Well, it's Sunday. Tropical Storm Nate is dumping rain outside. Yesterday was my last day to play....Monday, I start back to work full time. 6weeks after a double total knee replacement..
My knees still swell like a btch. And they get painful and stiff as a result. I am told that it's to be expected, all things considered, so it is what it is.
I figured out why you don't see a rash of threads with guys agonizing over how to correctly vent their engines, and the measures that they had to go through to fix it.
It's cause they finally find a head slap cure that fixes it, and they move on.
In my case, my head slap ( in addition to the home made HD puke tank) was, drum roll please.............
A second valve cover breather.
Once installed, you only see a tiny waft of vapor escape that filter while the engine is hot idling, and after driving the thing 40 miles yesterday, it left no oily film on the valve cover as you might expect and the puke tank has next to nothing in it.
So for now....my engine venting issue is bandaged...
The newer tune is also showing some promise...I spoke with Autolite tech and my turbo guy about my detonation problem...One of the recommendations was to go colder on the plugs, and change the tune to heat the chamber back up commensurately.
Right now, I'm two steps colder than " stock", but that is relative.
What the hell is "stock" on this engine?
A subsequent test pull showed only the slightest incidence of ping, but again...it's hard to tell with this engine.
Maybe I put a knock sensor on the damn thing? Do people actually use those things? Can people use these things to tune a high perf engine?, or is that something best relied upon by regular gas Dingus to make sure he doesn't melt down the RV? It's still not right, and power is way down compared to before..but considering I couldn't keep my foot in it anyway what difference does it make?
Either I slow it down and drive it, or hop it up and have to lift.
I'm telling ya, the water meth is gonna be my hallelujah moment..
Besides trying to sort that out, At most I might make one more of these week end cruise ins before winter officially ends the cruise in season in Birmingham..I took it to a small one yesterday....
It amazes me that:
A. A lot of guys have never heard of a Cyclone.
B. For those that have,..they didn't know when those cars were made.
I get the guy that'll come up to me and say,..I've heard of these things, but I've never seen one up close.
To which I tell him, You still haven't, this is a Fairmont, wearing Cyclone badges....Cyclone officially stopped in 1972, this car is a 1978.
Which brings me to:
C. A lot of guys have never seen a Fairmont.
Kinda leaves them with a totally confused, dumb look on their face.
Anyway,..for the sake of foregoing one more weekend of the same ole, same ole....
I could begin on the list...
That involves taking the dash top off....
And,
That disables the car...