Coolant leak on a Daytona engine
After this Daytona engine was overhauled by another shop, our customer asked us to get it to run correctly. As you saw from a previous post, we had to remedy a head gasket leak and a broken exhaust valve, two things that have a somewhat negative effect on how the engine runs.
After getting it running again, I have been struggling to get the idle to come down to somewhere in 1000 RPM range. It hhas been a struggle. While running the engine to tune the carburetors, I noticed a coolant leak in the “V” of the engine that was around the plug in the water passage.
Since I wanted to pull the carburetors to find out why they were not shutting off the air flow, I decded this is the time to fix those leaking plugs. I bought factory new super soft aluminum plugs but could not get them to seal so I decided to open up the hole and use a 1″ pipe thread plug to really stop the leaking. Not an easy job in the chassis!
Ferrari Daytona engine work
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Kevin Colburn said,
January 12, 2009 @ 11:40 am
Any chance of getting to pics of those 40DCN webers? I’m building a 1/24 scale model of Daytona Spyder, and have lots of reference pics except for the carbs and the intake plenum underneath, as they are always covered by the Air filter cover.
I’m building min without the cover with velocity stacks and domed screens.
Any help would be appreciated.
On a “small world” note…I used to live in New Haven Junction on 17 by the state Highway garage.