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Oklahoma and its crazy *ss spring weather that makes me feel like I've been worked over by a bunch of baseball bat wielding robots can go choke on a dick. Hot, cold, hot, snow in mid April, hotter than hell with the thermostat turned up, overcast, clear, overcast, clear, clearvercast, below...

Took some time off from the Knightmobile to actually, holy crap, do something for my Dodge. Not much, but something! I drilled out and tapped an 8 ball to make everyone's favorite cheesy shifter knob, which feels quite nice in the hand. Also I installed a tachometer(not pictured), because...

I've seen plenty here in Tulsa, at least. People in these parts seem to appreciate cheap cars that just keep on going and don't need to be smogged.

I'm curious in that regard as well, considering that I have a T5 I could use for the Knightmobile.

Got a hardtop conversion kit from Rangertom for the Knightmobile. Great seller. I'm still a big fan of the vinyl top, but, in the end, I'd rather strip it off, fix whatever rust is under there, and get it painted up real nice, then pursue the plastidip route for maintaining the style of the...

I have Hedman's, and while I did have to switch to a mini starter and do some bit juggling to get the driver's side header in, I didn't have to coerce the headers with impact trauma to get them to fit so I consider it a net win. Plus they're cheap, but not Flowtech cheap. Install consisted...

Update! Spent most of today measuring and shimming the spring seats, torquing down the heads, and installing the valve springs. Those of you who just went "Wait, he torqued down the heads THEN installed the valve springs?" get a gold star for reading comprehension, and yes, I did do it in that...

Thanks for the kind words. Hm, I'm kind of jealous considering that I've basically spent most of the time turning a Brougham into a base model in a mad attempt to sacrifice creature comforts for less weight. I wasn't originally intending on drag racing the Knightmobile, but at this point I...

Update! After something like 20 solid hours of pure misery I've finally finished portmatching and polishing the heads, so now all I need to do to finish the 350 is portmatch the intake, which is made of aluminum and thus won't be a problem, and bolt everything together. Once it finally stops...

I can't speak for anyone else, but even if I removed every other emblem from the car I'd still want one right there. That's prime real estate for something to declare what one's car is, in my opinion.

Hell yeah! I was just going to use some 3M adhesive to stick a spare tail light emblem on the front, but this is much better.

Nope! My Cutlass is(for now) a grannymobile to the core, ultra-soft floaty springs and hideously slow 2.14 geared rear end and power everything, which is why I've sort of gone overboard purchasing upgrades to stuff in once it stops being quite so consistently cold. Overkill is the best kill...

More cubes is best cubes, after all! I'd like to do a stroked Olds engine at some point, but for right now I'm just doing a fairly vanilla stage 1ish decently high performance engine. I also got a Hotchkis steering rebuild kit, tie rod sleeves, a Dorman pitman arm, and a set of Eibach pro-kit...

It's at 355 unless the crank grinders did an offset when they ground it to accept Chevy rods, which I kind of doubt they did, as it's just .03 overbored with standard 6" center to center rods. Honestly, at this point I'm having a damn hard time not chucking the heads into a nearby river and...

Not much done this weekend so far on account of it being cold as balls yesterday and my having a vicious headache today, but I did slot in a console, courtesy of QS442, and used some white printer paper to rough-mock up three possible options for stylizing it to match the rest of my interior...

One of my coworkers has an El Camino SS that's rusty, crusty, and direly in need of paint. On the other hand, he's a damn good mechanic and used to be an automotive machinist, so I'm sure the actual workings are in quite a lot better of shape. He's just... not great at the aesthetics, as...

I'm in the same boat as you; I love how the vinyl top looks, but I'd rather not have my roof melt into dust under it. What I've been considering is maybe faking the top with something like Plastidip or truck bed coating, though I might just go with coating the roof under the top with an assload...

I was also trained on manual machines, and I like working on those a hell of a lot more than I do running CNC, but pretty much my entire shop is CNC with a tiny section of old guys running a few odd jobs, one offs, and extra tricky bullshit work. I'd much prefer to be on their end, but, despite...

I'm also a machinist, though the button-pushing-monkey CNC operator type. It doesn't really seem like our field is dying, at least from what I can see of Tulsa and its multitude of machine shops, but the workforce does seem to be getting steadily older with damn few new young people.

Every time I go out to the garage to polish the ports on the 350 heads I feel the ghost of Ransom Olds punch me repeatedly in the junk until I stop pls help But seriously, why are these exhaust ports so swoopy and long and hard to get cartridge rolls in? Does Oldsmobile hate me, personally...