Gearhead Thread

[Sgt PSN]

True.  And when you take one apart to perform maintenance on it then you can post about it here. 

And unless you use one of those things to soften up the dirt so you can dig a grave to hide the person you just killed, then you can keep posting your home and garden stories in the vadge thread. 

[Susquehanna Birder]

Oh yeah...we also helped my buddy's wife till three raised garden beds, making her very happy.

Funny...I assumed this was a euphemism.

[mussa]

Oh yeah...we also helped my buddy's wife till three raised garden beds, making her very happy.

Funny...I assumed this was a euphemism.

sounds like a porno plot to me

[Diomedes]

Couple nights ago I put the rebuilt gearbox back into for a '79 BMW R100/7 and today I'm helping a friend pull a small block Chevy V8 305 from his '79 Malibu Classic and we're going to put a 350 in it.  I'm basically just handing him tools when he needs them and that kind of thing, but I'm going to learn a shtein load.

[mussa]

im renting a mustang convertable today in AZ. im pretty excited about that.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Couple nights ago I put the rebuilt gearbox back into for a '79 BMW R100/7 and today I'm helping a friend pull a small block Chevy V8 305 from his '79 Malibu Classic and we're going to put a 350 in it.  I'm basically just handing him tools when he needs them and that kind of thing, but I'm going to learn a shtein load.

Thos farging cars are a riot. A buddy of mine had on in high school. He put a 350 in it originially, painted it the most obscene purple candy you had every seen, and add a crown air freshener for effect. We used to go flying around in it listening to the Beastie Boys. Later, he put a 400 small block in it, and it died after an incident with a telephone pole. Cheap cars that'll easily swallow big blocks = fun.

[Sgt PSN]

It's amazing how those phone poles will just randomly jump out at you. 

[Diomedes]

Well, we got the engine and tranny out.  Then we spent a few hours wrapping the headers in heat protective fiberglass stuff, which was messy and took a long time, but now the starter shouldn't be bathed in so much heat, which is good.  We also replaced the motor mounts.  Tomorrow, we pull the tranny off the old engind and put it on the new one, and then drop it into the car.  Then a bunch of work hooking shtein up.  Then burnouts.  It's a 350 small block v8 with a performance camshaft and some other special shtein I don't properly remember right now.  Long day.  Tired but had a good time.

I wish I could show you all the look on my buddies face after I drenched him in coolant...that was farging great.  I had a big radiator hose in my hands, holding it with each end more or less horizontal to the ground, and turned to the side, inadvertently lowering the end facing him as I did so, and dumped a lap full of fluid on him.  Chemical bath for you, Ha!!

for those who don't know (and I didn't know until recently), here's a pic of a '79 Malibu Classic

[Sgt PSN]

Any activity that involves giving someone a chemical bath sounds like fun.  Next time, step it up a little bit and splash some gasoline on him.  Then farg with him and act like you're going to light a smoke. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Should've had some cats come out and lick it up off the ground...I hear they love the antifreeze.

Speaking of headers, I had some serious timing issues with my '91GT and the headers got so hot one day they were glowing like molten lava. Not good times.

[Sgt PSN]

I was so pumped up leaving work today because I found out about 15 minutes before I walked out of the office that I got my orders back to KC......so I cranked up Bring the Noize - Public Enemy and maxed out the speedometer at 140 on the way home today. 

That little stunt sucked up almost 1/4 tank of gas during the 12 mile drive home.  The V8 is quite the gas guzzler. 

[Susquehanna Birder]

Should've had some cats come out and lick it up off the ground...I hear they love the antifreeze.

Speaking of headers, I had some serious timing issues with my '91GT and the headers got so hot one day they were glowing like molten lava. Not good times.

The glowing is not a good thing...but it looks cool as hell.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/d993ddf5-6629-4944-81f8-990b00a2c6d6.htm

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah, it was cool. Until it processed in my mind that this was happening on my car and I already knew it wasn't good. Thankfully it was only a timing issue. When we put my distributor back in after the cam replacement it was a tooth off so the timing was all farged up. I wish I would have taken pics.

[Diomedes]

So after two days of work...success!!   The car runs like a champ.  It sounds like a beast...you feel the sound in your chest more than in your ears.  farging awesome. 

That was by far the biggest job I've ever done and it went off almost without a hitch. The power steering bracket didn't fit the new engine for reasons we don't yet understand, but we got it to work for the time being.  Otherwise, it's a monster. 

Burnouts have however been delayed because it's way past dark and we don't need to piss off the neighbors.  Also, we'd like to adjust a few things and let it run steady on the street for a day or two before we smoke 'em.  I've got the first ride ticket as reward for donating two days of my time, and that combined with what I learned is fair square.

I haven't been this happy in a long time.  When it worked, holy farg we were happy.

[Diomedes]

Yeah, it was cool. Until it processed in my mind that this was happening on my car and I already knew it wasn't good. Thankfully it was only a timing issue. When we put my distributor back in after the cam replacement it was a tooth off so the timing was all farged up. I wish I would have taken pics.

we had the distributor one tooth off at first as well, but figured it out before we ran the engine because the marks we made before removing it just didn't look right.