{"id":199,"date":"2006-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:14:07","slug":"bel-air\/engine-runs-supercharger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Engine Runs on The Supercharger"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t get much time on the car last weekend as I ended up fixing my neighbours stretch cadillac. I managed to do some more test fitting of the hoses, and realised the planned route for the outlet of the Procharger was in the way of the radiator hose. After a few more goes I managed to get a route that went over the radiator hose, but I needed a few more joiners and pipes. After working it all out again just to be on the safe side, I ordered them up ready for this weekend. The spacer block was also done this week so I was ready to go.I needed to cut holes in the inner wings to get to the intercooler, so I taped them out and rough cut them with a jigsaw. Once I got them big enough to get the pipe through, I connected up as far as the outlet of the intercooler and fired the engine up. There was a loud pop so I shut it back down and investigated. I’d forgotten to take the rubber cap off the intercooler and it had fired it across the garage. \"Connected.jpg\" Happy that it hadn’t exploded, I carried on and connected the inlet side. I also connected the blow off valve vacuum so it was ready to go. I’d run out of time, so gave it a real quick test fire. It fired straight up, and idled nicely. The fuel pressure rose as I pulled the throttle, and the blow off valve moved as it came off boost, so its spot on. There was a classic car show just down the road from me on Sunday, so I went down to meet my mate down there and had a wander round the tool stalls. I managed to find some carbide burrs, so when I got back home I pulled all the tubing off again and smoothed it all out with the die grinder. I cut some U channel to cover the edge, and clamped it all back together hopefully for good. While I had the car up in the air I relocated the MSD box to between the inner wing and the firewall, and mounted the fan and headlight fuse box. A quick test fire again to show it off and it sounded great. I need to put all the wiring back again and then the radiator can go back in. Just want to go and rev it up! \"Inner-Wing-Ole.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t get much time on the car last weekend as I ended up fixing my neighbours stretch cadillac. I managed to do some more test fitting of the hoses, and realised the planned route for the outlet of the Procharger was in the way of the radiator hose. After a few more goes I managed to get a route that went over the radiator hose, but I needed a few more joiners and pipes. After working it all out again just to be on the safe side, I ordered them up ready for this weekend. The spacer block was also done this week so I was ready to go.I needed to cut holes in the inner wings to get to the intercooler, so I taped them out and rough cut them with a jigsaw. Once I got them big enough to get the pipe through, I connected up as far as the outlet of the intercooler and fired the engine up. There was a loud pop so I shut it back down and investigated. I’d forgotten to take the rubber cap off the intercooler and it had fired it across the garage. \"Connected.jpg\" Happy that it hadn’t exploded, I carried on and connected the inlet side. I also connected the blow off valve vacuum so it was ready to go. I’d run out of time, so gave it a real quick test fire. It fired straight up, and idled nicely. The fuel pressure rose as I pulled the throttle, and the blow off valve moved as it came off boost, so its spot on. There was a classic car show just down the road from me on Sunday, so I went down to meet my mate down there and had a wander round the tool stalls. I managed to find some carbide burrs, so when I got back home I pulled all the tubing off again and smoothed it all out with the die grinder. I cut some U channel to cover the edge, and clamped it all back together hopefully for good. While I had the car up in the air I relocated the MSD box to between the inner wing and the firewall, and mounted the fan and headlight fuse box. A quick test fire again to show it off and it sounded great. I need to put all the wiring back again and then the radiator can go back in. Just want to go and rev it up! \"Inner-Wing-Ole.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}