What did you do to your Mopar today?

[Mopars & Missiles]

I went to Bob's cruise-in 20 years ago but since I live in Indiana the commute was a bit longer, good to see its still going strong.

 

[Don selleck]

wax on, wax off, put and take, getting a pretty good surface, seam seal and one more coat of primer, I hope

 

[Dennis H]

Bobs. With the Kern.

 

[Ceedawg]

Fixed it !

Then went on 66 mile round trip on 4 different freeways to Bob’s Big Boy Burbank cruise-in

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What kind of real world millage did you get? Not that it matters with the Hemi, interested in what I’ll see here on the east coast.

 

[Unkle Krusty]

We drove a bit over 100 miles to Port Renfrew BC. Which is on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. We can see the Olympic Peninsula WA from the camp ground.
Anyway, back to the ticking sound from the 318. If we had adjustable rocker arms or tappets, I would say they need adjusting, about 4 to 6 thou. But we do not have adjusters, so it occurred to me we need longer pushrods.

While sitting on the beach, I read the Compcam instructions.
They explained how to measure the pushrod length, and said I may need longer pushrods. Next week I will measure and find out who has longer pushrods.

 

[autoxcuda]

What kind of real world millage did you get? Not that it matters with the Hemi, interested in what I’ll see here on the east coast.

I've been playing around with it around town. But I'll report back.

I filled up before I left last night at 68,170 miles. And I'm going to try to take it easy before the Spring Fling display tent next weekend.

No 6,000 rpm 1st gear shifts.

 

[Skytrooper]

I haven’t touched it in almost 4 months

 

[sawdoff]

Found the wire causing it (70 sate) not to have fire. Felt great to hear that motor again. But it's been sitting to long apparently cause after a couple minutes the 3310 was flooding my intake with fuel. Dammit.

 

[Fran Blacker]

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Hell of a place to put a dead body.

 

[Don selleck]

he's not dead yet

 

[Black_Sheep]

I took the GTX for the first test drive after installing the hydro-boost. It’s ridiculous how well the car stops, the pedal feel is going to take some getting used to. I still need to dial in the adjustable proportioning valve in an empty parking lot but I’m going to claim it as a victory.

I also emptied everything out of the garage and pressure washed the floor and changed plugs on my son’s 4.6 Ford Exploder…

 

[Unkle Krusty]

We just got back from the ocean. Winding road, 13 one way bridges. Will have fuel mileage and pushrod info later this week. None of the hills can slow us down. Just a matter of how much fuel we use. 1405 Edelbrock carb is silky smooth.
So too are the gear box shifts. As for braking, we can stop, but at 6600 pounds and no air, we are a long way from powerful brakes. Being able to drop down gears helps.
All the camping stuff works, there is a small water leak in a hose joint. Fridge works, new solar panel works. 9 amps going in was the most I saw. Should get more when the sun is more overhead. Lots of folks being quite cool in their tents.

 

[71charger_fan]

I found a few burnt spark plug boots so I installed a new set of wires. The straight boots made a few plugs a bit difficult, especially #3. But, not a lot of selection for HEI-style wires for Mopar big blocks.

 

[67 Mopar]

I gave Montana a well deserved, and long overdue Bath this afternoon.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Bought 8.5 gallons of 93 octane for my Satellite. I pump it dry in the wintertime.

 

[Ceedawg]

got the 1/4ers off the 63 today took about 1/2 hour with saws all. In good shape over all, now to get the jamb off the 64 and start piecing the two back together to install on 4 door.

 

[HawkRod]

Checked my intermediate shaft (I run a roller cam in my 500 CI stroker based on a 400 block).

Left is new (but has assembly lube on it) and right was in my car. It might be hard to see in the picture, but it's time to replace it.

 

[qkcuda]

Yes, the gears get sharp after a while.

 

[junior340]

Tested out new fuel system after a few issues with a new regulator failure, once I narrowed that down it is perfect.
Happy day today. 75 mile test run to Fruitland.
All I was doing before was changing fuel filter and broke neck off pump wiggling crusty line off. I had a new 670 Holley and MP fuel pump saved to test out so it all snowballed as usual. All good I'm used to it.

 

[gtx6970]

Spent the day yesterday at something new to me
I was approached a few months back requesting I enter my car at this event .
After some discussion with my wife , we decided to give it a shot
2025 Western Spring Nationals/Grand National – Tucson, AZ – AACA – Antique Automobile Club of America



I decided to enter a local event for the AACA club aaca.org
Its close enough I could sleep in my own bed.

And was something I decided to do to see how my car was viewed by an actual judging staff / team
After talking to the judging team captain, he said the only real deductions were the radial tires ( I will send in to get a copy or the scoring sheet in the next few weeks )

We came home with a Junior 1st . And I was quite suprised / elated to say the least

I told said team captain, I had virtually little to no interest in going after something higher / more

Ps, there was a really, REALLY nice / very cool little Valiant wagon there.