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I don't have a clue,. Other than one persons account of the history I have seen no evidence that a 24V alt/starter was ever fitted to a FAV and even then he said the FAV was converted to 24V not actually stating the alt/starter was changed or what was actually done and nobody I have conversed...

I have seen that photo, it could be a 12V-24V inverter a 24V-12V inverter, a battery isolator or maybe even a load balance device. The question I have is if the vehicle was converted to 24V why would any of those be necessary. Running the ign on 24V would be no problem, a simple resistor or 24V...

Unfortunately much of the written "history" have many things that do not bare up to the actual evidence that is available. There are some photos of FAVs state side that have been equipped with things like the breakaway weapons mount, full set of radios etc that still had the civy lights but by...

This is what research and observation of my FAV have shown, this is by no means the final word on this. The entire appears vehicle is 12V, starter, gen ect. it had a switch that in one position charged both batteries off of the 12V alt. and the other would provide 24V for the radios etc. At...

Again not much to report, I had an accident in the shop that is going to pretty much side line me for the next 5-6 weeks. I did get the wife to help me install a fuel pressure regulator today and the major fuel issues went away, motor runs nice, idles smoothly. It is not perfect but hopefully...

I installed the engine I did not install the push rods/rockers as I wanted to get oil pressure up a couple times before putting the lifters in contact with the cam, it has a special lube on it and the cam manufacturer recommends "very little cranking" before firing it up and going immediately to...

Not much to report this week, I thought I was going to get the engine installed by this weekend but the pair of .013 flywheel shims I ordered turned out to measure .0115, you would think the Chicoms could at least get that right, that extra .003" of end play put it out of spec (.003-.007" end...

This weeks update... I went through the heads and as with the rest of the engine it was obvious they had very little time on them, cleaned them up and lapped the valves and they are good to go. The margins on the valve faces are wider than I would like but I do not have any seat grinding stones...

Well I got the cases together, the "lower end" if you will I ended up using a Scat C35 cam kit, this would be a "hot street/off road" grind. I purchased the best bearings available at this time, made in Brazil but when I started specking everything out I decided to go with the original German...

I have been having a conversation with Jerry Cantrell at Schneider cams, he said that Don Hatz built 200 engines for Chenowth to be used in the FAV with Schneider cams in them. Here is the original cam specs, 272 duration 234 @ .050” ..363” lift 108 lobe center I had heard from other sources...

So I think I have enough information now to declare this as likely being a "depot" reconditioned engine, likely a failed FAV engine that was sent back to be reconditioned. The first clue was the rod bearings are 1st under (.25MM) normally a rebuilt/stroked standard German forged crank would have...

I thought I would start a thread on the engine rebuild of serial #10 So far these are the specs I have for the engine, it does not look like the original engine as I have not found any green paint on the long block so far, (there is green paint on the engine tin), only the two desert colors, the...