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Man I have never seen so many corvette with the shaved front lights like my 64 has. I believe mine was drag raced in the late 60's with a swapped...
I have been looking into gold leaf applied to large expanses of metal like dashes or air cleaners. Does anyone have any experience spraying a 2...
Talk about from the dead. I actually ended up going full NA build on the 365 due to my lack of casting ability. i have another block though for my...
I am very much in a need vs want for deciding to spend money. Brakes, suspension and steering. what ever it needs it gets and it gets the parts...
After years of buying cars with what I thought was good paint I was gifted a old show car that was perfect. I learned on here how to paint a car...
I have the webers, 44s with velocity stacks. Got the car fully sanded out, doors are off and its ready to paint. I am in California and I cannot...
Not exactly the most HAMB appropriate thing but bodywork is body work. Work has been extra slow and I have not been sleeping well so I go out and...
How are all bodyman not like all upper arms and skinny. I am about 5 hours of sanding in and I have learned that I really enjoy body blocking....
Thanks guys. I will be using a backer of some type I have made the mistake of sending with my hands before and I don't want to repeat that. I...
I am working on rebuilding a 50's road race car it's a mix of metal and fiberglass construction. Car was stripped of paint, metal/glass is...
Reason for sale: Shop is expanding into building/working on more historic race cars and need cash for build out. I am right outside La Jolla in...
Just a quick heads up most of the cars and coffee events are more suited to modern cars. IE the La Jolla and Carlsbad ones tend to be European and...
Hideous question but I have a BB chevy that I am tuning up for a friend. Completely stock other then cosmetics. Spent a good amount of time...
Bump, has electric fuel pump now. 57 pump our for rebuild. very open to trades locally. Including non HAMB friendly cars.
I have it in solidworks but the casting would be too difficult for me, honestly I have been looking at cutting up a old manifold and seeing if I...
Love them right up until about 1958 or so when they started to get really big. Recession was kind of in swing, the 59's especially Caddy's were a...
Bump up. Car now has new 1406 Carburetor, back on 3.5 inch whitewalls, pertronix points and alternator. Used frequently as DD. Needs a new home,...
Amazon had it overnight so it will be here tomorrow. Thanks for the help guys.
Holding tank that we put under a little pressure to get the fuel out. I have been using rubbered/cork mostly as it was listed as safe on its spec...
Anybody have a supplier, part number or material for sheet gasket that works with ETOH gas up to 15-20%. Everything that I have tried locally has...
Its moving around, get a fuel pressure gague on that thing ASAP and run it into the cabin. Could be as simple as a plugged filter. Personally I...
Replying to my own thread I am a moron. Check your tools. tach readout on my timing gun was off by 1000rpm as I was checking timing up high and...
The only way that I have seen a car get that low correctly was pulling the body and actually rebuilding/moving the suspension mounting points up...
Ok now you have me interested is this only on the TRI power and dual carb motors or even the stock ones. I have never seen that on any of the...
I will give that a try. I normally just set them using a vacuum gauge.
One of the first things I did, not moving at all between park/in gear. I have it set at 600 in gear now, running like 800 in park but not the...
Other then the idle shudder drives darn near perfect. Bring the RPM up and the motor returns to being smooth as butter.
Banging my head against the wall on this one. Rebuilt to stock 365 Cadillac motor, new carb, intake all gaskets, new ignition. Everything is to...
Almost nothing is 4.5 or 4 7/32 really now. Had to cut something down on the lathe at work to make it work, I hate the look of the aftermarket...
I swear 365/390's run better with multicarb then stock. Bloody stock carbs are a nightmare on these things, single slightly more modern 4 barrel...
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