65 Barracuda daily driver
The fires here in L.A. have been a rough experience. I'm safe, but there is so much devastation everywhere. The winds had already knocked the power out which remained off for 3 days. We didn't have to evacuate, but we were warned to get ready, so I had already packed the Barracuda with everything of importance to get the hell out, if the fires were coming closer.
When I was driving home Tuesday night I spotted the Altadena/ Eaton Fire from the freeway. It looked super close to my place, but it turned out to be a little further away. This was from a hill near my place, it must have started not too long before I took this - it exploded into something much, much larger:
This was from my bedroom window Wednesday morning. There was ash raining down and it was hard to breeze outside. The worst appears to be over, but it will take long time before things will be back to normal. Friends lost their homes and everything. It is so sad.
I tried to distract myself from all of that with some car stuff.
I found a used fan shroud on ebay. It's for a '70-up small block A-body and it's a factory mopar shroud (part #2998 325) which matches the '70-up A-body Champion radiator. Like I read here on FABO I had to widen the mounting holes a bit and it doesn't seal the top or bottom. And the thread on the radiator is metric (M6), which I had to go get from the parts store. I had one random one in my bolt and nut pile that fit.
I'm not too worried about it. I'm gonna see how it works - typically in January there's no risk of overheating though... So that might take some time. If it were to overheat, I could probably rig something up to seal it.
I gutted an old orange box ECU that didn't work anymore. I want to put an HEI module in there as a back-up for the FBO box I am running right now. Well, not just as a back-up - I wanna see which one is better too. I doubt there is much of a difference. I'd need a different coil though. I had built an HEI-in-the-mopar-box before, but it didn't work. It might have been a bad module, but I simply gave up on the idea then. I have some ideas that will make it better.
I never got around to adjusting the throttle. You could never get full throttle, but I think I figured it out. Essentially, the cable was too long, so in the idle position the pedal was already down partially. Using some fender washers seemed the simplest way to test it. I hate pulling out the cable and trying to get it back in there. Took the car for a spin and the gas pedal goes down more easily and is more reactive. The fender washers were meant to be temporary, but I have a feeling that it will be a long time until adjust the cable "properly".
The car runs great and is so fun to drive now. The TTI exhaust tips sounds really great.
The fires here in L.A. have been a rough experience. I'm safe, but there is so much devastation everywhere. The winds had already knocked the power out which remained off for 3 days. We didn't have to evacuate, but we were warned to get ready, so I had already packed the Barracuda with everything of importance to get the hell out, if the fires were coming closer.
When I was driving home Tuesday night I spotted the Altadena/ Eaton Fire from the freeway. It looked super close to my place, but it turned out to be a little further away. This was from a hill near my place, it must have started not too long before I took this - it exploded into something much, much larger:
This was from my bedroom window Wednesday morning. There was ash raining down and it was hard to breeze outside. The worst appears to be over, but it will take long time before things will be back to normal. Friends lost their homes and everything. It is so sad.
I tried to distract myself from all of that with some car stuff.
I found a used fan shroud on ebay. It's for a '70-up small block A-body and it's a factory mopar shroud (part #2998 325) which matches the '70-up A-body Champion radiator. Like I read here on FABO I had to widen the mounting holes a bit and it doesn't seal the top or bottom. And the thread on the radiator is metric (M6), which I had to go get from the parts store. I had one random one in my bolt and nut pile that fit.
I'm not too worried about it. I'm gonna see how it works - typically in January there's no risk of overheating though... So that might take some time. If it were to overheat, I could probably rig something up to seal it.
I gutted an old orange box ECU that didn't work anymore. I want to put an HEI module in there as a back-up for the FBO box I am running right now. Well, not just as a back-up - I wanna see which one is better too. I doubt there is much of a difference. I'd need a different coil though. I had built an HEI-in-the-mopar-box before, but it didn't work. It might have been a bad module, but I simply gave up on the idea then. I have some ideas that will make it better.
I never got around to adjusting the throttle. You could never get full throttle, but I think I figured it out. Essentially, the cable was too long, so in the idle position the pedal was already down partially. Using some fender washers seemed the simplest way to test it. I hate pulling out the cable and trying to get it back in there. Took the car for a spin and the gas pedal goes down more easily and is more reactive. The fender washers were meant to be temporary, but I have a feeling that it will be a long time until adjust the cable "properly".
The car runs great and is so fun to drive now. The TTI exhaust tips sounds really great.