>For Classics made from 1979 or older, with few exceptions.>Everybody has their own taste, but some tastes are wrong. If you aren't sure if your car is classic or not, it's not.>Your Honda Miata doesn't belong here.>US, Euro, Jap, or whatever.>Post your classic, your work on it, your hackery, and get advice.>Any and all discussion about classics welcome, but may not necessarily generate responses; don't get butthurt.>Period correct performance > cosmetics.>Metal > plastic.>Classic shitbox > modern shitbox.>JBweld and RTV can fix anything>If you see rust there is more.>Rust and bodywork are the most difficult thing to repair.>Electrical work is difficult until you stop reading forum posts and buy a multimeter.>Low oil pressure? Worn mains and rod bearings. Use lucas and 15W40 until you afford a rebuild.>POOPOOPEEPEE>Do NOT buy a classic and plan to pay someone to work on it. You need to be able to do 90% or more of the work or you will go broke.>You will spend twice your budget, unless you have years of experience. If the salty old hands agree, it's true.>No one cares about your MPG>If you can't tune a carb you might literally be retarded>Nothing is as easy as it seemsPrevious thread: >>27973127
>>28014872i need to put a vaccum guage back in it but i think it comes on before the secondaries, I think i usually set them to come in to enrich the tip-in under load.I did just eyeball around and I found a real odd amount of slack in this link for the secondary throttle blade which seems to allow the blades to flop around alot, I would be suprised if adjusting it will solve anything.I couldnt see any shit in the idle air bleeds.I still havent touched the float because im devising a way to pull the gas out of the bowl instead lf dumping it into a wrag.some extra reading into my notes I beleive my primaries are 72salso I found a picture of the vaccum I think it were making last time I fucked with the timing.
>>28014939one ultra retarded thing is my afr reading could be questionable, I fucked up and welded the bung on the inside of a turn which the tech support nerds said can cause faulty readings, could possibly be that it's richer than it's telling me that it is.
>>28014945im not completely sure if I beleive him
>>28014939>link for secondarythis pencil dick piece here, need to read into this cocksucker cause it feels wrong to have the throttle blades be able to rattle back and forth from 0-10% by hand
>>28014960couple forums ive checked discussing it say that it shouldn't have that slack and they just bend it back.
>>28014960https://files.catbox.moe/dls5hj.mp4
>>28014939The slop in the link is to positively close the secondary when the primary close. Just run it and adjust the float level down. No need to dump fuel. The engine will burn it.
>>28015169>to positively close the secondary when the primary closethats just it, its flopping about like this at 0 throttle
I left my toolbox in the barn for about 3 days and a mouse moved into it. Killed it and cleaned the piss out and forgot about it. Did my rings yesterday and after I was done and cleaning up I noticed 18 and 19 thou were rusted together because the gauges got pissed on. Now have 37 thou ring gap on all the rings. Fuck these corn field niggers I won't stop until they're all fucking dead
>>28015625You can bend it, just make sure that it doesn’t hold the primary off the idle screw stop. It’s only a safety linkage in case the secondary sticks it can’t stay wide open. If it closes it almost all the way and still has a little slack it’s fine. The carb will work without it and you’d never know unless the secondary stuck open.
>>28016207dont buy those bromothelin chunks and place them inside your shop or in your engine compartments, itll kill them but whats worse is the shit attracts them to your stuff worked with a guy whod buy those buckets and sling them in the rafters in his shop, it was 2 rat shit per cubic inch in the floor a year later.
>>28016207Good sealing / bedded rings with too large a gap shouldnt hurt you too much. t. rings out the box for engine were over the max OEM spec. still didnt burn oil until way later in life (a lifetime of beatings
>>28016621the most successful traps i had are the glue traps, but the fat fucks just drag them around and leave chunks of hair everywhere. they wont eat any bait i leave them, poison or in snap traps>>28016654its $60, bores look like ass and the rings are practically spec out of the box, im quite torn
Bone-stock 383 with a 4-barrel Holley in a '71 'Cuda. If you stab the throttle, it bogs hard and the engine falls over itself, but if I roll into the throttle, it revs perfectly fine. Time for a carb rebuild? And if so, what part of the carb should I focus on first? I'm personally thinking the secondaries aren't opening fast enough.
>>28016778Accelerator pump diaphragm probably rock hard.
>>28016788Considering the last time the carb had any work done on it was in the early '90s, you very well may be right.
>>28016771I agree the glue traps are the best, Geese. What I usually do is put a dollop of chunky peanut butter in the center and they can’t resist. If you are looking for an immediate kill, the rat traps with the yellow plastic trigger is best. I put a of partially chewed bubble gum( bubble tape is my go to) and try and get it in the little grooves on the trigger. It’ll dry over night if not touched by morning and they can’t resist that shit. Personally I’m a softy and will use glue traps for catch and release but if they piss me off, the standard spring loaded rat traps with the bubble gum are my go to.
>>28016778Damn, how’d you come into that? Fuggin badass.
>>28016832the house i renovated had at least a dozen mice in it, i threw them alive into the trash can outside in the middle of summer when it was 100+ out and probably 130 in the can in direct sunlight. its cooling off so im thinking of some other way i could torture the fucking pricks. also i think geese is done building his engines for a minute
>>28016836Mom and Dad snapped it up for $3,700 in 1985 when I was still a little kid. This one, is considered to be the "best" one of the fleet of Barracuda/'Cuda convertibles. Dad got it in his head that he wanted a convertible from every year available, 1967 to 1971, and he actually did it, before passing away 3 years ago, so Mom and I are the caretakers now. Completely unrestored. Clearly, there's some bad spots in the paint, but in tiny areas.
>>28016847Ah my bad. You and geeese have similar looking areas of homesteads. Yeah man, try the bubblegum trick on the snap traps. If they do manage to trigger it without getting caught, it’s because the bubblegum piece was too big and they were able to just sit there and snack. If it’s small and inside the perimeter of the yellow plastic trigger, they will be working to get it out and *crrrrack*, they’re dead.>>28016858Very nice. Any pics of the rest of the collection?
>>28016858Nice ride anon.
>>28016868Yup! Here's the '69 and '68 Barracudas. The '69 is a giant pile of mixed parts. Front end from a '67. 318 4-barrel from 1970, and a 4-speed manual from a '71 Roadrunner. It's an utter pile, but looks nice. The white '68 is Mom's laid-back cruiser drive. 318 2-barrel, with automatic trans.>>28016871Thanks. That car is so completely moody. Other people try and drive it, and it either won't start, or run like dogshit. When I drive it, it behaves.
>>28016868Here's the '70 'Cuda convertible, parked in the same spot in the garage for over 30 years, up on jack stands. This was the family car we drove around in when I was a little kid. Has a shitty 50s polyshpherical 318 in it, but Dad collected and was assembling a date-code correct 340 block for it. 3-speed manual.
>>28016868We sold the '67 back to the original owner that Dad bought it from after Dad died. Turns out it was the original owner's car when he was in high school. We even found his graduation tassel beneath the driver's seat, which he thought he lost.
>>28016886>>28016892>>28016898It’s so nice to see a Plymouth guy instead of a Dodge guy. Are you working on the 340 for the ‘70 currently? For me the ‘70 Cuda is best looking Mopar with the ‘71 a close second.
>>28014856Yeah
>>28016903Not currently. I'm still trying to clear out both floors of the garage. Deciding between a set of old iron heads Dad picked up, or going with some aluminum heads.
>>28016903Seriously, it's a goddamn mess.
s10fag and Greased Geese, what’s the sitch with the hurricane relief over there? Is it as fucked as /pol/ says it is?
>>28016913>>28016919Very cool regardless. Hope you get it going sooner than later!Also>dat Mopar flatheadWhat’s that going into?
>>28016967Nothing, really. Just a "spare" engine Dad had for the '50 Business Coupe stashed away in the bottom of the garage, with the '70 'Cuda. A longtime friend and crazy-as-hell wrenchbro has been helping out alot with trying to get everything in order, and we might be selling it to him.https://files.catbox.moe/uluazp.mp4>dead of winter, heating garage with propane tank screw-on ceramic heaters>it's cold as balls still>garage is packed full of hoarder-levels of parts/junk amassed by Dad>Hendrix is playing on shitty 8-track>still wrenching on an O.G. original 'Cuda Convertible
>>28016921it hadnt rained since 31 july, it threatened to rain for the past couple weeks and never did, then it rained nonstop from thursday to saturday causing some flashflooding, no damage here but its legitimately catastrophic further south of here in east tennessee
>>28016921i dont live in hurricaine alley i just get a couple dumb gusts
fuck my air compressor is eating shit, smoking hot pump and not buildin much pressure. is that gonna be rings? its just an old belt driven craftsman
>>28016921It's pretty fucked, my brother is part of a group of private pilots flying supplies into some of the mountain towns in North Carolina
My brother's friend just picked up this fuckin' thing. Only around 400 or so were built, and there are only 5 known survivors, this being one of them. 654cc two stroke 2 cylinder. A real oddball.
>>28017165Single stage pump? Probably the outlet valve is toast and it’s probably not rebuildable or parts not available.
>>28017054...right
>>28017917this is what im working with, the cylinders seem great so i think you are right about it being a valve problem. i guess the vavles are accessible by prying of this block on the head? it was also leaking oil from the head gaskets, so maybe thats the problem if it was just that smoking off. ill try to give it a clean and make ot acquire some gaskets and slap it back together and see. i had just pieced it together from some other garbage and it was working great for a minute there, have about $100 into the whole thing
>>28018241Post pic of top side of head.
What up dudes, apologize for the the spoonfeed request I’m currently waiting on a factory service manual and a restoration guide in the mail and have tried looking at forums with no luck so figured I’d ask to see if anyone just happened to know. Buddy lost the keys to that 68 javelin he’s supposed to be trading me. Not really a huge deal since I’m probably going to just do a bypass and electric pump and killswitch anyways, but curious if anyone happens to know off the top of their head cross compatibility of ignition lock cylinders, possibly to a bigger manufacturer like Ford or GM. My buddy swears that AMC used gm ignition lock cylinders but I’m looking at pictures on American parts depot they look different, and NOS AMC ones are like 300$ which leads me to believe it probably doesn’t interchange with anything GM, at least not in 68.
>>28017646>Those Extraordinary Men and their Magnificent Red Racer Machines
>>28016919What a beauty
>>28018783Did some digging. It’s an AC-Delco lock cylinder but doesn’t cross to a GM application. Did you punch the lock? Can you have a locksmith pin it out and cut a key? OEM stuff is rare and expensive.
picked up a hooker in the pontiac today. unfortunately i had to kill him so now i've got blood in the trunk i get to clean out.
first I get 'wait a bit bf you post'and then something eats my post? we got a.i. mods filtering posts now? wat are the verboten words?
said fuck it and ordered new rings. f150 should go back together soon, could contact no one who would make the pipe from scratch or modify an existing non-dpfe egr pipe. google says 96 eec-v shouldnt freak out when its left unplugged but we'll see. turned the old pipe into plugs because they were special sizes you couldn't buy - fuck ford for that - and we'll see how it ends up, truck is not going to stay the way it is unless its someone else's
>>28021141dude im pretty sure i cut a 5/8s or 3/4 ubolt and threaded it into my heads, you don't need that dumb fuckin crossover pipe.
>>28022247nothing threads into the head on this, i could make an egr block off plate but it was easier to just weld a lug stud into the pipe ends
>>28022247oh, this is the EGR not the smog pump shit. did that 400 mile yardsale thing in southern ky, picked up a couple sbc intakes and some toys, sterling silver, was worth my while, absolutely forgot to call that guy with the egr weiand, he was not far away at multiple points today and im kicking myself for it
what do you guys recommend for exterior vinyl tops? for restoring, preserving, etc
>>28017646Pistons on this thing are really wierd.
>>28024107The two-stroke system is pretty cool, too. Supposedly you don't have to add oil to the fuel as you'd expect, but there's a system that automatically mixes engine oil into the cylinder. Again, very odd.
>>28024112Mazda has an oil injection pump for their rotary engines that just injects oil into the combustion chamber straight from the sump for lubrication.
>>28024475Well, that explains the excessive oil consumption.
>>28024789
>>28016903To be fair, Plymouth guys are usually just Dodge guys with money.
im digging into this 380hp mopar crate motor shit and why its rated so low, but now im questioning if mopar even knows how to build an engine. we got:163cc intake runners1.92 intake valve9.0:1 comp360ci and: 288/292 duration camsingle plane intake750cfm carbare they retarded? there's no way the block is effectively utilizing that cam and intake setup. all of that shit is way oversized and has to be killing power. there's no way a 350 vortec can break 410hp with a smaller cam, carb, intake, and only 7cc larger runners, and a magnum is at its limits at 380hp, they have to be fucking retarded, this math ain't mathin'
https://westernmass.craigslist.org/cto/d/longmeadow-1973-chevy-malibu/7789162847.html
>>28025119Do it anon, it looks good.
>>28024789>excessiveonly to people who know nothing about rotaries
>>28026166>those fender flares Cheers to eBay
Tell me why buying this car is a retarded idea /o/
>>28026514I mean, if you want it and have the money to comfortably purchase it, is it retarded?
posting here since /ctg/ is dead. not sure if this is the right place. I'm thinking of picking up this 1990 Toyota Carib (corolla Alltrac). it has a couple of problems, but I think I can fix most of them. chassis is a bit rusty, but I plan to drive it around all winter, so I don't care. main thing I'm worried about is sticky second gear. is that just the synchros? people tell me it's normal with a 30 year old Rolla and I just have to rev match. will it get really bad or just be a minor annoyance?
>>28026862Try dumping the fluid out and replacing it w Synchromesh fluid. It will help with worn synchros
>>28023941anybody? online recommends 303 protectant
Just found out that Summit brands their own copper/brass radiators. Thinking of picking one up for my square body. Anybody have any experience? Mostly wondering about fitment
>>28026965that's what I was thinking. also gonna bleed the clutch. but I'm also just wondering if I should even buy it. how bad is worn synchros really? lots of people from the ae95 community are telling me they're all like that and it's fine, but I'm also planning to daily this thing, so idk.could it also be possible that it's somehthing to do with the shifter linkage itself? when I test drove it, it didn't really grind. it really felt like the actual shifter linkage was sticky and it made a loud popping sound when putting it into 2nd. didn't seem to go away from double clutching or rev matching.
>>28027551The sticking is easy, it's probably cheaper to buy a whole $20 shifter for an eg civic or something and put that in. The synchros are purely a driveability issue, it's not going to damage the transmission as long as you're patient with it
>>28027945okay so you're telling me that this sticking thing isn't synchros, it's just the shifter? that's kinda what I was thinking, but I'm not 100% sure how to diagnose it. I'm going back to check on the car tmrrw. can you tell me what I need to do to check? I don't mind replacing shifter linkage parts. I'd probably even just order an OEM corolla Alltrac one. But the transmission for these caribs are unobtainium, since it's both JDM and AWD, so I really don't want to buy something that will have transmission issues that can't be fixed by changing the oil or clutch.pic not actual car
>>28027276They are manufactured by TSM, a reputable American company, though it seems that some of them are Mexico manufactured. No firsthand experience yet, as I am waiting to see if my bumpside Ford blows this crappy aluminium/plastic radiator before I go that route.
>>28026514Because you already have a supercharged gen2
>>28027241What car? Most of the time car specific repros exist. My dad has a first gen Moostang with a vinyl top and he had it replaced with one from Scott Drake before they sold out to Holley and went cheap.
>>2802830483 caprice are you implying you wouldn't recommend using a vinyl protectorant spray?
>>28029223ohhhhh I see what you meant. No idea, he stores it in the garage and I don't think he uses a dressing.
>>28029223i have one i have meticulously removed from a 80 riviera for rust repair, post back whatever you do learn about these because the car isnt worth replacing it
>>28029317ok thx ya like I said I found some people recommended this product called 303 protectorant and apparently its sold in walmart so I'll check it out / try it out eventually and report back. I definitely will not be taking the vinyl off as I know I will fuck it up lol. just trying to keep it there for as long as possible. whats it look under the vinyl? is it possible to just get rid of the vinyl and rock it that way? or is too ugly like that?
>>28029223sheeeit, nigga
>>28029417On a caprice you can probably remove it, my car was only ever sold with a vinyl top so there is no trim around the rear window and it's pretty ugly. Vinyl tops are known for strapping moisture under them and rusting your roof out, mine was no different.
still whacking away at the last (and most fucked) quarter panel. just going to close it in now and i can finish the primer
So I have a 65 mustang project.It's been sitting but is 100% complete, ran when parked.I know a guy with a dodge truck with a v10 that was in an accident, only body and suspension were damaged.Ford I6 > Dodge V10 swap a little on the sacrilege side or fuck it, in this day and age atleast theyre both domestic (?)
>>28029417The vinyl is glued to the steel so there's a lot of cleanup when you pull it off.You have to be ready to prep and repaint otherwise you'll be contributing to the rust issues that (have/will) develop with the vinyl inplace.
>>28029527>>28030074>We will live long enough to see the Rex brought back from the dead....
>>28030119have fun getting that to fit. i was at least going to try a C body mopar. lmk how you figure out the ignition system
>>28030242crank trigger
>>28030343you're keeping efi? I wanted to braze a bunch of 2bbls to a 4bbl to have a 8 pack
>>28030461nah the crank trigger would be for the ignition box. I mean you could potentially just rig a distributor off the timing cover, but you'd only have mechanical advance.
>>28030242>have fun getting that to fitNot an issue.>pic 1Look at valve cover to grill distance.
>>28030556>pic 2429 boss with the karkraft shock tower mod.
>>28030560Yes I'm aware the '69 is wider to begin with.But the V10 is narrower than the BOSS.Plus there's a multitude of suspension options to to deal with those pesky shock towers.With modern components they can be deleted completely
>>28030497where we getting that 5/10 cylinder magnetic pickup? verging into custom parts territory
>>28030656>verging into custom parts territoryTHEY DON'T CALL IT HOT RODDIN' FOR NOTHIN'-BILLY CHRISTOPHER "CRYSTAL" STEVENS
I got this Orion cam bearing tool that everyone including UTG rants and raves about, and not even Lucas can stop the inner band from bunching up when you tighten it. I spent all morning babying this piece of shit trying to install bearings and it's fucked up 3 of them by collapsing the spread end and sliding through or cockeyeing. I ended up using a pipe wrench to tighten the cup enough to install one bearing correctly at which point the outer cup was so torn up it was unusable. I don't see the point of making a bearing driver that isn't of the traditional style with brass cups. I am noticing lots of tools are seemingly made for faggots like my father who stock their garage but never use them. The blocks been apart in my barn for 3 months, at this point I should have just bought a V8 car because this 'spend $300 and wait a month to do 5 minutes of work' -shit is driving me insane.
the only brass driver tool i could find that spec'd fitting a sbf was $1400. sbc's largest cam bearing has the same ID as an sbf's smallest, if 30 thou more on the largest bearing is enough to fuck up ill scrap the engine and ls swap it, im fucking tired of this shit
>440 hp>engine seized>barley rotates a few degrees with heads off>wrist pins seizedWell great time to put high comp pistons in
>>28032141You're a chevy guy at heart, why are you still fucking with Fords, s10fag?
>>28032141you fucking retarded nigger lilse will sell you a 70 dollar cam bearing tool i should fucking stomp you on the fucking head you giant fucking nigger, die.
>>28032141pretending to be a retard isn't funny
>>28032330Post an expanding rubber band tool and I'll strap it over your balls and castrate you painfully over the course of a few days>>28032312GM sucks just as bad, only difference would be I could work on a 2001 Camaro with only metric tools >>28032333I wish this was fucking funny, suck my dick
>>28032346>GM sucks just as bad, only difference would be I could work on a 2001 Camaro with only metric toolsNot sure what to tell you. Suck it up? I mean, you've got enjoy what you're working on, no?
>>28032354Car runs and drives, ac clutch away from ac, I'm happy with that, it's just not fast. Didn't even need Cam bearings, just wanted to be thorough, and now it's fucked me. Again. As if I didn't do enough cutting the floor out of an explorer, dropping the k member on 2 other cars, and cutting bell housing bolts off to have a manual. should've bought a V8 car that ejected plugs. This shit where there's an illusion that progress is a $60 part or tool away is obnoxious.
>>28032387>Didn't even need Cam bearings, just wanted to be thorough, and now it's fucked me.I don't want to bring the timeless idiom up, but I'm sure you know it now, kek
>>28032399I know... Did the 1 and only freeze plug the S10 needed and it was solid for a year and a half knowing full and well all of the others were probably paper thinMachine shops don't even pick up the phone here and Richmond's waiting list is a year long. It's either get janky or buy another block
>>28032417Move to Oklahoma. I've got a couple of machine shops here who will take good care of you, no bullshit. My usual guy has my stuff done inside of 2 months.
>>28032462Maybe in a few years. I've got a good thing going right now, cheap property, lots of old people dying for estate sales, and Nashville money coming up to buy it all. As much as I bitch about it this is just a after work hobby now. Would like to resettle somewhere else though. If I really wanted to buy a C6 for the track I could, but I like building stuff, when it doesn't take forever.
>>28032519>If I really wanted to buy a C6 for the track I could,Seriously, OK is probably the place for you. Hallett Motor Speedway is a great short track that the Mid-America Shelby and Ford meet uses on the regular every year for meet racing. Seeing as you are close to Nashville, I'm sure your property values are probably around 5% higher(if not more) than what we have around here. I think TN humidity and summer temps is probably on par with us, kek, so it should be a relatively seamless transition.
I was given a 352 ford FE Anything I should know? It's in kinda shitty shape, and doesn't have a carb or distributor
>>28032895It says 352 on the block, but don't assume it is until you check the bore and stroke. Could be a 332. 360 or 390.
>>28032895all of them say 352, you'll have to pop the oil pan off and measure the crank i had a 360 that sat on marketplace for 6 months and i ended up scrapping it, i even offered it to coastie for free after his 390 blew up, they're effectively worthless
>>28033058Good motors, but the intake manifold situation on them can be a pain in the ass. You'll need to buy a couple of sets of intake gaskets cause you'll inevitably screw up a set trying to figure out the alignment of the intake onto the block. Also, the cork china wall gaskets always push out, so don't bother using them, just prep the intake and block really well for a fat bead of RTV on the china walls.
we get a little silly
>>28033186lookin good
>>28033075>they're effectively worthlessThey're amazing engines but there are 10x more blocks than era-correct vehicles to put them in.Nobody wants to put time into an engine that runs $2x more for parts to make the same power as a SBC or SBF, and we're not even getting into modern engine swaps.It's a shame because with aluminum parts you can get down to about 440lbs on a 7L with shaft mounted rockers and cross bolt mains (aftermarket, good luck finding a factory cross bolt block) and if you want to build a money pit you can pump out 800hp without going to forced induction or NOS.
>>28033077That 76 pound iron intake is a fucking nightmare to install when the engine is in the vehicle.An aluminum edelbrock is 14 pounds.If you have an FE and ever have to pull the intake, I highly suggest you do the swap.If it's a matching numbers car, put the iron on the shelf.
>>28033263>An aluminum edelbrock is 14 pounds.A word of caution on those is that you have to check for correct runner angle so that the intake lines up with the heads and you don't have a intake gasket vacuum leak. Otherwise, it's almost certainly a must do. I kept the iron 4bbl on my trugg just to keep weight on the front end for towing purposes, otherwise I would have gone aluminium.
>>28033319Forgot to mention the runner issue is reported to have only been happening since 2020, so vaxxbrains might be machining them wrong at the factory in LA.
>>28033058Okay so I measured the stroke through the spark plug hole and it's about 3.5 i guess means it's a 352 or 360. It has a COAE 8425 part number on the 2 barrel intake. I'll be able to take some pictures next week
>>28032346>Post an expanding rubber band tool and I'll strap it over your balls and castrate you painfully over the course of a few daysthey work faggot
>>28033330It's got to be a DEI issue because a 332 (boat/heavy equipment version) and a 427 SOHC and everything inbetween have the same head angle- 90 degrees from the deck- on intake and exhaust side.
>>28034027>DEII forget about that seeing LA is spic central. I know the angle is supposed to be the same, I just know a lot of boomers on boomerbook groups for the FE have reported some issues here and there on the Edelbrocks. Shit, even some of the cylinder heads were having issues (guides I think) straight out of the box.>>28033835Ok that part number indicates 1960 so yeah, you most likely have a 352. What is the block casting number? And the cylinder head part numbers are in between the center two exhaust ports.
not sure i want to do a body swap in the middle of the woods and go buy an obs dually bed and then still have the front wheels look like i have 3" spacers. how about just swapping the 5.4 into the f150? i hate working on 1 tonne running gear and can go get f250 springs and arp wheel studs or whatever to stop wheels falling off later >>28034014cool, im going to use a brass driver like you would for literally any other kind of bearing
Getting closer. ran out of wire, heading out for more soon
FUCK NIGGERS
meds
>>28036506>>28037627kekalso, bumpingFUCK NIGGERS
>>28036094looking good
>>28014856Looking at aftermarket parts for my 260z, Any recommendations? Airfilter, Oil filter attachment, radiator, exhaust, carby.I don't think i need anything else.
>>28040089>I don't think i need anything else.wrong. You're missing the Itasha.
>>28040108>ItashaYou pay for it, I will get it.
primed, painted, carpeted
>>28040379What year? My grandad had a '32. It was used as a prop in A River Runs Through It
>>28041212also seam sealed. primed, painted and then rubberized undercoating was applied underneath
>>28041237Not sure, I thought it was a late Model A with a 24 stud swap. I even talked to the owner, but neglected to look closer at the sticker denoting the year. I was mostly interested in the cylinder heads, which are big time money.
>>28017646I may be retarded but what's that?
>>28024806Aren't Plymouth cars generally from this era cheaper than Dodge cars?
>>28041252Ah, it's a hotrod, thenI wonder if riced out Civics will be in these threads 70 years from now
>>28040352>>28040371Beautiful Merc. How did you get it?
>>28041276I wonder if 4chan in general will exist 20 years from now
>>28041212Well shit.It's almost a truck again.
>>28041324>>28041276I wonder if the world will exist in 70 years? But yeah, it was a hotrod.>>28041320Fuck, I wish it were mine. It was the best paint job IMO out of 250+ hot rods at the show. This was Gathering at the Roc in Oklahoma. There was even a legit 1950s Mercedes-Benz SLR painted blue at the show, but I didn't get a pic of it. I asked the owner if it was glass or metal and that really chapped his ass lol
I'm working with a younger friend - not the ztard - to see about 3d printing a vortec upper to use a carburetor. I've been told pla can withstand being wet intake material but the vortec lower wasn't designed to be wet, I imagine if someone started making power they would run into issues. The factory piece is so short I don't know if runners can even be made on the interior. I'm sure even as a stopgap it may appeal to people who don't want to toss $500 at a single use intake >>28041351The idea of a public world wide web is gonna disintegrate, im surprised it took this long for governments to step in and start banning things. Google already silently removes search results and there's no interest in breaking the monopoly. I'm sure China is the future, 'for our own safety' and no one will really care. Hell, they stole 700 billion from us just a decade ago and all we did was have a little protest, make it about lgbt rights, and say fuck it after a week or two, no ones going to care that they can't access an anime image board.
>getting temped be garbage again because it's cheapI'm so tired bros, can boomer God just have a Nova break down in front of my house and sell it to me for $500.
>>28043244buy an sn95, there are tonnes of v6's that need to become v8's
>>28043462That one's $900 but it's been up for a month, so maybe I can rape him.I can deal with the v6 but being a convert is gay. Guy says engine was rattling, he took it to the mechanic and he said it need a con rod. I was searching V8 again after seeing it but people were saying conflicting shit on forums. Is this guy right?
>>28043475if its a 94-98 yeah, you just need a 94/95 harness and pcm, the k member, tranny, radiator, etc can be re-usedi bought an 01 not knowing all the intricacies and im going to have to fuck with a explorer returnless fuel system, tuning a cdan4/fbfg2 ecu, and cutting up 2 cars worth of harnesses, but my $900 car only needed 7 fuel pumps and the a/c works. There are LOTS of these cars, you don't have to settle for a 'vert if you don't want to.
>>28043475that guy is swapping from 2.3 to 5.0, which uses a different bell, the 3.8 in an sn95 uses the same bell and ring gear tooth count, you dont have to change a thing
>>28043487I don't want one but I also kinda of want one if you know what I mean. I hate how converts look but actually driving it I wouldn't mind, if it was a hard top it'd be easy. All of these cars are obliterated around here, even the v6 ones. If it's rust free wouldn't be bad to drive around until I get an actual classic.Just saw a cumarro at a similar price in a similar state, won't turn over, v6 but at least it's a targa, just asked about that one too
>>28043544i dont actually know much about the 4th gens, but that looks like an early one with the 3.4, there are people who mess with the v6's and make em sing but a v8 swap is a lot more involved. the nice thing about these modern cars is they don't rust nearly as bad. my 01 mustang is 190k miles of illinois, shock towers are ugly but ive seen worse, and that's all the rust in the whole car
>>28043591Age has nothing to do with it, shit I've seen at the auction is like 10 years old but somehow completely obliterated. Yeah we wash during the winter but even if you don't idk how you get that bad so fast. It's like they park on top of a heated slab after spraying the body with salt religiouslyFord's rocker panel cover bullshit cost me two cars in the rust belt, just evaporates half the sheet metal before I got my hands on them and wasn't as extremely paranoid as I am now.
>>28043604i had an '80 fairmont i tried to baby and put it in a tent to keep the water off it, tent hotboxed it in our humidity and the shock towers were about all that was left after just 2 years in storage. car never saw salt in its entire life. Galvanized steel and modern paint is a HUGE upgrade. I got tired of fucking with that kind of problem. Anything this old though has to have been taken care of to last this long, just placing bets that the more recent owners kept up the trend, i also wouldnt fuck with auctions unless its insurance related or BaT tier. A friend of mine totaled a turbo 300zx going 15mph and was paid out $14k, told him to go buy the car back and he refused, the car sold for $1000 needing front end sheet metal
>>28043628the rustiest early 80s foxbodys ive ever had down here still never had structural rust, the worst ones ive seen have the hood hinge area pitted to hell or damaged and some pitting in the floors from sitting in tall grass for years
>>28043628Maybe it's worse there, obviously I'm not seeing tons of old cars but if it was that bad here there wouldn't be any left since most of them are in disrepair. Most of the rust already happened before they got parked, if they are washed, not on dirt and not covered I think they probably got the best chance to avoid the temperature swings. There's a Nova I've mentioned before I wanted to buy that's been sitting for 10 years but the guy was a lunatic. Has less rust sitting outside at 40+ than a 2000's Mazda, which isn't saying much because Mazda's that aren't Miata's just evaporate into thin air since the actually get driven in the winter.I'm just talking about auctions when I was looking for a normal car, never actually bought one. I'm convinced it's a money laundering OP since I'd see total pieces of shit sell for more than stuff on facebook. I'd joke about it being a knife fight to actually get anything at the auction but then there was a literal knife fight at the auction.Still tempted to try the state one next Saturday since there are chargy wargys and bikes, I don't know what the prices will be but I bet somehow as retarded as the local one.
>>28043654everything but the structure was completely gone, floors doors and hatch were scaling from the inside out where they weren't painted from the factory>>28043666i have a 2.7 300, dont buy a v6 car planning on v8 swapping it, and check the idle hours on a v8, idling kills the hemi lifters, if you have a flexible budget try to get a caprice PPV, the prices still arent G8/GTO levels
>>28043699Oh no I don't intend to swap. Those other cars I probably wouldn't at least for a long time if the were good runners. I'm just bored so I'm gonna go there and see what it's like on preview day. I just want a cheap surrogate to put effort into to at least feel like I'm doing something.
>>28043718you know whats really cheap and probably lots of fun? A4 Jettas, 1.8t with the manual, most of them are owned by retards who dont want to touch them the second they have a problem because muh german. I found 3 i would look at if i wanted a new project tonight on marketplace. All of em under $1000pretty much every area on earth has a bunch of 3rd gen f bodies, they tend to be really ratty but if you were looking at sn95s it wouldnt be a problem, a supermajority are automatics, though
>>28043751>VWDon't get me started, told a friend not to buy a $14k 14 turbo like 2 months ago because of the info he gave me and now I hear 2 days ago he's in a lawsuit over it. He knows a VW tech who said he actually worked on that very car at some point years ago, and it had a rebuilt head despite having 30k miles, I said anything that required a head rebuild is probably bad news, be prepared to put a motor in it. Meanwhile I'm telling him how to replace the cracked upper oil pan when they fixed a different problem he noticed on test drive lol. He said they somehow cracked it with silicon when sealing it, how they fuck I don't know.I'll look though since I hate myself so why not. I'm not really like deliberately searching for SN95's, I just saw that one randomly and it looks rust free. Turd gens would be nice but I really just want to bolt things on and off, a rust free turd gen is as likely as finding my big titty hyperborean elf wife. The 2 Fords were enough rust for me for a while, then I had to replace the Honda crumble zone bumper that was falling apart months ago and reminded me how much I hate rust again.
>>28043787i had a B2 and wanted to swap the 1.8t from a B4 a couple years ago, and learned the transverse cars are just better. the pre-2005 1.8t and 2.0 are really good motors for reliability and power, even the sacred tdis are falling back into sane prices anything FR V8 is mogged or really old, i'd suggest an S10 being the easiest mini truck to v8 swap, but the prices are on par with F body rollers, which have a solid chance of being factory v8's
classics?
>>28043929Sorry gramps, this is a classic now.
>>28043929ea827 and its derivatives are classic territory, sn95 is a glorified foxbody, 3rd gens are classics checks out, bugger off cunt
got my carb cheater installed. its really neat seeing the live data feed. I'll mess with it more later.
>>28044776But.... why? Is this not just the same result as fuel injection, but with more steps and moving parts? Is this just for engines that can't be economically converted to FI?
>>28044810I dont know why everyone thinks its comparable to EFI. The simplest explanation is that it lets you have a computer controlled vacuum leak to finely tune your AFRsIt comes with a MAP sensor, a wideband o2, and an IAC valve. What its really good for is having a live data feed of pretty much exactly what your engine is doing, which takes out all the guess work out of tuning the carburetor itself. Once you have that jetted how you like, you can go into the computer's settings and set your target AFR, so for example while you're just cruising on the highway with little load, you set it to whatever afr you want and can lean it out a little so you get the best efficiency possible. It will also detect when you're getting on the throttle again, so it goes back to normal so you're not running too lean. This is a log I recorded from a short wide open up a highway on ramp. Clearly I got some shit to sort out.
>>28043978>checks out, bugger off cuntno it doesn't. kill yourself, niggerfaggot
>>28044819>I don't know why everyone thinks its comparable to EFII have never seen or hear about this until you posted, but in my eyes it's essentially a computer controlled carb, which seems a bit... Pointless, I guess? Half the reason people prefer carbs over computers is because "fuck computers, return to monke" anyway, so what's the real advantage of this over an EFI system other than cost? If your fuel delivery is essentially being computer controlled, I figure you just might as well go all the way, rather than settle for this weird hybrid. To me it seems like having all the inefficiencies, maintenance, and potential failure points of a carb, but also with the added complexity and cost of a computer. Is there some major advantage here that I'm just not getting? Again, never seen it before today and I just read the paragraph on the website and your post.
>>28044819>>28044836I should add that I'm not saying it's crap and worthless, as it does seem to be quite the clever bit of kit, but it just seems to be filling a very odd and arguably negligible niche.
>>28044836>>28044845It works totally independently of the carb, if something fails the engine runs just like it would if it weren't there to begin with. To me it seems kind of like what they were going for in the 80s with those horrible feedback carbs, but without the miles of vacuum spaghetti and bullshittery. Since you get on the fly adjustment for your tune, you could very likely still set your carb up to be a wide open all the time race setup but set the computer to reign it in for low load/around town driving. I still have a lot of playing around to do with it. also an added bonus for me, is that it has a built in tach based on coil signal which is nice because my car doesn't have one. Now I know my redline, which is actually higher than I thought it would be. pic related, but this was before I set the cylinder count to 4, so the rpm is actually twice whats shown.
>>28044873Hm. Fair enough.
any ideas how to find classic euros for sale in the states? looking for a particular model and can't find one for sale anywhere in any condition
>>28044940If you can't find anything online, then you can try club magazines related to whatever cars you want to buy. They'll usually have a classifieds page in the back.
I have been trying to get a 1963 Cadillac Deville running, it has sat in one place for 2 years. Battery, starter, ignition coil, spark plug wires and spark plugs all replaced but still no spark. The distributor looks brand new, all connecting points free of corrosion, new condensor on it. Still nothingAlso, it doesn’t seem to want to pump fuel up from the tank, but the mechanical fuel pump doesn’t seem broken. Any clues as to what I need to check next?
>>28045042fuel filter? i want to qualify this guess by stating im a wrenchlet
>>28044873damn, first time i've seen this thing posted here. have read about it before, apparently you can even use it for security too - can stop the engine from starting when turned off iirc.>>28044906the main reason to get one of these is to take the guess work out of tuning carbs. some people can tune a carb really well just by hearing alone, but not everyone is like that, most people usually do a "yeah this is good enough" tune. The best way to use this is to tune a carb as you normally would, then use the carb cheater to further fine tune it, instead of just relying on butt dyno.
>>28045042>Also, it doesn’t seem to want to pump fuel up from the tank, but the mechanical fuel pump doesn’t seem broken.Clogged fuel lines or the pickup sock in the tank. Have you tried blowing compressed air through the lines?
>>28045042you didn't mention the points. has that been addressed?
>>28045085Could also be a collapsed/cracked line. If air can get in, it'll never pump.>>28045110This. Take a screwdriver to the points and see if they spark when opened. If not, check for voltage at the coil. If you have voltage, sand and clean the surfaces. If that doesn't yield spark, check the coil with a multimeter.
>>28045067The fuel filter is fine also, it’s one of those glass bowl ones. I changed the filter part and cleaned all of that out so it’s all good now. But it isn’t even putting gas into that bowl now
>>28045085I tested the line from a one-way fuel valve to the pump, and the one from the pump to the filter. Both cases I examined (no cracks or leaks)I have not checked from behind the valve back to the tank yet though
>>28045126I sanded and cleaned all the surfaces inside the distributor head part, the ones that lead to the wires as well as the center piece. I just looked over the pinch-looking connector pieces below it, didn’t want to sand it or anything bc I was afraid I’d mess it up if it did indeed work properlyWhen checking the points with a screwdriver, do I need the key in the ‘ON’ position or anything? Or will it spark if I just pull them apart while key is out of car?
>>28045148>When checking the points with a screwdriver, do I need the key in the ‘ON’ position or anything?Yes.
>>28045164Yes! I have spark when I test it with a screwdriver! Now what?
>>28045189Figure out the fuel problem and you should be able to get it to run.
>>28045189Pull a plug lead. Are you getting spark there when cranking?
>>28045248Not that I can see. Maybe it’s the disteibutor cap that’s the issue? But I sanded the points on it, they look like they should work
>>28045269Could also be the rotor arm
>>28045269If you have spark at the points, then they're working and your issue is somewhere between the rotor and the plugs. Sand the inner terminals of the cap and the contact surface of the rotor and see if that gives you spark at the cylinders.
/marketplace/item/555575430484041What are Eagles going for?
So I got a 2008 Ford Edge that's got an intermittent long crank before it starts. It doesn't happen every time, usually when it's warmed up, but very rarely when it's cold. Any ideas?
What 1960's car would be ideal for the man who hates muscle cars, hates the Camaro, hates the Mustang, hates the GTO, hates the Charger, hates the Cuda and wants a car that is the ultimate antithesis of muscle cars?
>>28045397>>28045397Dodge Chally Wally
>>28045397FUCK OFF, NUMALE
dear frens, today i tried to fire up my jag (hasn't run in about a year and a half) using a battery i had lying around which was never used but also sat for a year and a half. couldn't get her to turn over after a jumpstart. is it more likely that the problem is with the car having sat or with the battery?
>>28045397>LOOK MOMMY, I POSTED IT AGAIN
>>28045397if you dont know enough about cars to know you want a gremlin get off this board
>>28045430why are you asking us instead of getting the battery tested
>>28045582autozone is 5 minutes away but you guys are zero minutes away
>>28045083You got it right, and yes it has an ignition cut feature. I haven't messed with it and I probably wont because nobody is going to steal this piece of shit for anything but scrap metal
>>28045721did you hear the knock on your front door? that was me.
>>28046370come inside, it's open (my asshole)
>>28046400yup, it's pontiac time
>>28046400checked
something came up that's interesting... a guy just came up to me and was like 'is your van for sale?' told him i wanted $6500 for it and he told me he had an 'identical van that needs a tranny' and wanted me to look at it later for a trade w cash. I have a feeling he's not going to understand a rusted out beat to hell van that needs a tranny doesn't take my price down to $500, but it's a extended 96 with some sort of v8. I have both a frame to put an extended body van on, and a 96 truck that desperately needs anything but a straight six, so we'll see how this plays out. Z-tard's girlfriend stepped on his cock and told him to trade the camaro for my truck or she'll find worse to do, he's bound to the dentist for not brushing his teeth so i have yet to hear more. I did find a kit to put a T56 in a third gen for $3500, im assuming this includes said T56 but this is suspiciously cheap, if its legit i might tell the sn95 to go fuck itself, a 400hp 6 speed 3rd gen is more than enough for me. >>28045164picrel
My son entered his vintage 4x4 into a racing comp and got last place, he didn't enter it to win it. Just to drive on a rally track in his 4x4.He won sunday driver award, newly created award.
>>28048219kek, based off road croozer
>>28048219forgot to ask, what was the difference between his time and the next guy, and the guy ahead of him? figure the award was created if the time difference was so huge that they figured he was just chilling
>>28048228The guy who was second last was driving at 110 most of the course.My son was about 30, he arrived after the celebrations and people were chatting for the bqq.
>>28048235lmfao that's great i love it
>>28048219>>28048219wat car?
>>28048427A G60 Patrol Long wheel base, It has a metal hard top.
>>28048498badass
>>28014856I think this is 1964 Chevrolet Impala SS, I tried to dig it up a bit but it's very far into decomposition.
>>28049217I could have that fired up and driving in 47 minutes
>>28049266i could fire my dick up your shitpipe in 47 pontiacs provided you bring a pint of cat piss
>>28049266just needs a quick boost and it'll be back to full force
>>28049291kek
guy showed up with his 96 e350, 351, 280k miles, no air, tranny didnt act up on me but he said it shudders in OD. it drives less straight than the F250 which i didnt think was possible. lots of bottles of oil everywhere, no coolant in the thing, body was straight and good. It's 100% body swap project I'm not even going to drive this to the field. I said i could take $2k off my price for the trade and he gave the typical 'oh i gotta look at my finances' and just kind of got short and left but still said thank you and wanted to shake my hand, its hard to read Minnesotans, they're usually bigger assholes. should i be expecting a call back from this guy? Power window motor #2 in the mustang works. I'm glad we're abridging the hellhole trips to the parts store this time.
>28049334>96stopped reading. fuck off.
>>28049338>reads it>'i didnt read it fuck u!!!1'you think if you bothered s10 he would have left by now? you're just clogging up the thread for everyone
got the gas tank back in and hooked up. just have to get new bolts for the bed and i can drive it. still have a few things to improve before I can take it innawoods reliably, though.>couple parts stores didn't have the tank lock ring on the shelf. the west has fallen.>>28049348nah i had i'm filtered, didn't even know it was him, didn't know he dropped trip. also i post content all the time so no, i don't clog the thread
>>28049348>pretending hes not s10kys, faggot
>>28049291would you be happy with 47 lamborghinis?
>>28049338>>28049478im going to make that pussy ass lightning ford made look like the pussy ass not even 250hp turd it was whether you like it or not, and then im going get a free upgrade to no windows and niggerlocks on my van, and get a bunch of fucking money in the process because this minnesota cuckwad only knows how to solve his problems at a dealership >>28049664rent free faggot
>>28050139KYS
>>28050146I'm a polite gentleman, ladies and trannies first
>>28050149so go get your rope then. YWNBARW
>>28050153how dare you use my face in the name of straightness, i'm going to suck your cock clean off faggot
>>28049900only if i could trade them all for a dirty old chevy styleline.
Not sure what the factory did, but I just attached a fuel filter to the breather line. Guess I can't ford water deeper than the top of the frame now.The Summit radiator fit will, but the top trans cooler outlet was in a different spot and the cap is on a 45 angle now, oh well. Oh and when I started filling the rad, the petcock was open. Total retard move.To do: >bolt the bed down>paint the wheels and get tires installed>rebuild the carb>fiddle with interior>re-do trans cooler fittings/soft lines setup
>>28050526good news!i have 47 lamborghinis in my lamborghini account
This is sure as hell not 30 thou bigger. Does this bitch even install SBC cam bearings? Fuck it I'm ordering a v6 gasket set and flywheel tonight.
>>28050477checked
Would you consider reverse osmosis filtered water the same as distilled for mixing coolant?
Got a lot done on the '71 Cadillac lately; driveshaft is in and works, engine runs, fuel system is great, but all gears are reverse.Park? Nah, dog; you get reverse. Neutral? Best I can do is reverse. Drive? Yeah, bro, but you're going backwards.I suspect it's a linkage issue.
>>28051180yeah go for it
>>28040371This chop looks fucked up, they took too much out. A good chop can make a 30s/40s/50s car look really right if it's combined with the right amount of lowering. Dropping the frame down onto ground like this and taking the top down too low makes the car look out of proportion. I can almost guarantee you the owner didn't do the chop himself, those guys don't tend to finish a car to this degree. That filled in hood scoop also looks like shit.
>>28051238im already having ptsd flashbacks to watching the z-tard assemble a 700r4 5-6 times
>>28051294I'm hoping that it's just a linkage issue since there's a decisive lack of feel in the shifter.
>>28051294>z-tardi'm a newfag, is z-tard just someone you know irl or did he used to post here?
>>28051392hes just some guy i know, i post about him occasionally, he deserves to be here though
Put the F150 back together this morning, it started and idled for 20 minutes then didn't want to run, spent a half hour passing with it and suddenly it wanted to run again, tidied it up went to drive it and it stopped charging. Spent the past 3 hours fucking with the 3 pin connector the wires fell out of. Didn't even touch the alternator during the intake job. Superglued the wires into the connector because no one stocks it and the super glue wouldn't dry. Super fucking glue, that doesn't work. This country is fucked.
>28052958the country is fucked because of the competency crisis (You)
>>28052969They're so fucking incompetent that no one else notices the super glue doesn't work huh? Can they stop breathing too while they're at it? Id fucking love to be around a lot less of these niggers every day
>28052994I use it literally every day at work, so it's a (You) problem. You mongoloid.
>>28051180No. Distilled has been de-mineralised, RO just filters bacteria and sheeit and still has mineral content that can help cause scale.
>>28053038you could've easily searched what RO does/doesn't remove, but now you're here being wrong.
>>28051274Yeah, I'm not a terrible fan of chopped tops, but this one looked very good in person.>>28053043>While both distillation and reverse osmosis eliminate everything present in water, such as invisible impurities and solid minerals, including healthy components, the reverse osmosis water purification system moves a step forward. Its special mineral filters can add healthy mineral content back into the water, unlike distillation. *partially wrong.
>>28053030Great ship the working shit to central Kentucky.
>>28053054no. thats an ad for a RO product that adds minerals back in.
I forgot how much dash work sucks on classic cars. I'm pulling the HVAC box out to replace the heater core and blower motor but...I don't know bros. Considering going with a classic auto air system. The HVAC switch is pretty roached on this one, but it does still work. Maybe I can glue the backing back together but it it falls apart, I doubt I'll find another good one.
>>28053580damn. was really surprised to find my heater core was still intact, despite the valve being completely clogged up with some white powdery shit, probably silicates or something. imagine my surprise when i turned the heater box and a bit of red coolant dribbled out the core inlet and outlet.is it a vacuum switched unit or electrical? if it's the latter it could be something as basic as cleaning up corroded contacts. took the time to do that on mine and the dash lights are so much brighter.
>>28053580Ebay is great for finding NOS parts.
Landlord is upset, I drive a 120y datsun that looks pretty ratty.It's cheap to run, parts are plentiful and slowly replacing panels and repainting them.But he's like you should buy a new car, that car gets such bad mileage.Looks up the same 100km/liters better than his car.
>>28054507>Landlord is upsetCouldn't be meAnyways, just discard his opinion. Unless it's leaking excessively, a landlord shouldn't even be talking to you about your possessions.
>>28054507I have a coworker who tells me I should buy a late model or pay somebody else to do some sort of restore/restomod to my car and I just keep shrugging it off because im not going to do that.
>>28054517It's a tightly controlled cheap place.Cheap is the reason why, I reckon because he couldn't get anyone to tolerate him.I have a truck, I could drive and park in the driveway every day to and from work make that my daily driver.He doesn't have a 3 ton drivers license. Meaning, Nightshift man wouldn't be able to move it till 12 am.
>>28054524Your syntax is difficult to follow. I think you're an ESL brown.
>>28054531Then you know i'm a real person because AI written by ChatGPT sounds like the declaration of independence..>It is a place of strict governance and modest expense. The frugality of this abode, I surmise, arises from the fact that few could endure his presence.>I possess a carriage, which I could employ for my daily commutes, thus making it my regular conveyance to and from my toil.>Alas, he lacks the requisite license for a vehicle of three tons, rendering him incapable of moving it until the stroke of midnight.
>>28054507>Landlord is upset, I drive a 120y datsun that looks pretty ratty.Tell him that if he wants you to have a nicer car, then he's more than welcome to pay for it. Otherwise, suck eggs.
>>28054548Your not that guy who bought a C80 Nissan Truck?
>>28054531>t. niggerfaggot
>>28053580>I forgot how much dash work sucks on classic carsIt never got better.Worse actually.I'd rather change the heater core on a '66 Mustang than a "16 Ram.
>>28054594Wiring is simple, Redoing the leather work is simple.My dad did over the course of rewatching stargate SG-1 Season 6 for his car, Sat down in the lounge room after i finally convince him to buy the car he talked about and just starting doing it piece by piece.
>>28054575I really love cabover trucks, I wish they made utes that had that same charm.
>>28054575>>28054626Would you consider the smallest of that truck line a ute or truck?
>>28054632That's clearly a pickup truck.
Went to the junkyard to get my connector and saw a gen 4 6.0 sitting on the ground. They didn't have any carts or anything because fuck your customers, so I carried this 230lb block about 1/4 mile to the van. I'm under 200 now so if the average American can walk 1/4 mile I'll admit to being weaker than one. It's about time someone sweetened the pot of bullshit soup I've been gulping down. We'll see if it was worth it when it gets magnafluxed. Guy said he's got the cash and is going to trade me his van tomorrow. Knew he was being nice for a Minnesotian >>28054580shut up
does this look factory?
>>28055057It looks whack, but it'll do.
>>28040376Aussie 34 roadster ute. Bet you don't see them very often
>>28041237It's a 32
>>28055746I've never seen an ute in person. Guy said they made only 350ish ute roadsters that year and his was number 18X. I asked him if it still had the 21 stud flathead and he looked sheepishly at me which indicated it was Chitty motor. He said it was a pile of parts when he picked it up in the mid 80s working in Oz and it didn't have any steering components so he converted to LHD.
>>280557601934 was the first year of the Aussie coupe ute, so i expect a lot of people were buying them at the time.
>>28055777>coupe uteso there were sedan utes at one time?
>>28055781Lol. That's what they were called back in the day. Ford V8 roadster utes were sold up to 37 IIRC.
>>28055812Roger. I think I'd rather the stock suspension like your pic.
>>28054632It's not a ute.It's not a sedanIt's a seute
Throttle response is better and I don't have to stare at the speedometer when driving. Wouldn't be surprised if it's still only getting 13mpg on the highway. I guess I will have to figure out how to braze it myself, or if they make band clamps that small just cut it up and flare the ends so it comes apart easier. It doesn't drive like it would be fun to tow a trailer with, it drives like a gm minivan; when it downshifts on hills it starts slowing down faster
my compressor saga is finally finished and its working properly>cleaned reeds and inside>buy new gasket>fire it up, gasket inside thin bits shift into the valves, holding them open>make a new gasket out of milk carton>does it again>make one out of cereal box>a head bold strips>get a helicoil kit and fix it>another head bolt strips>helicoil all the holes>head clamps down, gasket blows again>make another gasket and rtv it both sides>gasket holds, but something else is wrong>check valve is filthy, clean itholy fuck, it builds pressure and works fine now, but it still is making an occasional scary sound like a loud chirp or something
drove the new van and got it to act up rather quickly, no slipping shuddering or slamming, but hunting. 96 so looked at the live data - so fucking nice btw - and TPS signal is in and out. Went to get some gas and it started working just fine until I got lunch, then hunted between 3 and 4 and in and out of lockup on the interstate all the way home. Might be a completely fine vehicle for all I know. Needs wheels. Transit low profile tires on dodge rims, ugly and 2.5" too short. The dude gave me every dime I had in my van, and another van. I couldn't be more stoked to dig in right now.
I got the blower out of the HVAC box on my Newport. It has this damn near press fit ring that you have to pry off, but I didn't end up needing to pull the HVAC box out. The main switch is completely cooked, but they make new ones and summit even has it in stock. Apparently they used that switch for like 20 years on every Chrysler product. Those are the only two bad parts on this unit, everything else is good, so fuck it. New blower, new switch, I'm sending it like this.
>>28057304What kind of compressor? Sounds like an old Chrysler V2 compressor like my Newport.
>>28058181>Chrysler V2 compressorGuessing you meant RV2? Not that anon but I didn't even know this style of AC compressor existed, it's funny how it's practically a v-engine on a v-engine.>YO DAWG
>>28017646Brother is that a fucking Wolsley?
>>28045397A big fat yank luxury car like a mercury marquis or lincoln continental
>>28041267>>28058403It's called a Lloyd 650. They stopped making cars pretty quick, but the engineering side of the company kept making parts up into the 80's.
>>28056942NICE CHEVY
>>28059254ILL SELL YOU MY DOUBLE HUMP HEADS BROTHER, DOUBLE HUM AND CUM IN YOUR MOUTH!!!
>>28058367Yeah it's pretty wild, but they were a reliable design as long as you replace the rubber check ball for the passage with a metal one. I made new gaskets and just did a reseal on the compressor for my Newport. Haven't charged it up yet.
>>28014856Here's my baby.
>>2801485679 Olds Toronado
Cadillac now goes into all its gears again; brake lights work, brakes do not. Going to finish cleaning it up, get it back together, and list it up for sale. It's a nice car, but it's not what I want.
>>28060836I fully intend to disclose that the brakes are inoperative; given that I'm going to be asking $3,750, what do you expect?
>>28060840Sorry, I had to delete that because catalog showed 298 replies but after my post it was 300 so I was going to repost as 301.>that first (and only) test drive is going to end wellI would think that swapping out a $30 master cylinder and stopping on its own would make it much more appealing to a potential buyer even if pads were grinding
>>28060853If it were just the master; sure, but this thing has been off the road since 1988. We're talking new lines, new hoses, new wheel cylinders, rebuilt calipers, new pads, turned rotors, etc. I've learned that the net return on a full brake job is about equal to the loss of not fixing it and there are more buyers at $3,500 (bottom dollar) than at $5,500.
How to I start the approach? I always start asking about rust but I feel like it's work better if I just front loaded everything into the initial response but I don't know what to ask.
>>28060493Lemme see that rear window some more my man. I need to figure out how to make my vinyl top deleted Riviera look less shitAnd let me know if you ever find a source for the bumper filler panels
>>28061603>How to I start the approach?Is this still available?Sorta-jokes aside, once you've actually contacted the seller you establish that they have a clean title in their name, no extraneous signatures, white-outs, or liens, and the registration is up-to-date, as any of those can fuck you hard and the seller will disappear instantly. As for the car's condition I don't usually ask anything beyond when and where to look at it as their idea of what's good and mine will always be different.
>>28061934>Is this still available?Bad joke dude.I'd ignore you.Start with "I'd like to come by after work this evening"
>>28061953Nah, it's gotta be "I do $[75% of asking price] and come cash now we do deal".
Getting this thread to dead one post at a time
>>28063077Checking myself because FUCK KIKES
come let me gulp all of your cum in a new thread >>28063334
