She's a runner!
Well, it's been a while without an update, I've been busy with the car and work and everything else but the car is on the road and delivered!!
:headbang:
Yesterday was my birthday and I thrashed on the car most of the day with hopes that the second carb would get it running better and it did. So from there I tidied up a few hundred loose ends and was happy with the way it went. Then my nephew stopped by and gave the car a quickie detail job and we made the impromptu decision to get the car home and surprise my girlfriend with it (remember, this car is a surprise gift for my girlfriend, it's nearly identical to her very first car).
So yah, what a guy I am huh? I give
someone else a cool car on MY birthday! (I'm an idiot right?) This better buy me at least one more day before the guy downstairs pulls me under.....:icon_evil:
Unfortunately, the circumstances of the delivery and surprise left us unprepared to take a video but I can tell you she was pretty shocked to see me pull up in the driveway with the car. Of course she had no idea I had this thing so when she first saw it she had this look like WTF, this a-hole bought himself ANOTHER car for his birthday?? She was probably pretty close to stabbing me at this point, but once I told her the car was for her she was nearly speechless and super happy about it. She was most amazed by the fact that the car is the same model and color as her first car (her's was a '65 4 door though) but really like the look and sound of the engine.
OK, enough of the fluff stuff, here's some car prOn showing some of the stuff I got done. Some day I'll get some good pics of the car and post them up.
Thanks to kb67mopar, I got a good second block to get a decent engine together, finally installed that about two weeks ago.
Then my first attempt and a real downpipe, it turned out nice despite my crummy wleding;
Then engine break-in which went pretty good, only forgot a few things. Here's a link to a brief video of the initial and some-what frantic moments of that. It sounds good with the open downpipe : - )
[video]http://s456.photobucket.com/user/Hey_Lazy_O/media/Car_Stuff/SuperNet%20Overhaul/RunItIn.mp4.html[/video]
Overall, it worked out pretty nice. The car is a blast to drive and has an amazing sound, you can definitely tell it aint no V8 but it sure has the tell-tale signature of something with a fair bit of cam and compression. Basically, it sounds like a
really friggin' angry post office Jeep
