BOSS's Budget Engine Over Haul 5.8L

[beevo]

bossind can you post a way to download it?

[bossind]

Originally Posted by beevo

bossind can you post a way to download it?

right below the video " Download original movie file"

[bossind]

Road test update

Amazing, pulls strong, sounds good - a bit loud for my taste. What I find interesting is I haven't moved the distributor since I dropped it in, what ever that timing is, its pretty much dead on. I'm not a big fan of timing lights anyways, as every engine has its own sweet spot - maybe once you find it you can reference it with a light. Anyways I find folks spend way too much time trying to get an engine to run right with a timing light, manual says it should be ????? but it runs like crap, and than they'll frig with something else.

I changed the oil last night, was a little gray but nothing to be concerned about for the first run and break in. I'll change it next week for one more time to compare.

The exhaust must have settled with the heat running through it and now the tail pipe is banging off of the tank skid plate, drives me crazy! So I'll be fixing that real soon.

I had a lean code for both banks, but I forgot to swap out the 5.0 mass air sensor in my excitement to start it, so I changed that last night and thus far no codes.

I also had to change the left valve cover as the one I was using must have came off of a Speed Density engine and had the breather tube in the wrong direction making it had to hook up the hose off of the mass air - may be what gave me the lean code as well. Anyways thats done.

I also installed a bracket for the coil to support it better, that bar that goes up from an exhaust stud, I rebent the old and added a stud in place of the header bolt and that worked well.

So far so good.

[Sixlitre]

Originally Posted by bossind

Road test update

Amazing, pulls strong, sounds good - a bit loud for my taste. What I find interesting is I haven't moved the distributor since I dropped it in, what ever that timing is, its pretty much dead on. I'm not a big fan of timing lights anyways, as every engine has its own sweet spot - maybe once you find it you can reference it with a light. Anyways I find folks spend way too much time trying to get an engine to run right with a timing light, manual says it should be ????? but it runs like crap, and than they'll frig with something else.

Couldn't agree more Steve

let your vacuum gauge and seat of your pants guide you

Great thread and great work. Dunno how I missed this thread.

Sixlitre