Engine is in

[Naumoff]

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[Jeff 427]

Tony,

Looking good! I did that a couple of years ago when my FE406 bit the dust. Got a Iron BBM FE427
and put in a stroker kit.

Looking back it would have been a whole lot easier with the body off!!!

[Slither]

Nice! Glad to hear it, Tony! Are you bringing it to Homecoming? ;)

[Naumoff]

Tganks guys. Been busy as hell and am very close. Some pulley alignment issues and bleeding the clutch.
When is home coming?

[Slither]

Homecoming ended yesterday, Tony...:(

[Naumoff]

Then No, I will not be making it to homecoming.
I will be at the Barber Motorsports park HSR classics on the 19th through to 23rd

[Slither]

Cool! Do you plan to stop up to the Unique factory?

[Naumoff]

Don't know yet. I am on the pit crew for Python racing so I will be busy all day long at the track.
I would like too and would love to go to Muscle Shoals

[Naumoff]

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[Naumoff]

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Just got to bleed the clutch and work on pulley alignment then I can go for a test run

[Naumoff]

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[Naumoff]

Looks like i will be passing by Gadsden on the way to Barber Motorsports park. Will have to check my itinerary to see if I can head down a day early and stop in on the 18th

[Slither]

Lookin' good, Tony! Yes, it is worth the stop. It is just a few miles off I-59...

[Naumoff]

I haven't seen or talked to Alan and Maurice in years. Life, sometimes, gets in the way.

[Slither]

Indeed it does, my friend! Indeed it does...

[Naumoff]

First fire up in the car
https://youtube.com/shorts/-Y5Pv2dZS5E?feature=share

[Naumoff]

Second fire up after the MSD box took a crap
https://youtu.be/H-r6nVv4COc

[Slither]

Sounds good, Tony! Great work!

[Naumoff]

Thanks Paul.

[Naumoff]

Crazy week at the track. Unfortunately came in through Atlanta.
Had no time before to go to Unique.

[Naumoff]

https://youtube.com/shorts/eybxwk6CUJ4?feature=share

Car walk around with engine idling

[Slither]

Crazy week at the track. Unfortunately came in through Atlanta.
Had no time before to go to Unique.


Bummer! It would have been a good time. Have you been to the shop previously, Tony?

[Slither]

Lookin' and soundin' good, Tony!! Great work.

[Naumoff]

Bummer! It would have been a good time. Have you been to the shop previously, Tony?

Yes, when I delivered my tires and wheel back in 2005

[Naumoff]

Lookin' and soundin' good, Tony!! Great work.
Thanks. Went on a 90 mile run yesterday. Visited the engine builder at their shop in Hyattsville

[Slither]

Thanks. Went on a 90 mile run yesterday. Visited the engine builder at their shop in Hyattsville

That's great! How did it go? Did she live up to expectations?

[Naumoff]

It ran great. Just got to get used to driving an overpower light weight 90 inch wheel base car again! Starting out with respect is always a good thing.
Just picked up some wheel alignment tools for a steal. Want to set it up to a street friendly spec.

[Slither]

Good news on the rebuild running great!

Interesting, Tony... perhaps you could start a thread on the allignment project as well.

[Naumoff]

90 mile run yesterday.
I did align the front end on Saturday. I had put a lot of positive caster in, +5? , to make the steering very heavy at low speed and less twitchy on the track. I have to admit i believe i was way over I my thinking. Backed it up to +3? and it is a lot lighter to steer. Running -1? camber and 1/8th " total toe in.
I was pressed for time and my main concern was the caster.

I want -1/2? or less Camber and might bring the caster back to +2.5?.
Will run it for a little like this. Hopefully I can use the guys lift I got the tools from to do the fine tuning before he sells his house. He has his lift leveled up

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[Slither]

90 miles is a nice little trip, Tony! Glad it went well. Tell us about the gizmo on the front wheel. Castor and camber? Notice any change?

[Naumoff]

That gizmo is a Fastrax caster & camber gauge. Just one tool fot the front end alignment.
Well now pictures this time but I did get to use my friend's lift. Make many things much easier.
First thing we did was adjust the ride height. Passenger side was 3/8" higher.
Brought the caster to +2.5 degrees then the camber to -.25 degree
Once those are set then toe is adjusted. This was set at 1/16" toe in total.
I need to check my Unique manual but the only thing I think is out of their spec is the caster.
I bought a shim kit from Amazon.
You adjust caster first then camber
The thing to remember is that both upper control arm bolts need to be loosened up when adjusting caster even if you are installing or removing shims under one bolt. This allows the upper control arm to move in the direction you want.
Setting camber is straight forward. Add or subtract shims to move the upper control arm in or out.

[Slither]

Great,Tony! Were you able to put it through its paces to see how it worked out?

[Naumoff]

Haven't pushed it too hard. It is behaving nicely though. Want to go through the alignment once more to make sure it is good, make sure all the bolts are tight and center the steering wheel.

[Slither]

Yes, good idea... can never be too safe! Glad it is going well!

[Naumoff]

After this past weekend I now have over 500 miles on the engine. Next is planning the oil change and a once over.

[Slither]

Sounds like things are going well with the rebuild. Glad for that!

[Naumoff]

Oil changed and suspension greased.

[Naumoff]

Adjusted the valves and set the timing. Pulled the plugs and checked and set the gaps. Put the new Powermaster starter in as well.
I also adjusted the gas pedal position out by shortening the linkage rod going to the throttle linkage. This was done to match the moving the brake and clutch pedals out because of my short legs. I am 5'10" with a 30" inseam.
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[Slither]

Custom fit! Looks good.

[Naumoff]

Thanks Paul. If there is one bit of advice i can give that i think is worth any thing is to get your aeat position correct to the steering wheel then adjust your pedals to that position.

The Unique manual says to adjust full throttle with the pedal tovthe firewall. That doesn't fit everyone.
I welded a 5/16" nut to the gas pedal and used a bolt for the stop.

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I also added longer grade 8 5/16" bolts for the brake and clutch pushrods. For the clutch pedal stop i used a bolt and a rod coupling attached to the bottom master cylinder mounting bolt.
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I also cut the Wilwood little pedal pads off and installed the bigger and much more comfortable AC ones

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[Naumoff]

If you look closely at the worn off paint at the top of the pedal pads you can see why it was so uncomfortable after driving for a while.

I did install the AC pedals so that they pivot but I think if you didn't want to do that amount of work you could cut the nubs off the back of the AC pedals and bolt them through the Wilwood pads.

The AC pedals I got had to be drilled then I had to cut the slot in them. The Wilwood pads had to be delicately cut off to leave as much material as they has to be shaped to fit the AC pads. So I cut them from the front down each side of pedal. This gave me at least another 1/4" of material.
A days worth of work.
There could be other ways of doing this that are better but I just dove into it and made it up as I went. Sorry but i don't have step by step pics as i did the pads in 2018 right before the rod bearing went out

[Slither]

Cool! Do you have any pics of the pedal pad change over? That would be helpful, even without the step-by-step...

[Naumoff]

Paul, as you havecseen I transferred this stuff to its own thread and the pictures are over there.

[Slither]

Yes, Tony, I saw that after my post here, so I copied this over there... thanks.