Drove the new truck to work today not bad feels a lot better than the crew cab or the suburban
What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2020]
- Thread starter Bonnewagon
- Start date
- Status
I bet you spent more time scratching your *ss deciding how to build them that you will building them.
Did some work to the wife's Grand Cherokee. Replaced the shifter assembly, drivers side mirror, and undid some previous owner ****ery with the factory amplifier.
That was about 90 minutes of soldering and heat shrinking to fix. After all that was done, I then found out that the rear two channels on the amp are likely burnt up. Hopefully this at least fixes the power drain issues.
That was about 90 minutes of soldering and heat shrinking to fix. After all that was done, I then found out that the rear two channels on the amp are likely burnt up. Hopefully this at least fixes the power drain issues.
I'm living vicariously through my friends 71 satellite "roadbummer" build.
He bought the car a year and a half ago and besides moving it from one house to another it hasn't moved and he hasn't touched it.
It was street machined out in the 80's and is in decent shape but has a laquer faded red paint with an ugly stripe and 15x10 cragars out back that stick out with air shocks.
It was a 318 factory car and the guy he bought it from dropped a 383 out of a full size into it but never finished the job. Rough wiring, no exhaust, no fuel system, ect.
Since I love cruising marketplace and hitting salvage yards I'm collecting parts for him to get it running. Also because I think it's kinda cool and prevents me from buying a Mopar.
I grabbed a clean fuel tank for him last summer, some b body big block exhaust manifolds this spring and scored a 400 spread bore pattern manifold today.
I also dropped my Holley spread bore carb on it that I'm gifting to him that I picked up for $20 4 years back. I looked up the list number and it just so happens to be a replacement for a 73-74 360-400 mopar, lol, so it's probably jetted right.
It has a 2 barrel on the car which is totally shot and a 6 pack setup in the trunk which won't fit under the hood and something that I don't want to try to set up.
I'm going to throw a carb kit and electric choke into it and when I go down to hang out for a weekend and try to marathon it to get running.
He bought the car a year and a half ago and besides moving it from one house to another it hasn't moved and he hasn't touched it.
It was street machined out in the 80's and is in decent shape but has a laquer faded red paint with an ugly stripe and 15x10 cragars out back that stick out with air shocks.
It was a 318 factory car and the guy he bought it from dropped a 383 out of a full size into it but never finished the job. Rough wiring, no exhaust, no fuel system, ect.
Since I love cruising marketplace and hitting salvage yards I'm collecting parts for him to get it running. Also because I think it's kinda cool and prevents me from buying a Mopar.
I grabbed a clean fuel tank for him last summer, some b body big block exhaust manifolds this spring and scored a 400 spread bore pattern manifold today.
I also dropped my Holley spread bore carb on it that I'm gifting to him that I picked up for $20 4 years back. I looked up the list number and it just so happens to be a replacement for a 73-74 360-400 mopar, lol, so it's probably jetted right.
It has a 2 barrel on the car which is totally shot and a 6 pack setup in the trunk which won't fit under the hood and something that I don't want to try to set up.
I'm going to throw a carb kit and electric choke into it and when I go down to hang out for a weekend and try to marathon it to get running.
Attachments
Today I needed to make a very important dinner so I started this morning with a chainsaw because all the best meals start with a chainsaw! The menu tonight was surf and turf over a hardwood fire with apple and plumb wood for flavor. Filet mignon and shrimp with a light bbq glaze and a garlic mushroom sauce garlic butter corn on the cob and shrimp scampi cooked on the coals bon appetit! The guest of honor showed up and I even got some pictures in the driveway. Test results still pending of course but we look like a family to me.
I forgot to get pictures of dinner but I do have some of the fire lol
What a day! And tomorrow I'm going to PA
I forgot to get pictures of dinner but I do have some of the fire lol
What a day! And tomorrow I'm going to PA
Fairwarning: Dodge electric sucks. The starter signal goes through the seat belt buzzer, among other BS.
Great.... That might partially explain why the ignition is a toggle switch and the starter is a random push button....
My grandparents used to have an ex-state vehicle '76 Dodge Dart that legitimately were set up like that. If the drivers seat belt wasn't buckled, the car wouldn't get spark. That made troubleshooting "interesting".
Olds guy things..... Hooptiewagon got an alert or was surfing the LKQ site, and noticed a 67 Delta Custom/Delmont pop up. He wanted the 425, so we met at 9 and commenced to wrenching, Roadkill style.
- Status
Similar threads
