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Ralph Newman

Bill,
The spacers I used for the stock gasket were 1/8" thick. They seem to be working fine.

Bill Ball

Thanks, Ralph. I'll file that away. I decided to go with the original Andy "linoleum" for now. I installed 1" high spacer tubes inside the manifold around each mouting bolt as well as additional interior spacer posts to keep the bottom flat. I think that should cure the idle weirdness I had previously from bottom plate warpage. Almost buttoned up. [LATE EDIT: I took Ralph's suggestion and cut some 1/8th inch spacers and used the stock gasket after using the kit's hard gasket lead to problems (see below). Worked perfect.]

Bill Ball

Argh! Got it all together, started up OK but idles very high and somewhat rough. I have a BIG air leak somewhere. The idle is not affected by unplugging the ISV. In gear it chugs at idle and pulls against the transmission. I can't see anything wrong externally. The bypass valve is operating as it should. No obvious leaks anywhere and everything is tight. Has good idle vacuum (over 16") and generates 6 PSI boost and seems to run well on throttle, but the idle is a dead giveaway that there is a big leak. Off she comes!

Tony

Disconnect the battery?

Bill Ball

Uh, I thought about that, but I don't believe you should have to do that to get the idle to adapt. Disconnecting the ISV didn't bring the idle down - any car with good intake seal should die. I think it's more likely the re-use of Andy's green linoleum gasket material was a bad idea. I didn't even put any goop on it. One of the intake seals around an IC hose fitting was a bit loose too. I'm going to change the gasket to a stock rubber one with 1/8th inch spacers, like Ralph did. Anyway, it's off already. Out of town tomorrow. Should be back in order by Wednesday.

Oh, and you know why I didn't pull the battery - I hate redoing all my radio presets! Eh, I could have run the Spanner idle adaptation, but I was pretty sure it was hopeless.

Thanks for thinking of that. If it proves to be what I needed to do, I'll be eating crow again.

Ralph Newman

Bill,
I don't know if you are using bolts or studs. With the spacers studs are the way to go. I bought stock ones from Graingers and shortened them so they were long enough yet wouldn't bottom out.

Rick Carter

I have extra 60mm crank pulley bolts. I couldn't find a place that would sell less than 5. They cost me $35.09 for all 5 including shipping; I will sell them for 7 bucks each plus shipping. The specs are M18 x 1.5 x 60 DIN 960 10.9

Ralph Newman

Rick, How does that compare to the stock lenght?
Thanks

AO

Pressurize the intake. You'll find your leak right away and eliminate the guesswork.

Rick Carter

It is about 1/2" longer. Andy supplied it with some of his kits but not mine and my bolt backed out.

Darien

Here's a few pics illustrating the loop that Tony made on the forward IC outlet.

Darien

I finally got around to powder coating my CAM Covers before we left Las Vegas and I'm just now getting some pics made

Ralph Newman

Rick, Sent you pm.

Bill Ball

15mm to be exact. Stock is 45mm. Good find, Rick.