so i'm seeing some familiar faces... hi to all....

now pass me a beer so i can catch up!

Hi Connie!! Glad to have you with us. I'll be your tour guide for today. If you look to your... everywhere... you'll see nutjobs! Enjoy

How 'bout some pics of your rig? If you've got one

ford4life69 said:

so i'm seeing some familiar faces... hi to all....

now pass me a beer so i can catch up!

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Welcome, and watch out for Chris, he'll try to pass the Ganja if you're not careful...

Welcome!

Welcome to the site.

A hardy welcome to the site. C'mon in and make yourself at home. Post up and post often.

Glad you could join us.

Enjoy the place. Let us know if there's anything we can do to make you feel more at home.

Ryan

Hiya, Connie!! Glad to see a friendly face!!!

Welcome . Just a Bunch of nuts looking for a bar .

Welcome Connie!!! This is a place you CAN call home.

Howdy Connie! Nice to meet you!! WELCOME

Hey Connie.....good to see you here also.

1970Custom said:

Welcome, and watch out for Chris, he'll try to pass the Ganja if you're not careful...

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i learned the hard way not to mix my poisons...


here she is...


this engine's been running since mid january and let me tell you THAT was an ordeal and a half....

http://rides.webshots.com/album/261849733EjDyLN?vhost=rides&start=0

there's the whole album. most of them are pretty recent and show all of the assorted damage... :-(

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562966930HKqfjk?vhost=good-times

and there's ugly truck...

ford4life69 said:

this engine's been running since mid january

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Wow, that must take alot of gas.

You got your engine swapped. How's she runnin'? I helped my youngest son do a similar 302 swap Nov '06 in the old 86. How come it's always winter when they need changed out? Nothin' like trying to wrench with frozen fingers...... 'bout as much fun as summer in TX I imagine.

Good to see you found this place. There's getting to be more familiar faces all the time!

yeah the original 302 started ticking like a time bomb and i didn't wanna pull it apart and try to do lifters... i found this one in the nifty thrickel and ended up spending more than three times what i wld have on lifters in the old motor... but... it didn't 100% act like lifters either and i haven't torn it down to see. the other suggestion was spun bearings...

the nifty thrickel find came complete with machine shop receipts from the build and is just a little bit warmer than stock you know. it took a mechanic to get it timed but then i hadn't found the info on the cam yet either to know the damn thing had a 351 firing order on it! *rolling my eyes* since it sat up stored for so long the lifters collapsed and i had to have that done and they used those shallow dish freeze plugs in it (brass but still) and it didn't seat right.. got a little cockeyed in there so i had that replaced and now she runs great. of course that was after the whole flywheel weight ordeal too...

if gas weren't so high i'd be out driving instead of sitting here right now... as it is i've allowed myself enough money each week to go cruise around for no reason other than to cruise and play one night a week. i'm addicted to how she sounds and responds even though she's not as fast as i hope to have her some day... still thinking about taking the original block all the way down and slowly turning it into a stroker but i just don't know when i'll have the money or where i cld even think about doing it....

I'd been wishing there was a site like this for a long time but never did a search. I found a forum that's local to my city and started working my way in there when I got the invite here....

what is it mcdonalds says? i'm loving it!