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Started ripping my 454 apart tonight, cam, cast intake, rocker arms, pushrods, fuel pump, rad the whole bit. Ready to start the clean up in the morning abd port match the gaskets to the head surface with the heads on. So lots to do tomorow, will post some pic's tomorrow.

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I put new plug wires on my 454 in the new (to me) 72 C10.:metal:
Then Caught the carb on fire...:devil:
Grimlens... I swear they are everywhere!

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:haha::haha:

Ain't it the truth!!

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QUOTE=Scott>72-GMC;5972826]Sadly I bought a house in an old geezer town. All uptight. Once they die off maybe ill get a brake lol
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Don't worry about the old geezers they can't hear anyway :lol:
Oh wait I'm a Geezer awe go ahead light them up my wife gets embarrassed when I crank mine up but hey I tell her screw the neighbors I am old I can do what I want:metal:

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I looked at some pictures on Photobucket this morning, still to cold to take it out of the trailer and I can't kick the wife out of the garage till it warms up.

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Sometimes us geezers are the problem just ask my neighbors:lol:they frown on open headers, the skeet tourneys my kids,their friends and I have and the two am stereo contests but the closest is a 1/4 mile away. I tell em come over enjoy and get over themselves:metal::metal:

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Got my frame all mocked up. Ready for some welding. Truthfully,,,,,this was yesterday.
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I day dreamed about it being done and rollin through Waikiki... Japanese tourists drooling over its raunchy looks and sound... rumbling through the buildings past the police station... maybe let some air out and set her down for a landing.. then a FAT burnout... Hawaii 5-0 comes out, gives me a thumbs up and .... I take off! Fasten your seat belts... put your tray tables in the upright position... and hold the F*&& ON!

Oh... time to wake up... its still in the garage all apart!

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Mine have gotten use to me making noise between my truck and riding my quad with my grandaughter. some times they just have to find some one that cares what they think.

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So true!! love the Washinton quote:D

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Well started on my 454 last night and tore it all down. Today did some cleanup on heads, port matched intake gaskets to 781 oval port heads and did some mild porting, also started on port matching Edelbrock RPM intake and mild porting also, here are a few pic's will post more as I go. Mudman.
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Well back to work, more cleaning then start painting block and parts.

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installed Porterbuilt panhard bar.

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Vintage 70's pabst blue ribbon tap shifter installed
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I lost a '72 Big Block Charger that way when I was too young to know how to deal with it...or is that young enough to know everything? I keep getting those two mixed up!:lol:

The next time I had a carb catch on fire--real fire not just a little backfire--was when overheated tranny fluid puked out the filler tube on a Cordoba. Must have been ignited by one electrical wire or another. That wouldn't have been any big loss. I knew how to starve it of air though and had lots of good parts perfectly usable for another project.

Well, the day's just beginning...I may fall asleep in my truck somewhere or I may put some of the parts I've had lying around here for months, on it, or even go to the junkyard for more valuables that I can either sell or keep.:bling:

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Finished up recovering my door panels and then installed them. I started this project about year ago and it was a bit of a pain putting them back in, but its finally done.

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I damn near cried ~

Yesterday I drove to get a haircut and the building owner ran the corner stop sign and banged the back bumper & fender in.....

Lucky for me I had my ipod thing-A-ma-jig as I'd been taking pix of my new Grand Daughter , I snapped pix of him , his truck , my truck etc. ~ he gave me a copy of his license and says he'll pay , we'll see .

I'm bummed out .

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Wow that sucks, is there a lot of damage, will prob get ahold of you with pic's and all.

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Those blocks look fabulous ;):lol:

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Made the 100 mile trip to the body shop with the suburban packed with finishing parts. Checked out the progress on the 67. Guys were color sanding the front fender. One of the body shop guys dropped my newly upholstered door panel and ripped the fabric about two inches. Looking good but still a long way to go. Looking at June or so before it's done.

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beat on the lower area of the bedside... looked like someone ran over a big log and dented the heck out of them on both sides... the panhard bar also has about a 20* bend in it... I have an adjustable one coming from ece. Anyway the bedsides look a lot better now, could still use some finessing before new paint, but definitely look better.

Over the weekend I got my HEI distributor and new wires installed... all the plugs looked awesome when I pulled them out, cleaned them, gaped them and put them back in... engine sounds great now... also got one of the motor mounts replaced... the bad one. still need to replace the other... but I plan to pull the motor and swap the heads... trying to decide if I want to put in a different cam, lifters, springs when I do. I have some minor leaks so will be replacing gaskets anyway.

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Today I pulled the cowl panel and moved the rightfront fender away from the door after the PO put the truck in a ditch. The same PO also put the replacement bed on crooked, so the wife and I straightened that out. Then we put the rear bumper back on. Next is adjusting the trans and pulling a few leafs to lower the rear.
Chris
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Got all the holes drilled and got my EXO mount for the Accuair bolted to the frame. Ran all the power wire and mounted the solenoid inside the frame rail. Ran the USB cable into the cab for the controller and also the ignition feed wire up into the dash. Tomorrow I just need to connect a couple ground wires and solder on one copper ring terminal onto the 4 awg power wire at the solenoid and then I can power the system up. I would have finished it today, but I ran out of gas for my soldering torch and couldnt connect the power cable securely. No bags installed yet, but hopefully I can get started on that next week sometime.

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I cleaned em up on the edge sander at work........;)

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fired up the 383 today after having it built 3 years ago!

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Test fitting new grill

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