Recent content by haywire 440

Ok, I’ll bite. No pun intended. Doesn’t this guy look like John Fetterm ………….oh never mind nothing to see here.

The part about the distributor needing to be grounded reminds me of something, I believe, @HALIFAXHOPS, spoke of and that is the block and the underside of the distributor need a clean connection. Sometimes re-painted blocks are a problem and another problem is sometimes a paper or similar...

I appreciate your comment as I do all others here on this great site. It’s just my thought, as from a previous picture, there was a lot of wires from the Box that were hard to see where they all ran. It’s mentioned for clarity, some of which is helpful to me. The Barn Find GTX and Sly B. are...

Sly, I have to wonder if the MSD box that is wired into your distributor system is working properly. That box, that is mounted by the battery, was seen in a previous photo you personally sent me. Maybe disconnecting that from the distributor system would show if the distributor would spark a...

Welcome Sly B to this group from the hills of Arkansas. I really dig the look of the gauges perched in front of the windshield! Awesome. It’s crazy that we just lived a couple houses from each other for many years in Illinois and you recently fell into this sweet deal on a super Plymouth...

I remember now that the UPS drop off store did weigh one package and the weight was under what I got. They also weighed the other box, which I had 2 pounds heavier and it too was under what I told them and that was a bathroom scale. Edit: No measurements though. It sounds logical to have the...

Sure hope there is a way to reduce this financial pain through dialogue with them.

Wow, that’s is excessive punishment and like as @YY1 mentioned some likely treacherous marketing going on. The small print in business transactions are a killer. Big companies trying to pad their bottom line. Pirate Ship has been discussed here and on A-bodies and it’s a great opportunity to...

Yes it is. I didn’t know he, Danny, had a band but then I didn’t watch most of those “car building shows”. No cable tv.

Out go the lights….. of course!

It was a treat to see and hear Pat Travers Band play at an outdoor concert in Lansing Illinois a week after the 4th of July this year. The opening band was Count 77, who ended their set with the Door’s song “Break on Through to the Other Side”. Friends have been to that Watseka theater.

The OP is handling this situation as he sees fit. I too hope it gets resolved quickly. As the mystery unfolds I can confirm it is not a member using Haywire as part of their screen name. Yes I know that sounds suspicious but the name comes from an old TV series about a guy in prison, once again...

I can recommend Opel engineering, in Streamwood Illinois, because I know some folks who were very happy with their builds. They kind of specialize in Mopar engines and believe they have been discussed on these sites before. They did run tests on 3 440 blocks for me including sonic checks...

The slapper bars were on it when I bought it many years ago in Denver. When bought it was blue with the Pearl White interior. The original color was red, my favorite, so it was repainted PP1 red at a cost of less than $1500 and the Pearl White interior is original but I installed new...

I hear ya Ed, John