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#161
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I was just looking at shift boots, bezels, and seals today! Is that a Clayton one?
What did you do for the lower seals? Use the OE one with the square/rectangular boot & bezel? My shift stalk is squared off, which makes for a limited selection. I think I'm going to have to wait until the trans is in before I can determine the offset in the shifter hump. .
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. 1970 GTO Judge Tribute Pro-Tour Project 535 IA2 http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=760624 1971 Trans Am 463, 315cfm E-head Sniper XFlow EFI, TKO600 extreme, 9", GW suspension, Baer brakes, pro tour car https://forums.maxperformanceinc.com...ght=procharger Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKAS...ature=youtu.be |
#162
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A company called Redline Goods. This was a prototype which they had made in Poland of all places! Real leather, had to glue it to the ring with Landau top cement. I think they offer a version for the square shifter.
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#163
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Nice bits of progress you have been getting done.
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#164
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Gracias.
Yesterday it was deemed operational. Still a small punch list to go thru. Trying to decide whether it is worth the effort to market the seat belt conversion |
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#165
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Really nice, congrats on the finished look its a super nice ride to enjoy this summer.
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#166
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Looks great Scarebird! You sure put in a lot of effort/ingenuity into your LeMans Sport convert and it paid off in aces...love it and the color! Enjoy driving her this spring and summer!
Dennis |
#167
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Thank you both. Lucy Blue is hard to beat.
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#168
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Little things that need attention.
Twice the car's battery ran down completely dead. ???? Parked in the garage the other night, went out to get something and noted the interior lights were on - what the hell? Open the door and close it, light flicker off then back on. Hmm. Push the door a bit in the front and lights go out. It seems the switch is a bit short or not reaching the door. Put a washer behind the switch, won't stay in the jamb. So welded a light blob at the end of the plunger - issue solved. Examining the Edelbrock Pro Flo I note the tune recommended (440 CI, mild cam) uses a 43 psi setting and you cannot change that - but the gauge says 58 psi from the Corvette regulator. The tables E provides show a break at 440; a 439 will run 58 psi. So I reset it and now get to go thru the learning curve again. |
#169
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I remember thinking your car looked really nice before the make-over. It is now beyond nice. Hope you are happy with how all your work turned out. It's truly beautiful and the work you do is fun to admire.
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#170
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Thank you very much - the painter did an exceptional job.
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#171
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Minor issues being dealt with.
I noted I could not hear the solid lifters as before (Crower rollers). I had the lash set at 0, thinking the expansion of the aluminum heads would give around 5 thou when warm. Evidently not. I also was getting some light stuttering under mild acceleration. So I opened up the lash to 5 thou - no more stutter but no noise unless cold. Hopefully the valve seat did not suffer here. Also need to chase down a squeaky brake pad - not a good thing for a brake guy! |
#172
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First tank of fuel run thru - 7.35 mpg.
Obviously a miscaculation and/or more tuning to do. I have run 3 tunes; my guess is it has not sorted itself out yet. |
#173
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Got to be a miscalculation. With mileage that low, you smell unburned fuel badly.
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'69 GTO Convertible - Acquired October 2020. An all original project car. Restomod is underway PROJECT THREAD '83 Chevy Choo Choo SS El Camino - LT1 350/4L60e, Owned for 30 Years, completed 2nd restomod in 2018 PHOTO 2019 BMW 440ix - Twin turbo I6, 8spd auto. PHOTO '55 Chevy Bel Air Sport Coupe - Ram Jet 350 / T56 Magnum 6spd, Restomod Completed Sept. 2012, Sold Sept. 2021 PHOTO |
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That is a good point.
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#175
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I just browsed the photos in this entire thread again to see if I could see what throttle bracket you are using but you never showed it. I'm going to have to hook up both a throttle cable and a TV cable to my Pro-Flow 4 and was wondering what to go with. I was looking at the Edelbrock 8041. Is that the one that you went with? I see Lokar now makes one too but it is a lot more expensive and it uses a thick spacer under the throttle body and I don't like that idea.
Also, I saw again what you did for a blower fan motor (Astro van rear) and I think I'll do that too. I don't know how you got that idea but it seems like a great find.
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'69 GTO Convertible - Acquired October 2020. An all original project car. Restomod is underway PROJECT THREAD '83 Chevy Choo Choo SS El Camino - LT1 350/4L60e, Owned for 30 Years, completed 2nd restomod in 2018 PHOTO 2019 BMW 440ix - Twin turbo I6, 8spd auto. PHOTO '55 Chevy Bel Air Sport Coupe - Ram Jet 350 / T56 Magnum 6spd, Restomod Completed Sept. 2012, Sold Sept. 2021 PHOTO |
#176
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What I ended up doing was modding the existing bracket and cable. Unfortunately the bracket has been modded half a dozen times so is a bit patchy!(hence the lack of pix!).
The cable is even more, um, rustic. I simply used a electrical ring connector of correct size, crimped then soldered. The link is a piece of 20 gauge with Nyloc nuts retaining. It works. My guess given the TH200-4R TV cable is to get a few brackets from 80's car out of a U-Pull yard and fab something up. The lower hole on the throttle lever looks promising: I would not be surprised if the Eddy engineers made it the same radius/swing as the OEM TV levers on carbs. I cannot claim the blower find - but I did find it here on PY. |
#177
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Thanks for the info.
Rustic is a good term but it works! Silver solder I presume. I'm not much for spending time scavenging the graveyards around here as it seems I always come back empty handed. So I think I may go with the Edelbrock bracket setup. Summit says backordered until August though. Covid has sure messed things up trying to get parts. Do you have a pic of how you mounted your coil? I'm trying to figure out what to do there too.
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'69 GTO Convertible - Acquired October 2020. An all original project car. Restomod is underway PROJECT THREAD '83 Chevy Choo Choo SS El Camino - LT1 350/4L60e, Owned for 30 Years, completed 2nd restomod in 2018 PHOTO 2019 BMW 440ix - Twin turbo I6, 8spd auto. PHOTO '55 Chevy Bel Air Sport Coupe - Ram Jet 350 / T56 Magnum 6spd, Restomod Completed Sept. 2012, Sold Sept. 2021 PHOTO |
#178
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So...which part # / year for the Astro van blower motor?
Thinking now is the time to upgrade.
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1970 GTO (Granada Gold) - 400 / TH400 |
#179
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https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/...wer+motor,6916 The photo of the Four Seasons 35383 matched the photo of what Scarebird posted.
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'69 GTO Convertible - Acquired October 2020. An all original project car. Restomod is underway PROJECT THREAD '83 Chevy Choo Choo SS El Camino - LT1 350/4L60e, Owned for 30 Years, completed 2nd restomod in 2018 PHOTO 2019 BMW 440ix - Twin turbo I6, 8spd auto. PHOTO '55 Chevy Bel Air Sport Coupe - Ram Jet 350 / T56 Magnum 6spd, Restomod Completed Sept. 2012, Sold Sept. 2021 PHOTO |
#180
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My guess is pretty much any RWD V8 automatic (car or truck - you have old trucks in TX?) in the 80's would have these carb brackets - I would look at the yards.
That said, these may be another starting point: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/trd-9620 Coil mount was just some generic strap type I had laying around - not worth recommending. |
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