RUH ROH SHAGGY #@* We might have gone too far this time.

I was going to say something on the car show thread seeing as I was teasing you there.
Really wish I couldve made it to the show to see 1st hand & talk to you about it.
Pics & post will have to suffice.
Lets hear what happened when you got on it going to & from the show.
If you find yourself smiling when you talk about it, take a quick pic of that & post it too....

V8Killer wrote:

Mark, did you get it running better yet?

NO Worse even. but i'm working on it. Opti swap. etc etc
I'm in no rush at this point . Having spent all summer working on
it i need to get caught up on everyday stuff.
I'll update this weekend.

Now we cooking with FIRE,
FINALLY got the opti right.
She's purring at idle .
Roaring at full throttle. Pretty sure i woke some of the dead in the cemetery down the street.
Sadly it took three attempts to get it right.
Managed to NOT line up the opti/cam pin TWICE.
If nothing else i've got the opti swap down to well under an hour
Lots of practice.
Only big item left to do is get the front end aligned right.

Way to go Mark! There is light at the end of the tunnel yet! I can not wait to see the jewel on the road finally, to be honest I didn't think it would be this summer, but you done it. Great job.
Larry

Deputy347K9 wrote:

Way to go Mark! There is light at the end of the tunnel yet! I can not wait to see the jewel on the road finally, to be honest I didn't think it would be this summer, but you done it. Great job.
Larry

I just want to know wth he is going to do with himself now that its done.

I am thinking that Mark is so elated, thrilled, over joyed, beside himself and most of all BROKE that the only excitement he can afford is with his car. Praying he is not picked up for some unnatural act with his car or in the car! Hard to tell at this point what the man is thinking. I believe we should all chip in a few bucks to purchase him a pair of sand paper mittens?

Lol Larry.

Mark, what is going on with the car? R U on the road yet? How is it going?

Hey Larry.It's on the road kinda.
Having some issues with the way it's running.Rough idle.
Gonna pull the intake manifold this weekend .
I think it's leaking.
I actually went thru a phase for about a month where i didn't even want to look at the thing. A little burnt out.

Was wondering what happened to you! Glad you made it back home from the show! We hadn't heard from you since.

TTT <--- but seriously mega bump!

Thanks for the inspiration Mark! I didn't know about this thread. Looks like I'll have to get outside and get going.

We were talking about it at Crovo's but what did you end up doing about the body mount holes in the frame? I have some that are the same way. Did you weld the washer over the hole like Jim had mentioned...pages ago ...in this thread?

I should get on to doing that as it's one of my next steps

What jim was talking about was the elongated holes for the rear trailing arms.
Haven't done anything with that yet .
Thanks for reminding me. one more thing i need to get done.
I found some extra thick washer the same size as the body mounts that got welded into the holes for front mounts .

M.ROSS wrote:

What jim was talking about was the elongated holes for the rear trailing arms.
Haven't done anything with that yet .
Thanks for reminding me. one more thing i need to get done.
I found some extra thick washer the same size as the body mounts that got welded into the holes for front mounts .

Oops sorry about that! Well now that the thread has been bumped back up I guess it'll have to get done right? Money shmoney! Who needs it!

I'll have to dig out the box with the mounts then and see what the hardware stores have to offer. Hopefully my booger welds hold them in place.