Projects The Further Adventures of a Car Dad and his Family PICTURE HEAVY

I heard that

 

Worth all the work and worries right!

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YEP
I had plans to take it and the 98 Silverado that Ethan is getting to the muffler shop today.
The 98 gave some brake problems Saturday. I thought a emergency brake cable was stuck but when I went to get it so I could jack it up and diagnose it I saw a puddle of brake fluid at the back wheel.
One of the wheel cylinders had blown apart.
So today there will be new drums shoes and wheel cylinders for the truck and muffler shop Friday.

 

WENT HOME AT LUNCH AND GOT THIS
It was a fun drive back.

 

Looking good ole' friend!! Glad to see you're able to drive the Vette!!

 

ARE YOU COMING TO BG THIS YEAR?
I AM READY TO SEE THE 57 IN PERSON

 

How the hell did you make it back? I would have been still driving! Joe


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I AM FINDING IT HARD TO BE HERE

 

Right on man!! I wouldn’t have went back to work!


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It was rough

 

Heading to the exhaust shop in the morning.

 

Won’t be long now

 

Well it is up on the lift now.
I have a problem the headers have some small holes in them. I will need some more headers or some of the big exhaust manifolds for it.

It still had the double wall pipe from the factory from the headers back.

 

Wasn't that long ago I went through the same problem on a customer's 65. we went with the 2 1/2 inch manifolds.

 

I would love to have a set of those

 

We used the Dorman knock offs.

 

Cool I will look them up on rockauto

 

They do repop those don't they enloe? I found a stock set a few years ago that I used on my 58 Brookwood wagon. Caught a bunch of crap when I cut the generator mount off the left one. Joe

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The one I worked on had a right side alternator and had problems finding a left side, so I used two right side and had to cut the mount off for the left side to clear the park brake cable.

 

FWIW the '65 350 horse L79 exhaust manifolds had 2 & 1/2 inch dumps. The '66 L79 did not. For '66 they used 2 inch dumps but they continued to use 2 &1/2 inch exhaust pipes. The header pipe was 2 inch at the manifold connection but ballooned out to 2.5 just below that. Chevy engineers apparently felt this approach did not adversely affect performance.

Depending on what you want Enloe, maybe there is a cash savings there.

 

Good to know.
Thanks I appreciate it.

 

Again FWIW Enloe and I don't know what your goals are. L79's sound great so I'm adding a link of an effort to recreate that sound.

 

FYI some of the stock car racing parts sellers offer those bigger manifolds.

 

Well my daughter has been on my ass to pick her up from school since I got Ethan. Here I am waiting on her.
She told me to get here early so her friends could see her in it.

And here she is.

 

Then we went to Shane’s Rib Shack for dinner

 

Bar B Q, and old Vette and family. No way it gets better than that!

 

This is awesome. Your making me want to pull the vette out instead of the model for the show tomorrow. Glad I saw this so late or I'm sure it would've been more work for me today lol

 

Bring it and come on

 

What model is your Vette?

 

1965. 327 4 speed