Recent content by DiscoTime

'Cause I didn't bloody time it! :( First time on the inside of an engine. Just missed a step. Crower's spec is a high idle (like 1500rpm; can't remember at the moment) for the first 30 minutes.

By golly, surely not! Fresh lifters, spec'd to the Crower cam :)

...reporting back! Much, much improvement! Baseline measurement for such an upbeat report: Fired on first crank. Cough, spittle, hack, and roar. Stead, lumpy (LUMPY) roar with the new cam and an old old muffler. Roaring decibels increased by a slight gap between the cylinder head exhaust...

Indeed! such is the plan this weekend -err soon enough! Stang injectors have a preferred spray pattern that should yield more MPG and throttle response - plus, we've got some many many many Fords floating about (in the State), aftermarket bits like injectors are a quarter the price of a...

Blarg! Drats!! Push rods are straight and clean (clean after soaking in Chem-Dip for a day or two, that is...). Even managed to get them each back into their original slots to (hopefully) reduce ticking and extraneous commotion. Thanks for the feedback!

TLDR: New engine guts. Don't recall setting the timing correctly. Would that be enough to cause a no start? Looking for some advice on a no start... Just rebuilt my North American D1 4.0 (175k, ran fine aside from leaking like a sieve). Crower cam, oil pump gears, timing chain, head work...