Technical What are you working on?

Cleaned and shined up these two today . View attachment 6370613

 

Dang! That coupe is SWEET! Ol shovel not too shabby either!

 

@Anthony Myric and Mike @50chevytx , both fellow Lloydfest veteans, got me fired up to finish my tripower setup. I got my carbs finished yesterday. I started trying to figure a homemade linkage. Hopefully make some progress on that today.

 

Randy, that is very cool! Hope to see it this year!

 

Yep; me too.

 

Well, I did drive it about 80 miles yesterday as I said earlier but somewhere in there it started up backfiring through the exhaust again. I still thought it was a lack of advance at higher rpms so today I cleaned and lubed the weights in the mechanical advance.

BOOM!!!

I drove it about 20 miles a few minutes ago at various speeds including a couple of miles in the very high 70's. Not one backfire.

OK! Now it's ready to head out for Oklahoma in a few days to hit up the Stray Kat 500. Watch out Mick (@straykatkustoms). Here we come.

 

I'm working on physical therapy, pain management, and day-trading.

 

Here's hoping you do well with all three of those endeavors.

 

Spent some time tuning the WCFB's and then took it for its first 15 mile test drive, did OK, but think I'll spend next week with the Hydro trying to find 2nd gear...

 

Hey, me too!
Except for the day trading part.

 

Great week for it! Buy low, sell high, pays for more car parts.

 

It's hectic and stressful, but I'm up $2,200.00, from $2.00.

 

got my linkage mocked up.

 

Realized or un-realized?

 

My oldest son has gotten into that. Not for me, I'll just keep selling off and scraping stuff I don't need.

 

My son used to do that when he was running track day cars. Me I am, just the opposite I buy hi and sell lo.

 

Hey! At least I’m not the only one!! But, I make it up on volume.

 

Had to pull the intake to reseat it.

 

Trying my hand at fake rust to blend the fenders into the bed better, it'll look good at 60 mph

 

Along those lines. It say’s…

 

Unrealized, but still rising.

I will sell at $10k.

 

Since I'm really not taking this paint to serious on the 57 pickup and have been experimenting with some different techniques to help blend the new paint to the old crusty paint.
Yesterday I decided to try my hand at water droplets, it didn't turn out terrible so I think I'm putting it on top of the fenders using bigger water droplets.

 

LOL I gave up day-trading a while back...and just started buying these...

 

Back together again. Letting everything cure, will fire it again tomorrow or Tuesday.

 

I have two bars in the safe.

 

I have a bar I feel safe in.

 

The first days this year when I could work in a T shirt. Started back on the Ruby.
I mounted the friction shocks and welded up the exhaust.

 

Calling it done, fun little project experimenting with rattle cans and a paint brush.
I gave it a coat of flat clear on top to protect my water from getting wiped off by the looky Louie's lol