Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Fuel injection is my friend.


I like technology, old, new, borrowed, Recycled?

last winter I purchased an older edelbrock proflo , however I am just now learning about its performance..

I was abit skeptical, having bought used performance parts before, this was akin to playing roulette.. but anytime someone has a uesd proflow for 250.00 you better buy it.. OR I will.


although it looks like its paying off.. , my biggest fears have been realized..

I had to call Edelbrock TECH support..... TWICE..

and both times.. the conversations were under 5 minutes..

my first call was to find out that I had the wrong CHIP in the unit.. (apparently the proflo's previous owner wasnt running a lunati 3/4 race cam)

during my second call.. I found out that I was missing the mark on my fuel delivery MAP adjustments. but now thats cured.. and all is well..

as a result.. the car tears off the line, pulls hard through the gears and cruises at 70MPH at about 1900 rpm..

its working so well.. that I am abit scarred of hurting the rear axle..

Monday, August 3, 2009

New tooth..



Swapped out grilles this morning. of course this is a spare I had around.. its an old repop that I ran on my 40 convertible sedan for awhile..


Now if I could just find a hood center stainless trim strip!

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Haulin'

The Recycled 40 ford woodie passed its first test on Friday. a 90 mile run to a show in Machungie PA provided good exercise. Tokyo rode shotgun and starred at the proflo controller in awe as we tried different speeds/ loads / different acceleration methods.


After enjoying the show, and buying all the good parts in the swap meet we headed home.





just down the road.. RAIN..


all was well, until we noticed the car "missing" under load, turns out one of the plug wires moved and got singed against the exhaust manifold..

the wires were used, so a new set went on today..