Rob Meier's Journal

Taking care of several little things on the car, the might as wells, and things I've been thinking of doing led me to pull the engine. I sent the head out to get a skim, and the flywheel to get a little more weight taken off. I'm changing the cam timing, and while It's apart I put the water pump and alt pullies on the lathe to remove the extra grooves, and reduce rotating weight (as a pair they went from about 3 1/4 lbs to about 1 1/2 lbs). I'm also taking a little weight out of some other bit's while I'm at it, and will try to get it on some scales when I'm done to see how much weight I've removed since I last scaled it, and to corner weight it as well.
I'm building a new (hopefully) better flowing header, and a Maniflow style intake manifold. I plan on having them Jet-hot coated if I have enough money to (this project is costing more than orig. anticipated.)