Technical What are you working on?

Not as bad as doing plumbing James....Thats usually 5 trips to home depot

 

We have a running joke around here that if you were to plumb the major plumbing supply store in town you would have to go to Ace hardware to get parts to complete the job.

 

No home repair job complete without at least two trips to town!

 

Refreshing the license plates form my sons 40 Chevrolet. They were blue with yellow letter/numbers. He took them off his truck and had them reassigned to his coupe. They are going to be black with yellow. The N needs some body work. The old coating was tough.

Picking up from the stripper tomorrow! Black Rustoleum for a base worked pretty good.

 

Decided to mill off the heat spacer under the carb to get the carb to sit level and hopefully eliminate the hot start problem I have after the car sits for 30 minutes.

 

Just cleaned up the cyls in my 283.
Fresh bore that I let humidity flash
Cleaned with white vinegar and a soft nylon brush followed by PB blaster.
Lesson learned.
This engine came with a new151 cam and lifters. I’m not interested in high revs or idle bragging rights. So probably use a simple MTC-1
The new lifters are of unknown origin. The cam and lifters was installed but never ran. Built long enough ago the white lithium they assembled it with turned to glue.
So, chance the existing lifters or chance new.
I read through several lifter threads. I used Johnson’s in my 500. My supplier says their Elgin lifters are still doing good. Used those in the 350 we build around 2017. No issues

 

I've used Elgin a lot! Only lifter failure I've ever had was this 350, and yeah it was Elgin, but I'm blaming it on the camshaft I'm the type of guy to roll the dice, it's just a damn engine, run the old lifters, we're body men, soak em in lacquer thinner, they'll clean up

 

Was thinking about that.
A good bath and the air blower.
if I use the old new ones and they fail then I should have bought new new ones
If new new ones fail I should have used the old new ones

 

You said it lol

Brake cleaner and lacquer thinner. That'll do it

 

I would certainly run the old ones seeing as how they were never run.

 

I just ordered a brand new solid cam with edm lifters a few minutes ago... My first time trying em

 

I got the heater core back in the Corvette, so I could drive it to school....then put the top up once I got there. It's chilly out

 

Teachin or learnin?

 

both...mentoring the robotics team at high school, then taking CAD class at comm college.

 

Nailhead assembly

 

Working on starting my 261 tomorrow morning.

 

Cleaning on the junk yard 292.

gonna do a plastic-gauge check.
If it’s good we’ll do a valve lap, seal it up and go.
Sometimes it’s fun to see how long stuff can last

 

my son said leave the rods caps alone and send it

 

Anthony,

As soon as I read 292 I immediately thought of Bob Klessig. I bet he drove that green Chevy convertible a half a million miles with a 292.

 

Looked inside the oil pump.
Looks like an oil pump
We’ll button it up and fire it up in the floor.
Gotta weld up the exhaust manifold.
We ain’t skeered

 

Hell yea , put it together, run it. What happens, happens. I would run it!

 

Played with an airbagged car...bags are cool...

 

Wanna race?

 

We removed the Electronic fuel injection and related crap from the 1934 Ford that I mentioned earlier. It’s amazing how much better it looks with a nice Holley 3310 on top. Much cleaner. There was even enough room to install a stock, mechanical fuel pump and shitcan the electric pump. I taught my nephew how to bend and route steel fuel lines from the tank to the fuel pump. Much cleaner with one, simple fuel line. I’m guessing this car was built in the 1990’s because it has billet shit all over it with an independent front suspension, rack and pinion steering and a single plastic front transverse leaf spring, and Corvette rear suspension. I’ve not been around street rods, mostly GM cars, Ford and Chevy pickups. Just for my own knowledge, is this a Mustang 2 set up or something else? Please understand, I’m not trying to talk about O/T stuff, just trying to identify this so I know what to avoid.

 

Heck!!! A real Corvette without Corvette valve covers......Oh My. JW

 

They teach about Cadillacs in community college?

 

Headers and dump tubes.

 

Spent the day bolting together the AD chassis. The owner decided he wanted it powder coated and of coarse the shop that did it didn't cover all the holes.... Man I hate filing and reaming out powder coat