Data Logging

Well, I installed the Innovate LC-1 O2 sensor and data logger today. It allows data logging to a laptop for tuning...right now it just logs air/fuel ratio but can (and will ) log other data such as rpm, boost, timing etc....Fancy.


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This fan sucks (or blows)

Now that the fire has been relit...I went out tonight and wired up the fan and fixed a fuel fitting that was leaking on the top of the regulator (that feeds the gauge)...progress my friends...progress.


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Fuel cell brackets

Summit had sent me the wrong fuel cell brackets a while ago...so I went to home depot and bought some aluminum strips and made some.

Back in the saddle.

Well after a long winter hiatus...I'm finally back on the truck. Last fall the last time I touched it it had popped a hole in the radiator and wouldn't run worth a crap...I was frustrated and unmotivated. Well, I got the itch to get this thing going again. I was trying to get it running good enough to get it to Grill 57 for their monthly car show. (because this thing is a show car) So a couple of weekends ago I found a guy in craigslist parting one out. So I got the radiator out of it. Cooling system back in order. So I put the battery out of the wagoneer in it and cranked it. Still ran like crap...no idle. So I mucked with and mucked with it...I could keep it running by hitting the accelerator pump so I was sure it was not getting fuel at idle. Started blocking off vacuum lines suspecting a leak...still wouldn't idle.

So, I didn't get it running before the car show. I went up there and met my friend Ron who had a super clean big block Chevelle there. After the show I went to Harbor Freight and bought a battery charger...since I had killed the battery running the electric fuel pump while messing with it so now had two dead batteries.

Got home and charged the battery and got looking at it some more. I pulled the front bowl and metering block to make sure there was no trash in the idle circuit. All good. I went back to hunting my vacuum leak as I was sure that's what it was...felt behind the carb checking that the line for brake boost was on...and found it...not the brake boost line but the cap for the large vacuum port on the back of the carb was gone. Last I tried to get the MSD setup it had backfired and must have blow the cap off. New cap installed...ta-da! We have idle. So, I'm back to having a running driving truck...let the tuning begin.