Got the animal started on the weekend. It was running at 2500 rpm at idle at first, so I figured that there was a vacum line off somewhere. Had a look-yep, I'd missed plugging up one of the redundant factory takeoff points. It still ran at about 2000-so I pulled the idle valve off. Looks like the toyota ones are open when there is no power-so we just put a rubber grommet between the piston and seat to plug it up. Put on the radiator-filled it up, and turned the key, and it settled down to silky smooth 590-650 rpm idle. Awesome. We jacked it up to test the trans-ie run it through all the gears and see if there was any vibrations present-none were though! It has the bark of a hemi six, with the volume of noise ecpected from such a big motor and the twincam buzzy sound when the throttle is blipped. Sounds fu*cken tough. The autronic was a dream to deal with during the startup process too-no complaints at all. Next thing is to hook up the exhaust (for the neighbours) and maybe get a day permit either this or next weekend. (Oh yeah-and a bonnet and a scoop)
4.5 Litre Crown is alive
Tue, 11 June 2002 03:26
