[takid455]

FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOO. 23 YEARS IN THE WAITING.
After the routine checking, priming, setting, and rechecks prior to starting an engine, combustion of air and fuel occurred. I do not have the new exhaust installed yet, so this was straight headers. Man what an awesome sound. I didn’t run the engine too long as I don’t have the radiator installed. When I installed a new engine, I always run it for a little without the cooling system installed incase the engine needs to be removed. Just enough to get a little heat built up and to check to see that everything appears to be working correctly or at least not to cause a concern. I must say that this HC-03 cam sounds nasty. I attempted to adjust the timing to at least hold an idle while keeping the revs up to prevent can failure, and this thing does not care for low rpms. I have the timing ball parked right now. I’ll play with it more once the cooling system is installed so I can bring the engine up to full temp. Initial oil pressure registered just above 80 psi on the stock gauge. I guess the SD pump does pump at a higher pressure. Then again my 400 w/ a melling DS45 pump does 60 psi on initial start then drops to 40 when hot. I have to tidy some things up, but for the most part, the engine is pretty much done. Over time, I’ll gather the ‘correct’ parts to replace the old looking (egr, zinc plated switches, rear carb vacuum tee, ect) and ‘incorrect’ appearing parts (plug wires, vacuum hoses, stickers, ect). I had a question where some of the wires went, but figured that out. The one connecter with a black and a tan wire goes to the A/C system which did not come on this car. I guess they used the same harness. I ran though the gears to see if the rest of the driveline had any issues. None so far. So, I will say another SD is up and running and soon to be terrorizing the streets and giving me thrills.









I would like to see if anybody has any pictures of 74 SD cars’ engine bays w/ the air cleaner removed so I can get so good views of the wiring, vacuum and clip layouts.