1970 Plymouth Duster 5.7 Hemi/T56
Another productive weekend...not here, but I'm sure it was somewhere. I am back in Duster mode. After much consideration and groaning, Ive swapped back to the Holley Sniper intake. The Edelbrock is a beautiful piece and the better of the two in terms of performance but more suited for drive-by-wire than cable. Can't say I didn't try. Got the throttle cable routed and connected thanks to the fine folks at Lokar. Had to modify the bracket a little, but it works. Still have to tweak the pedal to get true WOT, but for now it'll act as a soft rev limiter. Yeah, let's go with that. Finished plumbing the oil filter adapter after getting the right fittings. Funny how that works. I love Mancini Racing, but their kit sucks. Cheaper and easier to buy the hose, fittings, and remote filter mount than to buy their kit. One of my awesome neighbors gave me a big Dayton industrial fan. Its a wall mount deal, but I couldn't come up with a place to mount it on a shop wall so it sat in a corner. In an unrelated event, I removed the pole mounted HughesNet satellite dish from the far side of the house and thought the pole would make a good fan stand. Turns out I was right. All it took was one of the old wheels off the truck, a Slant 6 crank pulley, and some MIG wire to make it happen. I modified the dish mount to fit the fan and now I have what amounts to a portable hurricane. Now that I think about it, maybe I actually was productive. Maybe.
Another productive weekend...not here, but I'm sure it was somewhere. I am back in Duster mode. After much consideration and groaning, Ive swapped back to the Holley Sniper intake. The Edelbrock is a beautiful piece and the better of the two in terms of performance but more suited for drive-by-wire than cable. Can't say I didn't try. Got the throttle cable routed and connected thanks to the fine folks at Lokar. Had to modify the bracket a little, but it works. Still have to tweak the pedal to get true WOT, but for now it'll act as a soft rev limiter. Yeah, let's go with that. Finished plumbing the oil filter adapter after getting the right fittings. Funny how that works. I love Mancini Racing, but their kit sucks. Cheaper and easier to buy the hose, fittings, and remote filter mount than to buy their kit. One of my awesome neighbors gave me a big Dayton industrial fan. Its a wall mount deal, but I couldn't come up with a place to mount it on a shop wall so it sat in a corner. In an unrelated event, I removed the pole mounted HughesNet satellite dish from the far side of the house and thought the pole would make a good fan stand. Turns out I was right. All it took was one of the old wheels off the truck, a Slant 6 crank pulley, and some MIG wire to make it happen. I modified the dish mount to fit the fan and now I have what amounts to a portable hurricane. Now that I think about it, maybe I actually was productive. Maybe.