What did you do to your G-Body today? [2019]

[abbey castro]

I use a Makita hand blower all the time. One battery with full charge does my SS. I have a spare battery when I really want to detail all the cracks and crevices!
The bolts look really nice. I did mine several years ago and they hold up pretty well. Key to the best finish is bead blasting them until all grease/crud/rust is gone!

 

[TURNA]

I use a Makita hand blower all the time. One battery with full charge does my SS. I have a spare battery when I really want to detail all the cracks and crevices!

I have the DeWalt version.

 

[rogue_ryder]

Finally got some work done today for the first time today this year!

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[axisg]

Things did not work out between the boy and his GF for prom ( meh young love ..... ). So instead with tickets already paid for he and his best bud since Junior Kindergarten decided to check out the single ladies. After pics I took them out for some donuts and a couple smokey mini-burnouts to get them hyped up before I dropped them off.
They dropped me off around the corner and the 2 young lads all dressed showed up at prom in my old heap with me taking pics. Makes me LOL and honestly it chokes me up a little. He's our baby of the bunch and looks all grown up with a beard and all ready for the next chapter in his young life.
They were both all smiles though, rolling up in front of the banquet hall in neutral and giving it a few good revs, before they got out and handed me back the keys.

 

[TURNA]

Put the Assault Racing steel core valve cover gaskets on.

 

[Stupidquestionspro]

Pissed myself off trying to tune it. Read a lot of articles begged for a lot of tuning help in my thread. Took pictures of even more stuff that’s messed up that I’m gonna have to post out for help. And window shopped for parts I can’t afford while dreaming of when I finally get around to pulling off the landau top I hate and cutting holes for my speakers.

Below is the excerpt of today’s work results and examples of my tuning confusion who knew these systems would be more complicated to get right than the OBD 2 systems I’m used to [emoji15]

Final end of day settings
28 initial as per the markings on the balancer
10 mechanical with homemade advance bushing. Having a hard time verifying that may just put in the 18 and adjust initial because I can’t seem to figure out if the mechanical is working
Advance can plugged into ported vacuum motor didn’t particularly like it on manifold vacuum
And idle screws out 2.75 or so

I didn’t hear any pinging. Maybe you will in the videos?

https://youtu.be/zSZwKi1CkFc idle in park and gear

https://youtu.be/OjxpROzDYDQ pulling into traffic

https://youtu.be/Mskl9QZ5wiI light throttle through the neighborhood in this video you may see or hear the stumble or buck or whatever it’s called I’ve been trying to get rid of right around 1500-1800 it’s so frustrating tried a bunch of different initial setting tried to play with the mixture none of it really had any effect and I’ve never seemed to be able to get rid of it

I know there is definitely still more to do so any help would be appreciated because I still for some reason can’t get the dang thing to do what I wanted.

Weirder than that my dial back reads a different timing setting than the balancer does and I verified the balancer is zeroed at tdc.

The only weird thing I noticed is on compression cyl 1 tdc with the balancer at 0 the rotor button is not pointing at the first plug it’s actually counterclockwise part way to the next which I can only assume is because it wasn’t a fresh distributor install?

Also weird part is I couldn’t use my dial back timing light to check my mechanical timing when I set it to 38 no matter how much I revved I had no marks then when I set it to 28 and revved it actually went to 18 then when I set it to 0 and reved timing didn’t change at all. Once again nothing I’ve found seems to explain that and another example of how nothing seems to do what it’s supposed to.

Just like if I tune the mixture screws for max vacuum they end up about 4 turns out and my idle ends up around 1300 or so with no way to reduce it and it’s obviously running rich at that point because leaving a vacuum completely open raises the idle further. Only around 2.5 turns out does the idle finally falter when a vacuum is unplugged.

Tuning this stuff sucks when you have no idea what you’re doing



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[axisg]

I chased this kind of stuff for over 20 years. Get a good timing gun with digital advance. Verify DTC is the same as your timing tab ZERO. Set your gun to 34 deg and rev the car to 2500 rpm and dial it in with the distributor. What ever your base timing ends up being is what ever it is.
It may like 28 or 38 so 34 is just a benchmark. If you get no pinging under load then move on to the carb.

A simple AFR guage takes 90% of the guesswork out of tuning the carb. 14.7 ( ish ) at idle, 13.5 ( ish ) under wot with the timing above should make for a happy motor that you can then fine tune from there. Everything else is just guesswork

 

[Stupidquestionspro]

Yea when money is more plentiful the afr gauge will be one of my first purchases at the moment I’m trying to learn the black magic of the vacuum gauge and am firmly stuck in the remedial category.

As far as timing goes my distributor is a pretty much fully adjustable MSD unit. I verified today 0 on my balancer and timing tab both line up with tdc

But I will probably have to invest in a better dial back timing light because this one is just sketchy if I use the dial back it is usually about 3-4 degrees behind the marking on the balancer because my balancer has markings up to 40.


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[Ripjason]

Drop lq4 in today. Tsp 228r 112 lsa

 

[Northernregal]

Drop lq4 in today. Tsp 228r 112 lsa
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Seen that on the Facebook page today. Real sharp looking motor.