putting it on the cradle and bolting up a water neck for the dyno....we are done.

The new push-sticks came in from Trend...





Had to do some extensive grinding on the flange holes for the oil pan, but it's on...engine is filled with 10 quarts of Valvoline VR1 10W30.

Had to put some MSD timing tape on the balancer. ATI balancers are notorious for being off and this one was out probably about 7-8 degrees. That's fixed...

Here's how it looked before it was corrected. TDC should be half-way between the two pen marks on the tape....



And corrected....



Checked the curve on the distributor, checked the bushing, and replaced the springs. They were looking pretty crusty looking. Checked the distance on the distributor gear.

I'm reusing the valve cover gaskets that are on the valve covers. They were glued on so good that they should still seal up really well. Just gave the valve covers a bath and cleaned them up.





Got a tentative dyno day of a week from today. Barring no surprises, we'll be making noise next week.

[601HP]

I like those pushrods. They look proprietary with your business i.d.

I quit smoking 25 years ago, but I'm about ready for one, like next Friday.

David

[blykins]

Which contact number do I have for you? Is it a cell phone number? As we dyno, I can text you info and video.

[601HP]

The 443 number I sent you today is a cell.

David

[blykins]

10-4........

[601HP]

So.....at what rpm will you guesstimate the HP to peak; 6900, 7000, 7100?

David

[blykins]

Right in there somewhere....I don't think I'm good enough to nail it down to within 100 rpm.

If you want me to guess, I'll say 6900.

[Dimis]

Guesses at the hp & tq....

675 / 620?

Am I close?

Love those vale covers to by the way...
They grow on me more and more every time I see them.

[map]

Put in a 2JZ with a turbo call it a day..

[blykins]

It was a good day. Was up at about 3:30-4, couldn't sleep....my dad came down and met me at 8, and we drove for an hour to my dyno guy.

Got the engine lit off and first pull was 571 hp @ 5500. We usually do a short pull to make sure the carbs are doing what carbs should do, and in the A/F range they should be doing it in.

Second pull was to 7000, and it was done at 6500 with 615 hp....

Obviously it was the direction I wanted to go in, but it wasn't going as fast as I wanted.

Everyone noticed that the engine was sounding lazy and not very crisp at all, so I jerked the valve covers off, ran the valves, put them back on, and rechecked the timing. Everything was fine, so we decided to delve into the carbs...

My carb guy works out of my dyno guy's shop and I had brought him another 2x4 set of Quick Fuels to go through. So we pull off David's set and plop on the extra set.

663 hp @ 6700. Now we're getting somewhere. Engine sounded much crisper, pulled strong all the way to about 7200.

Scott (carb guy) said that if I brought him back a cheeseburger, he would stay through lunch and go through David's carburetors. Deal.

We got back from lunch, I hand off the burger, he hands off the carbs. Plop them on, first pull was 675 @ 6700...

That was at 38 degrees total timing. Pulled 2 degrees out and we got the exact same horsepower.

A little more tinkering, ended up at 682 at almost 6800 rpm. Torque was 609 lb-ft.

All of this was at about 170 degree water temp, tried cooling down to 120 and it didn't make a bit of difference...hahaha

Oil pressure was really good, between 45-50 at around 1500 rpm, and crossing over 80 at full song. This was with Valvoline VR1, 10W-30. With the coated bearings, main bearing clearances were around .0016-.0018, and it was about 50 degrees outside today, so I wanted the low viscosity.

No leaks....clean filter.....sweet little engine. Scott ended up pulling about 60 hp out of the carburetors that David was running previously. Wow.

Getting ready to eat dinner with the fam, I'll post videos later on this evening.

[blykins]

http://vid170.photobucket.com/albums...psypnw2ff8.mp4