I suspect you went over the $500.00 budget you set for yourself. How does that effect your ability to compete in the LeMons race??? Are there different cl***es based on investment in the car?? Also how did that Chevelle gas tank fit?? What were the mods??
This is the LeMons Rally. It's not the LeMons Race. No cost limit. THe chevelle tank fit pretty darn well. I had to cut off the filler and add half a foot, and I also added a short piece of rubber line to connect it. The tank has a vent tube fitting to work with the original Edsel vent line, although it's on the other side of the tank, so I just ran a piece of 5/16" steel line across the front. The sender for the Chevelle is backwards, but it works fine, I added a 10 ohm resistor in series. It shows just under 1/4 tank when it's full, and shows Full when it's empty. Easy to fix with the good old Dymo
View attachment 3223255 Those old timey window A/C units remind me of old rocket launcher tubes on helicopters.
Thanks for sharing Squirrel !...( and others who had valid Y BLOCK info., I have one I need to take a peak inside of and install fresh gaskets, seals etc.....it was low mileage and ran sweet when parked so I hope it doesn't need too much and this was a GREAT tutorial !
I dunno... That new fuel filter sure looks awful shiny. You sure you don't want to paint it gold like the air cleaner? If you get any "Edsels & Eight Tracks Racing Team" T-shirts made up I'd take an extra large.
We'll see about the shirts... The new parts are shiny, that's ok. There aren't very many of them. I decided to put the hood on it...this is what came with the car, no hinges or latches, and I didn't want to spend effort trying to find them, so I made do. It works. And that damn #3 cam bearing gets to play "hood ornament"
I see a new trend in hood attachment here. Seems like this would work for shoeboxes, etc., that have problems with hoods flying up....... maybe a little chrome instead of that ****ty galvanized finish, better fasteners...... You are a trendsetter, Sir.
Very cl***y. I'd drive it to the HAMB drags and impress the troops. The A/C is perfect....is it noisy at speed?
The AC is quiet, but it only works out west here where it's dry. And it doesn't cool the air much, but it helps.
Thats it. I am removing the Dzuse ****ons holding my hood on and installing gate latches. Nobodys going to say I'm behind the trend.
May need safety wire or a MIL spec bungie running from knob on the slide bolt out to the bullseye on the fender to keep things from bounding open in case the journey goes off road
What a hoot. Sounds like you're having a good time with the old shaker. And it's not a RR until it gets a mail box hood scoop and a barbed wire grille.
It's not a RR, it's a monument to fallen kitsch. In other words, it's a big joke. I'm not sure who the joke's on, but I'll laugh along. It's been fun working on the car. It's fun to drive. As long as someone gets something out of the story of how to overhaul an engine on a budget, I'm happy.
Wasn't giving you a hard time in my previous post, Hell, I like it a lot, and get what you're doing. You've got the skills to pull it off, and who knows, you might put 50K on it before it lays down. Probably be your favorite car by then.
I'm liking the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" theme. I should learn from that on my build. I keep getting caught up in the while it's out, may as well replace it mindset. That's proving to be a bit expensive.
I've been there myself...my last build had almost everything done "right", although still on a serious budget. But I took the time to refinish every piece that went on the car, and find just the right part as well, whether it be old or new. A guy needs a change of pace every now and then.
I've been on both sides with builds too. I ran stock cars on a budget, managed to run in the top 10 almost every night with 10% of the money the big teams had. Need an engine? Scour the cl***ifieds for a wrecked car, move the go-fast stuff over to the donor engine and go racing. The one I'm doing now... big bucks with everything new. The only native items to the engine are the block and crank.
An early hemi Chrysler head almost bolts on to a Y block Ford. Do some slight plugging and redrilling of the block, and the heads would bolt on. Never followed through with checking for pushrod clearance? The Y blocks had the valves hanging over the head gasket surface of the block and just would not run like a small block Chevy. Maybe a big turbo would force air/fuel past the
This one runs fine, plenty of pickup, cruises down the road at 75 all day long. Ok, it's a dog compared to the car in my avatar, but it's fun in a different way.
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