Technical What are you working on?

I always liked listening to the m22 in the two lane blacktop 55 as a kid

 

Just got done puttin' a coat of wax on the 'Ol Bitch.

 

I dial it in and drill two 3/16” holes thru the shield and into the block and hammer a dowel in each. I hate screwing with big guide/dowels.

 

Just messing around in the garage a little bit. Trying to get some stuff put where it goes. Trying to figure out some crap to put on Facebook marketplace (not car related). Organized some parts by project and got a bit more on the shelf out of the floor.
I also got the banner that Ethan bought me for Father’s Day at the reunion in Bowling Green.

 

Mmmmmm......tunnel rams

 

I just knew you would see those, Lumpy

 

I was counting fin’s on the Vette covers.

 

Hell yeah! Because what's worse than trying to make one carburetor work right? 2 of the damn things! At least they're up high so you can get to them right?

 

Lumpy, you need to get Uncle Steve motivated and get his on the off topic Pilgram. I think Lumpy has a tunnel ram on everything he owns!

 

All 7 fin. No 9 fin ones

 

Did absolutely nothing today. Didn't even leave the cool air conditioning of the house, but yesterday got the acuusump system installed on the Model A.

 

The kermit green one with the Elephant?

 

Yes sir. Building the surge tank for the stack injection now. Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

 

I worked on a buddy’s car most of the day today. But still managed to put some miles on mine this evening, testing out the new brakes I threw on a few days ago.

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Fabricated some brackets for my new fog lights and wired everything up

 

Tryn’ to find#1 top dead center.

 

Doing a bed floor in cherry for a buddy's 49 pu,waiting on the stainless now.

 

Put a coat of paint on my new aluminum heads

 

Are those Trick Flow's or Speedway head's, and how do you like them?

 

They are Trick flow, the speedway versions looked obviously wrong in the valve cover area. They have 60cc chambers and the intake volume is 175ccs, not gunna set the world on fire but will out perform an iron head without the detonation issues at 10.85 compression.

 

I was pleased with the quality.

 

Those are not the rare aluminum Camel Humps!?

 

Still working on the never ending Barracuda project…found more rust. Then started straightening out the rear valence, decided it was Quicker/easier to cut it off and straighten it.


it’s now tacked back on to the car so I can build the last piece on the drivers side. All the underlying rust is fixed.

 

I fought the damndest issue today, float bowl screws kept leaking, 2 different sets of new gaskets, swapped the screws from another carb with the old gaskets and it slowed it down but didn't stop.
I ended up swapping bowls from another carb and swapped over all the new stuff inside the original bowls into the replacement bowls, tomorrow I'll see if it fixed it or not.
I've rebuilt a lot of carbs but never had an issue like this, I drained those float bowls way to many times, whole damn place reaked of gas.

 

Cute dust pan.

 

What did Kenny have to say about the situation?

 

Did someone drill out the holes? they look big...

 

I'm not sure

I seen a set of those aluminum camel humps on marketplace, didn't last long, but the 60cc is way to small for little pop-ups in my short block.

 

That baby worked like a charm lol