First drive with the V8Z

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I built a (halfway worthless) exhaust system for it last night...dual 3 inch with mandrel bends an a couple of 24" glasspacks tucked up underneith the driveshaft with turnouts right before the diff. It quieted it down enough for me to here the valves ticking away, so I yanked the valve covers and readjusted them. They still tick, but the cam grinder called for .026 lash, so I guess I'm stuck with some valve noise....no big deal. I also jetted down the primaries and set the timing and 36 total. I'm wiring up all the lights tonight, and I'll take it down to the shop on Saturday and run it around a bit. (I got it registered and insured last week).

 

I'm still having brake problems. The motor only makes about 3"/hg of vacuum at idle, and at most I see about 13" momentarily after snapping the throttle. The booster needs 18-20" to work properly. I put pressure gauges on the front calipers, and I can get 500psi without any assist and 1100psi with assist, so even though I'm not making sufficient vacuum for the booster to work properly, I still have more than adequate circuit pressure to stand the car up on its nose. I'm going to try to bed the pads in again, but I got them pretty hot last weekend, so they should be OK. If I can't get them bedded right by 2 footing it all the way to the shop, I'll throw some different pads on and try it again.