Projects Final chapter in the crummy chop

Dug into it a bit more

I would have thought a broken rocker would have made her run a lot worse than it does
Lol


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Good job, Thom!

You'll have it running in no time!

 

Thanks Buddy
I gota pull the intake and vally pan. I'm also missing a push rod.



But she looks good lol.


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Weird. I cant find that missing push rod. The guy I got the car from must have not put one in lol. That rocker flopped over and broke the next one.
What makes me mad is I missed that. Oh well, I'll order a few pushrods and a rocker set and give it another go


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Victory is mine!
A few pushrods and a set of rockers. Amazing how nice it runs on all 8 lol




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Wow man! That looks really great.

 

Car looks great!!! What brand of tires are those?

 

Way to go, Thom!!!!

 

Thanks guys.
Those are Coker radials.



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I agree! I had a guy do a chop top on my 37 ford P.U. so bad i had to get a new cab ! but know moving forward thanks to Bill @ So .City Rod & Kustom who just did a awesome chop top on my 37 ford P.U.

 

Lol your about 3 years too late

Plates and insurance today so we took the first cruz to sonic for a shake

First dumb question. "Hey is that a mercury?"


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Doing my shake down runs now.

I've got a few things I need to work on:

When it's hot she doesn't like to turn over. I've put a new starter on it and made a heat shield.
I'll try a ford relay next.

The coolant fan stopped working this morning.
I'll have to rewire that and probably use the Ford relays this time. The regular 50 amp cube one felt really hot.

 

When do we get to see it on the streets!

 

Ya missed me this morning

I'm going to show at the Road Knights blue light special on the 16th over in Loveland at the Ranch

 

there is one downtown tonight and one out a Kersey tomorrow if you want to go?

 

Aug 28th at 7:00 American Graffiti on the big screen at the Crest downtown also

 

Had a good time at the Blue light special it on by the Loveland Road Knights
Cool to park next to a stock 52



And learned the hard way that 1/8 of a tank = empty lol





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Saw your car at Blue Light this weekend. Very nice!

 

I also got to see the car at the show as well. Very nice car and great job.

 

Thanks guys!
I know I met a few of ya, my pleasure


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This shot turned out great




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Outstanding!!!!

 

Bring it to the Car Quest on south 8th Ave next Saturday

 

Sounds good, I'll be there


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It look great Thom.

You saved that one for sure!

 

The car looks awesome. What a journey!

 

COOL! Can you get ahold of Buddy,if he's in town maybe he can bring the FlatCad

 

I'm pretty sure it's not in the state


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WEEEEEE!
Had fun pimping her around.
It's winter time, so I'll work on a few problems.

The front end needs rebuilt, the center link is shot and the ball joints have never been replaced lol.
Unfortunately it's a 2nd gen Firebird subframe. I really don't want to pay $200 for the center link, so I'll convert it over to $50 Camaro parts.

I miss-measured for the front shocks, and I ruined one already.
Probably because the tires rub them sideways.

Is there any reason I can't put the shocks on the upper control arm?
I could build a bridge from the frame over the top for the upper mount, like the 4X4 guys.

And lastly, the headers that came with it are cooking the starter, so I found some stock manifolds, and I need to raise the mufflers up cause I drag them coming out of the garage lol

 

Not sure about shocks but the spring rests on the lower because that is the stronger arm from the factory by design. The uppers are not as strong but I don't see why they wouldn't be strong enough for the shocks. Maybe others have a different take.