What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

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I got the engine out and on a stand which I don't like because it's too tall, but it's the only stand I have available now.

Then I got the steering gear, lines and pump out.

Then I got the manual steering box installed. The manual box is soooo smooth and it feels like butter to turn the wheel now.

I had to the change the pitman arm with a new moog one. The old one was rusted and froze.... and also for a 72 and older setup.

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Running the Holley sniper and made some AFR changes Friday night as I found it to be a little rich on idle when cold adjusted cranking from 150% -130% and adjusted my cruise from 14.1-14.8 .Took the better half yesterday for lunch and on the way home I said I want to test it under full throttle so there’s an industrial area where I test and tune told her to hold on and launched it from 1st gear **** hit the limiter pretty quick bang it to 2nd than 3rd was doing 80mph in a 80km zone backed off was impressed on how well it preformed and crisp it was. After we got back and parked it I could see the claw marks left on the passenger seat from where the wife was holding on. Need to up the rev limiter on the 6AL to 6000 had it set for 5500rpm. Good times.
 
Replacing wheel cylinders on all 4 corners, and removed about 2 pounds of dirt/grease from the 50 year old a-frames.
 
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just cleaned and painted the wiper motor, heater is next. Just little things going on here but I like doing the detail work just not as good as I use to be but what the heck better than it was.
 
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Found a nice spot in my back yard for some photos and a little videoc of the Beeracuda idling.
Blupity blup blup blup
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Love your car! Gives me inspiration to work on my red notch. 'Beeracuda', lol. "Blupity blup blup blup" is my new favorite thing. :)
 
Today I ordered new Legendary rear seat kit for the 67 coupe. My vinyl is original and pristine but the original burlap and cotton have to go. My Edelbrock AVS2 is running a little rich but I am struggling to order the $68 kit. The AFR is dropping to 10/11 when I engage the transmission or on upshift and its cruising at 13 to 14 which I think I would like to see 14-15. I could put a little stiffer rod spring in but that won't help the 55-70 MPH cruise readings. That's rod and jets and coming up with a tuning chart has been a challenge. I printed a rod and jet chart off Edelbrock's website and I am taking my you tube lessons so I guess I will get to that too-----------------------
 
Installed new antenna on my car that I got at Carlisle last week. Don't even have a radio in the car. Also installed rear package tray w/padding and a new original style wood knob on the Hurst shifter. All thanks to Carlisle. 100 degree day and I was sweating bullets. Still had a smile on my face the entire time. What do you guys use for insulation/noise reduction under your carpet. I'm getting close to installing my interior.
 
Installed heat and sound barrier and started to put dash together .used noico sound barrier had good reviews and less pricey than others 80 mil thick

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Installed new antenna on my car that I got at Carlisle last week. Don't even have a radio in the car. Also installed rear package tray w/padding and a new original style wood knob on the Hurst shifter. All thanks to Carlisle. 100 degree day and I was sweating bullets. Still had a smile on my face the entire time. What do you guys use for insulation/noise reduction under your carpet. I'm getting close to installing my interior.
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Finished working on the van today so back inside garage.I trimmed the inside quarter lip back about 3/8 of and inch just for a little extra clearance on the Sport.Should be good now!

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Holy compression test batman! Started the tuneup late this evening, so I only got half way done. I'll get the points and timing tomorrow (or next weekend). I was tempted to just drop in my new (used) Unilite dizzy, but I'll just save it for the 360 build.
The little guy and I went to O'Reilly's for some gunk engine cleaner and brake cleaner, found some hot wheels while we were there. Yeah, it's a '55 Chevy, but it's cool so I had to get it. Note the masking tape with numbers on the plug wires, saves a lot of aggravation.

I have been having an INTERMITTENT loss of power, over 4,000 or so. Sometimes it'll keep pulling, and other times it just does NOT want to, and this is at 5:30am with nice cool 50* air temps. I am not too concerned because of the 360 that I'm building. Even if I destroy this 318 I won't sweat it.

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I was thinking that the intermittent issue of no power over 4,000 rpm may be a fuel delivery issue.

With the new RN14YC plugs, the idle came down to a nice and smooth easy 650 rpm. Air temp was around 85*. I am about 2 miles away from the Santa Rosa Airport (STS) elevation of 128'. 0.035" gap, 30 ft-lbs torque on the plugs per the service manual.

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Since I was replacing the plugs, I figured I'd slap the compression gauge on it and see what I had. Not so good. Been running our awesome California unleaded gas with untouched 675 heads. Any bets on whether it's the rings, or exhaust valves?

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Close ups of the plugs... They are about 3 years old. Note the insulators on plugs 1, 4, 5, 7, 8. Now, per the service manual, figure 4 page 8-61, it looks like I've had overheating issues, which I can confirm, as I had to replace the Griffin radiator, which sprung a leak where the cores were not well welded on the top right side. Also, you can hear detonation when hammering the throttle when going up steep grades, at elevations less than 1000'. I may end up retarding the timing when I replace the points and set the timing.

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I have not touched my car this year, put it in a storage building around Halloween with my Willy’s.
Have not even started either one up.

I have been working on building another car.
 
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