Cuda Capers: update
While nothing major has happened in the last few weeks due to a hectic social schedule, progress has been inching along. It should be painfully obvious that this season is out of the question for cruising in my car. At this point, I can wait. Here's some of the things I've been working on:
Powermaster Alternator & Edelbrock heads w/ sheet metal valve covers:
Here's my current pain in my ***.... getting everything to work. The alternator hits the heads if I mount it in the stock location. Needless to say, I've been bending brackets and shaving spacers almost on a daily basis. I *think* I may it worked out.
While the belt adjustment bracket appears to be on a radical angle, it will work. I have to mount it this high to clear all the neat stuff I bolted on without changing pulleys or trying to add speacers.
Here you can see what the problem is.
Damn thing hits the head/valve cover in the stock location. I still may do a little trimming on my alternator housing. I'll find out a little later today.
Nissan parts in Plymouths:
Yup. Send the Made In America Police to my house... I just found an inexpensive, and nice, way to add trunk lights to my Barracuda. I had a set of license plate lights from a Nissan Xterra in my toolbox at work and had planned on modifing them to mount in my trunk. To my surprise the damn things snapped right in place using exsisting openings stamped into the trunk opening structure!
They literally snapped right in. All I had to do was fabricate a harness and wire it to the pin switch!
I ran a power supply wire and drilled a hole for a grommet. Done. The wire tie-wrapped to my trunk hinge is for the power trunk release. I still may do something different for this as I'm not happy with the way it looks.
Today I plan on finishing the alternator fitment and am going to give the headliner another shot before I bail out and bribe a Pro to come to the house and do it for me. Today is a short work day in the yard due to the fact I have 9th. row seats for Alice in Chains/ Velvet Revolver at Jones Beach tonight. Tomorrow will be a full day of wrenching. Promise.
While nothing major has happened in the last few weeks due to a hectic social schedule, progress has been inching along. It should be painfully obvious that this season is out of the question for cruising in my car. At this point, I can wait. Here's some of the things I've been working on:
Powermaster Alternator & Edelbrock heads w/ sheet metal valve covers:
Here's my current pain in my ***.... getting everything to work. The alternator hits the heads if I mount it in the stock location. Needless to say, I've been bending brackets and shaving spacers almost on a daily basis. I *think* I may it worked out.
While the belt adjustment bracket appears to be on a radical angle, it will work. I have to mount it this high to clear all the neat stuff I bolted on without changing pulleys or trying to add speacers.
Here you can see what the problem is.
Damn thing hits the head/valve cover in the stock location. I still may do a little trimming on my alternator housing. I'll find out a little later today.
Nissan parts in Plymouths:
Yup. Send the Made In America Police to my house... I just found an inexpensive, and nice, way to add trunk lights to my Barracuda. I had a set of license plate lights from a Nissan Xterra in my toolbox at work and had planned on modifing them to mount in my trunk. To my surprise the damn things snapped right in place using exsisting openings stamped into the trunk opening structure!
They literally snapped right in. All I had to do was fabricate a harness and wire it to the pin switch!
I ran a power supply wire and drilled a hole for a grommet. Done. The wire tie-wrapped to my trunk hinge is for the power trunk release. I still may do something different for this as I'm not happy with the way it looks.
Today I plan on finishing the alternator fitment and am going to give the headliner another shot before I bail out and bribe a Pro to come to the house and do it for me. Today is a short work day in the yard due to the fact I have 9th. row seats for Alice in Chains/ Velvet Revolver at Jones Beach tonight. Tomorrow will be a full day of wrenching. Promise.