Alrighty boys and girls. Doc Brown is in receipt of the engine. Another shout out to Barry for his help with the shipping. Jay thinks he will be able to get into it in a week so. As I get any information on items I may or may not have damaged in my attempt to be a Cammer Superstar, I will share with the group. Hopefully it will just be rebuilding all of the rockers and polishing the Cam Shafts..... I am unsure how far down the oiling problem went, so hopefully the Crankshaft wont be damaged.
My other thought was my math/measurements on the main bearing clearances. I was thinking that if I had then to tight, the engine would run hotter..... and that would make sense that it would idle so hot. I saw that Jays ran fairly cool at highway speeds (160? if I remember correctly ), but on my trial run in which things started to go wrong, I was still in the 200's at speed.
What would be really nice is that Jay finds the main bearings did not have proper clearance, then with the proper clearance (and the ceramic coated headers), the engine will run and idle cooler.... I would then be able to put on the smaller original SPAL fans I had which did not need to be clearance for the power steering pump. This would mean I can leave the radiator where it is and not cut and re-weld the mounts any further forward.
But I am getting carried away! LOL Lets see what Jay finds and if that's a side affect, then that would be just peachy!
Until I have updates.... :0)
