You may want to pull the check valve and install a plug.
For O2 sensors AC Delcos are good but you may want to think about doing a heated 3 wire O2 sensor upgrade.
What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]
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You may want to pull the check valve and install a plug.
For O2 sensors AC Delcos are good but you may want to think about doing a heated 3 wire O2 sensor upgrade.
Raced the balls off of mine this past weekend. Tried a new braking setup, worked like a champ. Brought 2 new sets of tires, may have been overkill. Made more adjustments to my driving. Was hot AF this year so no increase in pace, but consistency was most definitely improved. Ran Friday practice after about getting blown off the face of the earth Thursday night. It was legit scary. Windy to the point we all wondered if a tornado was about to crush us and thunder enough to concern a human let alone the dog. The track was still peeing out the cracks through all of Friday but was good enough for a full send by the second session. I bedded brakes, scrubbed in tires, and decided to sleep on stuff that night. Saturday morning went about as planned, but I found that my pace finding was disrupted by this douchebag in qual. He should have been much faster than me but wasn't.
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Oh yeah, that car's a race winner alright. After he screwed me in qual, because God forbid you give way to the faster guy with 100 less who. Dude was 1/1 in class. Fvxk that d-bag. I finished P2 in R1, so I started 2nd from last in the next race. Big man decides he can't stay behind me and passes me, only to hold me up in the infield. So I rear ended him twice to send a message. Then I hunted down the director to inform him of this idiot's transgressions. Said idiot in turn reports me. I win, d-bag loses and gets tactfully degraded on his lack of speed. Must have worked because he picked it up the next session and we didn't see each other since. I should tell him to dock his asking price cuz I decked his back bumper twice for being a slow *ss. F'in loser. As for the rest of the weekend, I made zero progress in R2 which meant R3 was guaranteed to turn out well which it did. I qualified P2 for R3 and managed to hold onto it for dear life with a wrecked 4th gear synchro. Were it not for that I would have contested for the W, but alas the broken car really gets in your head and near the end of the race it was all I could do to fend off 3rd place. Funny thing though, the last 3 laps were my fastest. I eventually said F it as taking it easy and saving the car was a sure fire way to get passed. At least in send it mode I stood a chance at hanging on and it worked.
FR500S Race Winner for sale in GRAND ISLAND, NE, Price: $55,000
FR500S Race Winner for sale in GRAND ISLAND, NE, Price: $55,000
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Oh yeah, that car's a race winner alright. After he screwed me in qual, because God forbid you give way to the faster guy with 100 less who. Dude was 1/1 in class. Fvxk that d-bag. I finished P2 in R1, so I started 2nd from last in the next race. Big man decides he can't stay behind me and passes me, only to hold me up in the infield. So I rear ended him twice to send a message. Then I hunted down the director to inform him of this idiot's transgressions. Said idiot in turn reports me. I win, d-bag loses and gets tactfully degraded on his lack of speed. Must have worked because he picked it up the next session and we didn't see each other since. I should tell him to dock his asking price cuz I decked his back bumper twice for being a slow *ss. F'in loser. As for the rest of the weekend, I made zero progress in R2 which meant R3 was guaranteed to turn out well which it did. I qualified P2 for R3 and managed to hold onto it for dear life with a wrecked 4th gear synchro. Were it not for that I would have contested for the W, but alas the broken car really gets in your head and near the end of the race it was all I could do to fend off 3rd place. Funny thing though, the last 3 laps were my fastest. I eventually said F it as taking it easy and saving the car was a sure fire way to get passed. At least in send it mode I stood a chance at hanging on and it worked.
Now that all the repairs currently, are finished. I decided to throw on the big tires, and see how it looks so far on the Caprice.
I think it looks decent. Although in comparison, they still fit the Bonneville better.
I think it looks decent. Although in comparison, they still fit the Bonneville better.
We've been leapfroggin it between accumulating more junk and future projects I don't need, and getting rid of old junk and crossing projects off the list.
All this against a backdrop of 10 days to getting out of and putting the current abode up for disposal.
I swear, and literally do as an aside, how every night I remember at least 3 things I've forgotten to do that either had to get done that day, or, that I remembered should've been done days ago and just slipped the mind.
Tomorrow morning the new master suite gets tiled in eyetalian marble because it's what the missus wanted. Ignore the fact there's no time saving premix so mortar needs a hand mix, then dry cycle, then a pre-grout sealer, then another time costing hand mix for a white err.... let me correct myself, "avalanche shade" non-sanded grout and press it into 1/8" spacing, then seal it again. Nope, has to be a 3 day job that needs to be mixed into all other stuff because of dead waiting inbetween instead of 18hrs start to finish that ties up the room from other work.
In other news, redneck trailer #3, the heavy hauler, is officially 70% of the way to usable. Frame chopped, front sheetmetal and suspension gone, bracing angle iron cut, reclaimed 2" size tongue prepared. Flip side, wiring untouched, itll be brake-free for the time being, rust unaddressed, and tires are of course bad. Odds are the red fiberglass cap will swap onto this one since it's weight capacity will be so much higher than redneck trailer #1 which will stand to benefit from the lighter aluminum cap.
All this against a backdrop of 10 days to getting out of and putting the current abode up for disposal.
I swear, and literally do as an aside, how every night I remember at least 3 things I've forgotten to do that either had to get done that day, or, that I remembered should've been done days ago and just slipped the mind.
Tomorrow morning the new master suite gets tiled in eyetalian marble because it's what the missus wanted. Ignore the fact there's no time saving premix so mortar needs a hand mix, then dry cycle, then a pre-grout sealer, then another time costing hand mix for a white err.... let me correct myself, "avalanche shade" non-sanded grout and press it into 1/8" spacing, then seal it again. Nope, has to be a 3 day job that needs to be mixed into all other stuff because of dead waiting inbetween instead of 18hrs start to finish that ties up the room from other work.
In other news, redneck trailer #3, the heavy hauler, is officially 70% of the way to usable. Frame chopped, front sheetmetal and suspension gone, bracing angle iron cut, reclaimed 2" size tongue prepared. Flip side, wiring untouched, itll be brake-free for the time being, rust unaddressed, and tires are of course bad. Odds are the red fiberglass cap will swap onto this one since it's weight capacity will be so much higher than redneck trailer #1 which will stand to benefit from the lighter aluminum cap.
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You could always get another set of 4 smaller wheels and have nice wheels on both cars.
Haul out that carpenter special tools, pencil and whatever is handy it can write on! List it until done and cross it off. A “done day date” is helpful. List 5 get 3 done is a good day.
True, but that is more of a luxury at this point than a necessity for me 😂🤦♀️
Boyd's is worth the wait. I've used several and given many as gifts. Really warms up an average dispenser.
That much rotational force hung that far away from the chuck? Hope your steady is a sturdy old brute as it will be taking a beating from the load being put on it. Too bad you don't have a vertical mill or vertical bed lathe. They swing something like a rim a lot more easily and there is no stress because the work is laying flat.
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