Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

look at all the super clean black cars today...DAYM!!!!!!!!

Reddie would be proud

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Did a couple 3/4 pulls in the compg butt dyno says xp cam is faster then the 1.9 rockers where...blower seems louder...is that even possible?


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Well today I did 2 things I've never done. One was do a motor swap on my own, the GP's 3800 is in as of today but I haven't connected the things up top yet. Everything from the bottom is done. It's pretty easy to swap a motor on a GP.



So easy doing plugs when the motor's out. A good shot of cyl #6 plug access


Also I cleaned and rebuilt the holley carburetor today. Also not hard, just need to remember where things go back. And carefully removing old gasket material. Fairly clean, old gaskets were dried out. Needle on the secondary side was sticking. And the secondary throttle was completely seized. I got it unstuck but it;s still hard to turn, I have to do something about that but I couldn't remove the shaft for some reason.




Old parts. There was a bunch more gaskets and o-ring style gaskets that I replaced but they're all tore up and in the trash.

Looked at it with tears!,dhamn trans still needs to be rebuilt.

Today she got an oil change, and tomorrow I'm taking her to meet her replacement (hopefully).

speed demon, thats the worst feeling about a GP, the most expensive part.

navyblue, I see a Holley style carb. Lucky for you, I know squat about those. But ... removing throttle shafts is risky business, as you probably know. The screws are usually swedged on the threads end after installation. Look closely for like a chiseled mark on the screws. Drilling or grinding off the interference without warpage of the shaft is the tough part so I hear, never done it myself. Even if you do get the shaft out the carb may never be the same because the plates are worn to fit the venturis so precisely. Working what little I did with tri-power end carbs taught me about the enormous vacuum leak you get from a microscopic misfit. I am a fraidy cat on that, so I'd be soaking the thing with PB blaster until it frees up. IF its the shaft thats binding. BTW, what a work day you had, for a Saturday. Gotta love fixin cars!

Yeah I know how precise the throttle alignments are, I would have kept messing with it until I got it close. Usually I would kind of push it on the shaft with the screws started and keep messing with it, opening and closing, until I can get it to close tightly without binding, then tighten it down. But I am soaking it with liquid wrench overnight since I couldn't get it. And yeah I just worked from 8-1 today, I can't work 6 full days a week, I still have my teenager laziness lol, but it is exhausting to do that 9.5 hours a day 5 days a week.

That ought to free it up. Man I'm a lightweight, work 8-5 mon-thurs and 8-1 fri. My laziness ain't the teenage kind, one just has more um, respect for rest as one ages. My main battle is the healing from excess repetitive motion when blocking mud. Thats a killer to do day after day even if sitting down. Much less potential for colorful injuries than turning wrenches though.

Right, my arms get sore once in a while depending on what I do but luckily I haven't gotten hurt at all really. Not even a bruise, and there's plenty chances to get hurt if not thinking ahead. I wear gloves most of the time and that keeps me from getting non-stop cuts like I got the first two weeks I didn't wear them. My last job I did get a good size cut on my finder, stitches worthy for sure but I just cleaned it up and taped my finger in the straight position for a week or so and it healed up just fine. I'll have a permanent scar there though. Weirdly it took months for that spot to feel normal again, it was a bit sensitive.

keeping up with the clean black car pics.

washed mine today. damn bumper looks better then the hood lol rock chips and all, yup 16 years old now.




back bumper still needs to be wet sanded and buffed out since the last repaint of the top.

Today I'm finally getting around to cleaning up my exhaust tips. My passenger side is a little crooked, how do you guys straighten your tips out? I have duals that are all welded and everything I have tried hasn't done anything at all.

hose clamp around the rubber hangers that hold the rear of the muffler up.

Tried that, it just lifts the entire exhaust.

Originally Posted by Booba5185

Tried that, it just lifts the entire exhaust.

Bend the hangar

I dont think that will do anything just because of it being welded.

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Same as the front, you just rent a spring compressor?

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