Nice man, thats all good about not giving a call. It not like I did not want to SEE IT OR ANYTHING!!!!!!!!! Just kidding, man that thing is going to be stout.

Well my motor is not doing to good on the oil pressure so maybe i will just copy your build and be just like you.

BTW as i am typing there is this god awful smell and I think it is my feet.

 

Hahahaha nice I love Beto's feet

ITS ALIVE!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

Still need to make a throttle cable bracket and EGR blockoff plate before I can drive it, but it runs!! Oil pressure is good, actually about 55 psi at idle. It gets hot quick though, I know new motors run a little hotter than ones that are already broken in, but I let it idle and it hit 221 pretty quickly, shut it down there. Any ideas?

 

Air in your coolant, burp the system. My 418 ran nice and cool with my teeny 28" rad and clutch fan and more compression then you are running. Get a damn sound clip too, you cant make a post that its running and not post a clip, its PT.net etiquette(sp?)

 

SWEET!!

 

The friction in the cyls cause the heat. you need 1500-2000 rpms on the first 20-30 minutes of running to allow for sufficient oiling on the rings. They are only oiled from splashing and low rpms won't supply enough.

 

OK I'm going to try to burp the cooling system, then take it for a drive. Not tonight....open headers and midnight and neighbors don't go well together.

 

Hahaha I will. It sounds MEAN

 

Hey thunder, if you have coated headers, it might be a good idea to swap them out for regular manifolds if at all possible. In the book for mine, it said not to run them on a motor when you are breaking it in, because the extra heat can cause the coating to flake off. I didn't believe them and did it anyway, and now my headers look like ****... just a warning.

 

Are ya going to post any pics of your cable braket? I'd like to see what you came up with...
BTW, congrats on the start up....

 

Thats weird my dynatechs are ceramic coated and they didnt flake when I broke my 418 in.