Andy said, "LET THERE BE TORQUE!" (longhorn update)

[Longhorn Man]

Well, I had the wife help pull the longhorn up into the drive the other night, she pulled in the GMC making lots of noise, smoke, and she left a rather impressive 'happy mark' most they way up the drive. (Sometimes she makes me so proud)
I guess I did it just in time, becouse it turns out the local police have been ticketing all vehicles on the road for more than 24 hrs, or not registered, or parked backwards. Mine's been sitting there for 3 weeks (or so) and has 1970 tags that are basicly fictitious. (yup, had to look up that word) Anyways, the following morning, a cruiser pulled up and looked at the Longhorn up in the drive, and then ran the numbers on the GMC which was parked on the curb, but the pipes were still ticking from heat since I had just gotten home not even 3 min before. Looks like some one finally complained.
Bummer I beat them to the punch, well, bummer for them anyways.
So, with the Blazer rusting in the good ole 'junk yard in the sky', (took it to the local yard last weekend) I have time to mess with the 'horn.
I did a little this, and a little that, but I am getting impatient, and want to hear the dang thing make some noise. I figured pipes can wait, the time has come.
I grab the fire ext just in case, and dumped a little go-go juice into the beast's throat. I hit the key and I am rewarded with nothing, just cranking over. So i go and plug in the power wire to the HEI (forgot to turn off the ignition switch) and I was rewarded with the engine kicking backwards a little...but it was enough to make me almost crap my pants.
I try it again and it hardly cranks over. So I back the timing down a hair and grab the charger. Hooked it up and sat down for a smoke and a dew while it charges.
So then I hit the key again...and I am rewarded with the same, slowly cranking over. So I backed it down a bit more...actually I moved all the wires over one position and put the distributor back where it was originally. I reach in, kinda starting to get a little bummed out that she didn't fire on the first crank.
WOAH NELLIE!!!!! That beast leapt to life making more noise than a frikken pro stock car does at 10,000 RPM. Well, maybe it wasn't that loud, but my son who was doing his home work sure thought so.
It settled to an idle of about 1100 (the choke was still on) and sounded meaner than my wife after I been drinking and roaming the town. I goosed it once and then killed her remembering I don't have a rad in it yet.
I really need to get a rad in there.

So now, things I need to do...
hook up the oil pressure guage...
figure why the volt guage don't come up whe iots running...
get some pipes under there...
And get a rad plumbed in there.


There's more that needs done, but that'll get it to where I can tune the pig.



Life is good.
I'm happier than a puppy with two peckers...