Well this weekend I was at home with family for a birthday party. To make some room for additional parking, my dad, my brother and I had to get my first car fired up and moved a few feet. This just happens to be a 1980 4 banger 'Stang that we rebuilt the motor in when I was 14, I'm 30 now. In order to get this car running all we had to do was pour some gas in the tank, check the fluids and put a battery in it. Dad poured some gas right in the carb to expedite the whole process and wouldn't ya know, after 2 years of sitting, it fired up after only 5 seconds or so of cranking. After 2 teenagers learning how to drive on it and a combined 6 years of heavy weekend action cruising the strip every weekend not a bit of oil smoke, just a bit of fuel smoke from being too rich at first. It settled right down to a nice lopey idle thanks to the cam we dropped in it all those years ago. There were smiles all around as the three of us stood around thinking about how much time we spent making sure it was all done right when we put it together. Dad had such a grin on his face that I honestly expect to see him tooling around in it on a regular basis before too long.
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Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
I was surprised that it fired up so easily. The night we finally got it all back together originally it took 3 hours to get it to fire and it always was pretty cantankerous when I was a kid. The carb on that thing is one of the real early ones to have electric choke and it never did quite work right.
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Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
I'd love to drop a motor like that in the car. However this car is my dad's now. He has been doing a bit of looking around on Summit for various parts. I wonder what he's got in mind for it.
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Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
I would love to do something like that with my dad but unfourtunatly he is a drunk and doesn't know his way around a toolbox, let alone an engine. He also works for Chrysler so that might have something to do with it. I did however get to help my step dad with his 1993 Shelby Cobra. I was about eight at the time and knew my way around that engine like the back of my hand.
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1996 Dodge Ram 1500 5.2 Liter V8 Magnum 4X4. Lund Hood Scoops.
Coming soon: Green Underglow Neon (or LED Lights) Cold Air Intake, Pipes coming right off the headers for an exhaust, and maybe a sound system too.
I'd love to drop a motor like that in the car. However this car is my dad's now. He has been doing a bit of looking around on Summit for various parts. I wonder what he's got in mind for it.
That things gotta be light as a feather... He could really make it scoot.
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1992 Deep Emerald Green Mustang GT Hatch, 5 speed, 2.73s, Mac fenderwell cold air intake, '93 Cobra MAF, Mac 70mm throttle body & spacer, Explorer intakes, Mac unequal headers & offroad pipe, Magnaflow catback, Walbro 110lph fuel pump, Jet adjustable FPR, MSD Blaster coil, Accel 8mm wires, FRPP aluminum quadrant, UPR firewall adjuster, stock cable, Granatelli upper control arms.
Waiting to go on: Granatelli lower control arms, and GT40 Iron heads!
Oh yeah, even with just the 4 banger that we built, the things a pretty quick little sled. Even without the GT suspension it handles really nicely. Good weight distribution without that big heavy iron V8 hangin over the front tires.
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Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
I know that feeling, my grandfather was really sick and my first car (my 1975 Chevy pickup) needed maintaining and driving so my grandmother handed me the keys and told me to go take care of it... I got it back permanently a few months later, but that first turn of the key after a few years, with the familar old routine (stomp the gas twice, turn the key and tap the throttle to make her actually kick over) that familiar little puff of blue smoke from that (then) single tailpipe right at startup, and that first trip around the block after a few years were awesome!
Dude get it back if you can, and if not? drive her every chance you get! lol
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1976 Ford Mustang II Ghia: 302 with a 600cfm Edelbrock carb, Edelbrock Performer 289 intake, Dynomax Blackjack headers, 2.5" exhaust with Flowmaster Super 44s. RJS 11-gallon fuel cell, C4 tranny, chrome 16" pony wheels, fuzzy dice, brown vinyl half-top, and painted in the tackiest color ever (harvest gold, that's why I call it "The Goldenrod").
Also have a 2003 Dodge Ram (lightly modded daily driver/tow rig/office/dining room/home away from home/workshop... I call it "The Big Blue Dawg".)
Fired up an old friend this weekend 
