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  • BBR
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    Air filter bridge finished. Fluids are filled, oil system is primed.

    Tomorrow I will check for fuel leaks, pressure, set it on the floor and let it rip.​

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  • DanStokes
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    Originally posted by BBR View Post
    What a busted weekend. All the high wind, dirt and smoke from widfires has had my sinuses going bananas. I felt rotten and didn't hardly leave my house all weekend.

    Anxious to get out and light this thing off!!!
    Bummer. Hope the fires and your reaction both resolve quickly.

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  • BBR
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    What a busted weekend. All the high wind, dirt and smoke from widfires has had my sinuses going bananas. I felt rotten and didn't hardly leave my house all weekend.

    Anxious to get out and light this thing off!!!

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  • BBR
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    Close. It's actually going to be an aluminum strap that 'bridges" over the top from sloped side to sloped side with a rivnut thingy in the middle to bolt the lid to.

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  • Russell
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    Make a bracket that goes under the bolts that has a bolt sticking up?

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  • BBR
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    The list is short:

    Tighten fuel fittings
    Add fluids
    Prime oiling system
    Turn the key and blow it up.

    Haha.

    Oh, and I have to make the part to hold the air filter lid.​

    I am probably more excited about this version than all previous versions except for the original 545. Performance-wise, I am expecting this one to run very much like it did. Low 11's here, mid-high 10's elsewhere. Hopefully, maybe, hopefully, maybe.

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  • cstmwgn
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    Originally posted by SuperBuickGuy View Post

    unless something drops in there, then the "D" stands for something else
    When that happens to me - the "D" becomes silent!

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  • SuperBuickGuy
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    Originally posted by BBR View Post
    Danger is my middle name.

    I'm playing the odds that I won't drop anything. Injectors will be going in today or tomorrow.
    unless something drops in there, then the "D" stands for something else

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  • BBR
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    Never fear, injectors and rails are now installed!

    I spent the majority of my time yesterday trying to piece together a lower radiator hose that won't get bar-b-qued by the exhaust. It looks kinda close in the pic, but it is quite a way from the header.

    Oh, and don't you hate how radiator hoses slip on so easily and friendly and then pretend to be superglued in place when you try to pull them back off??? Ooof, meh knuckles.​

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  • Monster
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    Originally posted by BBR View Post
    I'm playing the odds that I won't drop anything. Injectors will be going in today or tomorrow.


    Com'mon, you know better than that ...

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  • BBR
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    Danger is my middle name.

    I'm playing the odds that I won't drop anything. Injectors will be going in today or tomorrow.

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  • SuperBuickGuy
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    not to be that guy... but why don't you have plugs in the injector holes? decided to live dangerously?

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  • BBR
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    I may just put a nylock nut on the bolt just under the base, loosely, to act as a retainer.

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  • DanStokes
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    Safety wire? Not Like I know how to do that..... Thinking you could weld washers next to the bolts and wire them to the washers. Just thinking' out loud.
    Last edited by DanStokes; February 26, 2024, 11:19 PM.

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  • BBR
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    Plate, tb and throttle cable all done. Sometimes the most time consuming part of all this is finding suitable hardware for it all.

    I put coupler nuts on two plate studs so I can bolt the air pan on. I will definitely put some locktite on those.​

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