Yes another one, some will remember my thread about my ford racing 427 burning
oil a while back, brand new motor and from the first start it was puffing smoke, long story short, the guides were stuffed, yes on a brand new never started motor stuffed guides, you wonder where fords quality control is, anyway we fixed that problem and can I say ford racing were no help at all, all they did was put the blame on my mechanic and said he didn't fit the intake gasket properly or then they said it was sucking
oil up through the pvc, wrong again, so I decide its time for a dyno tune after putting around 3000 miles on it, I want to give it a run on the quarter mile and wanted to make sure the mixtures were all good, while trying to set the timing we found it was jumping all over the place and pulled the dizzy cap to find a fair bit of play on the rotor, we pulled dizzy found wear on the dizzy gear but the cam gear was far worse, it made 378hp at rear wheels ,i've posted pics, the dizzy gear is a msd steel gear and the ford racing tech sheet says its a billet steel cam so everything should of been okay, ive been talking to brent (blykins )over the last 3 weeks and what can I say he is a true gentleman he sent me a custom grind cam, new lifters and a new dizzy gear his replies to my emails were instant, im sure he doesn't sleep he must be a zombie
, im half way across the world here in Australia and he has gone out of his way to help me, ive got the car back now (68 mustang) and holy crap what a difference it made 408hp at wheels, we picked up 30hp at wheels the mid range and top end are just sensational, so what do you guys think from the photos what caused the wear, I used a 20/50
oil which is thicker than recommended but surely could not cause that much wear, not sure if it had anything to do with it but the dizzy gear that brent sent me was a little wider and the gears much thicker than the msd one, we also had to drill the shaft out for the bigger pin, I wonder if its these crap msd dizzy gears causing the problem, any thoughts out there would be appreciated.
cheers chris.
