What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2023]

[565bbchevy]

I did a rough trim on my 6.5" Glasstek Sunoco hood for the Monte, I had to cut almost 2" off the rear to keep it from hitting the windshield.
I still have to drill for the hood pins and then finish sand it which will give a bit more clearance at the windshield
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[SS_Malibu]

Looks like there's just enough room to slip a matchbook in there.

 

[565bbchevy]

Looks like there's just enough room to slip a matchbook in there.

That's all I need.

 

[69hurstolds]

I took the top airhorn off the NOS 84 H/O carburetor today to double check what the factory did. Glad I did. While 95% of all the checks for choke blade angles, M/C solenoid rich/lean stops were within the CSM tolerances, NONE were directly on target. I put them there. I popped the aluminum plugs out for the rich and lean stops as well as the TPS, and will have those at the ready after tweaking it during installation. Dang sloppy QA. Yeah, settings are in the acceptable range tolerances, but some settings were just barely.

I also deduced that the carb was made ONE day different than the 85 442 carb (which was a restamped 4554 carb) that they did the 84 H/O service carb runs after production, and included all the 442 carbs made as well. So they cranked up the carburetor machine and made about 3500 or so 84 H/O carbs, simply guessing, perhaps, and restamped the year and application codes on the carbs bound for 85 442 production, the rest going to the warehouses for warranty and service carbs. I have no documentation or proof of that, but the 85 442 service carbs all had the correct year stampings on them, and were not restamps. I forget which dates are on the 85 442 service carbs. I'm going to have to look again.

 

[mclellan83]

The thermostat gaskets that are injected silicone instead of the cardboard type work really well for seeping thermostat housings.

As far as your tach signal works go, is it possible you are getting too strong of a signal at the tach hookup point? I know with an HEI ignition, some things need a 1k resistor inline with the tach signal to keep from high voltage feedback into things that are smarter than a regular tachometer.

Thanks, I believe it is good now but will check whenever I try to run it again hopefully today. That part I am really not sure to be honest, it had worked for years the way it was then when I swapped over to the Hyperspark it doesn't. I didn't have much to do with hooking up the Dakotas so I'm not too sure where to look at stuff, when my dad was going through a lot of health problems my buddy did a lot of work on the car for me to help me out. So my plan is to do that full reset again, then data log while it warms up to be able to send to them to see what is going on.

 

[ck80]

Rusty crusty body removal day. Even the donor floorpans that had been in it started to rot through again:

Some cars you just can't save. But, fenders, doors, trunk, roof are going into the spare parts pile. One less 1986 in the world....

 

[Supercharged111]

That thing was one good speedbump away from being the Flintstone-mobile.

 

[ck80]

That thing was one good speedbump away from being the Flintstone-mobile.

It's was registered and driving here in ga, land of no inspections.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

It's was registered and driving here in ga, land of no inspections.

Do they salt the roads that far south?

 

[ck80]

Do they salt the roads that far south?

They do sometime up in Metro Atlanta, maybe a couple times a year, them a little more often in the northern mountains.