What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2023]

[CopperNick]

Parked the mechanical to do's in favor of dealing with my urban garden issues. Finally cut the steel repair stakes to length and sharpened the existing points for better insertion into the ground. The bottom four feet got a good coat of Krylon Anti-rust green. Still need to attach some tabs to them in order to have attachment points that will pick up the existing corner posts. I have some 3" flat plate for that and it will get cut into 2x3 sections that will then get bent to give me a 2x 1 angle. Short side gets welded to the stakes and then drilled for a screw or two to complete the connection. Paint 'em and then slug them home with a large hammer.

Backs story on all this is that I had to fence in the garden several years ago, pre Covid, to keep the critters from invading and eating/damaging the veggies. Thing with the fence is that the ground kills the wooden fence post and I had to replace them a couple of times in the intrim. With the steel stakes I can abandon the section of post below ground and continue on with the above ground portion. Also lets me do the repair without having to drop the chicken wire mesh and then have to retension and rehang it. Stuff does not like to be flat. Once this is done I can go back to seeing if I can get fresh sweet peas and carrots to grow. Good to have fresh veggies on hand considering what the stores want for the stufff.



Nick

 

[MrSony]

So the electrodes on the plugs have seemingly left the building and the mill still ran??? I've heard of recessed 'trodes but buried?? The script showing on the one plug almost looks chinese or ay-rab. They made in Pakistan or one of the other stans maybe?


Nick

It's English my friend
Ac delco part number.
And, *runs. Not ran. Runs smooth as silk, for some reason.

 

[mclellan83]

Got the other side mocked up, not liking that it looks more and more like I won't be running a hood or will be having some large cuts to them. At the moment I don't want to drop the couple thousand dollars to get some headers that would make everything fit better. Also worked on the fuel leak, ended up replacing the fitting

 

[Texas82GP]

Got the other side mocked up, not liking that it looks more and more like I won't be running a hood or will be having some large cuts to them. At the moment I don't want to drop the couple thousand dollars to get some headers that would make everything fit better. Also worked on the fuel leak, ended up replacing the fitting
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You don't think it will fit under a cowl hood?

 

[mclellan83]

You don't think it will fit under a cowl hood?

No, the wastegate once its on there is going to be pretty far up there and outside of the cowl I believe

 

[CopperNick]

Haven't had to hold a Delco Plug up for a mark 0 mod 1 eyeball lookee-see in more minutes than I care to remember. I do know that I still have a few decks of them down on the saw table but would have to check them for new or used. I ran Delco R45TX back when I still had the Monza and either the guides or rings had started to wear out. That little care got to idle a lot and idling in the cold tended to load up the 44's so I went one step hotter. Could have possibly gone to 46's but getting them was the kicker. The car itself is long gone; the motor remains though, sitting on an engine dolly, getting more and more dusty, under the shelving on the south wall. Some kid came onto me about buying the car cause he wanted to build a street machine out of it. He didn't want the motor so I retrieved it and mothballed, The car never did get built to the best of my knowledge. They were a total unibody and it would have literally taken a gut dissassably and installation of a complete custom full frame to do what he was thinking of. Back then the theory existed and if the welding technology had matched it then things might have been different. I didn't have my MIG's, never mind a shed to park them in or the wiring that would accept them. That and the door skins contracting a terminal case of acne due to being made of recycled metal that had not been properly purged of rust by means of the correct resmelting temperature pretty much put the period at the end of the sentence for me.

Only new car that I ever owned.


Nick

 

[Supercharged111]

They say that a bad day at the track is better than the best day at the office, but last weekend was rough. I forgot to tighten 2 caliper nuts and they left the chat in the 2nd session of practice Friday. I managed to borrow a pair to forge on with the weekend. Later that day I purged in some fresh brake fluid and a new set of harnesses for myself the driver to pass tech which required a few adjustments. On the outlap of qual Saturday I lost a cylinder so I did one hot lap and came in. Qualified 4th for R1 and didn't find the problem in time so had to run on 7 cylinders that race. So lame. Yanked all 8 plugs and found that #7 had roached a wire so back on all 8 for R2 which I won. R3 about 2/3 of the way through I snapped an axle shaft on a rumbly exit curb and my weekend was over. Slap in a not broken shaft with new seal, replaced the brake rotor I ruined, fresh rear pads, get the wheel on and WTF.

That's -2.1* of camber and 1" of toe in on that wheel on a stick axle. I'd say this housing is f00ked. Lovely.

 

[Built6spdMCSS]

Damn, keeping things exciting..

 

[mclellan83]

You wanna talk about exciting, let me tell you how the T56 clutch replacement went. Only good part is that I was right that just the clutch wouldn't fix my issue

and finally

https://imgur.com/BUxW2SF

 

[Supercharged111]

You wanna talk about exciting, let me tell you how the T56 clutch replacement went. Only good part is that I was right that just the clutch wouldn't fix my issue
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and finally

https://imgur.com/BUxW2SF

Yep, that'll take out a pilot bearing for sure. What exactly is cracked there? Tough to tell what bit I'm looking at on my phone.