Recent content by floivanus

That’s the entire point of this; some of y’all might not pay attention, but legislators introduce bills because of crap like this. give those geniuses in state houses and congress enough cannon fodder and you won’t be able to change your own oil without fear of being fined.

Which would’ve been an AMAZING reason to not post the video, or for the Mercury owner to not comment

It’s not a grammar contest to correct people who are claiming that things could be avoided if the “emergency brake” was put into use, the brain case behind the wheel was putting a ton of force on the brake pedal like his life depended on it, having a working parking brake wouldn’t do him any...

His “something” was already there, a wilwood 4 disc setup fighting against a stuck throttle, an idiot who can’t find neutral and brakes that have been used for a few miles to hold a car that had no business on the road from doing what it eventually did. It’s a trailer queen that doesn’t have...

How would it cost you big time? It wouldn’t in this situation AT ALL. throttle stuck on a 1,000hp vehicle, no brakes were stopping that situation without decoupling the engine from the rear axle (Neutral or killing engine) as the accident happened the hydraulic brake system was already...

PARKING brake, not an emergency brake. when did that change? It’s used for parking, not emergencies. as for the rest of the brakes, nothing to do with this, it’s a stuck throttle, that’s it

Deal with the floaters and the poo water

I found a 4-speed, scattershield, clutch fork, hurst shifter and 340 flywheel on here two years ago for $450, look around, have the cash and be ready to pounce brother.

I’ll say it one time, one time only. Butchering a car that nice is an unnescessary action This isn’t the 80’s anymore, even these crappy A bodies are reaching high prices, yet people want to both curse how cars will cost too much too build, and that parts “aren’t cheap” yet will destroy a good...

I’ve seen so many motorcycles and cars I would kill to have as projects parted out and cut up for various tiny or meaningless reasons it is sickening. The rare times I’ve been able to buy “un-titleable” cars that were for parts only it took nothing but a day and a trip or two to the DMV to have...

OP says he can two foot it to keep it running, car can run on the main jets if that is the case; most likely the culprit is some kind of minor obstruction in the idle circuit. In the past 15 years I haven’t seen any kind of carb goop that works, the good stuff seems to be off the market, if a...

Anything that is common, just buy a new one, rebuild kits don’t tend to have warranties, new parts do. I’ve rebuilt and shimmed a few common oil pumps, NOT worth the trouble. Buy new

I’m gonna have to disagree on any voodoo additives. Just do as stated, remove the idle mixture screws, noting the setting, put your air nozzle in the screw holes, then find the idle air bleeds and do the same, couple quick blasts will do it 9/10 times. I had to do it on my camaro, wife’s...

Like I said, my head would roll, I would try stuffing my wife's spare (if it's not currently in a car its a spare right) 390 hipo motor in there. Interesting factoid her Galaxie is inherited from her dad, he and I had the same issue, in the time I have owned my 68 camaro, his galaxie went thru...

That's the point; I had a good idea that's what it is and in the five years I've known of it no 'car guys' in town (including someone I know who has a 340 demon) knows what it is, and the usual guess is 'nova' not just folks on this site get the mistaken identity issue. Yeah, to get anything...