massive reconfiguration time again.

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j par said:
You're in San Jose? I thought Tahoe for some reason??
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It would be a 7 or $800 weekend with hotels entry fee and gas.. it's a little over seven hours for me and a little over five hours from San Jose... Maybe one of these years we can make it to one of the Mopar events?..
 
With my 4.88s its a long slow, noisy and gas guzzling drive to go any where...
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Where the hell is the west coast power tour?

Why is all the cool stuff in the mid west or east coast?
 
Cope said:
With my 4.88s its a long slow, noisy and gas guzzling drive to go any where...
:)

Where the hell is the west coast power tour?

Why is all the cool stuff in the mid west or east coast?
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I had no intention of driving there with the car I wanted to put it on a trailer and pull it..
 
Cope said:
Home depot sells coper hard line. 20 bucks a roll. It's 3/8. Or -6 (same thing) 20 feet.

When i switch to my twin 660s im gonna replace my summit hard line with the home depot copper line.
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I used the same copper line on my 65 when I found out the steel line was trash.
 
I gave you the red X because i want you to drive the car here or at some point i want to be able to trust my car to make it to you.
 
Cope said:
I gave you the red X because i want you to drive the car here or at some point i want to be able to trust my car to make it to you.
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There's not one question in my mind that my car could make it across the United States and back.. One of my first test after getting the 354 gears was to take an hour drive down the freeway to Salem for an all Mopar car show early last summer...
You got the red X because there's no way I'm going to take that long *** trip in my car when I have a car trailer and a comfortable old truck.. I like to have fun and not be uncomfortable..
 
Cope said:
I gave you the red X because i want you to drive the car here or at some point i want to be able to trust my car to make it to you.
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Taking a customer's 65 GTO to the sandblaster... It's winter time so I have my DIY homemade sled deck on the back of the truck as well..
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Those gears remind me of the 454 chevy one tons 4:54 gears, I had years ago before the Cummings. 6 mph pulling a gooseneck and maybe 10 empty!!! Thirsty
 
So as I'm hooking these carburetors together with the nitrous plates, the spacers seem just the very slightest not flat when I lay them on glass... Not but the very slightest but noticeable.. I will be sending them down nice and tight with gaskets.. also it seems when I put a little bit of pressure they seem to not rattle under glass.. I'm thinking because they're aluminum stretch a little bit and flatten out..?? I just have a lot of gaskets and things stacked up and need them to all seal nicely.. the two between the upper and lower plenum of the tunnel ram I bought new as I've used the ones on there several times taking it on and off. And there's the one's between the tunnel ram in the nitrous plate the one between the nitrous plate and the 2in riser the one between the two inch riser and the little thin plate at the street demon carb likes to have and then the gasket between that little plate in the carburetor LOL.. 10 gaskets LOL...
 
It was a nice surprise to see that Holly offers an extended one year warranty on the carburetors which I just registered them both...
 
Nitrous plates out... For now...
just going to turn my attention on to the carbs and getting them hooked up and fitted. I ordered a new wideband O2 sensor should be here tomorrow... likely have to make a bigger hole in the hood. I do have the linkage figured out and the fuel supply. I may have to change the angle of the fuel rail when the nitrous plates do come to make room for the solenoids but I'm going to cross that bridge when I get to it.. for now it's just going to be getting these two new Street demons on and operational...
 
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Well worked out a first issue with one of the carbs it was sticking a little bit on the choke mechanism but I actually dial that one wide open because I only use one carburetor choke anyways. Or at least I did before. Looks like I'm going to have to cut a pretty nice chunk out of the hood. I got a few pieces and then it got a little lower and then I decided I need to cut a lot more out of this... also this is without the nitrous plate switch or going to raise it another half inch yet...
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j par said:
So as I'm hooking these carburetors together with the nitrous plates, the spacers seem just the very slightest not flat when I lay them on glass... Not but the very slightest but noticeable.. I will be sending them down nice and tight with gaskets.. also it seems when I put a little bit of pressure they seem to not rattle under glass.. I'm thinking because they're aluminum stretch a little bit and flatten out..?? I just have a lot of gaskets and things stacked up and need them to all seal nicely.. the two between the upper and lower plenum of the tunnel ram I bought new as I've used the ones on there several times taking it on and off. And there's the one's between the tunnel ram in the nitrous plate the one between the nitrous plate and the 2in riser the one between the two inch riser and the little thin plate at the street demon carb likes to have and then the gasket between that little plate in the carburetor LOL.. 10 gaskets LOL...
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No No No on the warped carb spacers, you will jack the body of your carbs, maybe crack the base plate.
Take the spacers to a local machine shop and have them ground flat.
Think Blanchard grinding, milling them flat would also work.
 
sireland67 said:
No No No on the warped carb spacers, you will jack the body of your carbs, maybe crack the base plate.
Take the spacers to a local machine shop and have them ground flat.
Think Blanchard grinding, milling them flat would also work.
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What's nice about these carbs is they have a steel shim play that goes between the carbon the base plate. Does base plates weren't off any and if they were they were on the bottom part by the intake manifold. They're so far off the car that they don't get that kind of heat...
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I do like those carb, I just put one on my Duster, never started it yet.
But ran for years on my old truck, they work great.
 
sireland67 said:
I do like those carb, I just put one on my Duster, never started it yet.
But ran for years on my old truck, they work great.
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well I won't know today that's for sure the rain came and it's going to be a few days before I can fill these up with gas but there's so many other fitment issues that I'm still taken care of...
 
Rain is supposed to stop here tomorrow, if it was colder we would be measuring snow in feet, now a few inches tomorrow.
 
A lot of chopping on the hood..
Aluminum makes it easy..
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Another half inch up when I get the nitrous plates in. Probably a tad more trimming on the back when that happens..
 
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