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Old 01-27-2013, 07:48 PM
67rstbkt 67rstbkt is offline
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Got the motor started for the first time. Found 2 issues:

1: I will need to rethink the fuel pump setup, maybe reposition or cut and weld in a small sump section for the bottom of it. With 4 gallons of gas, it started cutting out on me, so I put in another 5 gallons and it was good to go.

2: Little oil leak that I need to investigate. It looks like it's either the rear main or the oil pan. I'm kind of pissed about this because I used the high-dollar BOP seal and followed the instructions exactly (if that's the cause). The other possibility is the oil pan. It's the Canton pan and it was way off out of the box, so I had to massage it into shape. I thought about exchanging it after I got it, but at the time, my machine shop was using the same pan on a Pontiac and it fit exactly like mine did. It's like it got warped a little when they welded to bottom portion onto it.

Anyways, here's a video of it running. This is after I ran it for about 20 minutes at around 2000 rpm. It's idling at about 1000 in this video

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