Furyous

[65sporty]

The cam has a nice rump to it. Must not be any car guy's among the new neighbors, if I lived behind you and heard Furyous running I would have went looking for the source of the sound out of curiosity.

 

[cantflip]

The cam has a nice rump to it. Must not be any car guy's among the new neighbors, if I lived behind you and heard Furyous running I would have went looking for the source of the sound out of curiosity.

Having laid eyes on the situation myself... If a car guy moved in, he wouldn't have needed engine noises to want to introduce himself, and should have known right where to look for those sounds once they did start.

 

[LocuMob]

Having laid eyes on the situation myself... If a car guy moved in, he wouldn't have needed engine noises to want to introduce himself, and should have known right where to look for those sounds once they did start.

Being a new neighbor, he might not know his way around.

 

[C Body Bob]

Having laid eyes on the situation myself... If a car guy moved in, he wouldn't have needed engine noises to want to introduce himself, and should have known right where to look for those sounds once they did start.

Yea it’s pretty obvious what’s happening at my place. It’s like that time the DMV guy came over here. He walked in the shop & saw all the carnage & stuff stacked on shelves & the loft & he said man you are definitely a car guy.

 

[C Body Bob]

As I continue to mark off things on the punch list. I made it to the shift cable. The car has a B&M ratchet shifter that didn’t ratchet well & was in a bind. Especially in low gear. So after looking things over I decided to try and adjust the Morse cable to get a more positive detent feel in low. Very difficult to do as the big block with headers & torsion bars made for a tight fit. After several hours I had made it worse. So frustrated I put it back to how it was & watched a video on YouTube explaining the proper way to adjust it. So went back at it & got it to detent good in low but then it wouldn’t go into park. No matter how many turns in either dirtection I couldn’t find the sweet spot so I looked closer & noticed the trans linkage arm has 3 holes. The clevis pin for the Morse cable was in the center hole & that appeared to be incorrect & causing the bind. So I found a pin from another shifter I have that fits the outer larger hole & installed it & a few turns of the wrench & BINGO ! That fixed it. Shifter hits every position much better. As you can see in the pic the cable end is bent so it still binds if I put it in park too hard. So I need to fab up a stop block to prevent it from going past that section on the detent. Run a bolt through it & lock it down. This will prevent the shifter from going past the detent & binding up. I spent 6 damn hours on this frigging Morse cable Saturday. Only to find it was in the wrong hole. I also took this bracket off. It was in the way of the wrench for the jam nut & I’m leaving it off as I can’t tell it does anything. Thank goodness I had that larger clevis pin from that spare shifter or else it would have been another trip to the hardware store.

 

[C Body Bob]

She’s sitting on her own tires for the first time in 18 months. Hopefully she’ll be at a track soon.

 

[C Body Bob]

Thinking about having a pair of these made for the hood scoop. I’ll change the 6 to a 4

 

[C Body Bob]

Brush strokes
Yea I didn’t like the grey vinyl numbers on the windows. Didn’t fit the car at all & hard to see. So I painted over them today in yellow for that old school brushed on look. I’ll add another coat for better coverage. Stands out now & much easier to see. I also fixed a bunch of piddly things. Little loose ends here & there. Her debut is getting real close.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Why is the arm bent up so high? Is it just the picture?

 

[C Body Bob]

Why is the arm bent up so high? Is it just the picture?

No, unfortunately that’s how it is. The jack-leg that installed the cable did this. I tried to straighten it & did some. It shifts pretty good now just a little tight going into park. For now I’m going to leave it.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

jack-leg

Heheehe, I've met the guy.

 

[C Body Bob]

Heheehe, I've met the guy.

I’d like to meet him.....

 

[70bigblockdodge]

I’d like to meet him.....

Oh, he is around. Shows up everywhere anymore.

 

[C Body Bob]

Oh, he is around. Shows up everywhere anymore.

 

[C Body Bob]

An awfull lot of work has been done to FURYIOUS over the last month. I finally have the steering shaft in place. I am using just the original shaft. I stripped the column down. I had to install a Flaming River adapter at the steering box because I installed a B body aluminum manual box. Then I made a plate at the firewall & installed a bearing there for the shaft to go through. I then cut a piece of aluminum angle & fitted a collar bearing to the angle plate. Bolted it to the original steering column mounts. The shaft still had too much span & didn’t feel secure & strong. So I got a piece of steel angle & fitted another collar bearing to it & bolted it to the outside of the sheet metal dash. Both collar bearings have set screws. Now much improved & I feel safe. Painted it & got a 72 Plymouth Fury steering wheel. Painted the center black & installed a black wrap around the rim. Looks good.

 

[C Body Bob]

New AC Delco plugs & a new GM 60 amp alternator. Also a new Holley 30 cc pump diaphragm installed. Had to cut down & modify the Chrysler bracket to fit the 60 amp alternator. That’s it on the bottom & you can see I now have plenty of travel. The old 78 GM alternator was maxed out on travel.

 

[C Body Bob]

Then I turned my attention to the front bumper. The stock bumper is heavy. An online search turned up no fiberglass bumpers so I bought a glass bumper for a 75 Malibu from a company in Canada. It was drop shipped out of Florida 5 weeks later after 3 calls to Canada asking where it was. I mocked it up as seen in these photos. It’s too wide. About an inch each side. 50 pound weight savings so I had to make it work.

 

[C Body Bob]

Since I was happy with the look of the bumper. And the quality. I decide to section 1 inch from each side. As seen here

 

[C Body Bob]

Then I cut out some sheet metal plates & drilled 2 holes at each end. Matched those to holes drilled in the bumper & putting the plates on the underside I pop riveted the bumper ends back on.

 

[C Body Bob]

Now the bumper looks correct & I doubt anyone will know it’s a Chevy bumper. I also decided to add a brace in the center just to be sure since that’s a long span. And yes that helped form it up