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Post by 71se3834v on May 13, 2020 19:53:34 GMT -5
Been meaning to ask you if you got your NPD shipment. 👍
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2020 20:58:12 GMT -5
Yes, it arrived some time ago, packed nicely. All good.
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Post by hanks73340 on May 14, 2020 7:29:36 GMT -5
Awesome stuff happening there Dave....
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2020 21:48:44 GMT -5
I spent a few hours disassembling and cleaning the clutch and fan this evening. The clutch and fan blades are aluminum, but the fan hub is steel, and has some surface rust. So chips on the core support, fan hub, steel input shaft on the clutch, water pump pulley and the lower core support are all going to get the KBS Coatings rust treatment...sort of a batch job. A few more of those factory part numbers... Surprised at the level of gloss in the semi-gloss paint on those blades. They will need a quick dusting of paint too. The fasteners that hold the fan to the clutch were surprisingly tight for threads into an aluminum casting. I may have to throw a little blue thread locker on those when they go back in. Don't need that fan coming loose. Also, those 4 bolts, the bolts for the radiator, and bolts for the fan shroud, etc...all have surface rust, and need to be blasted, then re-coated in something. Will probably go with a black phosphate coating of some sort.
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Post by DynoDave on May 15, 2020 21:56:08 GMT -5
Noticed these markings on the water pump / power steering belt that I had removed. Appears to be the original, which would go a long way toward explaining it's petrified state. I expect these markings are too small and the belt too narrow for me to be able to replicate them. NOS radiator cap arrived today. Not 100% like the production piece, but pretty darned close, and far closer than anything else on the market. Having discovered that cloth friction tape was used to hold the small ground wire off of the negative terminal to a harness clip, I picked up a roll of it at the local ACE. Started cleaning up the other side, opposite the battery, near the core support. It's a little hard to tell in these photos, since the whole photo(s) came out with a yellow cast. But that clip bolted to the inner fender is painted bright yellow. Not important, just interesting. Charcoal canister cleaned up. Filter doesn't look too bad. Blew it out with a little compressed air to be sure.
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Post by odzking on May 16, 2020 13:16:15 GMT -5
Dave, how did you get that canister apart, I have never been able to get mine to budge.
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Post by DynoDave on May 17, 2020 10:00:27 GMT -5
That flat grey/yellow disc of fiberglass just slips out. Is it just held in by friction around the outer edge, and by that crossbar. It's pretty fragile, so be careful with it. I kept the compressed air nozzle pretty far away.
They are available at Rock Auto.
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Post by DynoDave on May 17, 2020 10:34:28 GMT -5
It was such a nice night out on Friday that the wife and daughter ran down to Woodward with me. After all the action I saw out there a few weeks ago on one of nicest nights of the year thus far (and one of the busiest cruise nights I've ever seen out there short of Dream Cruise week), I thought this Friday would be just as busy...maybe even better as people (cruisers) get more restless. Boy was I wrong! There was no one out by comparison. 40-50 other nuts like me stretched over the whole run from Birmingham down to Ferndale, and that was it. Maybe a dozen people stopped and setup with chairs along the way. Since the super busy cruise night of a few weeks ago, Birmingham had closed all of the metered spots on Old Woodward (put bags over them). And I'm quite serious when I say I've NEVER seen so many police out on a normal cruise night. And with people (cruisers) pulled over. In many instances 2 or 3 squad cars per cruiser pulled over. While I obviously do not know the specifics of why they were pulled over, it certainly looked like an attempt to intimidate. I ran a few miles in the inside lane (next to the grass berm) behind a white fart-piped 350Z (from Birmingham/Hunter House down past the McDonald's at Coolidge). I NEVER broke the speed limit, often running 5 under just to be sure given the excessive presence of law enforcement. At Coolidge, an unmarked black Ford Exploder pulls up next to me. On the green, I laid back and had the cruise control set at 5 under, as I often do when cruising. The guy in the Z was minding his Ps and Qs too, but was slowly pulling away from me, running the speed limit with the rest of the pack (everyone had seen this police cruiser pull up on us, so he wasn't surprising anyone). About 2 blocks from the corner at Coolidge, the cop pulls over in front of me, right on the Z's , and moments later, hits the lights. Pulled him over into the old Harmony House record store parking lot right before the cemetery. That I had observed in the preceding 5 minutes or so of cruising, this guy had done nothing. Now, he might have gotten ticketed for taking a nice white 350Z with factory duals out the bumper and installing a cheap chinese amazon fart pipe hanging low off one side...it was an egregious violation of good automotive taste....but other than that, this guy was cruising like Grandma. There was never a time when we were out that you couldn't look in either direction and see the flashing lights of police cars with people (cruisers) pulled over. It was an embarrassing display on the part of local police IMO. Are you old enough to remember the late '70s Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in Indy, where they chased cruisers out with cops in riots gear with dogs? Well it wasn't like that, but it sure brought back memories! I was going to go back out last night to full-fill my duty as public menace (and more seriously to defend my right to be there...heck, even the Gov says to get outside), but it was sprinkling here about the time I would have left. That was the bad. The good? With restaurants still shut down, it was a rare opportunity to slip up inside of Vinsetta garage (with 3 Berkeley cops with a guy pulled over just down the street) and get a picture under the neon. This is not usually an option as the place where I'm parked with be packed with customer cars at dusk.
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Post by DynoDave on May 24, 2020 19:27:52 GMT -5
Got the "bog box" opened, and the parts arrived from California with no issues...dual head pipes to dual stainless catalytic converters into a 3" merge, all mandrel bent. It was an option (N10) on the Tuned Port cars some years. Should help my little 305 breath a lot better. And I'm sort of on a roll finding good deals on parts for the Trans Am. In the small block Chevy world, the best flowing factory heads for the old Gen 1 small block are Vortec heads. While used 350 heads are pretty easy to find, ones for the 305 are pretty hard to come by. I stumbled across a pair out of a boat engine with only 190 hours on them, and had to have them. Stock to stock, from the swirl port head 305 like mine with the Vortec head305, power went from 170hp to 230, and the heads are really the key to that. I'll be able to beat that 230 number by a fair margin. Should make a good cruiser. On the Cordoba front, I picked up the radiator, and it looks great! The small rod that tied the side frames together, and to which the shroud clips, did not survive the rebuild. So I'll have to find some small thin rod and make a new one. The paint is VERY flat, and the Chrysler finish was semi-gloss. I'll respray the tank and side frames...the only parts you'll see. Paint is on the way.
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Post by hanks73340 on May 25, 2020 8:52:00 GMT -5
Nice find on the heads and the radiator looks great.........
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