Roadkill's 1958 Cadillac

[Incursus]

Quoting: 55starchief

Provide me with food drink and a women and you have me from friday night through sunday mate

Quoting: Roadkill

Would an inflatable sheep do ?

Puncture repair kit on standby sir

[Roadkill]

Christ !

Nearly a year since anything's been posted here.

O.K.

I pulled the girl out of the garage on Saturday and she was pi$$ing water everywhere.  The Carb's fooked, too.

The plan ?

As I have a rebuild kit for the Card I'm gonna pull that off and rebuild it.

That fixes one major issue.  Anyone got any pointers re. re-building carbs ?

Next plan is a service and bleeding the brakes to get her through an MoT ASAP.

I plan to use her a little bit this year - no where near as much as last year.

I've been quoted around $7,000 for a custom-built Cadillac 390ci which is cool . . . . . But I haven't got $7,000 at the moment so am opting for a complete rebuild of my 365ci for now . . . The kit I need is $1,400.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: Roadkill

The kit I need is $1,400.

. . . And next on the shopping list.

[55starchief]

Quoting: Roadkill

Quoting: Roadkill
The kit I need is $1,400.


. . . And next on the shopping list.

i would try and get the best cam grind you can as that will help make a little more power

[Roadkill]

Quoting: 55starchief

i would try and get the best cam grind you can as that will help make a little more power

Have a look at this . . .

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=012&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=220000768016&rd=1,1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=012&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=220000768016&rd=1,1

This is for the 390ci but the 365ci kits are available.

Basically you choose the cam specs . . . . any suggestions ?

[55starchief]

Quoting: Roadkill

I've been quoted around $7,000 for a custom-built Cadillac 390ci

thats a lot of money, what were they rebuilding with. Considering everything was custom made for my poncho motro i would expect to be seeing forged rods and pistons, billet mains, roller lifters and rockers for that price as a minimum

[55starchief]

Quoting: Roadkill

Basically you choose the cam specs . . . . any suggestions ?

no durations, the 270H would be my choice but would like to see the duration, look for a lift of .500 installed

[FUBAR]

Quoting: Roadkill

Anyone got any pointers re. re-building carbs ?

I have that rochester book you can borrow m8...

[55starchief]

slap a turbo on it or even better a pair of turbos

[Roadkill]

Quoting: 55starchief

thats a lot of money, what were they rebuilding with

That included sourced core and tranny.  Forged Rods/ Custom Pistons and Custom Ground Cam . . . and shipping.

And everything that came off the block as spares to sell.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: FUBAR

I have that rochester book you can borrow m8...

Quoting: 55starchief

slap a turbo on it or even better a pair of turbos

No way.  It's getting 3 Carbs instead.

[55starchief]

Quoting: Roadkill

No way. It's getting 3 Carbs instead.

well that should be enough fueling for a pair of turbos

[Roadkill]

Quoting: 55starchief

that should be enough fueling for a pair of turbos

No.  I ain't sticking Turbos on the Caddy.  End of story.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: 55starchief

no durations

Isn't the 270 part the degree duration ?

[55starchief]

Quoting: Roadkill

Isn't the 270 part the degree duration ?

no its just a ref number. the duration would probably be 268/280 or some thing

[Roadkill]

So what questions should I ask ?

Whats the durations of each cam ?

What's a good lift ? BTW.

Also I thought a long duration makes the idle lumpy ?

[55starchief]

Quoting: Roadkill

So what questions should I ask ?

Whats the durations of each cam ?

What's a good lift ? BTW.

Also I thought a long duration makes the idle lumpy ?

its a combination of duration, overlap and lift that makes the rough idle

a good lift is .470-.500

The 270 will give a nice idle if you went to a 280.290 it gets lumpy. Yopu should get a nice sounding motor

[Roadkill]

So a 270* duration up to .500 thou lift ?

[55starchief]

Quoting: Roadkill

So a 270* duration up to .500 thou lift ?

the 270 is the spec of the cam, lobe sep, centerline the duration there will be different durations available as its a 270 blank with a custom grind. You might not get .500 lift with your heads as it would depend on the ratio of the rockers. Also need to know what type of cam it is hyd,flat tappet,hyd roller as that makes a difference to the duration available

[Roadkill]

I doubt Hydraulic / rollers are available for my Caddy so I'd say flat tappet.

[Roadkill]

O.K.

The weekend was an interesting one.

After spending a few hours on Saturday getting the Camaro running sweet-ish after it's winter hibernation we (Myself and Ryan) began sorting the brakes on the Cadillac.

Bled the Master Cylinder, bled the rears . . . . then it got dark.

Sunday.

It didn't take long at all to finish bleeding the fronts and the brakes are better now then they've ever been.

They were binding a bit on the front passenger side (as they've always done a bit) so to clear the rust I drove her back and forth in my cul-de-sac gradually increasing the brake pressure until she stopped locking the wheel in question.

Great.

Job done . . . . I parked her up and left her running while I inspected the black marks left outside my neighbours . . . . . Then Ppppssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss . . . . I turned around and quickly realised the water pump had finally given up.



No big deal . . . I already had a new one in the garage.

Note at this point : Yes I did scrub the black marks off the road outside my neighbours house.

So off came the old and on went the new . . . . quick trip to hellfrauds to get some 3/4" hose.  Again it started getting dark and we were due to go out for Vicky's B'day so we called it a night.



When the pump's finished the Carb's next . . .

[Roadkill]

Also . . . . having the pump off allowed me to test some ideas I've had regarding "tidying" the Caddy's engine bay.

I hate the positioning of the oil filter housing so removed it completely for now while the car's stationary to consider its possible new home.

Also, the plan is to switch to 'leccy fuel pump so I removed the oil filler spout (which incorporates the fuel pump and push-rod from the cam) in order to design a new "spout only" solution to incorporate a newer push-on breather/filler cap.

This, in turn, will clear a shed load of space which will (hopefully) enable me to mount an alternator close to the top of the block in favour of the huge, nasty genny hanging off the side.

A (cheap) electric fan is being fitted for now with a manual switch until the engine sees attention . . . this means that the old manual fan will be left off . . . .

Yesterday was a good day as it really made me start realising that alot of my ideas actually look like they're gonna work.

[ianjpage]

kewl productive weekend all in all then !!

[Roadkill]

Quoting: ianjpage

kewl productive weekend all in all then !!

Yeah.

Even though the weather was crappy and we started quite late I really enjoyed myself.
It was the best days' tinkering I've had in a long time.

Roll on the sun.

[ianjpage]

Yeah indeed roll on working on the cars in evenings when it sunny and warm