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I finished the '72...well, sorta... Posted by Dan [Email]  (#2459) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Dan) on Sat, 20 Dec 2003 23:10:58
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The car is about as done as she's going to be for the year. The '87 900 16V NT engine is in, all the brackets and exhaust and heater core and brake booster and brake pedal and what not have been "re-manufactured" and it all works. It looks....good. Not great, but good. No worse than that 1.85 liter with all the d-jet stuff looked, organizational-wise. I had to use a 9000T exhaust manifold and made a down pipe here at my house. There wasn't room for the alternator down there any other way. I also removed the block heater and capped it to give enough room so the alternator could be as far from the exhaust as possible. I really thought having that completely untuned exhaust system would slow the engine down quite a bit, but seriously, this thing really scoots. I'm surprised at how quick this car is. I haven't zeroed in on the perfect timing setting yet (stock just doesn't quite cut it. I am using a vacuum advance distributor and ditched the EZK system so the original settings don't matter anyway) but this thing is much quicker than my 16VT 99 and I'm sure this car is heavier. I imagine the turbo would catch up fast enough but sometimes that lack of lag is enjoyable.
Anyhow, thanks for the advice along the way. I think I figured out some smart enough ways around some of the problems encountered in puting a 16Valve in '72 99 so let me know if anyone is at all interested in them. I'm really not that handy with cars so this particular project has me grinning. It's always a good feeling to be fully in over ones head and yet somehow the end result actually works.
Dan
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