65 Barracuda daily driver
I went to the CPW Club Fall Fling in Van Nuys today. Mine and this '66 next to it were the only early Barracudas at the show and in the swap meet weren't many early A-body parts either.
I bought an orange box ecu that the guy told me worked when he replaced it with MSD or something, but I went and tested it on the car and it doesn't work. It was only ten bucks, though.
I also bought an Edelbrock fuel hard line elbow thing and it doesn't fit. How can it be that you need an adapter to mount an Edelbrock Performer carb on an Edelbrock Performer intake in the first place and then the Edelbrock Performer fuel line doesn't fit between the electric choke and the mechanical choke stove on the intake?! It would probably work with a carb spacer, but I'm currently not interested in removing the carburetor.
Anyways, I changed the springs in the carb to a silver spring, because they didn't move at all when you hit the throttle before. Haven't driven it yet. I'm still trying to improve gas mileage. I picked up 1 mpg by putting more air in the tires. It had been a while since I checked it and they were kinda low.
By the way, the new ebay 90 oil filter adapter was still leaking a bit, but now it's easier to get to it and I tightened it and it seems that leak is fixed.
I really want to start painting the deck lid (and fenders and hood), before I do anything else. Except that I ordered some TTi exhaust tips and once they arrive I will chop off the turn-downs and bolt them on. Anyways, tomorrow I hope to start prepping the deck lid.
I went to the CPW Club Fall Fling in Van Nuys today. Mine and this '66 next to it were the only early Barracudas at the show and in the swap meet weren't many early A-body parts either.
I bought an orange box ecu that the guy told me worked when he replaced it with MSD or something, but I went and tested it on the car and it doesn't work. It was only ten bucks, though.
I also bought an Edelbrock fuel hard line elbow thing and it doesn't fit. How can it be that you need an adapter to mount an Edelbrock Performer carb on an Edelbrock Performer intake in the first place and then the Edelbrock Performer fuel line doesn't fit between the electric choke and the mechanical choke stove on the intake?! It would probably work with a carb spacer, but I'm currently not interested in removing the carburetor.
Anyways, I changed the springs in the carb to a silver spring, because they didn't move at all when you hit the throttle before. Haven't driven it yet. I'm still trying to improve gas mileage. I picked up 1 mpg by putting more air in the tires. It had been a while since I checked it and they were kinda low.
By the way, the new ebay 90 oil filter adapter was still leaking a bit, but now it's easier to get to it and I tightened it and it seems that leak is fixed.
I really want to start painting the deck lid (and fenders and hood), before I do anything else. Except that I ordered some TTi exhaust tips and once they arrive I will chop off the turn-downs and bolt them on. Anyways, tomorrow I hope to start prepping the deck lid.