April 18th - Official First Mod Day of 2010

The first mod day of 2010 will be at my place in Walpole, NH on April 18th with the 25th as a rain day. I have room for 2 cars in the garage, 3 or 4 in front of the garage, and 4 or so around the corner. The two in the garage could be working on under car things (yes I do have a lift now), the driveway is sure-pack, so anyone is welcome to work on whatever they want out there, but likely crawling under the car will be a pain. On top of all that I have a fairly long driveway with extra parking and a landing at the bottom, so there will be plenty of parking.

If people want to bring chips, soda, and maybe a veggie platter or something for you veggie eaters that would be great. I will supply a grill with burgers and wieners. Also if anyone has bag chairs or similar and wants to bring a few that would be great, I have about 4 stools and a couple plastics chairs but that is about it.

The address is:
280 Vally Rd.
Walpole, NH 03608

Wives, girlfriends, and boyfriends are all welcome, we will do our best to entertain them. I have radio and will have full cable TV set up in the garage this weekend, so that might help.

It is recommended that you bring whatever tools you think you will need for a project. I have a couple sets of jackstands, a decent array of air tools, and most hand tools, but I am pretty anal about my hand tools so I suggest you bring your own wrenches and such if possible.

Anything else I am missing here guys? I'm not going to keep track of how many people are coming, because I should have plenty of room, but just post up if you think you can make it so we all know. If you have a specific mod in mind post it up so we know what we are up against.

I think I will be tearing into the under hood of my 96 to clean it up and repaint it, but that will be very leisurely, so I will be all over the place helping out.

Doug

I'll be there! Not sure which car or if I'll have anything to do, but I'll be there.

Count me in. If anyone needs extra jack stands I have a pair I can snag from home as well as a few air tools.

I have a few things I wanna try and get done if anyone has the tools:

I'd like to patch those two rust spots on the wheel wells with new sheet metal. I'll bring the metal, if anyone has a portable welder? (Do you have one Pooge?)

The tailgate popper on the dash doesn't work, id like to poke around on that

Oh and if we could throw my wagon on the lift I wanna check the frame better than just me crawling under it, i'd appreciate that.

Thats it for me for now.

Count Lesley and I in! We'll bring a couple 12-packs of soda, some chip & dip, and anything else you may like?

I'm planning on making it. Looks like my medical stuff shouldn't be an issue so unless something major comes up count me in.

Billy may be doing my body work since he's planning on bringing his welder and such. Also I have a bit of a project that could use some helping hands (suspension/brakes). I'm planning on at the very least trying not to disable my car or myself while still making as much noise and mess as possible

i have a set vogtlands i wanna throw on, and MAYBE some afterburners if they re- stock em

Rich what springs do you have in there now and what are you gonna do with them?

Phyllis and myself will be there. I will be bringing tools, welder, food and drinks.

I'll be there, really looking forward to the ride over. I'm sure there is plenty of backroads to burn some rubber on

GasTT wrote:

Rich what springs do you have in there now and what are you gonna do with them?

I think they are stock! I will sell them.

Well I was all set to make the trip, now the ex just infomed me I have the kids till 10am or so, so I'm out. I'll make it someday I hope, like to meet all u guys.

BoSStonsSS wrote:

GasTT wrote:

Rich what springs do you have in there now and what are you gonna do with them?

I think they are stock! I will sell them.

yea im a fellow black bbody owner in need. how many miles on em.

GasTT wrote:

BoSStonsSS wrote:

GasTT wrote:

Rich what springs do you have in there now and what are you gonna do with them?

I think they are stock! I will sell them.

yea im a fellow black bbody owner in need. how many miles on em.

Did i miss something.I thought i met this Timmy and he was as WHITE as they come.
OOPS Timmy pulling the race card to score a better deal on some springs.

M.ROSS wrote:

GasTT wrote:

BoSStonsSS wrote:

GasTT wrote:

Rich what springs do you have in there now and what are you gonna do with them?

I think they are stock! I will sell them.

yea im a fellow black bbody owner in need. how many miles on em.

Did i miss something.I thought i met this Timmy and he was as WHITE as they come.
OOPS Timmy pulling the race card to score a better deal on some springs.

I think he means the color of his car. As we all know Tim is a skinny little white guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVR6WNOw9DE

Thank you Mr Obvious.
What's a guy gotta do to get a laugh around here ?

Hey Mark, it might just be me but it looks like your raccoon has a scrotum hanging from its chin

bammax wrote:

Hey Mark, it might just be me but it looks like your raccoon has a scrotum hanging from its chin

Thanks Brad
That's good to know if we need someone for scrotum sightings.
We know who to cum to.
Sorry Doug for assing up your thread.

M.ROSS wrote:

Thank you Mr Obvious.
What's a guy gotta do to get a laugh around here ?

I think the words your searching for is Captain Obvious.

IMPALADAKID wrote:

M.ROSS wrote:

Thank you Mr Obvious.
What's a guy gotta do to get a laugh around here ?

I think the words your searching for is Captain Obvious.

HAHAHA that pic kills me.

now BACK TO THE TOPIC!

Doug

Random question. I have a case of beer that won't get drank here. Is a beer donation welcome

Cadet57 wrote:

Random question. I have a case of beer that won't get drank here. Is a beer donation welcome

Depends on the beer....

In all reality though I don't think I have ever seen beer at an event, most likely because everyone has to drive to and from....That being said, since it is my house I should be able to get plenty toasted...LOL

Doug

Pooge wrote:

Cadet57 wrote:

Random question. I have a case of beer that won't get drank here. Is a beer donation welcome

Depends on the beer....

In all reality though I don't think I have ever seen beer at an event, most likely because everyone has to drive to and from....That being said, since it is my house I should be able to get plenty toasted...LOL

Doug

I have a bit of everything. I got a couple cases of Harpoon from work.

But I hear ya on the driving thing, never really factored that in. Maybe i'll just keep it home, don't want anyone getting hurt/ in trouble.

M.ROSS wrote:

Thank you Mr Obvious.
What's a guy gotta do to get a laugh around here ?

?Participate in the deer show?

GasTT wrote:

BoSStonsSS wrote:

GasTT wrote:

Rich what springs do you have in there now and what are you gonna do with them?

I think they are stock! I will sell them.

yea im a fellow black bbody owner in need. how many miles on em.

i have no clue. if its the ones from day one it has 174k

boojum wrote:

M.ROSS wrote:

Thank you Mr Obvious.
What's a guy gotta do to get a laugh around here ?

?Participate in the deer show?

I could have been a runner up if my rack had been bigger.

Sorry. Back to the thread.

BoSStonsSS wrote:

GasTT wrote:

BoSStonsSS wrote:

GasTT wrote:

Rich what springs do you have in there now and what are you gonna do with them?

I think they are stock! I will sell them.

yea im a fellow black bbody owner in need. how many miles on em.

i have no clue. if its the ones from day one it has 174k

I believe those where swapped out at about 160K for a set of stock SS springs off one of my parts cars with 100K..

Doug

Doug, you planin on fixing your trailer wiring that day too? If so I'll bring my electrical kit to make it easier and less redneck

Pooge wrote:

Cadet57 wrote:

Random question. I have a case of beer that won't get drank here. Is a beer donation welcome

Depends on the beer....

In all reality though I don't think I have ever seen beer at an event, most likely because everyone has to drive to and from....That being said, since it is my house I should be able to get plenty toasted...LOL

Doug

There was beer at Crovo's mod day.

GasTT wrote:

Pooge wrote:

Cadet57 wrote:

Random question. I have a case of beer that won't get drank here. Is a beer donation welcome

Depends on the beer....

In all reality though I don't think I have ever seen beer at an event, most likely because everyone has to drive to and from....That being said, since it is my house I should be able to get plenty toasted...LOL

Doug

There was beer at Crovo's mod day.

Drinking beer and working on cars is not a good mix, but it is Doug's place, he'll have the final say.

Tomz9C1 wrote:

GasTT wrote:

Pooge wrote:

Cadet57 wrote:

Random question. I have a case of beer that won't get drank here. Is a beer donation welcome

Depends on the beer....

In all reality though I don't think I have ever seen beer at an event, most likely because everyone has to drive to and from....That being said, since it is my house I should be able to get plenty toasted...LOL

Doug

There was beer at Crovo's mod day.

Drinking beer and working on cars is not a good mix, but it is Doug's place, he'll have the final say.

Like I said, after thinking more about it. I think im going to keep it home. I never took into account things like driving and power tools. Safety is more important.

Not to mention the fact that transporting alchohol across state lines is iffy at best

Well.. Figured out what caused the rust in the wheel wells. Its either the roof rack or the window seals. Anyone know how to correct the roof rack issue, if thats the cause? I figure all that rust patching will be worthless it water just gets in there again...

All these cars rot out there. The bottom of the quarter has a shelf that catches all the road grime/salt/water and holds it there. If you can feel the rot from the wheelwell then the shelf is the most likely issue. If a window leak is causing it then you'll find the rot on the inside of the car behind the plastic panels.

bammax wrote:

All these cars rot out there. The bottom of the quarter has a shelf that catches all the road grime/salt/water and holds it there. If you can feel the rot from the wheelwell then the shelf is the most likely issue. If a window leak is causing it then you'll find the rot on the inside of the car behind the plastic panels.

I think it's either the shelf or the window. Im inclined to say its the shelf. Because if you remove the left wheelwell cover, there would sometimes be a puddle that starts closer to the tire. and gets smaller as it gets closer to the tailgate.

Sounds about right. That's the reason everyone here was looking for quarters.

Someday someone will figure out that you can cut that shelf off and it would eliminate the issue and wouldn't even be a visible change unless you were under the car looking right at it

bammax wrote:

Someday someone will figure out that you can cut that shelf off and it would eliminate the issue and wouldn't even be a visible change unless you were under the car looking right at it

Are you implying I should bring a sawzall on the 18th?

One more thing I want to do.. Anyone ever install one of those fuel gauge calibrators? If I get it in time I wanna toss that in too.

Unfortunately I'll be in FL from the 15th to the 23rd, so I can't make it to this, but I'll try to be at the next one!

Cadet57 wrote:

bammax wrote:

Someday someone will figure out that you can cut that shelf off and it would eliminate the issue and wouldn't even be a visible change unless you were under the car looking right at it

Are you implying I should bring a sawzall on the 18th?

Cut-off wheel. Sawzall won't get you a very clean precise cut. They tend to wander a bit. Course it's not my car so whatever works for you

bammax wrote:

Cadet57 wrote:

bammax wrote:

Someday someone will figure out that you can cut that shelf off and it would eliminate the issue and wouldn't even be a visible change unless you were under the car looking right at it

Are you implying I should bring a sawzall on the 18th?

Cut-off wheel. Sawzall won't get you a very clean precise cut. They tend to wander a bit. Course it's not my car so whatever works for you

We got one of those too. Pneumatic one? Will we have a compressor?

Cadet57 wrote:

bammax wrote:

Cadet57 wrote:

bammax wrote:

Someday someone will figure out that you can cut that shelf off and it would eliminate the issue and wouldn't even be a visible change unless you were under the car looking right at it

Are you implying I should bring a sawzall on the 18th?

Cut-off wheel. Sawzall won't get you a very clean precise cut. They tend to wander a bit. Course it's not my car so whatever works for you

We got one of those too. Pneumatic one? Will we have a compressor?

I am bringing most of my tools, including my compressor.

IMPALADAKID wrote:

Cadet57 wrote:

bammax wrote:

Cadet57 wrote:

bammax wrote:

Someday someone will figure out that you can cut that shelf off and it would eliminate the issue and wouldn't even be a visible change unless you were under the car looking right at it

Are you implying I should bring a sawzall on the 18th?

Cut-off wheel. Sawzall won't get you a very clean precise cut. They tend to wander a bit. Course it's not my car so whatever works for you

We got one of those too. Pneumatic one? Will we have a compressor?

I am bringing most of my tools, including my compressor.

Well, my list of "stuff to bring" is getting smaller. Or do we each supply what we need? The newbie is confused again.

Im still looking for sheet metal...

I have some sheet metal. How much do you need? and for what?

You should alway bring your own hand tools for what you are planning to do, and the mods or repairs you choose should be able to be completed within the day, and not be undrivable at the end of the day.

Have compressor, no problem there.

Doug

IMPALADAKID wrote:

I have some sheet metal. How much do you need? and for what?

Patching both wheel wells in the wagon. One rust spot is about 1' long x 2" tall the second is about half that. Not sure on specifics, but I can measure both tomorrow.

IMPALADAKID wrote:

You should alway bring your own hand tools for what you are planning to do, and the mods or repairs you choose should be able to be completed within the day, and not be undrivable at the end of the day.

That shouldnt be a problem either. If someone wants to do (or show me how to do) that patching for me it'd be much appreciated (never welded anything... ever). That's about all I really need done, I may poke around with that tailgate popper. But i'll also be willing to help out with anything else anyone is doing. Or staying out of the way. Whichever one I end up being better at

I still don't know what I'm doing or even what car to bring! Which car do you guys want me to bring? Maybe that'll help me choose what to do...

unless something crazy happens between now and then.
i should be there.

if things go right(im begining to sound like a broken record i know)
i just might have the new wheels on.

I wont be making it. My car is falling apart and I dont have money to fix it. I dont even trust driving it up there a tie rod will probably let go on me or my transmission. I havn't driven it in a week it's making me sick.

I now have a new project that I'm not happy about doing. Need a new intake manifold gasket as its starting to leak ever so slightly so I bought those and some new valve cover gaskets

Cadet57 wrote:

I now have a new project that I'm not happy about doing. Need a new intake manifold gasket as its starting to leak ever so slightly so I bought those and some new valve cover gaskets

I don't think I would try and tackle that unless you know you can get it done. That will definately dead end you.