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In reply to Dr. Hess:
I bought the car at 117k two years a ago for $3500,clean as a whistle always garaged. I use for daily driver has 150k now. .. I don't have much history, so makes sense to do timing kit, water pump and the oil pump service. I'm going to guess its got all original timing components. I have replaced belts, hoses, radiator, ignition mod, cap, rotor,wires and plugs.
Resurrecting this thread with a few updates.
So, although we figured out the oil leak and got the car running well enough to log about 800 miles on it before the race we still spun a bearing within 45 minutes of the start of the race at PBIR last New Years. We had tried to de-gunk the motor twice while we were putting road miles on it but the heat of racing loosened everything up enough that it clogged the pickup. Not a fun initiation into crap can racing.
Fast forward 11 months and we have a rebuilt motor in the car and plans to revisit PBIR in March for the ChumpCar 24. Doing final button up last night we got her started but had a wicked fuel leak under the intake manifold. Ahh, 2 steps forward, 1 step back. We didn't tear it down as it was late but are guessing either the fuel return line connection or a bad o-ring on an injector.
We'll tear it down Saturday and I'm planning on replacing all 4 injectors, just in case. These have over 200K on them and the last thing I want is an o-ring failing during the race. Can you say "FIRE"? Wish I had thought of this BEFORE we installed the motor...
Any thoughts on sourcing injectors for the 5SFE? Advance, Rock Auto, etc.? Any recommendations?
