Jeff20B

Even after horribly overheating to 230 degrees F, it still fires up and actually idles better at 3.5PSI. The water seals are shot because the rotor housings got crushed, but at least I can drive it back to my place for quick tear down/rebuild. The guy didn't keep his eye on a leaky radiator. or better yet, because now he's got an excuse to get some new rotor housings. Probably GLS-SE style because that's all anyone ever sells anymore.



Hey 75 Repu, how's your truck coming?

75 Repu

It's just there.. I just need the $$ for the carb kit and intake manifold..



I am gonna put back in the Bench seat next week, and if the plasma cutter is back from getting repaired I will finally be able to chop of the old mounts since the sawzall kept bending the blade.. if not I will use the oxy-acetylene torch and do it that way.. The sooner the engine is mounted, the quicker I can piece together the stuff like the exhaust system and Driveshaft..

Racer X

Cool.What carb are you going to use?

75 Repu

A double barrel weber.. 48 I think.. and an Atkins one piece wrap-around intake manifold.. Heck a dellorto would be just a well right.. Think I could get the sucker turned on with just the carb, without actually hooking up the turbo pipe to the carb(compressor side), just so I can drive it to Sevenstock..

Racer X

Cool.I love weber carbs

Jeff20B

Yeah you probably could. That's what I was going to do before I decided to put my engine in a small car. The idler arm is in the way of the turbo. Since the idler arm is on the outside of the frame rails on REPUs, I'll bet it'll go in easy, and act like a muffler. Just make sure it's got filtered air and plenty of water and/or oil going through it, and it'll be ok.

75 Repu

Cool, It'll probably run real shitty because of the low compression, but as long as I can drive it around, and break in the engine..

Jeff20B

If your carb is set up correctly, it'll run great. Remember that REPUs originally had 9.2 compression. If your turbo engine has 9.0 compression (like a S5 or 20B hehe), the difference will be small. If it's an early T2, then it may run kinda bad.

75 Repu

Cool.. My engine is supposed to be S5.. So I guess I can get it running OK.. I wonder if I should just get an N/A exh. Manifold or keep the turbo one on, for meanwhile..

Jeff20B

NA exhaust manifold could work. It would be less restrictive than a turbo. But how long were you going to keep it NA? But then again, if it's easy for you to deal with exhaust stuff, then it doesn't really matter.