Oh man..that's hilarious..... Isn't the throttle cable REALLY thick though? Looks like it'd be hard to remove quickly!

 

gotta try it on my friends cars... they always brag how there cars are newwer then my Z yet they have yet to come close to beating me.... will try soon!!

 

My friends are always laughing about my 14.5 ET...which IS odd because everyone that rides in my car says "I swear to *** this is a high 13 second car, I don't know why it runs 14.5's"....but I can't wait til they see it in about 1 week.

It goes in tomorrow to get a B-303 cam installed, a set of Edelbrock Performer RPM heads, and 1.6 ratio full roller rockers. Muahahaha. Going from approx 225 rwhp to 300+ rwhp. Gotta love it!! We'll see what they say after this.


The best part about the B-303 cam is....it will only sacrifice 2 or 3 mpg city...doesn't add a LOT of power...but it lopes harder than this cam my buddy has that gets him 2 mpg on race fuel (it's got, combined with his roller rockers, about .585 lift).... It lopes like you wouldn't believe...such a beautiful sound!! Course that lack of lope is why he's replacing his current cam....he's putting in a cam with .600 lift....so he's thinking he'll get around .620 out of it by the time all is said and done.

 

Just un-plug 3 & 6...Plenty of Lope,Cheap!!!!

 

And a blown motor too!

 

How so?

 

It's never good to run a motor down on cylinders. Not sure exactly what could cause a motor to die from that though....but I'm sure it's possible..... Now..the un-ignited air/fuel mixture, first off, will travel down the exhaust pipes. If you were to backfire by revving the engine or anything, it could ignite the mixture IN the pipes and KABOOM, blow the pipe or the nearest exit open. I SUPPOSE the unspent air/fuel mixture, if rich enough, COULD strip oil off the combustion chamber walls and cause the rings to scratch it up, but I doubt that. It might gunk up the exhaust valve with long-term exposure.... Not to mention ruin your Oxygen sensor and catalytic converter too.

 

Me and my dad did that to my sister when she got her 98 ford tarus"SP" I told her hey lets go and start you car and give it a test drive. She's all giddey and we go out there and puts it in drive, then gives it gas :sillylol: OMG WHAT WHAT WHATS WRONG DANNNNNNNNNNGGGGITTTTT. She thought it was funny too :sillylol:

 

NOTE TO SELF: When CC'ing intake runners after porting, remember to put a rocker stud back in the hole. (That oil goes everywhere - FAST!)

 

dont atempt to change the knock sensor with coolant still in block...
you simply cannot hurry the new sensor back in without taking an antifreeze bath!
<~~~~ worries about himself sometimes

 

heres my new one today/...when loosening stiff caliper bolt do not hover your head right above the fender... cause when that bolt cracks loose.... Smack!! tooth right through the lip!! ouch

 

I actually have one... OMG

When going to install the TV Cable into your Auto Tranny, for the love of ... :lala: .... DO NOT drop the screw that holds the TV Cable onto the tranny into the actual whole on the tranny where the TV cable enters.

As of yet, I'm still working on trying to get this out.... kinda lost alot of energy when I felt it slide down the hole, like, someone kicked me in the gut. Gonna try ta get it out 2morrow by dropping the pan.

Adam

 

Never weld, wearing flip-flops.

Ron

 

Don't work on cars with a buddy you reguraly refer to as "dumb as $hit"

 

Fricking priceless. Many of us have done that far too often to mention

Peace,

K

 

Been there... done that.... regretted that

Well said too, Chronic

 

Dont assume you need to change your horns because they dont work in a hurricane (thought they were blown today, high winds+heavy rains=wet horns/ wet horns= horns that dont work too well)

 

lol dude almost brained me with a hammer.

 

84t...I blew my horns once after the rain and I laughed my *** off. Did a semi-loud, burbly sounding beep for like 1 second, then got quieter and lower and lower pitched until I had nothing at all. Sounds like my battery had just died or something!

 

disconnect battery/alt power before taking off pass. valve cover.
zzzzzap!

 

Couple more quick ones from earlier in my life...(ie young and niave)

1. a cherry picker on a hill with engine on it and gravel underneath it don't mix.

2. jackstands sink in the yard once you put the weight of the car on them..

 

when doing your first engine swap.. if cheap angled cherry picker starts to fall over with engine attached... do NOT attempt to catch it!



i swear i tried

 

Here's my 2 cents;
1. Don't keep your face under the y-pipe that is supported by
jack you just bumped, broken noses may occur!
2. Do not try to reinsert dipstick tube to block with dipstick in
tube, yep 4 inches of dipstick staight to the bottom of the pan.

 

I impale them with the 'ol 12" screwdriver (Which apprently serves no other purpose) and give em a pull. I call it the Kansas
torque wrench Spins right off, who needs a filter wrench? LOL

 

After spending months removing your motor, rebuilding and reinstalling it, don't buy 5 quarts of oil and pour it in the motor without the drainplug. Then, don't tighten the drain plug, go buy 5 more quarts of oil, pour it in the motor, and prime the oil pump without installing an oil filter. $30 of oil, not to mention the oil doesn't wash off your driveway or the street!

 

when checking timing...if connector on #1 spark plug falls off do NOT attempt to re attach with engine still running! (shock shock shock shock shock ouch ouch ouch ouch)

 

Old Apt complex I used to live at screwed me out of about $1000.
I make a special trip down there to change my oil every 2-3 months

 

:hail: :hail: :hail:

 

I have another....

When you get a new water pump, don't assume that the bolts holding the backplate on are tightened. I installed it, got going to test it out, and it leaked like a sieve. I had to pull the whole thing off, tighten up the bolts, and reinstall it.

 

I just use a big pair of channel locks. Mangles the hell out of the filter, but it comes off....

 

I have a 91 305 5speed and it only will open when the car is shut off.

#1) Dont leave your car parked infront of friends house with the door unlocked so they can hit the hatch release botton and steal expensive tools out of your car

 

Always remember to latch your T-Tops. I forgot to one day, went driving around for hours, on the way home as soon as I got on my street 2 blocks away, turned the coner onto my street and the top slid right off. Thought I left my CD case on the car after leaving my friends house. Not good times. I got lucky, my friend had a 3rd gen that didn't run and loaned me a top till I could get the $120 for a new one.

Always, NO MATTER HOW GOOD you think the gas charged hood supports are, use a clap on the rod or a pole to hold the hood up. While at work at Goodyear, doing an oil change, I had the hood up the whole time and all I had left to do was fill the washer fluid. Well as I put my hand in to take the cap off the resivoir, the hood slammed down on my hand. Almost lost 2 fingers. Once again, not good times.

Always make sure that the car is in park or neutral before you try to start it outside of the car. My safety switch wasn't adjusted correctly after my motor and tranny swap. I started it, car was running for 2 minutes and then the tranny built up pressure to move, it had a slip to it, and ran into the brake lathe and ruined my month old paint job but no dents thank goodness. I bet it was interesting to see me running and diving into the car as it moves along so I could shut it off. And to add to it, my car was lowered and was in a bay where we used to have a center mount car lift and a part of the saftey latch was still in the floor. When I backed my car out, I bent up the flwheel pretty good. Same week, before I was going to replace it, I totalled the car.

I've got more, but can't think of them right now. Too many times of being under the car and getting out too fast and hitting my head, lol.

 

When pulling a 5spd from a flooded out 'maro in a junk yard make sure you pull the shifter before you try to bench press the tranny out. There is an extremely strong chance that you will have to do a 3min negative with a 75 pound tranny while your father gets inside the car to pull the shifter. Not to mention everyone needs a bath in tranny fluid every once and a while.



I had to wash my hair with ajax, and shampoo twice just to get it not to look covered in ATF. It still reeks of atf just doesn't look like it.

 

my mistake: dont just wrench on a bolt u see because it could be something important, i loosened one and that pink a/c stuff shot all over me, o good times.

funny story: one of the bolts on my collectors got loose and i was by a friends house who helps me with the car, so i took it over there. he has a bolt and said hed do fix it, so im waiting and his friend who owns a late 80 to early 90s fox body stang pulls up, has some goodies on it(exhaust, shift kit, shifter, pulleys) so i figured hed know a thing or 2 bout cars. so i tell him, hey go under my muffler and knock on it to see if the bearing is loose, i thought i heard something but im not sure. well sure enough him and some other kid start knockin on my muffler.

after a good 15 minutes they learned that there is no such thing as "muffler bearings" :lala:

 

Muahaha....that's great. Muffler bearings. Classic. Next time your power steering pump starts doing the death whine, tell them it's your supercharger.

 

I was using both hands and a phillips screwdriver to try and pull up on an intake one time that was stuck. The screwdriver slipped and I stabbed myself in the nose right between the eyes. I had a little X there for like a month. Better than my eyeball.
Another time, when I was in high school, I was working on my 83 Olds Delta 88. It was greasy as hell so I always wore latex gloves. I got done working on whatever I was doing and strted the car. I was listening to it run as I pulled off my gloves and one of them snapped off and landed right on the carb and got sucked into the engine. It ran crappy for a minute or so, but never had a problem after that. Matt

 

I think I just pissed myself on that visual.
I'm sure it hurt ... but damned LOL

 

<b>Next time your power steering pump starts doing the death whine, tell them it's your supercharger.</b>

OMG thats SO TRUE!!!

When i first got my car together with the blower it had open headers so i could not hear the blower at all.

When i got exhaust put on it, the first time i got on it i thought my power steering pump exploded! I swear i got out and checked the fluid and everything.

took me a while but i finally figured out it wasnt the power steering making that whine...

 

ok heres one, when i went to put my 454 in i was pumping up the cherry picker and noticed it was going up slowely, thinking to my self watver its just a heavy engine..worng, the pump was going on my cherry picker and as i pumped it one last time it gave out on the nose of my car, as a pure adrenline thing i grabbed it and basically heaved it into the bay of my car somewhat landing badly...as u can imagine, once everything was in place and i fixed everything.. i realized one thing as i looked over there it lyed the oil pump...now dont ask me how i left that out when i put the engine together but...ya that is what happeend. i had to vent after that..im pretty sure they heard me a couple blocks down

 

this one time....at band camp

Keep 'em coming boys!!

man, i just got mine together again thankfully. No stories this time around tho :/

 

Now that I look back on what I did a few weeks ago, I feel a little dumb, lol. No mistakes, but seems like ALOT of work for what I actually did, lol.

Anyway... I had my AC pulley, PS pulley taken off, all the brakets on the drivers side off, had the drivers side exhaust manifold off, all 4 plug wires on the that side off, clutch linkage (mechanical) apart...

All that just to change... get this, lol... the damn dipstick tube!!

It was an 8.5 hour job, plus the cost of replacing 2 broken spark plugs, just to pull out the old dipstick tube (engine, not tranny) and put in a new one!!

 

Admit it, you just wanted to keep all those parts broken loose incase you needed to change them in the future, lol.

 

lol

 

just thought of more...... im guilty of them all

when doing any kind of engine swap with a hoist that could lift a house. never ever do it on the grass

never buy an engine off a hick who said it was "rebuilt" and has 385 horse when it has the stock heads, stock intake manifold, and everything else is stock and not new looking at all and its just an average mid 70's 350 thats been primered.

if u have trouble pushing the car forward with the engine and trans out, its more then likely the driveshaft goin into the ground and not because its not in neutral

if u are missing the fuse for your radio and the other things it controls, dont move a fuse from somewhere else in the fuse box
over to the radio one. might be important

if u think a old 350 trans with a short tailshaft will fit in your car, find out if it will or not first. might save u a few hours

driving without the kickdown cable attachted is probably a bad thing, especially when u hear some gears grind every now and then

last one not really car related but funny. in shop we had a small gas furnace that would get very hot to heat treat metal. the proper way to light it is.....
light paper towel, throw in furnace, turn gas on using the valve on the pipe by the wall which is a good 8-10 ft away.
my way. turn gas on, stand in front of furnace with gas on at full power, light paper towel, attempt to throw it in. the only hair on my arm was the hairs underneath my watch:lala: :lala: :lala:

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by posbird87
[B]
my way. turn gas on, stand in front of furnace with gas on at full power, light paper towel, attempt to throw it in.

Thus the reason I no longer purchase flammable snowmobile suits.

Stop Drop and Roll my ***, this things on fire !

 

I got one more... actually, I have so many in this thread now that i'm thinking I need a new hobby, lol

Anywhoo... I got a set of headers a while back that were used, so they needed paint. I sanded off the headers down to bare metal and put on a healthy coat or two of real header paint. Soon after, i put them in the oven at about 400* for a couple hours per the instuctions on the can.

So far so good.

Then I got this bright idea that I would take them out about 10 minutes after I shut the oven off. I got an even brighter idea of picking up the (still very hot) headers with a pair of metal spatulas to get them out.

As you guys may or may not know, headers are metal. Metal is slippery. Especially if its 'balancing' on 2 metal spatulas. I had it almost high enough to put them down... then it happened.... They (bolted loosely together at the head flange) slid down the handles of the spatulas, and now i have a nice, 1/8" wide and 2" long burn scar right between my right hand thub and index finger.

Hurt like a SOB for a few days, but that scar looks tough now, lol.

And... I hear chicks dig scars

 

Yeah they do!!!!

A few years ago I had a customer from the mid west come in for some brake work. THe rotors were completely rusted to the hubs in front. Well, that shop never had much cause to have a torch so I just sprayed the hell out of them with rust penatrant and beat the daylights out of them with a hammer since they were going to be replaced anyway. Luckly I was wearing my safety glasses cause the rotor about shattered and a large piece hit my chin and gave me nice cut. No stitches for a man like me and a inch long scar on my chin. Girls always ask me about it...

I guess the moral of the story is...well, there is no moral, but I like to tell it anyway!!!

 

Man..my scar stories are all lame... Coolest one I have is on my leg, like 4 inches long....rusted barbed wire. Didn't even get any antibiotic...that was YEARS ago so it's barely visible now.

Here's a stupid one I don't think I posted... When you get a can of carb cleaner....remember that every spray nozzle is different. Cheaper brand spray nozzles tend to shoot a more solid stream while the better ones will mist it better. So I had the intake tubing off on my Camaro and I had just yanked the IAC valve out and had soaked a rag up with some carb cleaner to clean the motor...then I decided to shoot a little into the IAC passageway. It shot a solid stream out. PSSHHHTT-it ricocheted off the back wall and shot STRAIGHT into my eyes. If you don't know how bad that is...just ask anyone who's familiar with carb cleaner how dangerous it is. Man am I glad my reflexes are good...I shut my eyes damn quick! Still got enough in to make them tingle and burn for a few minutes though..

 

That happened to me once too. Of course I had my eyes wide open because I'm used to wearing glasses all the time. This particular time, they were broken so I was not wearing anything to protect my eyes. It hurt for hours...

 

did that with brake cleaner, the problem is i wear contacts....they were cloudy and stuck to my eye, not to mention the horrific stinging.