The excitement is building

Island Girl · Jan 27, 2019

HenrysT said:
Stainless work hardens very easily. I know stainless on stainless galls together, even when you're just bolting things together for trail assembly, without some sort of lube. Don't ask me how I know. Hate to see the aluminum or if they are Heli coiled, threads pull.

Thanks for the compliments and kind words guys, . . . . positive feedback is very motivating.

I know what you mean about stainless on stainless galling, even on a trial fitting . . . Learned that the hard way about 20 years ago, but did learn it well.

Down here in this tropical climate with salt water all around, almost everything is stainless if you want it to be there in a year or two. We just get used to the added mess that comes with using anti seize.

Island Girl · Jan 27, 2019

A Little Sunday Funday Update . . . .

So today was "move the motor from the engine stand to the test run stand" day.

Turned out to be a pretty straight forward operation . . A little advance planning went a long way and all went smoothly.

So easy, even an old lady can do it . . . .

All that's left is a bit of electrical hookup and headers . . . cranked it over and it has good fuel pressure, and after a little oomph on a wrench, no fuel leaks, though I did order a few new bits, as I shouldn't have had to tighten it that much not to leak . . .

T-Test · Jan 27, 2019

You are one smart cookie! Think smarter,not work harder! I can tell you are use to working alone and no help to be found.

Intrepid · Jan 27, 2019

Looks great .. you should do a video of the first fire up.
I plan to, after I edit out all the flames and misfires,,,lol.

DonnyRay · Jan 30, 2019

Looking great !

Island Girl · Jan 30, 2019

Thanks guys,

I ordered some vacuum hose and a vacuum canister, just hoping I don't need to go to an electric vacuum pump to have good power brakes.

Still waiting on the black painted headers to ship, so trying to get all the little bits ordered while I wait, but can never seem to think of them all at the same time.

2old2fast · Jan 30, 2019

Going by the weight of 1 of these cars ,
I honestly don't understand the desire for power brakes anymore than they'd be needed on a motorcycle???

409T · Jan 30, 2019

I have power brakes on one of my T-buckets. That car weighs 2020 lbs. and still the brakes are more sensitive than I would like. The 409T weighs 2220 lbs. and a normal master cylinder with drum rears and Wilwood 175's on the front (which really do practically nothing) stop it just fine.

2old2fast · Jan 30, 2019

Mine weighs 1790 and has basically a complete mustang ll,/ pinto (2500 # curb weight) disc/ drum system and has no problem stopping.....

Island Girl · Jan 30, 2019

I'm old, have some arthritis, and skinny little chicken legs, figured better to have and not need than need and not have . . .

Spirit uses the older corvette disk/disk MC for their disk / disk setups . . . it's only a 7" booster, so not really like a regular car booster.

PotvinGuy · Jan 30, 2019

IG, my bucket weights 2100#, stops on a dime w/o booster. I use organic/ceramic pads that give a great pedal-to-deceleration feel. Get to the gym and beef up those legs; they're all we have to hold us up!

Neshkoro · Jan 30, 2019

Potvin Guy, that's funny. You know, like Murphy says, "If more is good, too much is better".

RPM · Jan 30, 2019

Neshkoro said:
Potvin Guy, that's funny. You know, like Murphy says, "If more is good, too much is better".

Murphy was talking about horsepower.

old round fart · Jan 30, 2019

I think she has that covered!

RPM · Jan 30, 2019

old round fart said:
I think she has that covered!

For sure

Neshkoro · Jan 31, 2019

RPM, seriously, I was talking about braking force requirements. Power or manual! But then I guess you could take it any way you like!!!!!

DonnyRay · Feb 1, 2019

Can the engine be flipped around ? The exhaust would come out away from you & the fuel pump line would be facing you. Maybe remove the 2 arched braces & swap them around ?

DonnyRay · Feb 1, 2019

I asked a e-bay seller to send me a picture of his stand with an engine attached to it. This just seems to be backwards.

Island Girl · Feb 1, 2019

The engine can mount either direction, the cross bars are the same and so are the sliders, . . it's just which verticals you mount on which cross bar sliders that sets the front and back.

All the videos I found on YouTube have it like I assembled it, which matches the picture on the box.

The battery and fuel tank hose are well inside the space between the headers, so shouldn't present any real risk potential.

This setup also lets you add a radiator without too much additional fabbing.

Island Girl · Feb 1, 2019

Pre-Weekend Update . . . .

IT'S HERE !!!

About had to sell a kidney to pay the shipping, but it is here and except for the grill shell, in perfect condition . . . . albeit very dirty and in need of a wash before doing anything else.

The grill shell got busted in shipping, probably too badly to want to try to repair, but they said to order a new one and give them the invoice and they'd pay for the new one and ship it "extra carefully" for me.

It looks sooo funny with the little donut tires they used to ship it, but it's really cute and so much tinier than I was expecting.

I was driving behind the flat bed wrecker that I had pick it up to bring it home, and it just looked almost like a toy car.