Recent content by ijames

Nice pictures, thanks.

I've read some and seen pictures of the square port Stage II heads developed for Indianapolis, but I had always heard that they ran them on regular Stage II blocks made with a lower deck height. In a thread over on Speedtalk someone posted a picture of a motor with the Indy heads but the...

Pull the dipstick itself out before you start. Once the bell housing bolts are out so the support tab on the dipstick tube is free the tube just pulls out of the rubber grommet in the transmission. I think it comes out the top easier, if you don't have the car so high it's out of reach, but...

Nothing later than Windows 98SE, and you need a parallel printer port (that's the 25 pin connector, the serial port is the 9 pin one). I use an IBM T23 laptop because way back when I needed a "new" laptop it was old enough to have the parallel port and new enough to have USB ports. Just accept...

I added the 5" scale length so you could zoom it to the right size, and took that picture from the template that came with my THDP years ago. However, I had to cut a good bit more off the cover to clear the pipe than that template shows, and so did most everyone I asked who used it, so don't be...

Well, instructions get dirty and lost, and if it's on the bottom you can't read it when the tester is on the module ... [No big deal, just think of this as a ttt for you :-).]

Looks great. If you see this, John, I know you probably already have a lifetime supply of the printed labels, but it would be really nice if that little troubleshooting table was printed right where the Caspers logo is :-) :-).

I saw a report about people getting robbed like this on one of the 60 minutes type shows. They said that some police departments are encouraging people to meet in their parking lots to do Craigslist deals. Well lit, usually surveillance cameras recording everything, cops close by if needed and...

What do you have in the radiator? If you need antifreeze, then of course run it. If you don't, don't and it will run cooler. Many years ago I did some tests, in summer in MD with the ambient maybe in the mid to hi 80's (I posted the results but I'm too lazy to try and find the old post so...

Back in the late 90's or early 2000's one friend had a motor built by a Ray either in Waldorf or Brandywine. I never knew if he had a shop or worked out of his house, and I think he stopped doing turbo Buick work about that time. Pretty sure he was a one man operation. Don't know if he left...

Oooooh, aaaaah :-). Looking very, very nice.

http://www.flowbenchtech.com/forum/ is a great resource, whether you just want to learn how it all works or how to build your own bench.

Even if you don't have a pcv valve I'd run the valley pan just to keep hot oil off of the bottom of the intake manifold. No data to back it up, but it sure seems one of those "can't hurt" things.

First, in the "old days", balancing wasn't considered necessary if you weren't going over 5500 rpm (that's what I was told by other shadetree mechanics in the 70's I was learning from, anyway :-)). Second, if the block will stay std bore can you scrounge up six stock turbo pistons? Lots...

I've heard of taking a stock GM gasket and cutting the port flanges off, leaving just enough of an edge for the valley pan portion to catch, then using the FelPro style separate gaskets. Haven't done this myself so can't say exactly where the valley pan is supposed to catch, and it may need a...