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A day early....happy Thanksgiving everyone! Here is car #2 for a three car shirt design I'm working on. A few posts back was car #1, a '70 Camaro....
This is the first car for a three car t-shirt design for a local car show... [ATTACH]
Very, very nice!
Wow! Nice work! I've built a few, but only in mild steel. I've seen some people on youtube build stainless headers, and most of those use a purge...
The pivot is attached to the side of the frame rail to the rear of the steering box. It uses the original frame mount for the original Z-bar. So,...
Clutch pedal stiction problem has been solved. I went with a refined version of my original bellcrank using ball bearings. This time however, I...
Its very hard to find non ethanol gasoline in any grade here in CA. Even so, your compression numbers look fine, and 87 would be good enough. That...
Like someone pointed out previously, you may not wanna know what the oil pressure is. Keep it topped off, keep listening for unusual sounds, and...
That's the nature of hot rods I reckon. Lots of trial and reconfigure. I'll pick up some of that green grease tomorrow and give that a go....and...
Yeah, I'm just not gonna go there. Maybe the firewall is stout enough, maybe it ain't. I took it all apart again, cleaned it all up. It looks good...
The first big rain of the season, and the weakness in my "HighWhizBang" clutch pivot reveals itself. What good is a vehicle that can't tolerate...
Dale Armstrong had a solution for TF and Funny car years ago to keep the speeds in check that was so simple. A single spec fuel pump and a single...
The last time I looked, there was no "Sniper2" version of the 1100. Is there now? I'd imagine there is close to zero interest in piggybacking...
I too have a GM LS single throttle body with port injectors on a 300 inch inline six. Holley Terminator, which also controls ignition timing....
Holy cow Gene! That's the biggest range I've ever heard of outside that little outback Oregon town. As I recall on our cross country road trip...
Here in central California, there's about 20c per grade increase. So 91 is 40c more that 87. On our cross country road trip three years ago (not...
I have everything. Head is done, and i have all the gaskets, new rockers and screw in studs. Money is spent. Now its just the time it takes to do...
These days, I gotta look for stuff to stay busy. The more active I stay, the better I feel overall, aside from muscle aches from over-doing...
Yeah, I wouldn't have thought twice about it. And it really ain't that big a deal. I could easily swap it out in a day, or worst case, a couple....
After a few days of driving around with the reconfigured clutch bell-crank, I'm mostly happy with it. The action is smooth, and it seems the...
A work in progress for a friend....[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
You do really nice work...from one illustrator to another!
A lot of guys do that. On Ol' Furd, I gave this more than considerable thought, as it seemed the simplest approach. Not so simple to implement....
Ain't that the truth! All the stuff we try to improve on what the factory did, more times than not, falls short. A better bearing definitely...
It might be a regular maintenance thing. I can say the clutch action is much improved. How long between services? Dunno. In fact this entire...
Under the truck again today to install the clutch rod boot. That job is done. Almost. While tightening all the bolts back up, I noticed quite a...
I saw that on his show, and told wifey "I have got to get me one of those!" Then I saw how much it cost. Damn. Guess I'm not getting one of those.
Thanks Gene. Yeah, Ol' Furd has leaks at the bottom corner of the windshield too. Same situation with the fit of repop rubber. I just wanna keep...
The Speedway museum sounds interesting! Wifey and I did a cross country road trip three years ago, but in my later model Dodge truck. 8000 miles...
I will do that. It'll be I-40 with a big helping of Route 66 for the most part on the way out, But we're planning on jogging north into the four...
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