>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.>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.>If you can't tune a carb you might literally be retarded>Nothing is as easy as it seemsPrevious thread: >>28741875
>>28777936damn. don't think i bled my steering properly, from 12 o'clock if i turn it right it gets really hard at about the 1-2 o'clock position then gets easier again. also find myself overcorrecting on right turns and find myself still kind of nudging the wheel while going straight to keep it going where i want it to, probably because of the eyeballed alignment and toe adjustment i did more than anythint else though.
>>28776815excellent moviehttps://youtu.be/DM_FGAL0-Mg
I’ve decided I’m just gonna keep the car. Fuck it, I’ve been wanting to fix the rust for ages now anyways and now I have the space and time. Gonna do a full non smog build on it and just sell it or keep it if the law happens to change in the next couple of years or if I move
>>28777946Steering will bleed itself in a couple full lock turns.Is it a steering box with recirculating balls?
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>>28779017Once I got it taken down far enough to see the cowl rust I was just like motherfucker you already own this car, nothing is gonna be cheaper than something you already own. Rather than going and spending the money on a pre-emissions project and staring over and destroying this one, I figure fix this one up good and nice and if the law changes in the next year or two cool and if not the whatever I’ll sell it. But I’m not fucking with the smog Shit this time, I’m gonna re assemble with zero smog parts.
>>28779029you can also just leave your shit hole third world communist dump of a state and go literally anywhere else where you can build it how you want and then simply drive it and enjoy it.
>>28779046That’s likely never gonna happen, gotta make chicken salad out of chicken shit.
>>28779000eeyup. I did turn the wheel lock to lock five times with the wheels up in the air so I thought that was enough. I think I might've done it too quickly though, I was turning it like you would if you were turning in an intersection fairly quickly.
>>28777936Do you guys do the work on your cars yourself? How does it work if I have limited space and could really only maybe at best do smaller stuff like maybe some wiring? Like an engine swap a trans swap whatever I wouldn’t be able to do I don’t have the tools. No lift nothing really for the bigger projectsI assume this means my best bet is to get a car that runs, and then buy the parts I want myself and find a garage that will A use the parts I bought and preferably B let me take part in the processThe goal is to restomod a 280z. I found out I can get a second parking space I just gotta dish out like $200 for it annually. But I don’t really got much space to actually work on it here
>>28779158You watch Ronald Finger now you want that life?
>>28779106It sounds like a ball issue to be honest.Symptom is exactly what happens if you adjust a box with worn balls and you tighten too much.
