If I was to pull the motor out of the car what goodies would I need to bring to make it run on the stand, just like in the car?

 

ecu, fuel source with pump, radiator, exaust

the air box with AFM



maybe something else im overlooking

 

Someones done it before, they had a gauge cluster gooked to it too for fun i guess. It had blue flames coming out of the ports at idle, and big ones when revving.



I cant find that video again thought,

 

81-85 distributor and 2 coils

low pressure fuel pump(ours hangs on the wall)

car battery

rotary bell housing(secured on table somehow)

starter for said housing

header(or something equivalent)

radiator and hoses

carburator and racing beat upper intake



The bell housing is mounted to a steel table. The engine is basically as it would sit in a car. Vosko has a video of my engine running on the test stand. I believe its called engineonteststand.avi

 

MPM- thats essentially a list for any carbed engine to run

on a stand, I believe he is asking about a fuel injected

engine.

 

yeah I lookingat getting the motor fixed and running, then pulling it out for use in another car.

 

Oops. I prefer the card'd engine on the stand. Much simplier.

 

Just a question from an old geezer – If an engine is bolted to a stand, and it’s started, aside from exploding eardrums and shattering glass from the exhaust noise, won’t the stand fall over?

 

Probably.



Kevin Landers was the guy Lee is referring to, and he had it mounted on some kind of wierd chassis looking type stand, using both motor mounts to sit on rather than bolted to an engine stand.





He did it with a full wiring harness and ECU from an EFI FC 13B motor.. Looked like an awful lot of work involved for just something kinda fun to do..

 

Its not directly bolted to the frame. Bolted to the transmission bell housing. I leave the motor mounts on the engine to support it. The table is made of steel and has a large enough foot print that it will not tip over. With a header you can point it out of the building but its still loud. We are collecting parts to remedy that. Something like you would see on a tractor/trailer going down the highway and some flexible exhaust pipe mounted to the outside of the shop.