Termyn8or
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Fords are nice, but I like the GM engineering of that era alot better. This 18 year old car has as an advanced ECM system as most on the road even today, discounting the OBD2.
When I got in it today, as usual the heater doesn't work. Not that I would heat, but I would let the vents run. I always did in the last Buick. I was thinking I would have to talk to Leo, real nice guy at the boneyard we use as much as we can. Perhaps $50 for a heater control unit, or if he can't get one, toggle switches. The car functions, I will not scrap it for shit like this, I will find a way.
Well, for the first time today I drove it to work. Ran nice. Haven't had a ride that nice in quite some time. But I noticed the clock came on again at 1:00. I also stop at the store, and today I found it didn't come with gas. At each stop the trip odometer reset to zero, and the clock again displayed 1:00.
Well a fifteen cent fuse fixed it, as I began to suspect, it was the lighter fuse. This weekend I think I will put some of my precious freon in it and see if the AC system holds. The blue book is only a couple grand on a car like that in perfect or close working order, and in good shape. But I would never sell it for that. I really couldn't say what my price would be.
One thing bothers me, I don't think it is quite running right. It is time to take it in for an emissions check. It won't peel rubber. It is a vin C 3800 , that thing should have no problem getting scratch. But then I am comparing this to my Dad's vin C 1990 Olds. I forgot about doing the top end. We used metal gaskets, Fel-Pro Print-o-seals. Once back together the engine had no compression in any of the cylinders.
The valves weren't closing because the new gaskets were thinner than the old ones, which were composite. That car would peg the speedometer in a scant few seconds, easily. I want mine to run like that. And when we took it in to get tested it read like a veritable air cleaner. Zero across the board on a couple of paraneters, and like 1/100th on other(s). There were cars in front, the thing is putting out cleaner air than it is taking in !
Next is the exhaust systen, and checking the oil, but I think my mechanic did that. I might even fix the radio in this car, it only has one channel. But I could care less. I do, however have the parts, because I used to work on those radios back when they were pretty new.
Even though I felt like shit today, I am alot less unhappy. I got a car I like and I know I got alot less than a grand into it. And none of my old parts are on it, nothing fit !
So I am less unhappy. The world is still all screwed up, but oh well.
Within millseconds my old car became scrap metal. You listened. Now that things are better I thought I would let you know.
Next time I am around the Autoparts store, think I'll pick me up a set of Felpro metal gaskets for it. It would be a totally tight engine then, and have been raised almost a point in compression ratio. Have fun ? I just might.
That Olds was nice. Kids in their little turbocharged shit cans come to fuck around. The olman blew some of their doors off from time to time.
Did I mention he used to build race engines ? Perhaps I didn't. He built a V8 that could do over 9,000 RPM. At about 9,400 it would always wipe out the number one bearing, due to centipetal force. Luckily it had some nice features, like a hard chrome crank. It was machined undersize and then chrome plated back to size, I think ir was like 20 thousandths. It had a Racer Brown roller can setup too, to help it blow those bearings. But the crank was damnear indestructable.
You don't let my Dad around kids when they start driving. The car he sold my cousin (his nephew) broke the friggin front bolts out of the front seats. I mean they pulled through the floor. I didn't like the Muncie in it. Muncies have the gear ratios too close together. I'd rather have a truck transmission. Better gear ratios, that is if you know how to build an engine with a decent torque curve.
Let me just school you a bit real quick, if you're interested. You got two cars, similar, or even for the sake of argument, the same weight, even the exact same body. One guy puts in an engine the has 400HP ay 4,000 RPM and 400 ft/lbs at 3,000 RPMs. The other guy has an engine that puts out 399HP at 5,000 RPM, and 399 ft/lbs at 1,500 RPMs. Who do you think will win ?
Wanna start a car thread ? Cool. But it is time, lest I hijack myself.
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