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That's exactly what I'm looking at. They look really awesome!
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those bulkhead exhaust ends are just what I've been looking for. Do you have more info on them?
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Some of them have an internal "flapper" that swings closed when there isn't exhaust pressure coming out. Its a boat thing, but on a car it rattles and pings. Also, some hard-mount to the body, which means that you need a good mount/flex point in your exhaust or it will transfer a ton of vibration back into the body. |
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Here are some that I found. Reasonable price, I wonder about heat shield though.
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A WILD project we did. This is another Plasti-Dip special, but we use a VERY special thermochromatic pigment....BCUZ HOTWHEELSCAR!
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Finally snagged my new-to-me heads from a friend. They are good ole 317's, but they've been milled a tad dropping the chamber by about 2cc's. They have also been fully worked...and I mean freakin worked...by a 40+ year veteran and instructor at S.A.M.
They have new gm valves with a full valve job, topped with Brian Tooley Racing platinum dual springs and Titanium retainers and all the other locks/seals/etc. I'm tempted to add new rockers as well when we open it up to eliminate the needle bearing concern. We ran and proved these heads on our fbody for a while and made excellent power. http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9511b2b8.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psb0cd10b7.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psdc9b4f07.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps91c55321.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psb1cd5465.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psef47c307.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6cfe0d0d.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psbf678f48.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5f6a2102.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psf2022e19.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psfb7cd4ef.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9d84ce2f.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8ad109a1.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps87d685cd.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psde7fbdcb.jpg |
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A followup to the ThermoChromatic dip video. A demo of the final result and playing around with the finish
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What paint is on the truck now? I'm really digging the satin theme
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Are you asking what type of paint it is or am I reading something wrong??? |
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Yes sir....what type of paint.
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Its good ole' 3 stage paint, prime-base-clear. You'd paint it the same as any other car, but we used a satin clear (regular clearcoat with flattening agent).
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got it! Thanks!
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Digging the truck and the vids. The heads look really good! Cool to see someone else from the fbody crowd.
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I'm fabbing a 9inch rear for it, and we are doing a full pro touring suspension in prep for next year. |
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Awesome! (The car not the damage lol) Was it the stock torque arm? 9" will be nice. I've only ran the Moser 12 bolts, but the easy gearing changes with the 9" would be nice. It's been a while since I've done anything over on tech, but my user name is CHRIZ28 over there. Never did anything pro-touring, would be a blast though! Wanted to go more pt with the Firehawk, just ended up selling it. Would love to go pt with the 66. Just way more places to play on a drag strip around than autocross or road course around here.
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Very cool man. Here are some pics from the fiasco at Gingerman. I'll have to get my buddies cell phone pics that showed the sheared arm. You can barely see it in the side up picture. You can see where the wheel collided into the wheel well and ripped the undercoating off, and the rim scored it slightly above the shock. We were surprised this didnt' shred a tire or rip it off the rim...it was fine?
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Good looking car! I'll always have a soft spot for 4th gens. Time to get some suspension under that car for sure! I had really good luck with a spohn subframe mounted torque arm with two loops. Can't wait to see what you do with it. Oh, and the truck too lol. Do you post over on tech?
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Despite my mag credentials, and his (the t/a title'd owner) being a tuner and mech engineer for an OEM of GM...folks don't like to listen to advice or opinions that didn't fit the crowd. We took engine dyno sheets from a cam we spec'd over their to share with some folks looking for advice. Despite hard #'s, we got **** on by posters because we second-guessed Pat G (and you know exactly how thats recieved over there). He re-spec'd a cam that matched ours in all but 1 dimension, and they fanboyed hard. I just can't do it over there. Other than here, I like YellowBullet, since at least the poo-slinging is omni directional, and anyone with #'s or slips can make their own respect. |
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Yea, seems like every forum has a few of those guys. There's a lot of "experts" over there with 13 sec cars lol. I've never had any trouble. Just have to know when to ignore a post. I would say it's probably just because they are online, but I've met them at the track too haha. Just do your thing and not worry about it.
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CONGRATULATIONS CHRIS YOUR THE 500th REPLY! :metal::flag:
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Woo Hoo!! Door prize? Lol. Have you started cutting on that truck yet?
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backstory: Its a pretty cool little truck, tho its got a pretty MAJOR quirk; its got like 3 frames...most not from trucks. The front stub is out of something else, and rear end was "backhalfed" with a freakin 1983 Chevelle Malibu rear end. So...ya. (he didn't do any of this to it) The coil spring rear end tracks ok, but rides very harsh because of how damn low the thing sits. Its a static dropped truck that rides lower than most bagged truck's I've seen. http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps57e2bb86.jpg The issue tho, is that the welding was done very poorly by the previous owner and the transition from truck frame #1 to the Malibu rear was dangerously under welded and under built. Its made from 2x3 1/8th square tube. While thats actually just fine (and I use it for the repair also), it was not reinforced to the frame in any way. This means shear loads and torsional loads actually caused the frame to crack along the weld and become unsafe. http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps485c0582.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps019b3b12.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7711112e.jpg The Fix It gets interesting here. I ended up cutting out the lower portions of of the rail above, and cleaning up all the end sufraces. I trimmed back the lower c of the frame transition that had rusted out, and gave myself and easy set of "ends" to fit up another piece of square tube. I ground back the old welds flat. The few that were good I left, the others were ground out and cleaned up so I could weld them up with the new bar. http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2cf9ddad.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psccea2cfd.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psf2ac415e.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps904cce1d.jpg I then ran 3" stitches on both ends and both sides of the new bar, reinforcing it against the rail. I then ran larger second passes on the ends tying the new bar into the malibu and truck frames. I also came back and fixed any of the bad weldments from the first go-round. I'll put those pics up tomorrow, when I'll be tapering the rail for a cleaner fit, dressing the welds, and moving on to the other side. |
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Heres a view of the bed area on this thing. Thats the Malibu subframe in the back, and then a diamond plate bed-cover thing that comes out mini-truck style.
http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psd50914cd.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps47062ca4.jpg So I welded all of the seams, and boxed/gusseted the ends. I also shaped and boxed the lower portion to fit the shape of the rail and allow the steps to fit back on without difficulty. (excuse the dirtyness on the welds, there was seam sealer hidden in everything and it decided to smoke up ) http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psd9b56efa.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps067bb530.jpg The last step is to dress the welds back a bit more, then coat the whole thing so it doesn't rust out. This is 200% stronger than before. While the whole thing isn't really ideal, nor the way I would do it on my own; it was the best solution to the situation at hand. Short of cutting the whole back half off and starting over, this was the strongest and safest solution. Everything is solidly welded to the old frame, the boxing and gusseting, the new frame bar, and the backhalf. I'll post of up "dressed" and finished photos tomorrow. You'll never have to see the repair again once the steps are back on. |
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Wow, that dude does set low! Work looks good, sometimes you just have to do the best you can with what you have. Do you have any whole pics of the truck? My great grandpa had a '58, good looking pickups.
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Thanks man, like I said, its not ideal...but its what he had to work with. Shops would charge him more than the truck was worth to do frame work, the truck was just unsafe without the work being done. It might not be pretty, but you'll never see it once the fenders are back on, and its plenty solid.
Heres some pics up on stands (aka closer to stock height lol). http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psc2d281ff.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps33c7ff16.jpg |
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That looks like a mess.
I always loved the 58/59 Chevys. Such cool trucks! |
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I hope you don't think I'm talking about your work. I was talking about before you went after it. Sorry if you think I was trashing you.
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Cool truck! Glad you're getting it straightened out. I'd love to see it down on the ground.
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That 58 was back at my house for a little bit. We replaced the destroyed old springs with some El Camino load-helper progressive coils and a spring spacer to get some useful function from the on-the-bumpstop rear suspension.
http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1t6ary9j.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psjyysrnog.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3lykx3mn.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psrdmhbrux.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psva9tnene.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...pspcbku6ds.jpg And look at how nasty this spring was. They were literally being held in with layers of rust. I had the spring fully compressed HANGING with the weight of the spring and the compressor on just the rust alone. We had also been concerned that they may have been heated at some point, so the snapping risk on these had to go. The elco springs are noticeably thicker. http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psl3atckuy.jpg And unrelated I was just doing my weekly welding lab, working on some outside corner joint on aluminum, and then just some beads to practice my feed hand. http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psshjenwk8.jpg http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/...psqcoalbhz.jpg |
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Another version of the 350z, this time trying out Alien Pearl.....nothing else I've seen has turned out quite like this.
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I was able to come up to Gingerman Raceway a few weeks back for a private track event with our friends from PSI, and I posted some pics of the carnage to our Trans Am...but we also had a full day of racing with our friends Tim and Pat who let me rig up their cars for a few laps at the event. We put the cameras onto their Gbody Monte and C4, and recorded a few laps of fun.
Tim built the car himself as a father son project, and wasn't afraid to push it (he has a close call in the video). And it was Pat's first track day, and first performance driving ever really in his "stock-tastic" c4 (a car he found with less than 60k on it for under $5k). **Always choose HD, and please Like Comment and Subscribe to me on Youtube.** |
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The followup vid to our project with the Alien Pearl. Check it out, and PLEASE LIKE COMMENT SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON YOUTUBE!
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A mildly humorous video I threw together of some vaguely (and similarly) named products for car care and "people care".
Not what I usually do, but I thought some were funny, and all of them are real products, some of which I had. (the car ones, dummy). |
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I went down to the Race&Performance Expo in St Charles IL and met up with our friends at Borowski Race Engines, and we shot a few minutes with them about upcoming projects, the shop etc.
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The projects are slowly peeking out from under the storage blankets. My truck isn't out quite yet...but I stopped by a friends garage (one of them :rolleyes: ) and he had a couple things sitting for completion. Must be nice.
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Sub'd. Wow so much, I'm going to have to come back later.
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