Last Indian

Yup! Been a crazy year, but in reality weather is always up & down! Must be climate change 😳! Ya right! I bet the dinosaurs thought it was climate change too! Thanks Chris! It wasn’t that bad for us, but many others are hurting. Was out helping today. Some folks still don’t have power. Glad your safe, glad everyone is safe. We are all blessed! A little inconvenience isn’t a problem in my opinion. It was just a bit of a surprise because Mentor has never been hit ever in its history & no one called for watch for one.

JustA little after 12:30 am Thursday night/early Friday morning we were hit with an EF2 tornado that did some major damage to the city! Destroyed several homes, put 3/4 of the city in the dark! Of which there is still more than a third without power. We were very fortunate! I had the top tore out of a big old wild cherry that did some damage to two of my 8’ tall boxwoods & we lost power for about 30 hours, but I have a generator, so pretty much unscathed! Our daughter on the other hand, while lucky to have no damage, still has no power even as I write this. Her neighborhood was decimated! Looks like a war zone! Can’t even get down many of the streets.

Well deserved buddy! Let’s face it no matter how many votes were repeats; so were the others that participated. But! & it’s a big but, unlike you who put more blood, sweat & heart into JustA6, not to mention money! Most of them just plopped down their money & drove it home! Seriously how much hands on work did the guy with the new Challenge put in his.

Looks like you made it buddy! So cool!

Day #,dare I say 13?🫢! #508 looks like you’re in 8th! Hang in there buddy!

#480 here! Do I here 500? Looks like you’re in 6th!

There are many different types, but a good one, like this one from Summit will give you what you need. It has a check valve that allows for vacuum to be stored. So when you are pulling 14 or 15” of vacuum the canister stores that. So even if you need to apply your brakes in a low vacuum condition you still have 14 or 15” of vacuum to apply to the brakes. 14 to 15” of vacuum is more than enough to operate most all vacuum assisted parts. Brakes, air, etc. https://www.summitracing.com/parts/cvs-vpr700#overview

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Gotta run right now, I’ll get back you tomorrow, but you should be able to keep the power brakes! Just need a vacuum canister.

Most likely no! Give me the cam spec again. Lift intake & exhaust also duration! .500 lift is a healthy lift for a 400. What is the vacuum in gear? My 1969 Z28 which was almost 600 hp in gear at idle pulled 4” of vacuum & in neutral only about 14”! It got 6mpg & had a loopy idle most guys would kill for. It was what is known as a scavenger engine, wasted a lot of fuel because of how it pulls fresh fuel in & through the cylinder before the exhaust valve closes. This effect drastically reduces vacuum, but in a 12-1 compression engine it has impressive results. This is one of the reasons Z’s did not have power brakes or air!

You can mail mine in one of those hot sleeves.😃 398

That is good news Fabio! Glad to here it.

Yeah,no! That was mine, mine, mine. #9,#9,#9 was a reference to the Beatles revolution #9! Where Lennon says that over & over.

Long story short this relates to the MAP sensor, but it’s not that simple. It may not be a bad MAP sensor because this is just one of the reader sensors of the EGR system. This all deals with nitrogen oxide & combustion. It could be several things. The EGR valve, a vacuum line, gasket, etc. Don’t just go by a MAP sensor, find the problem. Than fix that whatever it might be in the EGR system. The MAP sensor is just telling you that you don’t have the proper flow of exhaust gas into the combustion chambers to lower the temperatures to stop nitrogen from combining with the other combustion gas to form NO.

Yup! #9! I seem to remember that saying from somewhere? #9, #9, #9! Oh it was 361 when I voted.

Ditto for me

Day #7 voted! Hey only 7 more to go!

Voted again , 2nd time went from 238 to 239.

Day #6! Hey I think I beat the snowman! #230

Me too #5 day!

Ok, one step at a time. First change the pulley to the 6” & see what change that makes. If it is enough you could stop there, although if it were mine I would put the GM 18” fan blade with the clutch in as that type design does a better job of pulling air when needed, but decouples when not needed. If that change doesn’t prove to be enough than we can talk about what you might do next.

Fabio, what is the diameter of the shroud hole where the fan sits? And what is the distance from the water pump hub face to the beginning edge of that hole?

I suspect what the other ones are doing is voting multiple times a day! Because I JustA voted for the third time today! Now you are at 151, but 9th place.

Dang! Me too! But I voted twice yesterday & twice today already!😜 According to their site JustA’s got 144 votes! He’s in 8th place. Let’s pick up the pace fellas!

Hey, fyi I JustA clicked your link tonight & it let me vote again! So twice in one day! Looks like you’re tied for 4th.