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02-25-2007, 10:40 PM | #1 |
I'm a poor spectator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: San Antonio, Tx
Posts: 2,287
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Okay, I don't have pics yet but I did make some more progress...
Okay, here's the deal...i'm a cheap bastard and would rather spend money on parts than batteries for my camera. With that being said I guess you can probably already tell what I did and didn't do this weekend. If you don't already know I recently got my 71 K5 started with it's brand new engine. I finished the break in on it and right before I went to drive it, it died on me. My MSD 6A box took a big dump on me and I decided to pull the Pro-Billet distributor and replace it all with a HEI set-up (Critter's the one who gave me the idea). So yesterday I bought the new distributor and some 10 guage wire and an in-line fuse holder and got my blazer running again but this time with an all new ignition system. So for the first time in almost two years I drove my blazer yesterday. I was a little nervous at first but I took off to the gas station, filled up the tires and gas tank and was on my way (open headers mind you) and cruised around loop 1604 for about 45 minutes . Then later on in the evening I took my brothers to the movies and dinner with my uncle following us in his TJ. I probably put around 70 miles on it yesterday and then this morning I hooked up the tach and regreased the u-joints and headed off to the exhaust shop. A couple hours later my blazer sounded a little better with 2 1/4 inch dual exhaust and 40 series flowmasters. I went 2 1/4 to try and get as much torque as possible and it made it run a lot better. My acceleration increased considerably and it sounds real good, not loud, but good. I've had only one problem with the new engine and that's the water pump, the shaft wobbles like crazy and stretches out the belts and makes them loose and come off so I made use of my warranty and picked up another one and just got finished with that a few minutes ago.
Long story short (guess not since I already told the whole damn story) I had a great weekend.
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