VWguyBruce wrote: If you guys were parked down at the end with the trailer in $2006, I found a nice set of wire crimpers where you were parked and still have them.
nope, wasn't me. no trailer, and no missing wire crimpers.
VWguyBruce wrote: If you guys were parked down at the end with the trailer in $2006, I found a nice set of wire crimpers where you were parked and still have them.
nope, wasn't me. no trailer, and no missing wire crimpers.
AngryCorvair wrote: the friggin' fuel inlet on the edelbrock carb is horizontal, at the top right rear of the carb, so of course if i attach a rubber hose it crashes into the bottom of the drop-base air cleaner. will look into other available fittings, or may look for a rubber fuel line with a molded 90* bend in it.
Food for thought...sounds like a couple of well placed whacks with a ball peen hammer might do the job...?
Coming along nicely, I'm interested to see how this thing holds up.
Bryce
Angry, there is a banjo fitting available for Edelbrock carbs for just this issue.
Edelbrock 8089 http://www.jegs.com/i/Edelbrock/350/8089/10002/-1
yup, they had one on the shelf at Murray's. cost me $20 plus tax, which is 1% of the total budget! they also had one with a chromed steel hard line instead of just the banjo fitting, drops straight down to below the linkages on the inlet side of the carb, then turns straight forward for about 6". it was $39. thanks, but no.
probably could've found something in the Grainger catalog, but decided to go with the off-the-shelf solution from the OE manufacturer.
Hey i'll let you in on a trick. When routeing the flax hose exhaust like you did drill a hole ~ mid way then once you have it routed use duct tape to hold the shape and fill the flex with expanding foam throught the hole. Let it sit a day or two then remove the flex will no longer flex bring it to the local exhuast shop to copy in real tubing.
44
44Dwarf wrote: Hey i'll let you in on a trick. When routeing the flax hose exhaust like you did drill a hole ~ mid way then once you have it routed use duct tape to hold the shape and fill the flex with expanding foam throught the hole. Let it sit a day or two then remove the flex will no longer flex bring it to the local exhuast shop to copy in real tubing. 44
sweet! that should be much easier, and cheaper, than taking the car to them to fab something with the car up on their hoist. I like it!
Sunday 21 Sep 2008, 2:44 PM: FIRE IN THE HOLE!
random thoughts: after about 10 brief startups, the headers quit smoking, which I hope means that the paint has cured and will hold up. since the slicks were on the car for photos, that's what i drove it around the neighborhood on. gutted interior = noisy. solid motor mounts = noisy. cherry bomb "mufflers" = noisy. and since this exhaust system was on the car for crash's outstanding explosion in 2005, the cherry bombs are laden with all kinds of stuff that smokes like crazy when they get warm. brake pedal feel is crap, and i don't really have time to do anything about it.
and here's a teaser shot:
a couple more pix, because i'm in a giving mood:
Soldering is not my favorite task.
something about a 944 on drag slicks really does it for me.
Looks great!
You dirty girl.
Dead Sexy!
That thing is damn hot. 
Sweet car Pat!
Keep soldering and see you in a few.... Looks really great!
Looks great, Pat! Congratulations!
nice slicks 
Looks like a winning combination. Good job.
thanks for all the encouraging words! there have been some dark days along the way, but hearing the engine run for the first time was quite a lift, and actually driving it around the block was another huge lift. it's crunch time now, and i've still got a long way to go.
c'mon, 5:30 pm! i wanna get back to my garage!
went backwards in a few ways tonight, but each step back led to a lateral that will put me on a better path forward. or something.
i had a friend push the brake pedal while i watched the various deflections. the master cylinder mounting bracket (just the original booster mounting bracket, all chopped-up) actually moves away from the firewall by 0.070" (measured with feeler gauges). multiply that by the approximately 10:1 pedal ratio (thanks to redrilled MC input rod attachment hole) and we're talking about almost 3/4" of brake pedal travel that does nothing but make the driver feel like the pedal's going to the floor. so I designed a fix and am having a friend weld it up for me tomorrow at lunchtime. had to drain the brake fluid and remove the MC, which requires removal of the driver's side valve cover. SBC is tight fit in 944.
made some forward progress with the gauges. there was a gigantic tach screwed to the dash pad when i got the car. i traded that tach into my stash for a smaller one that fits inside the OE gauge bezel, so i figured out how to mount it and now i've got the tach inside the center bezel. the early 944 cluster is three round 4" bezels. in the left hole i'll put the oil pressure gauge and in the right hole i'll put the water temperature gauge. will probably ditch the voltmeter. i took some detail pix to show how i'm mounting the aftermarket gauges inside the original gauge housings, and will post them soon.
i had two HEI distributors, one that was in the engine and one that i got from wheels777. my buddy with the distributor machine is curving them both, slightly different from each other. one will have about 22 degrees of centrifugal, the other about 28. both will have light springs, so full advance should be in by around 2500 rpm. it's really easy to change the distributor, so i'll try both and see which one feels best.
friday evening i'm going to pick up a used set of 15" phone dials for my autocross tires, and will spend some quality time cleaning them up this weekend.
one of the slicks was flat when i got home from work today, so i will take them to work tomorrow and break them down. one had a patch inside that looked to be coming loose, but i didn't fix it at the time because I knew the tires had to come off the rims again so i can replace the valve stems and polish the rims while they don't have valve stems in them.
tomorrow is the last test and tune at my local strip before the challenge. i'm not going to make it. :sad:
i remember when this was just a secret plan.
it's awesome to see it come to fruition! 
Im glad Im not the only one a bit behind!! My car finally drove sunday night , and we're painting it this monday... leaving Wed.
I can't wait to see the porsche in action!
Just remember, "Don't Do What Donny Don't Does".
for those of you not familiar with the above photo, what you're seeing is not tire smoke....
I loved those Centerline wheels once.
AngryCorvair wrote: for those of you not familiar with the above photo, what you're seeing is not tire smoke....
"Hey! You got piston in my exhaust pipe!"
er, wait... that sounds bad.
John Brown wrote: I loved those Centerline wheels once.
I was wondering where all that goo came from...
i found these videos the other day and thought i should post them up. so yeah, i'm waking my own zombie thread. i wish i still had this car. :-(
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