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i hereby name this car Big Block Bertha. that is all.

stardate 2020.0704.1200 - drove the absolute piss out of this car today. been almost 1 year to the day since I swapped motors and have been fighting cooling issues ever since. 1st time on the highway - up on 75 - this car is a mile murderer. highway speed turning about 2800 rpm with no pedal...

stardate 2020.0629.1400 - gonna have a lot of parts for sale at the car show swap meet this year if it isnt covid-ed out. First things first - I asked the forum for a year if the water pump can be installed backwards/ upside down, and no one ever answered. Well, the answer is YES, the water...

for posterity PST hardware camber bolt failed. threads totally burnt out. better off keeping the original 52 year old ones. also their failed bump stops. purchased 2014.

kwik kar garland on Buckingham rd. custom alignments while-u-wait. with me in the car, with a half tank of gas. beautimus.

upper A arm liner upper so im by myself. in the driveway. with hand tools. i had the whole wheel assembly undone from the car at the upper and lower arms, but left the wheel/knuckle/hub/rotor/brakes all together. it weighs about a buck fiddy who knows its farking way heavy. i was lifting the...

Stardate 20200215.2044 - spumco OEM replacement shocks on the way out. KYBs on the way in had to undo lower ball joint, torsion bars, strut rod both ends, upper A arms unbolted, sway bar linkage, lower arm from frame.. then knock the lower arm and tie rod backwards until the shock had room to...

plumbing in a hayden 404 cooler and B&M transmission temp gauge to the transmission lines. I didnt have any heat issue with the tranny, its just because I wanted to add a cooler so I will be cooler like the cool kids. so - back over on the bench, I added a T to the new cooler lines so I can...

straight from Wuhan province gonna add another coupla H.P.

50yr old OEM, 5yr old PST , new poly stoppers, in order

so the FSM is like 'take the top loose, take the bottom loose, remove the shock'. riiiight. did anyone of them actually try? I got the upper arm totally undone, the lower arm is disconnected from the knuckle, the torsion bar is unwound, the lower arm still wont drop enough to get the shock...

instant +5 h.p.

stardate 20200201.210 - starboard side new double brake booster from booster steve all the spagett

so . . . i didnt take any pictures of the new thing installed heh. um. my bad. i fired up the car and made sure i didnt hear any hiss. the pedal is way higher, and feels totally different. have not driven it yet. noted that in the single, both the frontal piston and rear piston were free / loose...

single diaphragm drum brake booster, and double diaphragm disc booster so the drum booster has a sunken in face and a plastic wedgie filter holder thingy. i swapped that over to the new one and didnt like it. barely had any M/C stud threads sticking out. removed plastic thingy and tossed it in...

then there are 4 nuts holding it to the firewall 2 above the piston and 2 below. get to them from inside up underneath the dash. good luck.

so you just got to get up in there and do it. it sucks. you need a bendy wrench or a swivel adapto or etc one of the nuts is pretty much behind the steering column but back at the firewall. take loose the shoulder bolt 5/8 at the brake pedal armature

TIL how to change a booster

a seldom seen picture. well, a picture of a picture. iirc this one was a '73. sold to the carpenters. yes those carpenters. this pic is at the dallas JOASW show in whatever year it was. the last t shirt i have is from like 20 or 22, and it says they are up to 50 now... so it was a while ago...

my headlight wiring harness vs. stock headlight wiring harness headlight wiring checked out. passenger hi beam bulb out . . .