[V8] RE: intake

[sdewitt at stx.rr.com]

What do you work on at tinker AFB? C5 Galaxy's? It's amazing that those things can get airborne with mechanics like you!

So you don't know how to fix it? Get a book? Ask questions! If you don't know how to fix a piece a radio on a C5 what do you do, tear it out and replace with a record player?

----- Original Message -----
From: Nadjkovic Kraig A TSgt 552 CMS/MXMVC <Kraig.Nadjkovic at tinker.af.mil>
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:41 pm
Subject: [V8] RE: intake

> I'll briefly try to answer everyone's questions in one message.
> No, I'm not a military mechanic.  I'm a military electronics 
> technician.I have nothing against Bosh fuel injection--I just 
> don't know how it works.
> Therefore, I don't know how to fix it.
> I did not remove the fuel injection system or the computer--I just 
> unpluggedthe injectors and went to town with the sawzall, a Holley 
> 650 DP, a tube of
> RTV, and a 12 pack or so of beer.
> No, I haven't cut a hole in the hood yet.  I have not been able to 
> put an
> air cleaner on there yet, though.  I'm thinking some sort of scoop 
> from JC
> Whitney will work.
> I used a fuel pressure regulator to take it down to 6 psi.  I do 
> know that
> 45 psi is too much for a carburetor--do you think I'm some kind of 
> idiot?I don't live in a trailer--it's a dog-gone double-wide, for 
> pete's sake.
> And I ain't no redneck, neither.
> nadj
> 90 V8 Q
> 84 5000 wagon 5 speed
> 
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