Alf

Hey everyone, I have been thinking about the VG30 in my hot rod and the fuel injection is becoming a huge problem. The manifold is too tall, it doesn't vibe with the rest of the car, and its making my wiring a mess. So I am going to try my hardest to make the engine carbureted, simply to go with the look and style of the car. As far as the intake manifold and carburetor goes I can handle that no problem, but the distributor is another story. I have heard that the distributor will not work without the EFI, and it is impossible to find a self contained unit. I have had alot of experience with the SBC distributor so I know how one works and my plan is to retrofit another six cylinder internals so it does not require a computer to run. Has anyone ever tried this on any engine? If I can fit the necessary parts why won't this work? The firing order of the engine shouldn't matter because that is in the cap, all I need is the trigger. I could put points in it if I wanted but I don't, I was thinking more towards maybe a chevy 4.3 v6 HEI, and retrofit the module and pickup. I know its going to be much harder than that, but can you find any reason why this won't work? Thanks for reading. Here is my project if you don't know about it http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=116127

I think that stand should work fine, as long as you don't go crazy with it. I used to start my engines, all SBCs, on the ground sitting on a set of crappy headers and a block of wood under the oil pan. It worked fine for break in or to see if a recently aquired engine was worth putting in a car, but if you hit the throttle too hard it would lift up fairly easily and flipping over could have been acheived. So after doing this for awhile and seeing no end to the need to run engines out of cars, I decided to make the propper contraption for such a deed. This is what I came up with... mock up with busted block The test engine I made mine around the SBC, but it is adjustable to a certain extent. I built it so the mounts change out with one bolt, so if you wanted to put say a small block ford on it you would just need to fab up different mounts to pop in the stand. The rear mount can even be addapted. All the sliding peices have two pinch bolts to hold it steady. I added the wheels for ease of movement and because I wanted to be able to store it. I wondered if it was going to roll or move around with an engine running, but it didn't move at all. As it sits here it's not quite done, I plan on adding a radiator, and a control panel with guages. This only took me two days to design and build and it's only about $80 worth of materials. Just thought I would show you what can be done rather easilly and cheaply, it was fun too. Here's a vid --- - - - - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEEeNS5VRbo

Update #18 10/14/07 Good day everyone, I'm finally starting to get back into the groove of working on the rod. It's really starting to look like a real hot rod. In this issue I did some work on the fire wall and the grill and the grill mounting. There are a ton of pictures so be ready. Check bellow for pics... I decided one night, why not try and use as much original sheet metal as possible? So I started drilling rivets untill I seperated the fire wall from the rest of the cowl. Since my firewall is flat, and the original was not, I had to cut it up. The original was also wider than my home made version, so more cutting was required. After cutting out about three inches I welded it back together. It's hard to see, but the flange edge of the firewall was rusted through, so I fabbed up this simple patch from some other original metal. Patch done. Here it is setting on the body, luckily the curves match which happened totally by coincidence since using this peice was never in my plan. I tacked the partial firewall on and set the body back on the frame. I then turned my atention to mounting the grill shell. I made four brackets that mount the shell to the radiator. Then, I used two Mercury Comet hood prop rods and made stabilizer bars. Check it out, looks authentic. It helps give the car some shape. Looking sharp. Notice the radiator cap hole placement on my grill shell. Now notice where the radiator fill hole is located on my Mustang radiator, I asume this was one of Ford's better ideas. So it was chop chop time. My plan was to just flip the removed peice, but because I was stupid and didn't measure correctly the hole didn't end up in the right place. So more cutting ensued. And then welding. This looks hella ugly. This is after I was done welding, looks like I got some good penetration. After some grindage. Not the most perfect job, but it's in one peice, I can open my radiator cap, and it still fits, what more can I ask for. That's it for now. My next project is to finish the firewall so keep your eyes open for my next update. Have a good one. Thanks for checking in. Alf