KM647 is here! (lots of pics)

[Bill Bess]

Beauitful Beast! It's such a solid car and so cool to look at, can't wait to see it done.
Best of luck, Bill

[Avmaviator]

Originally Posted by Bill Bess

Beauitful Beast! It's such a solid car and so cool to look at, can't wait to see it done.
Best of luck, Bill

Thanks Bill, I appreciate it

[Avmaviator]

Some updates,

I've been able to work on the car this week and got some stuff done. I wanted to finish the left side pipe but I ran into a problem with the steering cloumn/intermediate steering shaft, hitting the #6 header. Because of that I could not bolt the header on, nor the steering column, and couldn't mock up the pipe.
After a few email back and forth with Kirkham, they found out I got a wrongly sized intermediate shaft, too short by an inch. A new shaft is on it's way here. Thank you to Jeremy at KM for helping me out!

#6 header, which is not bolted, hitting on the steering joint.

About an inch away from being able to bolt it on


I finished all the wiring this week. Thanks to everybody who helped me out with wiring questions, especially you Mark. So far everything is basically hung up there as I would like to get the car running and see if everything works before making everything look nice. So far all the gauges and basic electrical components work (like the fuel pump, fan, etc...).





I put int the dash last night. Wasn't too hard but it sure is a mess of wires back there, well, not a mess, just a lot of wires. I'm glad I labeled everything beforehand otherwise I would still be working on it! These gauges are really nice. The quality is great and the movements are super smooth (at least on the speedo and tack which sweep at start up).



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Light up gauges, looks pretty sweet in the dark!



Hope to be giving more updates soon

[fordracing65]

Looks very nice, is that a beer bottle in the dash pic, did you get a push button start, looks like the button to the left of the keys.

[Avmaviator]

I finished the side pipes today The weather was amazing (low 50s) and took full advantage of it by working outside, plus it keeps the garage a whole lot cleaner that way. Metal work is awesome but boy it is messy.

They came out pretty well. I need to do a last touch up/clean up, but that will be done before I send them out to get ceramic coated.




I also worked on figuring out the throttle situation. Once that is solved, I will be ready to start it up, hopefully. The TWM stacks use a cable system instead of the typical push rod set up. I asked a machine shop to make a wheel replicating the cable wheel on the stacks, but he quoted me a few hundreds of dollars... I'm not sure yet if I will go that route or make my own. So I made a prototype of my own tonight. I reused most of the push rod set up components that came with the car. I fab up a basic back plate for mock up, which of course will be changed to a beefy bracket in the future if I go with this set up. So far it doesn't seem too bad. I need to mount it on the car to see if I can realistically use this system. It is pretty fun trying to come up with a solution like that.

We'll see how it goes.

[Avmaviator]

Today I TIG welded the O2 sideband sensor bung on the right collector, and finished cleaning up the pipes. Now all is left to do on the pipes are to ceramic coat them flat black, but that will be done later.

Here is the sensor installed. I have to run and fastened the wire now, running it in front of the footbox, and through the factory firewall hole for the wires.

PS, I have no idea why the weld looks so bad in this picture... it is actually a nice weld, but I did file it a bit using a round file, to knock some corners down. Nevertheless, that picture looks bad, but the weld is good



Last night I pressurized the fuel system to see if it would hold 45 psi (since the gauges are installed). It does hold that value, but it takes a bit of time (15 seconds to fully build the pressure.) I hope that will be ok for engine starting and such in the future. So far, one found one leak. It is leaking from an AN fitting on the return side of the fuel rail, which connects the fuel rail to the regulator. I have to figure out if it is the swivel part that is leaking or just not tight enough, but it is very hard to put any wrench or anything to work on it. I will have to pull the fuel rail out
I think the fuel is coming out of the the collar, right under the blue portion of the fitting. I think that is the swivel portion.



I will focus now on the throttle system as it is the last thing in the way before starting the engine...