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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 16, 2019 6:40:52 GMT -8
Be glad it wasn't $$$$ Sir-Ram-It coating that got blistered. That why that shit sucks dick, shit happens and it doesn't hold up for the $$$$
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Post by 69Rebel on Aug 16, 2019 7:41:28 GMT -8
How about snorkels for cold air?
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Post by spud on Aug 16, 2019 8:02:01 GMT -8
Well thats an option. A shaker hood provides convenience. No ducting to work around. A shaker is just cool as hell. You get to watch it twitch and jive. Its in a good place to get cool air. No problem sealing off carbs and underhood air. Just seems like a good solution to getting the best air quality to the engine. And you get a show when you shift and throttle. You get to see it work. It screams hotrod. Now i know its just a 304 but whats a few extra horsepower to a 304? A major gain!😀
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 16, 2019 9:56:25 GMT -8
It's all cool and in fun. It's just gay when these fucks mental masturbate about building a 304 to "beat new Mustangs"
Who gives a fuck about new Mustangs.
I'm so sick of the stupid. I've seen so many cars go to the shitter simply cause if it don't run 7s in the 1/4 mile while being about to DD it, people can't have fun and scrap it. I have fun beating on 16 sec cars. make a lot of noise. NEVER break any parts, and can have a nice hot rod for a weeks wages at min wage. Instead of spending 200,000 bux just to get your ass handed to you by 30 other guys at Lights Out or some shit.
I loved the old days one of us would get a new to us car, go to the hangout and take everyone for a ride. It was slow, but felt quick to us kids... Now it's like, don't sit on my seat and wrinkle it. Just stand back and look.
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Post by spud on Aug 16, 2019 10:52:41 GMT -8
Well i know where your coming from. My point of having an old javelin is not to be able to beat everybody, or anybody. Its just having a piece of america when it didnt suck. I get in it and in my deluded bitter old mind im shutting the door and turning it on and its the 70’s again. Its just an escape in a world of diminishing freedom, sensibility, logic, purpose and point. I have been doing what im doing with and to this car so long i cant change. Im stuck in a closed loop and i think i like it. The world has lost its magic and i value so little in it. I clock out of work and hide in spuds garage with my relics.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 16, 2019 11:18:41 GMT -8
That's what I do with my old 318 Plymouth, roll down ALL the Windows in my Hardtop, turn on the 70s classic Gold station, prop my arm up on the door and go for a easy cruise. She just rumbles right along with ease and doesn't eat to much gas. Everyone asks if I have a 440 in it, or am gonna put mine in. I have a 72 440 out of my Imperial, and a 78 400 with 28,000 miles on it out of a Motorhome. Fuck that. I'm done with those days. I sold the 8 3/4 I had for this Car, a few years before i got this car, cause i figgered I'd never find one i could afford that wasn't all bondo. And 8 3/4s for these cars are $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Like a standard bore 401 is........ The 318 will never hurt my 8 1/4. The 2.76s, esp with 28" tall tires, are great for cruising. I don't have to screw with rigging in some GM OD or give $$$$$$$$$$$ to Queervendors for some add on OD either. Simple, easy cheap, I get to go back to a better time for awhile.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 16, 2019 11:34:48 GMT -8
I just get tired of the high level of competition it gets to be for MOST. Like I said, so many cars given up on, scrapped and sold, cause they can't be Top Dog. Then the guy just quits cars. I'm not in this to be anybody. I'm sorry if I belittle some with my Comments, like even a 8 sec car sucks dick, but the egos and shit get to me. Big Queef has his own show, if you don't have you own as well, you're just a bitch with a slow car, so get off the stupid train, settle down and just have fun.
It's funny watching the local street scene page. A guy my age is on there racing all these rich 18 y/o kids that their Dad's buy their cars for em. it's like, "Dude, grow up yet?"
I can remember being 18 and laughing at a 27 y/o guy hanging around us. We used to refer to him as being the biggest loser in the World and having no dick. A real piece of shit.... He was the topic of laughs every night. Biggest joke in Western PA..... I couldn't imagine a 52 y/o hanging around. LMAO he has to look like a dead old fossil to them.....
ooooo you've been building your cars for 40 years to beat someone, that could almost be your Grandson, by a fender. ooooooooooo Sweet. It's pretty funny to watch. He still gets a big ego triggered and upset when they talk shit.... I don't even want anyone knowing I have Cars, or look at them. I don't care to hear it..... These are here for me. Like you say, I hide in my garage with my relics, and enjoy being around them. Not dildo people and their ego. oooo I'm the fastest guy in Youngstown. That's like being the smartest kid on the Short Bus. Maybe life would be easier for them if they released they were small fry losers living in a loser dead town. Once the Steel Mills closed, there's NOTHING her, but losers, druggies and drunks.
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Post by 69Rebel on Aug 16, 2019 12:49:08 GMT -8
I dropped your cam and lifters off at FedEx today. Soon, you'll be stomping new Mustangs so badly that even the guys who sprung for a VooDoo motor are gonna feel like they wasted their money.
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Post by spud on Aug 16, 2019 13:42:18 GMT -8
Im with ya cappy. 100 percent. Now i got the other javelin. It does have a healthy sorta streetable 401 4 speed with 3.89s. Im just currently more into the streetable easy cruiser thing. What would be funny is to finish them off as identical. I do plan on building a stronger 304. All i lack is pistons. But its not gonna make much power, compared to a moderate 360...happen to have a couple of those too😁
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 16, 2019 14:41:40 GMT -8
Yep, I had a 360. Gave it to my buddy since he actually raced a AMC. Mine has been to the track 4 times? And I don't really push it either. Just kinda ease out and go. It could be dialed in better, but why? A couple times I took it is cause it's what I had road legal at the time and just wanted to play at the track with my buddies. Since as Grem buddy used to say "watching is for Fags"
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Post by spud on Aug 16, 2019 14:46:57 GMT -8
I drove it a few miles this afternoon. Certainly more fun than the old 232. Doubt if it has even 200 hp at this point however. I should have bought a wide ratio gearset. Oh well the 998 disassembles pretty easy! Might as well make it a 999.
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Post by spud on Aug 17, 2019 6:59:32 GMT -8
Something else thats kinda weird is how quiet the exhaust is. I thought it would be pretty loud with the straight through borla mufflers. Not so. It makes a deep roar off idle, then gets more subdued the harder you hammer on it. Not what i expected. Power Is healthy up to 3500 or so, then looses steam pretty quick. Characteristic of the stock cam i suppose. I dont think it is limited in the intake or exhaust. Gotta be oversupplied if anything.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 17, 2019 8:17:08 GMT -8
Sounds like mine, got nothing up high.
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Post by spud on Aug 17, 2019 9:04:26 GMT -8
So maybe that little comp cam the universe is giving you will help that? My 290 was the same deal. I slammed a crower mechanical cam in it and foof! That little problem was rectified. It was the smallest solid cam in their lineup. Something like 240/242@ .482/487 on a 108 lda. I still have that 290 with that cam in it. That was the engine that beat klvn8rs 304 whornet years ago when we were doing our amc small engine drag challenge. I cheated with that cam he said. I also cheated with 305 chevy valves but he dont know about that.. i was in the 14.2s if i recall, he was in the 14.4s
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Post by Captain Awesome on Aug 17, 2019 9:19:54 GMT -8
It should. Wish I'd saw those small body headers quicker. She'd really wake up
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