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Well, the hood project got put on hold (who'da thunk it?) because of graduations and an out of town trip by my painter, but he said we can work on it one night this week.
In the meantime, we are still waiting on the mandrel bent pipes to come back from the guy in TN. We have talked to him several times by phone and email and he assures us that he'll be getting our pipes out to us soon. Member VOETOM finally got frustrated and brought over a pair of Dynomax turbo mufflers and some head pipes that he just happened to have lying around. We mocked them up Saturday and we will take them up to the local muffler shop this week to get them welded on. It's not exactly what we were wanting to do, but it'll be something that I can use to drive my car this summer. We'll worry about the fancy mandrel bent custom 3" exhaust next winter.
Yesterday, my buddies Adam and Gary came over and we did a little test and tune session. When Doc set up my MSD E-curve distributor he had it locked out at 40 degrees total advance. That was great for dyno runs but not really for street driving. Adam read the MSD instructions (which reads like a different language to me) and figured out how to set the base timing and then we programmed in a curve that gives us 25 degrees of advance, all in by 3000 rpm.
We took the car out for another test run (with open headers) and that really seemed to wake things up! My wife stood outside with one of the neighbors and said that they could hear us a 1/2 mile away when I got on it pretty hard. Things are starting to come together and the "to do" list keeps getting smaller. I even got the radio and amp hooked back up yesterday so that we'd have some tunes while we were working!
Well, the hood project got put on hold (who'da thunk it?) because of graduations and an out of town trip by my painter, but he said we can work on it one night this week.
In the meantime, we are still waiting on the mandrel bent pipes to come back from the guy in TN. We have talked to him several times by phone and email and he assures us that he'll be getting our pipes out to us soon. Member VOETOM finally got frustrated and brought over a pair of Dynomax turbo mufflers and some head pipes that he just happened to have lying around. We mocked them up Saturday and we will take them up to the local muffler shop this week to get them welded on. It's not exactly what we were wanting to do, but it'll be something that I can use to drive my car this summer. We'll worry about the fancy mandrel bent custom 3" exhaust next winter.
Yesterday, my buddies Adam and Gary came over and we did a little test and tune session. When Doc set up my MSD E-curve distributor he had it locked out at 40 degrees total advance. That was great for dyno runs but not really for street driving. Adam read the MSD instructions (which reads like a different language to me) and figured out how to set the base timing and then we programmed in a curve that gives us 25 degrees of advance, all in by 3000 rpm.
We took the car out for another test run (with open headers) and that really seemed to wake things up! My wife stood outside with one of the neighbors and said that they could hear us a 1/2 mile away when I got on it pretty hard. Things are starting to come together and the "to do" list keeps getting smaller. I even got the radio and amp hooked back up yesterday so that we'd have some tunes while we were working!