What OT crap are you working on

Got our sub frame grafted, LS set up under the 57 this week. Will be blown apart and painted once all the odds and ends are built

57 ch***is with a gm C ch***is graft

 

64 chevy truck 12 valve ***mins swap

 

1975 shorty van ...pulled the 292 installed a 406 I had laying around, now I gotta build traction bars cause it wheel hops like a S.O.B Scotty wants me to brush paint free candy or puppies or some **** on the side....

 

Left the HD 3 spd in just for laughs...

 

Round track guys love those HD 3 speeds

 

Keeping my hoopty 2008 Ford Escape on the road. It has 266K miles on the clock and the A/C still works. It blew a hydraulic clutch line last week and I had to get towed home. I replaced the clutch master and line last night and bled it with the help of the wife. 2.3L ecotec and a 5 speed manual.

I commute 54 miles each way to work every day, and driving into the city is brutal on the cars. I need something ****ty that's cheap to run, cheap to fix, and I don't car about how bad it gets banged around.

 

My '56 F100 is sitting on a 2011 Ranger SWB 2WD ch***is with an Explorer 8.8" 3.73 LSD Rear, with Viking DA Shocks and ******in traction bars. Up front is modified stock lower control arms and Viking DA Coilovers.

A mild built 5.3 LS with cam & heads and 3200 stall converter in a 4L80E with Holley Terminator X Max running everything. Eventually hanging a single 78mm turbo off one side, water/methanol injection system, e85 fuel, etc. since I have everything to do that, but for now it'll be naturally aspirated.

The ch***is is about 80% sorted, just need to finalize some part placements and finish some welds. I'm still working on the body, so that's delaying the other stuff right now.

Truck will be Wimbledon White, basic interior/exterior. I have several different sets of wheels and tires. Just want a fun cruiser that can throw down on the street/strip if need be.

I'm doing this all by myself in my garage on a tight budget and when I have time. Which right now is only a handful of hours per week.

 

That swap fit better than I thought it would.
Cool

 

That's a cool truck

 

One of my brothers Camaro.

 

These have been taking all my time and money lately…

 

I’ve seen a lot of swaps that didn’t fit.
Wheel base off, track with off.
Ya did good

 

Tuning up the Aerocoupe...G-bodies are hot these days.

 

Getting ready to sand and buff this. Then on to the driveline and suspension. 70 AAR cuda.

 

Not mine but a buddy's. Think it's a neat build. International on a duramax ch***is.

 

Aussie '56 Holden. My first car. My only project. Started in '83. Build thread started, here.. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...car-to-drive-down-the-same-first-road.1316267

 

I’d drive it

 

I love those monte's. At one time I had two real nice 87 aero coupes and one beater 87 SS. show us more of that vette please

 

Lowered the front of the candy van today, now its time to drop the rear. This thing is strictly a lowwww budget put it together with whats laying around fun project as I have a couple of serious projects going on. I did find some nice blue Astro van buckets for a hundred bucks today though

 

Well I’ll try to explain . The Old Power Wagon with the ***mins swap ; switched the pressure plate to Borg and Beck style Vs. Diaphragm . I have driven it 150k . Noticed a few weeks ago , would not go into reverse or low . Strange , I don’t drive the old dude hard . Thinkin it has to be hydraulic issue , installed new hydraulic system , nothing changed . Camera in the bellhousing , wife in cab shoves clutch pedal down . The fingers on the pressure plate are iron bound on the springs surrounding the clutch disc . Time to tear the old girl down and install OEM stuff . Really a strange thing to take place , but at lease I figured it out . Say a prayer and send a Priest to bless me !

 

We bought a non-op 71 Duster with the most gutless 400 ever ***embled in it. Once I got it going the thing ran fine driving normally and once you got up to speed, but it wouldn't even spin a tire. 100 PSI compression - could be worn out, could be the cam installed wrong, either way, out it came.

I had plans to drop a good spare 440 in it, then fell backward into a little money and decided to build a 360 and convert to a 4-speed.

Of course that took way longer than it should have and now I'm kicking myself for not sticking to the simple original plan. But if the engine survives break in, I'll have a 4-speed and that's worth something.

 

I have a few toys...lately trying to find decent fe powerplant and transmission for the 69 LTD.

 

1912 ***ociated 6HP hit and miss.


....and the M1097 in the background.

 

Couple of old Yamaha dirt bikes.

 

Put factory AC dash vents in my non AC '64 El Camino.
Started with these.



Then this.

 

The vent ***embly is:
'64-'65 Chevelle, El Camino repop Vent Bezel
'67 GTO repop plastic Vent Ball
'64-65 Chevelle, El Camino Factory original Vent Ball Retaining tube. (these are not repopped)

 

Finally got the 1970 Grand Prix fired up on E85 after converting it from gas, runs good so far. Been detoured on a pair of 63 GP’s for the last six months.

 

Just a few electrical add-ons to this ..............

A stand-alone motorcycle motion sensor alarm, and a flashing LED by the ignition switch that flashes when the ignition if off.
These things don't have a "chipped ignition key" so they get stolen a lot in NZ



While I was on a roll, I also added a stand-alone motorcycle motion sensor alarm and GPS tracker to my Race Car trailer


This is the GPS tracker , You can "Geo-Fence them to switch off a fuel pump relay.
But I connected it to a relay that locks the brakes using the winch battery

 

So my 1973 ghetto barge I managed to get the engine sitting on its mounts this afternoon, tomorrow since I am off work I am hoping to get the entire mess bolted together but we will see I'm not intending on getting up early lol.

 

I would have thought that New Zealand would be one of the only areas in the world that car theft isn't a major issue. I mean theft is theft and it could happen anywhere but how is somebody going to steal car on an island and then once they steal it what are they going to do with it, I mean the population is 5 million people you could almost go door to door to find the culprit.
Sorry just thinking out loud.
Giving it a little more thought I would imagine the cars are probably leaving a port and probably heading into Asia or Africa.

As for the little Geo tracker thing what is it called I kind of like that idea? I don't worry about anybody stealing my late model stuff because well I drive junk it's the old stuff I get scared of losing.