Technical What are you working on?

Momma look's terrified. She'll get used to it!

 

Yeah she was nervous lol, it was her idea though. Tickled me to death when she asked if she could drive home

 

That's why I'm doing it...yeah, it's a pain, and I expect I'll screw up something. But I'll get it done.

 

I cover the engine with a small tarp when I wash the truck ...

 

Just me or is there a Lightning McQueen back there?

 

And the angle verified using the "fish gauge".

 

I have picked up some tool holders that take store-bought carbide inserts in recent years.

 

I dug these out of the woods today

 

Took the day off today to get some things done . Worked on my buddy Vito"s 406 , degreed the cam and bolted the heads on. Mid day had to go check on my Mom cause she wasn't answering the phone, Drove the Vette over and thankfully she is fine just pretty deaf.. On the way home I found a clear stretch of freeway and downshifted into 3rd and wound it to about 6800 and banged 4th,it actually spun the tires pretty hard and got fairly sideways It actually scared me a little...Shit , I must be gettin old

 

^Moments like that are when I feel the most alive!

 

What are your plans for these two?

 

I picked up a frame a few months ago. I plan on putting one of these bodys over on it, and then doing a two door conversion. I am going to drag another one out of there today, it's a 2door 210 post.

 

Steve needs a passenger door, Lloyd needs 2 glass setting channels

 

working on retiring...

 

I got the windshield in the Corvette yesterday, so now I'm back to the drivetrain...pulled the transmission and clutch out, replaced the flywheel (the big one didn't quite fit the old bellhousing properly), and put it back together. The shift linkage got a little massaging, too. I think I need to bend one rod just a bit more....to clear the new speedometer cable.

 

Today's work.

 

I 2nd that! This was my dash a year ago

 

@squirrel this high tech indexable cutter system might be just your style

 

My cam finally showed up this afternoon so I started putting it all together about 9:00 this evening. I got the cam and timing chain back in the motor then got back to changing out the valve springs. About halfway through changing the springs out, I noticed one of the keepers is wrong... Hoping for the best, I counted what was left thinking maybe it was just an extra. Nope...I have one wrong one and can’t finish until I get one. Hoping my machine shop possibly has one lying around since otherwise I may be another day out to finish this deal and am committed to have this thing going by Monday of next week. Starting to feel the pressure considering how much real work I also have to get done in the next few days.

 

The shifter I had like that one was mounted on a taller plate, and the cable barely missed the rod. I notice the rods are the straight, reinforced style. Racing stuff!
Love your 'Vette.

 

Snap ! just bought one too, but mine doesn't have the auto feed drive. Also need the flat belt, a "helpful" person cut it off before I went to pick it up ?

 

neat! What's the serial number on yours? Should be on the top of the bed, at the right end, just past the tail stock.

 

Harvested some brackets off of a donor housing for a future 12 Bolt install in my 62 Biscayne. No action shots, My assistant was busy and I was trying to not light myself on fire

 

Mine is 58695.

 

interesting, it's just a few months older than mine.

http://www.wswells.com/sn/sn_index.html

has a link to the serial number database, if you're interested. You can email the guy info on the lathe it you want it included. I guess that one traveled pretty far!

 

Got the last keeper from my buddy at the machine shop that happened to have one. So, almost there and would be even closer if I would have brought home the calipers from work last night to measure installed spring height...and noticed there was a .015 shim under all the springs before I did one complete head. So, pulling those now and just need to adjust the valves and seal it all up to take to work in the morning.

 

New wheels and tires, new stance, new motor, wrapping interior stuff up enough to enjoy for the summer. Same 80s or 90s color but runs and drives great.