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06-12-2020, 10:07 AM
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Replaced front coil springs...had to cut em a bit.
Drove around the block...nice ride. Boat bunks are done and so is my wallet for a while...BOAT. Thinking about musical air horns....DIXIE. 
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#3142
06-12-2020, 07:10 PM
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New bunks are a good thing.
I got a new shirt today. 
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#3143
06-14-2020, 07:58 PM
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Scratch is fixed, car is 100% buffed. Got all of the emblems and trim on the driver's side. Still slowly pecking away at it. My next vacation is in November... maybe it will be ready by then?
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#3144
06-14-2020, 08:03 PM
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I bought a Gen V 454 crate engine from a friend. He's had it in a few of his cars since the late 90s. Not 100% sure of all the details, hard to find old advertising for GM crate engines. Supposedly went 11.80s in a 79 Z28 with a loose converter and sticky tires. Going to toss it in my 69 Chevelle so I can get it running. I just do not have enough $$$ right now to build the 427 how I want it. Going to shelve that engine for a later date.
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#3145
06-15-2020, 08:36 PM
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Looking good. My buddy would be jealous. That 71 I was talking about fixing for him. He wants your paint job. Blue with white stripes. I want him to be red white stripes. He had a red chevelle since 1979 LOL
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#3146
08-05-2020, 07:34 AM
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Still chipping away at my 72 in between everything else...
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#3148
08-14-2020, 06:07 AM
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Well it is finally happening. I had the engine block in to fab up the clutch linkage and shifter hole so I could get the console in right.
Yesterday I started the pulling it out process. Which isnt as easy as it sounds. I got the world stored on the cherry picker i got to move. It should be out today. My buddy talked to the machineist engine builder. He wants me to wait till i drop off the block to talk to him before I buy the heads and intake. He wants to make sure I get what he wants for his magic formula. The engine builder guy says it comes in 3's for him. he is doing 3 496's for street cars. He said no problem in what I want. Good idle 600hp in a 496. He just did one and it turned out good. He is going to check the block I got and said he has one if I mine isnt good and I need one. I god the bank ready for this engine and the gear venders OD. so then we down to little stuff. radiator condensor and dont laugh brake lines fuel lines and such.
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#3149
08-15-2020, 12:13 PM
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Motor is at the guys house. He is no joke he got all the machines. That block isnt leaving the building I dropped it off at.
We himed and hawed around about what to use. final decision was BB-2 Plus heads. He ordering a special grind roller hydralic cam 246-252 @ 50. He gonna dyno it on his dyno. He says 550-600 area is what is expected. He is loaded with work I told him just take your time. He will call on monday or so after the magnaflux and block checking. Tell me what pressure valve springs to get on the heads. so it is in the works now. Next step is being done.
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#3150
10-29-2020, 05:30 AM
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Well we got shocks and brakes now. Moving along. This is pretty much my job now for a while playing with this thing. I even put the boat up early because this is what i wanted to do.
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