kmcn47

well i got the car back in september and paid 2500 cash for her, then drove her all the way home from canton with no plates or wipers in the rain (yeah im pretty crazy) anyways heres some pics of her the day i brought it home (the weather had cleared up)


in the garage still all clean and new to me


took this at the rest stop about an hour from home still, thats my dad and his beast the vortec 5.7 Tahoe family truckster
one more, i have cut my hair since then


it had 29,xxx miles had been titled twice and well taken car of, the missing decals on the fron tare because it once ht a dear the core support is okay and nothing is miss aligned, the car tracks so straight its kinda scary, there is some rust and off badly painted paint on the hood corner and the bumper/fender are an off white. and one last one someone at some point had a cb and didnt think to weld up the whole after removing the antenna so i have this now

kmcn47

round two first thing i did was check her all out and see what was up, the low miles thing checks out to me, car was CLEAN



engine while it looks very crowded (it is) was clean and in good shape no leaking oil or rusted parts



the carb had just been rebuilt the oil had been changed and the belts were new, the air filter was a bit dirty but its got a good fram now, aswell as running mobil 1 10w 30 and a k&n oil filter.

the interior is totally perfect, new carpet good floor pans excellent condition leather/tweed seats and even the seatbelts dont sag, the headliner like all headliners had seen better days though, but what do you expect from a ttop car?





everything was nicely untouched, and the dashpad had no cracks

kmcn47

the 140 speedo was a dealer install still have the invoice in my file, aswell as every part the p.o put on it


secondly i removed the decals, may i just say this is a PITA

it then started raining and i had to leave it sit with brown crud on it overnight until the next day when i could use laquer thinner to get it off


but i was happy with the end result, IMO it looked cleaner and nicer



the last one is in the college parking lot, which is an awful place for a pretty car

kmcn47

after having a jingly rattling feeling/noise for awhile i checked underneath and discovered that i needed new end links so thats what i did next







got some really nice stainless ones from napa, poly bushings i think they were around $15







ik ik the top bushing, dont worry its fine now, it all settled once the car was back on the ground

kmcn47

and then tragedy struck one night while driving home some punk broke out my driver side window, as i didnt have time to be driving around in the rain with no window i called safelight to get a window put in,the next day they told me that the regulator was bent and that they couldn't after calling around i found a complete door of of an 85 at u pull it and went up and that night my car looked like this


i jokingly said i was gonna make it a police car because of the lack of actual law enforcing the officers did that night

kmcn47

and as of lately having had the car for several months haven't done much esle to my awesome daily driver, just been cruising and fixing her up as i can new bosch icon wiper blades and some AZ foglights, pedal pads, grant steering wheel and a steady weekly wash/wax and vacuum

some of the foglights working

and the GT wheel


one day at work there was a LARGE accident in the parking lot and my poor car got hit....................with mudd (sigh of relief)



and the next day god was angry with me again i guess and decided someone should back into my car at school, the nose was pushed down a bit and i attempted my best to re align her, looks fine now









DAMN that scuff, ohwell whole car needs blocked primed and painted

some more random shots



my battleship the ss. thundergutts sleeping in the backyard



my t-top bar is rust free

kmcn47

more assorted pictures, like a whittmans sampler


heavily eroded window sweeps my next project sort of my next project is actually removing the emissions and smog crap and getting a nice looking engine bay
some dress up

http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/store...-1&showValue=1

http://www.jegs.com/i/Proform/778/141-757/10002/-1

http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/store...-1&showValue=1

then some nice headers

http://www.jegs.com/i/Doug%26%23039%...320-R/10002/-1
and a matching y pipe
http://www.jegs.com/i/Doug%26%23039%.../D901/10002/-1

after that i want some stuff that i admit i more about form then function

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sbc-Bbc-Smal...f54967&vxp=mtr


nothing spectacular so far, give me time

kmcn47

got some more small stuff tonight, gonna try and get er all done this weekend

Dakota W.

Subscribed! Looking forward to seeing what you do with it!

kmcn47

it'll be slow progress, but im planning on an emissions system delete and some nice headers, chrome valve covers some time next week

Dakota W.

Let me know if you want any help with the emssions delete, I've recently done it myself.

kmcn47

shouldnt just doing the air system to start, then i'll take on the charcoal canister and the egr

Dakota W.

I kept my egr in simply because the gains weren't worth the effort to take it out.

kmcn47

i might, but no question it makes the carb look ugly, ohwell havent decided yet on what all i'll do, it is a work in progress after all

Dakota W.

I need to do the evap canister as well so I can plumb a custom CAI, I hate how restrictive the stock tpi plumbing is.

kmcn47

o.0 its almost one of the best flowing intakes around man, unless you get that cai to go infront of the radiator like through a headlight opening it wont flow much better, and the filters like spectre and k&n dont flow "better" enough to rationalize there cost to me, and theres the letting dirt through issue, but hey its your car do what you wanna do, thats what hot roddins all about

Ron U.S.M.C.

Nice car and looks like you have been busy.

Dakota W.

The TPI intake is very restrictive, I'll probably find a paper filter to stick on the end of some piping that will run similarly to what you're talking about.

kmcn47

cool, honestly you could remove your high beams and run the ducting to right there and make grilles out of mesh to cover where they used to be and also to keep leaves and such out

kmcn47

haven't really done much to it, atleast compared to other builds, but then again not much needs done, and thanks love working on it and seeing the progress. someday years from now it'll be finished and perfect, and then i'll start over

Dakota W.

I thought about doing that actually, but it will have to wait until I get Bixenon HIDs installed.

kmcn47

i see nothing wrong with my stock halogens, i know in my pics with the foglights one looks dim but i have since cleaned the plug on the back and its fine now

Dakota W.

I'm nearly blind far away so I want to have ample light before I get rid of my high beams.

kmcn47

good reason to have high power lights then

tlandoe

If you do headers, how much would you consider getting rid of your manifolds for? I have a buddy looking for some l69 ones

kmcn47

that complete like with air tubes and all? not much but its gonna be about a year and a half before i can even afford headers the right way

kmcn47

well attempted to re charge the air today, and after about 37 ounces of r1-34 and 17 of "first charge" its not full, it blows cold but not very hard, i have a vacuum leak behind the hvac controls i know, i guess thats why, anyone got a great cheap way to fix it? tape the hose on (it keeps coming un-plugged from the vacuum module

kmcn47

also had a pinhole sized air leak right on the tread of one of my back tires today, took it out to NTB and had them fix it usually its like 20 bucks the guy said "hell just gimme five thats fine" and then asked "you got a posi rear in that car?" i replied "yepp 3.73 posi" he noted how he felt it as he spun the tires in reverse when he first got it lol tires fixed, still running strong

kmcn47

just ordered me some valve covers, got paid today http://www.jegs.com/i/Proform/778/141-899/10002/-1

kmcn47

:'( car died on me on the way home tonight, just shutoff no idea what it is, i know its not the battery but thats all i can say, anyone? oh yeah i found out that when i got home aftr an outrageous tow bill that took all my remaining money, my computer (labtop) is also dead

tlandoe

You mean like no lights come on or anything when you turn the ignition? Or will it just not turn over?

You gotta give us more than that, it could be anything

Dakota W.

If your computer is dead I would think that is the most logical reason it died, but you could try throttle body cleaner, it worked for me when I couldn't get mine to start or idle.

kmcn47

By computer i meant my labtop, found my problem, the wire going from the starter solenoid to the distributor is broken, my problem now is that i cant get in to ot to put it back together with the end still on the solenoid, and landoe, yepp only thing that worked were my head, and fog lights, gauges are stuck? If that makes sense at al, radio is dead too. Any reason i cant run a new wire from the dizzy to the old broken one? Also. Kinda pointless now but all my chrome dress up stuff is here from jegs. For a broken car

kmcn47

kmcn47

i have diagnosed the problem as such the wire which (according to my wiring diagram in my haynes manual) is that a wire of a pretty small gauge (which is attatched to a larger gauge wire that runs from the batterie to the starter) and is supposed to go to the "power distribution system" distributor? is broken i know its broken because well i looked right at it and the attatched end is separated from the rest of the wire so i need to find the other end in the loom, or heat sheild and re attatch the attatched (to the starter) end and see what happens, or just run a new wire from that end to the distributor

kmcn47

Well it wasnt the one to the diizz it was the one to the ignition switch. Long long painful tragic story short. I used a butt connector, and a TON of blacktape to fix it. She seems fine now ((knock on wood) ................ but. Can i just say what a major pita it was to pull that harness from under the back of the engine to the top of the engine bay so i could fix it. Ended up cutting the heat sheild sleeve thing off. Didnt bother to put it back on

Dakota W.

OH! that computer! lol. I would put the heat shield back on and try to fix your problem properly (use something better than tape lol), but at least it works now!

kmcn47

its not much of one, and i dont think i need it, it was just thin metal, more of a thing to hold it in place then anything, but its far enough from the y pipe that it should be okay, and i used a butt connector and a ton of tape around the wire, and then all three wires to loom ehtme together, i dont know a better way to fix it do you?

kmcn47

well got myself a new laptop and news on the car is as follows, my tape job seems to be holding and shes running and driving better then ever, seems like all my electrics are working better too, headlights are brighter. not much else to say

kmcn47

damn just remembered, i may or may not need a new power steerign pump, mine kinda moves around a little, doesnt seem major to me, but once again my dad says i do, it doesnt whine or anything and it works just fine, but he'll probably make me get a new one

Dakota W.

I would tighten it up or replace it...These cars are a bit difficult to drive without PS, I turned mine off while I was moving for some reason, I can't remember what, and it was a bit more difficult than man steering in my friend's ford aerostar lol.

kmcn47

it only moves around sometimes, and only on cold days it seems, and it works perfectly fine and doesnt make noise at all

kmcn47

well my repair job which was bound to go went today on the interstate about 5 mins from school, and thanks to the home of the 60 dollar tow i got home and started to work and ran a new wire 10 gauge to the fitting thats supposed to go on the starter, warapped the hell out of it with black tape and then heat insulating steel tape and wrapped my y pipe with header heat wrap, should be good now

kmcn47

well got some more bad news guys (if anyones actually following that is, i dont think anyone is but ohwell) today coming home from school and up my hill, the car had nooo ***** and was running really really hot, that i guess is because it was a hot day, i found a plug wire off and popped it back on and it seemed to run fine from there, however tonight coming home from my girlfriends house, the car again had no power coming up the hill and rev'd high, all my plug wires are on though, and when i slowed down to bakc inthe driveway, well the car didnt want to it kept revving higher and higher, so i put it in neutral and then shut the key off, but the car didnt shutoff it ran (like complete ****) but it wouldnt stop till i re started it and then shut it off again and took the key out, it backfired and gurgled and ran like it was misfiring but all my wires are good, and why would the throttle stick? could it be the fuel filter? seriously guys i like to consider myself fairly adept at fixing my old pos but i have no idea now, any help please anyone, this car is my love, my baby, and my daily driver (so i need it to run right) any knowledge or help please

kmcn47

another thing i almost forgot, when i got home today from school and shut it off and checked something was making a knocking or tapping sound BAD i think it was something on the egr or whatever the black thing with a bunch of hoses going to it on the front of the engine by the alternator is

IROCtheRoad

Nice car! Is your hood the steel or fiberglass one?

As far as the car not working it SOUNDS like an ignition problem. I would check all that stuff and also the fuel filter. Also, your timing may be out of whack for some reason, which is why it's running hot and running like crap.

So how many cars does this make for you now? 3?

If you are ever wanting to sell your snorkel hoses, let me know :-)

kmcn47

whatya give me for the snorkel hoses? i'm currently not using them, and i didnt mess with the timing when i had the car blocked up and stuff, so idk why it'd be off, and it seems fine now until i start up my hill i have to floor it and it doesnt rev high or go anywhere

kmcn47

well sure enough i got it running good again tongiht, bought some new bosch plug wires and popped em all on and now she runs fine, no more overheating, missing, deiseling, alls well.................................................................................................................
.......................................for now

kmcn47

well guys, sorry for no updates, but uh.....the cars gone, my father has taken it, and made it clear it wont be mine anymore. and because it was originally titled to him, theres nothing can do

kmcn47

long story short, i got her back, only thing is he took it out and ragged the **** out of it, and it went from a small oil leak to a pretty big one, now confident it needs a new oil pan gasket, rear main (can i switch to a one piece seal easily?) and valve cover gaskets but shes still mine