rallybrick
Member
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2007
- Location
- People's Republik of Socal
Been a while. A few months ago, I got back my old 86 245DL (which I had purchased in 1995).
This is a bit of a project car I'm doing with my two young sons (neither are driving age yet -- 8 and 11) who are turning out to be car nerds. Over the past few weekends, we pulled the M46, tore it down to install new synchros, and put it back together with great success. Now that the bad 2nd gear synchro is gone, it's fun to drive again and we're picking away at other projects. I have a bit of a parts hoard due to having project 240s and a race car way back when. There are a bunch of bits we could put on together.
The car's drivetrain is an unmodified 86 B230 running lh 2.2 with 375k miles on it and an M46. Never been torn down (or the head pulled). It's always been a solid runner. I have the following laying around -- what do you think we ought to use? We're mostly running stoplight to stoplight in the city and hooning over the hills to the post office.
VX Cam (NIB)
K Cam (used)
MVP aluminum adjustable timing gear (NIB)
Avalanche/Dale steel adjustable timing gear
Would like a little more umph around 2500-3000 RPM (or higher). I used to have all the bench racing specs and timing info in my head, but they've long since vanished. I'm leaning toward the K. Either needs to be able to pass smog in CA.
Thanks!
This is a bit of a project car I'm doing with my two young sons (neither are driving age yet -- 8 and 11) who are turning out to be car nerds. Over the past few weekends, we pulled the M46, tore it down to install new synchros, and put it back together with great success. Now that the bad 2nd gear synchro is gone, it's fun to drive again and we're picking away at other projects. I have a bit of a parts hoard due to having project 240s and a race car way back when. There are a bunch of bits we could put on together.
The car's drivetrain is an unmodified 86 B230 running lh 2.2 with 375k miles on it and an M46. Never been torn down (or the head pulled). It's always been a solid runner. I have the following laying around -- what do you think we ought to use? We're mostly running stoplight to stoplight in the city and hooning over the hills to the post office.
VX Cam (NIB)
K Cam (used)
MVP aluminum adjustable timing gear (NIB)
Avalanche/Dale steel adjustable timing gear
Would like a little more umph around 2500-3000 RPM (or higher). I used to have all the bench racing specs and timing info in my head, but they've long since vanished. I'm leaning toward the K. Either needs to be able to pass smog in CA.
Thanks!