>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 multi-meter.>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: >>28899085
Good morning I hate carfoids
Finished changing the rad hoses and flushing the old stingray today. Gotta say, I hate myself a little. I pulled the lower hose without using the drain pitcock because I saw some little mineral bits when I removed the upper hose. So, I wanted to make sure I had a nice large opening to drain before the proper flush. Had a decent size drain pan but not wide enough for all the fucking capillary runs yanking the tube off. Long story short, I was a moron and forgot Antifreeze is not just Ethyl Glycol but has phosphoric acid in it, so the concrete in my garage now has a lot of new green stains even after mopping.Good news is all hoses are in, new coolant is in and nothing leaks. I probably should have pulled the surge tank too because it has clay and dust accumulated, but I have to yank the fender well to do that and I'm tired, boss. With the big C4 rad in her, I had to fight and wiggle for every sixteenth to get the hose and clamp on the bottom.
>>28939585would
Who says 1979 is the limit? Why that year specifically?
>>28939967Because Steve from accounting said so, now fuck off.
>>28939967Well the limits actually 74 now, it used to be 79 because I had a 79, but now that I have a 74 it went down. I basically set it because I’m the main character and you guys are all NPCs
welp. ended up just hammering the core plug back in because i couldn't get it out. hopefully it doesn't pop out again...hoping that it only did because it wasn't hammered in so the top edge sat just inside the hole, it was just above that
>>28940099spics cant be main characters, sorry.t. aryan man
>>28939967It's an old OP that nobody bothers to update anymore.
>>28939967That's the cutoff age for smog in California. All the old hot rod rags are from there so it got spread nationwide as the "standard" to gen x and boomers.Anything over 25yo is a classic and shouldn't be taxed for registration. Simple as. Imagine wanting to extra every single cent from a guy driving some 95 Corolla that you'd actually lobby the government to change the definition of classic car. That's what boomers are doing rn on their deathbed it's insane.
>>28940519Extract*
>>28939967probably some autist, the cutoff is 85
>>28939967>Real answer:Drastic shift in automobile design, engineering and construction.'74 was was the initial changeover with some platforms continuing to around '79 so it's difficult to set a hard limit.And no, just because a vehicle is "old" does not make it a classic.By definition a classic is something that stands out, something unequaled by its peers.
>>28940519It’s 75 in California I had to smog my Camaro
>>28940519>Anything over 25yo is a classicAge does not a classic make.Youre talking about vintage.Classic registration typically has mileage limits. If classic status can be revoked then its nothing more than political fanfare.
I found that my Volvo is running like poo because it's pushing voltage through the EGR control circuit. The ezk actually never grounds it even when it should. It looks like I'm going to have to megasquirt or swap the car sooner than I wanted, the 35 year old computers are not doing well
>>28941179already tried cleaning up the grounds? electricity does take the path of least resistance so it seems like it has decided the EGR circuit is that
>>28941210ezk controls the ground side, multimeter says resistance to ground is too high to measure but 2.5 volts is going through it, i haven't tried depinning it but i just lost the ground control for the fuel pump relay last week and its never trying to control the egr either
>>28941310ahh right, ok i'm not familiar at all with volvos, i didn't even know what an ezk was. but seems like some sort of control module/computer for them? can you open it up and see if any of the components have gone bad? wondering if it's like the 90s jap ECUs that had bad caps that needed to be replaced eventually.
"i know what i got" ausfag edition, asking price 66 thousand. i reckon he put the year in the wrong field.
>>28941363could post in this thread >>28916995>classic not plastic>the shitty american muscle platedeserved a better owner. plus that dent in the door lol. does appear to be RHD converted though, don't think they ever sold any caddys here, apparently back in the day it was just pontiacs and chevys and even those were considered uber expensive.
>>28941347Perhaps, but a 302/t5 swap is relatively easy and I have a junk sn95 with a cobra motor in it I'd like to not work on again
