First engine start 4-Mar-2023
 

Today was a beautiful Spring Day in the Phoenix area. Last time a fuel leak postponed starting the engine. I had some issues getting oil pressure to read out on the VCM dashboard even though it was working fine when I pre-lubed the engine. Not sure if I killed the sensor, have a wire issue, or just made a mistake in VCM. The plan was to run a few seconds and shut off early if no pressure reading which is what happened.



I bought a ratty mechanical gauge, pulled the sensor and we had a nice restart with plenty of oil pressure (about 100 psig over 3000 RPM).



We had to do a quick throttle snap and my son shot a short video of the screen.



We didn’t do any tuning. I noticed the idle is rough after throttle snap. Plenty of work to do to get it dialed in although surprisingly ok as-is.

Impressions:
• The install is a compete mess. All the wiring needs to be cleaned up, gauges installed, A/C wiper motor, lights wired, etc.
• The VCM suite is surprisingly user friendly for an old guy
• The engine sounded good to all of us, not too loud, good deep rumble but spicy with throttle
• The exhaust note is more like the big block I previously had in the car which was a little unexpected (both 427 CID)
• Not a drop of fluid leaked out of anything (newer engines are like that)
• No black smoke out the exhaust just clean and lean
• It was motivating to hear it run after all this time stuck building things and I do feel energized
• Thanks a bunch to my friends Joel and John and my son Tristan for helping out

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