[s-cars] Pressure Tester-Doofus

[Charlie Smith]

Earlier, manuelsanchez at starpower.net wrote:
> 
> S-heads,
> 
> Anyone have a pic of their tester? I tried and failed to get
> any pressure in my system, so I'm hoping it's my poor
> construction of the PVC stuff and not a massive leak somewhere.

After trying and failing to get pressure build up in my system,
and suspecting that I heard a slight whistle under boost I really
started looking at everything.

I finally found a crack along the top of the plastic crossover pipe
that runs under the radiator.  It was almost closed except when it 
was under pressure.  I didn't find this until after I removed the 
crossover pipe for inspection.  The crack opening was large enough 
compared to the size of the air line coming in that I couldn't
get any pressure built up, and because the crack was on the top 
of the pipe I couldn't detect the leak by feeling air blowing out 
of something.

If it's not the crossover pipe, then look at the intercooler if
your car is late enough to have one with plastic end caps.

    - Charlie