1979 Mercury Capri

[BBR]

I'd leave it looped because the plugs I have used were of questionable quality (developed cracks very quickly) and looked to be a potential point of failure.

[Russell]

I'd leave it looped because the plugs I have used were of questionable quality (developed cracks very quickly) and looked to be a potential point of failure.

You mean the rubber caps that go over the water pump? I was going to red neck engineer that and get a pipe plug for the intake, My new intake does not have the elbow on it.

[Russell]

Got my new used intake on the car last night and the dissy dropped back in. Now just the carb linkage, wires etc. Took way longer that it should have. I dropped one of the thermostat housing bolts down the dissy hole. Luckly I was able to get it out with a magnet. Then I had to mess with oil pump rod for a while to get it re seated the thing that holds it in place is not in the right place. The 1/4 is haveing Sunday afternoon testing from 2-8. Dad said he wanted go with me.

I picked up a used wide band O2 off craigslist (I hope it works) way more involved than I would have thought to install. Is an intake manifold stud bolt a good ground?

[TheSilverBuick]

On a wide band O2 sensor, ground the heater ground wire away from the other O2 ground wires (or any other sensitive electronic grounds). I grounded my heater ground to the firewall and grounded the sensor to the same place as the MegaSquirt. In your case I'd make the sensor ground the same place or as close to the gauge as possible and make the heater ground away from that. I'd use the "on the engine" or "off the engine" mentality. If it's just a gauge I'd ground the heater to the engine (intake is good) and the sensor to the body (or same place as the gauge).

[Russell]

Thanks that helps alot. Any reason i should not use the old radio wires for the key on 12 volt source?

Got the new intake on, I never could get the dissy dropped in on the right tooth, after too mainy failed attempts i gave up and just mover the wires one post over. Sounds pretty good. I really need to do something about the extream amount of advance.

Car is on the trailer fingers crossed for good day at the 1/4

[Russell]

I had a great afternoon at the track! Trailered home a car still in one piece! Exceeded my speed goal! Full report tomorrow w/ video!

[DanStokes]

Russell - I posted the promised trip report in the "General" section, if you want to add the video there (I said you would).

Dan

[Russell]

Made 8 pass:

Off the trailer 14.79 @ 99.38 (breaking up)
2nd pass Best ET of the day 14.19 @ 98.64 (still not running right)
Four passes not with talking about. Dumped a couple gallons of race gas durring this time. Not sure if the volume or the 112 made it run better!
7th pass 15.73 @ 100.31! as seen here:



We watched the fast cars for a while let the car cool for 50 min. Then made a good clean pass of

14.34 @ 102.23!

[DanStokes]

Traction. Wazzat??!!

Dan

[Russell]

Is there a size limit on post?