Projects The Further Adventures of a Car Dad and his Family PICTURE HEAVY

One last picture of Ethan and his girlfriend. You guys on here have seen him grow up. He will be 21 in July.

 

Nice looking young couple.

 

He's a good kid buddy

 

Thanks for sharing

 

At times

 

Our first local cruise in was today. Here’s a few pics

 

My friend just got this 39 Buick coupe. He told me it has a 425 Buick Nailhead

 

My question is, did Enloe take anything to the cruise in????

 

No.
The pushrods are supposed to be here next week for the Corvette engine. I am ordering a new radiator for the wagon this week as well.
I am going to try to get the wagon running and ready for June. I don’t know if I will be driving it or not.
I injured my shoulder Monday. I have a MRI Tuesday. Then a doctors appointment the following week. It may be a combination of quite a few things torn.

I am hoping for the best but preparing for the worst.

 

Hope it's nothing major.

 

Thanks Amigo

 

Gettin old ain't for whimp's. Ask me how I know...

 

After all it kills you

 

Shoulder surgery was one of the toughest things I've been through so far!! Hope you're good to go in June, I don't care if you have to walk there, I look forward to hanging out with ya!

 

I will be there. I ordered my tickets Monday.

 

I went to the guy that is building the engine for my Corvette. He is 69 years old and has been building Hotrod engines since he was 13. His dad owned an engine shop.

Him and my dad were good friends. We think it is going to make good power.

the first pictures are of my engine the last 2 are of what else he was working on.

 

Did he deck your block?

 

Yes

 

Not to alarm you, but I recently broke one of those beehive valve springs and grenaded a fresh BBC since it dropped the valve. They have no inner dampener spring or anything. So, if one breaks, there is nothing to hold the valve up and it makes a mess. I won’t ever use them again. A cheap valve spring cost me over $10k for a new motor and scarred up an 871 blower pretty good too when chunks of piston went through it.

I’m sure lots of folks have good luck with those springs, but I didn’t. Comp Cams gave me a replacement cam and offered a new set of springs, but I chose to use different springs putting it back together.

 

Yikes
I hope I won’t have that problem. I am not running a blower. ( I wish I was). We are going to be a lot lower horsepower ( about 400) I am ready to get this back and get this car running again.

 

That roller engine is looking great! Best wishes for your shoulder, I feel your pain unfortunately.
You may have to get that big boy of yours to do all the lifting for a while.