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you got allot of goooooooo, that tiny single master cylinder say you got no woooohhhhhhh....... ;)

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LOL. No, not at the moment. That is next on the list.

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I was staring at that picture thinking pretty much the same thing. Endless-you and Chip are doing a heck of a nice job.

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Thanks! Chip knows his stuff. Ultimately the truck will go, stop and have A/C.

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Fired up the motor for the first time today. I will load the video later. My wife took some pics.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQsI5koXXs

First start video.

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Modified air cleaner assembly rests in primer. Twin air intakes. Two flex hoses (one on either side of the motor) will eventually run from the air intake tubes mounted on either side of radiator back into the modified air cleaner assembly seen in this pic.

*Note: This was originally supposed to be a two week project and it has been nearly five months now....so we are right on schedule. :ito:

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The air cleaner looks great!

I know what you mean about schedules. Even the best-laid plans get changed because things just happen. I always fall prey to "while I've got it apart, I may as well just (insert modification here)"........and quick jobs become long, drawn-out money drainers. I like doing stuff once, and it drives me crazy to have to tear something apart that I spent so much time and effort to make it look as perfect as I could. They never seem to look as good the second time around.

You've got a good guy working with you. Chip can take awhile, but he's meticulous and he'll research EVERYTHING with the intent of doing things right. When you get your truck on the road, it'll be awesome and you'll have years and years of enjoyment. A little more time spent now will pay off in spades later. You guys are doing it the right way.

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Agree with everything you wrote. I know it will be well worth it in the end.

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Motor is done. Exhaust is almost done. Good possibility that the pusher is on the road tomorrow.

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maybe a re-think, can't see enough of the motor?

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Man, that is going to be huge. I'm anxious to hear how the new transmission works out. That thing should be an I-10 left-lane rocketship!

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A couple youtube links to videos of the truck with the exhaust in place. Brockman Mellowtones into 2.5" pipes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCfglBK77zM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99QqZBCYlZo

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Man, that motor looks good.nice job

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Grant, you guys knocked it out of the park. I love it!

So..........how's does it ride and drive? I'm really anxious to hear how the transmission has changed the driving experience.

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Chip killed it on this one. He is still working through a stumble when the secondaries open around 2,500 rpms so I couldn't get on it yesterday. However, I can tell you that the TKO500 is fantastic. Chip dialed in the clutch perfectly. You know that feeling you get when a motor and tranny are matched and the power is just perfectly laid down? This motor/tranny combo delivers. It is smooth and the power is there in gobs and gobs from the moment you start to lift your foot off the clutch. But it isn't jerky at all. It is smooth in parking lot maneuvers and viscerally exciting to shift at speed. The shift action offers just enough resistance so that you know that you are moving it into the right gear but it is a short throw so shifts are made very quickly. Lastly, I have 4:56 gears and first gear is still not too short. It runs up nicely before you need to shift to second (versus you needing to shift at about 5mph as it was with the SM420.) The SM420 just plain sucked. First was unusable. Second and third were never in the power band. This is heaven in comparison.

I have had a lot of performance cars and this is the one that I most want to drive again and again. It is f*ing perfect. Worth every penny in my opinion.

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PS - You need to drive over to Scottsdale and take it for a spin.

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Looks great man

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I agree, you knocked it outta the park!

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Thanks for the compliments guys. The project came together in time for the Hot Rod 100 Reliability Run here in Phoenix and now the truck is back to cruising the roads and hauling hay...just a little more quickly now.
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The End...for now.

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So Grant, how about some pictures with the new front tires?

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Here is a pic with the 235/70 up-front. Thanks for the suggestion Chip. Cheapest way out there to get a bit more rake.

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^^^Ha! So, I see the allure of the '60-'66 trucks has drawn another to our flock. Welcome to the board, Chip! Your expertise and fab skills will be a huge asset to this forum.

If ANYBODY truly needs a shop truck, it's you. I know that if you were to build one, it would turn out killer.

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He might as well be here since he built this one and certainly learned a lot in the process.

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I thought that his bucket was his shop truck based on some of the escapades i've read about

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Heck ya! It's got a 20" bed after all!

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Thanks Alex! Your help has contributed mightily to a rather quick learning curve. Ya, I'm officially looking. I'll know the right one when it comes my way. The only thing I'm sure of is that it'll be a long bed, and I'm gonna copy lot's of your build...

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So, Grant hasn't posted his new tach yet... That damn thing looks soooooooo COOL going down the road! Sounds great too! as he pulled out of my place yesterday and on to 3rd Street all I could do is stand there and watch and listen...

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Ask and ye shall receive. Fresh pic of tach. Don't know how I lived without it. Cant see the speedometer needle very well between 35 and 85mph but the tach tells me all that I need to know. :metal:

It is *****ing lit up at night too.

Nice to have the speedo more accurate now too. It is only about 5 mph faster than actual speed (using my GPS) and that is easy math (versus when it was buried at over 100 when I was actually doing 75!)


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PS - next stop is the drag strip. Get a baseline before we do anything else to the truck.

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My wife surprised me for my birthday this year and she worked with local hot rod builder and louver specialist Chip Quinn to have him put a sweet Vintage Air A/C unit into my '64. It was a six week job and it required the concoction of many, many excuses to as where my truck had gone. Chip did a great job as usual making the unit look very tight and trick attached to the 355 under the hood. Just the compressor tensioner alone is a beautiful and well thought out piece. I am very happy with the build and even more happy that I scored such an amazing and thoughtful wife. Thank you Dayna. I love you.

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That is a nice and clean installation. Congrats on an awesome wife :thumbs:

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First up, I love everything you’ve done with your truck. The patina finish, color and detailing on the engine, and the racing discs. Your wife certainly sounds like a keeper. Nice birthday present! Air conditioning is sure going to be a nice addition where you live.

I would like to point out what looks to be a potential engine problem in the making. I’ve looked at all the engine pictures you’ve posted and it looks like your engine is completely sealed providing no crankcase ventilation. If you’re still running the original road draft tube at the back of the block, that’s fine but the oil fill cap needs to be replaced with a breather style cap to allow fresh air in.

If the hard line connecting at the bottom of the oil fill tube is connected to a PCV valve, it won’t do much good without a breather cap on top, and if one is added, that will only cause the smog valve to draw fresh air from the breather, not the crankcase. For the original system to work, it must have an open filter in front and either a road draft tube, or smog valve connected to a direct vacuum port at the carburetor or intake manifold.

The alternative is adding a smog valve on one valve cover and a breather on the other. I didn’t want to mess up the originality of the valve covers, so I came up with the design shown here:

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...3+valve+covers

I may be misinterpreting what I see and you have everything set up perfectly. Just trying to be helpful if this isn’t the case.

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Hi markeb01,

This is Chip. Grant sent me a text this morning and asked me to address your concerns.

The PCV system on this one is something that I have used several time in years past. The PCV itself is concealed directly behind the carburetor itself, and has had a "well" built beneath it in the manifold to prevent the pickup of crankcase oil. The hard line running back from the oil fill on the front of the engine connects to a line welded into the base of the air cleaner, creating a circulatory system similar to what GM did through out the seventies. The difference being that instead of side to side venting it's working front to back.

As I said, I have used this system a few times in years past in varying manners, and it works very well, allowing the use of mostly stock sheet metal.

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I know I said it before up the line, but this truck has a "presence" that I don't normally see in trucks. See, truth be told, my forte is very traditional stuff such as Model "T", Model "A", and '32-'40 stuff, and honestly "late model" stuff doesn't normally register... 'Till this one!

When Grant picked it up the other night, it was just about dark under a typically awesome Arizona "The sky is on fire" type sunset, and he pulled out of my driveway and up next his awesome wife's truck to talk before their 40 mile jaunt back home. I sat and just looked at this thing sitting in my narrow turn of the century street out front in awe... Under the lights it just looks b1tchin'!! Sounds b1tchin' too!

I've been honored to be a part of this build.

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Grant had said some one was asking about which crank pulley I used in this installation. That was a bit of an odyssey on this one. See, for some reason, this truck was equipped with a rudimentary batch of smog controls from the factory in '64.... I know that doesn't sound even reasonable, but every body that I have talked to about this and shown it to simply scratches their head and wonders, too. It was ALL factory, as well. But the lower pulleys that came on this truck were like no other Chevy stuff that I or any body had seen, and were slightly different off set than others that I had here. All had Chevy part numbers. So, long story short, I used the stock cast lower three grove pulley, but needed a to groove upper. I found what was supposed to match via a Chevy truck parts guy in California via E-bay, but when it arrived it matched the other "standard" Chevy short pump two groove pulleys I had around, which put it about 3/8" off from the lower.

I lucked out in finding a guy in far east Mesa that runs a small business parting these trucks, that didn't wrinkle his nose and tell me I was nuts as I told him what was up... And he just happened to have another "oddly" equipped '64 in.... with a two groove water pump pulley! All matched and was well.

I used a Vintage Air direct fit kit on this truck, and would recommend it to anybody, but I do have to mention that due to things such as the fresh air inlet hoses on Grant's truck, I did end up modifying lots of it.

About the biggest was the compressor mount. When we did the engine earlier this year, I noticed that the "Corvette" style 2 1/2" ram's horns that Speedway is reproducing had accessory mount on both sides as opposed to the standard's driver's side only. Taking advantage of this fact, instead of running the Vintage Air semi kinda ugly self supporting compressor bracket, I made up one that would utilize that Corvette ram's horn's mounts... Hard to see in photos, but it looks like it belongs there since the beginning of time.

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If you live in Phoenix and you want quality custom work done then Chip is probably your guy.

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i would love to hear more on the pvc system plus more pics

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Okay, let's see if I can remember how to post pictures in V-bulletin!

Basically, what I did was take a brand new Edelbrock RPM manifold, and had a buddy cut an oil fill hole on his mill for me. The next thing I did was to find a spot back behind the carb that had a boss adjacent on the underside, but would also end up low profile enough to fit under the air cleaner.

After much deliberation, a counter bored hole was made in just the right spot. I wish that I had photographed the way I cut the concentric holes, as it was the first time I use a new technique to me. What I did was to take deep 5/8" hole saw, and my shallow 1" hole saw and thread them on the same mandrel. I drilled a 1/4" hole in the "right spot", and used that to pilot the hole saws. The 5/8" cut through first leaving a nicely machined hole for the grommet to seat on. as the 5/8" went through, the 1" registered and cut a perfect counter bore for the seal to drop into and out of sight. Easy-peasy! And damn near perfect!

The next problem was, that if the PCV was allowed to run unshielded in the lifter valley, it would be susceptible to picking up airborne oil vapor and pulling it through the induction... Not gonna happen on my watch! so flipped the manifold over, found that adjacent undrilled boss, centered it, drilled it with a starter bit, drilled to size, then tapped 1/4-20. Next came the baffle or "well" for the PVC to sit in. That was handled with a stray piece of .090 3003 aluminum. The softer grade aluminum is important, as it resists work hardening with the engine's vibrations over time. Cut it out, drill some random oil return holes, bolt it in place with an aircraft grade 1/4 allen with a drop of Loctite to prevent the securing screw from dropping into engine hell...

I couldn't find a picture of the finished deal, but it is plumbed right into the carb's manifold vacuum port on the backside of the engine with a couple of small cuffs of rubber hose, and another hand formed hard line.... Done! Kinda.