The 283 Rebuild Begins

[4dranch]

WTF...........

.......You just ain't all there Mac....

There went my lunch....

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by 4dranch

.......You just ain't all there Mac....

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: When and where did Mac ever claim he was "all there?"


Mac.

[MacAttack]

From a few Saturdays ago......

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and......

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some more....

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and then...

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and finally.

[MacAttack]

More 2-Barrel Rochester detail....

[jgh64pkup]

so what happened

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by jgh64pkup

so what happened

On the carb? My ex-wife happened.

[jgh64pkup]

what about the rest of the truck
im still

[jason65]

Don't forget the 00 mag shells. Reach out and touch some one.

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by jgh64pkup

what about the rest of the truck
im still

The other work on the truck - far beyond anything I could imagine - is being done by a local transmission re-builder and his associated vendors, due back after the 13th and untold hundreds of dollars.

Is that what you mean?

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by jason65

Don't forget the 00 mag shells. Reach out and touch some one.

True Dat - my Brother. (when in doubt - make'm go 'BANG-BANG.'

[4dranch]

Originally Posted by jason65

Don't forget the 00 mag shells. Reach out and touch some one.

That's what I'm talking about....

Originally Posted by MacAttack

The other work on the truck - far beyond anything I could imagine - is being done by a local transmission re-builder and his associated vendors, due back after the 13th and untold hundreds of dollars.

Is that what you mean?

I think jgh64pkup wants the short version of your truck's history...

Don't shoot to kill....Shoot and have some fun.....

[protrash64]

4D taking 'gaming' to a whole different level.


Thanks for the pics, Mac, looks good except for the

[4dranch]

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by 4dranch

I think jgh64pkup wants the short version of your truck's history...

Oh - okay - no problem:

February 8th, 2008 - sometime between midnight and 4AM, a crew of guys hit four trucks (60-66) in my neighborhood. 63' short/fleet around the corner had it's ignition ripped out and battery run down - owner had the coil wire in his garage. Mine was the only one they got - supposedly by drilling out the lock on The Club, pushing the truck around the corner - down the hill and then starting her from there.

Drove her to a warehouse in Santa Ana (15 miles from my place), to join 7 others, of various years (again 60-66) and about twelve 40-foot trailer's worth of stolen parts of the same vintage.

The head thief - an American citizen - was using illegal aliens from south of the border to go out in crews and snake all this stuff for him and had been under surveillance for a while by the OC Sheriff. My truck was the last he got and they blew the whole scene up in a huge raid.

Truck sat in evidence until Memorial Day - 2008.

DA told the illegals she wasn't interested in turning them over to INS if they (about a dozen at the time) wanted to turn state's. They sang like canaries and were released immediately.

The next working day I paid the tow truck driver a c-note and he drove my truck back to my house from the Sheriff's evidence yard.

My "friend" got 8 years in the state pen. I'm going to get copies of the really relevant pictures of this build and mail it to him as a Christmas present in California Institution for Men (CIM) - Chino.

Mac.

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by 4dranch

Don't shoot to kill....Shoot and have some fun.....

David - that's some funny chit right there!

Mac.

[jgh64pkup]

Originally Posted by MacAttack

Oh - okay - no problem:

February 8th, 2008 - sometime between midnight and 4AM, a crew of guys hit four trucks (60-66) in my neighborhood. 63' short/fleet around the corner had it's ignition ripped out and battery run down - owner had the coil wire in his garage. Mine was the only one they got - supposedly by drilling out the lock on The Club, pushing the truck around the corner - down the hill and then starting her from there.

Drove her to a warehouse in Santa Ana (15 miles from my place), to join 7 others, of various years (again 60-66) and about twelve 40-foot trailer's worth of stolen parts of the same vintage.

The head thief - an American citizen - was using illegal aliens from south of the border to go out in crews and snake all this stuff for him and had been under surveillance for a while by the OC Sheriff. My truck was the last he got and they blew the whole scene up in a huge raid.

Truck sat in evidence until Memorial Day - 2008.

DA told the illegals she wasn't interested in turning them over to INS if they (about a dozen at the time) wanted to turn state's. They sang like canaries and were released immediately.

The next working day I paid the tow truck driver a c-note and he drove my truck back to my house from the Sheriff's evidence yard.

My "friend" got 8 years in the state pen. I'm going to get copies of the really relevant pictures of this build and mail it to him as a Christmas present in California Institution for Men (CIM) - Chino.

Mac.

thats a good christmas present
i got to shoot a shotgun for the first time yesterday
it was a sawed off 12 gauge with a birdshot the guy wanted me to shoot a buckshot

[1964C10]

Wow, Mac, that is some story!! Mine sits on the street everyday, doesn't make me feel really fuzzy. Glad you got it back though.

[justbad]

I build about 8 - 10 cars a year.ive had very limited luck on rebuilds it seems that everyone knows how to build a sbc
problem is they all "sort of" know how to build a small block
they all take short cuts.that's why i try to use crate or factory pullouts.you will spend $2 grand on a cheap rebuild.for about the same amount you can buy a pullout from a late 90's f body
ls1 or ls6 with a trans .ive done this a lot and i will tell you from experiance you will dbl the money you get if you sale the thing .just a thought ,by the way the last car a 68 chevelle i put one in got a lil over 27 mpg that dont suck eather.

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by justbad

that's why i try to use crate or factory pullouts.you will spend $2 grand on a cheap rebuild.

Yeah - I won't do it again. It was fun, but only because I had the 65' Chevelle to drive to work in the mean time. I think I'll do the modern power-plant routine on the next build, but I have to sell or rebuild the 350 and 327 engines I have on dollies first.

Mac.

[MacAttack]

Originally Posted by 1964C10

Wow, Mac, that is some story!! Mine sits on the street everyday, doesn't make me feel really fuzzy. Glad you got it back though.

According to the OC Sheriff's office - it rarely, if ever happens that way on these old classics. Usually the're skipped out-of-state or south of the border.

This idiot, for some drug-related reason, took my perfectly good straight six and TH350 out of the truck - threw them in the bed, and proceed to put a 283 V-8 and old granny farmer's 3-speed in the vehicle.

My re-builder said he'd never seen a block with so many cracks. I have no answers for why Mr. 3-Time-Loser did what he did to my fine old truck.

Mac.

[1964C10]

Originally Posted by MacAttack

According to the OC Sheriff's office - it rarely, if ever happens that way on these old classics. Usually the're skipped out-of-state or south of the border.

This idiot, for some drug-related reason, took my perfectly good straight six and TH350 out of the truck - threw them in the bed, and proceed to put a 283 V-8 and old granny farmer's 3-speed in the vehicle.

My re-builder said he'd never seen a block with so many cracks. I have no answers for why Mr. 3-Time-Loser did what he did to my fine old truck.

Mac.

Yeah that makes no sense, I guess some people just have V8 on their mind and really have no idea about anything else. On a side note, and apologies I am not trying hijack the thread but will a TH350 bolt up to an L6 without too much problems?