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Traveller 
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Joined: Feb/26/2011 Location: Nampa ID Status: Offline Points: 287 |
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 Posted: Jun/05/2011 at 11:00pm |
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Got a bit done on the car this afternoon. Cleaned the quarter window seals then treated them with stuff to make them look newer. Installed the seals, installed the quarter windows after cleaning them, then installed the upper door molding and upper side molding on the driver's side. Put in a new door seal, new window guide and removed the window completely to clean off overspray and accumulated dirt and stuff. Lubed the regulator, then reinstalled the window glass. Runs nice in the new guides. Put new belt moldings both inner and outer on the door and then put a handle in it. The door closes a bit harder now, and I'm sure it will until the seal takes a set.
Took some pictures with my wife's camera, but I'm having trouble editing them for size. Here's link to photobucket where I've got a lot of pictures. The first 8 or so are from today. I'm really happy with how this is looking so far. Just wish the photo software wouldn't wash the color out a bit. It's really vivid on the camera and when it's uploaded onto the computer, then washes it out in the Canon software when it makes pictures files. Just like what was happening on my computer during the editing process. Still looks good, but it's even brighter in person. Here's a link. http://s727.photobucket.com/albums/ww272/bearair1/ Here's pic to check for size.  That's a bit large, but here's a couple more.    The wheels are American Racing T71R's. The fronts are 17X8 with 4.5" backspacing, and the rears are 17X9 with 5" backspacing. The tires are Firestone Indy 500 Wide Oval high performance summer compound. 255/45/17 rear, 235/45/17 front. I love the look and so does my wife! Just what we were looking for. Edited by Traveller - Jun/05/2011 at 11:06pm |
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Christopher
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Posted: Jun/06/2011 at 7:40am |
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looks reeally good:). Where did you find new window guides? I´m interested of those to
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70 Donohue 390
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Posted: Jun/07/2011 at 9:14pm |
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Ok, I've looked at the pics for 2 days and sellers remorse has set in. When you're tired of that boring Rambler, you know who to call.
 Very nice Rob  Pm me your address-I have a couple of things I want to send you.
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Ron Akerman
http://www.roguevalleyrumblers.com/ The "X Factor" coming soon 67 290 Rogue Convert 78 304 Concord Touring Wagon |
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Traveller
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Posted: Jun/10/2011 at 12:04am |
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Thanks for the compliments!
I love boxes showing up. Just got another one from Summit today. My main studs, heads bolts (ARP), main bearings, rod bearings and some gaskets showed up. Should be getting to the block machining here shortly. The crank was sent off this week to be ground. Ended up getting K1 connecting rods. I debated resizing the stockers and putting ARP bolts in them, but finally decided that if I'm going to buzz this motor over 7K then I'd be playing it safer to get some weight out of the bottom end. Here's the deal. Stock rods with bolts weighed an average of 799 grams each. The K1's are 615 grams. Between the rods and the pistons, the weight off of each assembly is 260 grams. That's a lot of weight that isn't going around in a circle or up and down. Approx. 4.6 lbs of weight out of the bottom end. Should rev a little better. |
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idrambler
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Posted: Jun/10/2011 at 12:14am |
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Sweet!!!...can hardy wait for you to get the beast up and running....
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Jim..NAMDRA/AMCRC
Treasure Valley AMC Idaho http://idahoamcrambler.com/ 29Nash AMC360/904 69AMX 401/727 74Gremlin 401/727 73Matador/73Hornet wag |
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Traveller
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Posted: Jun/15/2011 at 9:57pm |
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Still don't have my computer back, but it's supposed to be done tomorrow. I'll basically have a new custom built when this is done. I'll be able to post pics when it's back.
Several parts have shown up in the last couple days. I put the NOS front marker lights on it Monday. The NOS front turn signal lenses will be going in the grill after I locate a nice one. The NOS hood emblem I picked up off of ebay showed up this afternoon. I put it on the car already and it looks great against the blue paint. Still need to polish windshield trim and rear window trim. Slow progress on the motor. Too tired to stick around after work. I'll have to go in on a weekend and do all the block work one day, then do head work another day. I'll probably have to port on the heads for quite a bit of time to get them to where I want them. Just spoke to the transmission guy today. He was able to locate a torrington bearing to put in the tail shaft in place of a bushing like he wanted. He's calling it a 44RH since it's basically a 42RE case, a 42RH valve body with a bunch of tweaks, and 6 disc front and rear clutches with a 5 thick disc overdrive. It's basically a very beefed up 999 style setup with a solenoid controlled overdrive. Yes, it has better aftermarket components including shafts and clutches. The converter just showed up yesterday finally, so he's ready to assemble it whenever I need it. He was happy about making clearance in the case for a bearing in place of the factory bushing in the overdrive. It's now all bearings against shafts internally. He says it will take him about 5 hours to complete at this point, just waiting on me to give him the word that the engine is getting close. |
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amcrules00
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Posted: Jun/16/2011 at 6:21am |
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It's coming along real nice, did you get a good deal on the tire/rims?
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Traveller
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Posted: Jul/11/2011 at 1:12am |
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Okay, back up and running with the computer a couple weeks ago. This time the CD-ROM didn't run when I fired it up. I popped the case myself and found they left the power connector disconnected when they worked on the mother board again. I think I've about had it with those people. My wife says that one of the I.T. guys at her work offered to fix any future problems or build our next computer, so I think that's the route I'll go. At least it's working now and it is FAST.
Been collecting parts for the car. Several things have shown up over the past few weeks. I now have an NOS Hornet emblem on the hood, side markers on it and a couple other little odds and ends in boxes. Not much work on the car this last couple weeks. Today I did get a lot done in the machine shop however. Finished cleanup on the block, cut the main caps and put the ARP studs in it. Got it all set up on the CNC Rottler and got it all dialed in to cut the line bore. Did that and then put it on the vertical fixture that squares off the line bore and squared the back of the block. Then set it back up horizontal and put the indexing fixture in the cam tunnel and squared it up lengthwise, then bored the cylinders on both banks. Then set it up for milling the deck and cut the deck to the figure I'd calculated on both banks. The neat thing about doing it on the CNC is that the bores are ABSOLUTELY straight to the crank, the deck surfaces are square end to end and side to side and are cut to exactly the same distance from the crank. The only issue is, the line bore is hard to set up and takes awhile, the block squaring is a pain, and programming setup for the bore is a bit intensive. Once it's all dialed in, it works great. Push the wrong number or forget to put a minus sign in front of a setup number, and you can trash a block. Kind of nerve wracking. All went well however, and I'm quite happy with how it's turning out. Then I put the block on the mill and drilled and tapped the rear gallery hole for extra oiling then put the block in the cyilnder hone. I was about burnt out on the block by then, so deburred and bead blasted the heads, cleaned them in the washer then set things up on the old Winona head machine. I cut the spring pockets to the same height and to 1.575 dia. to fit my 1.550 locators, cut the guides flush with the spring pockets, core drilled the guides larger then final reamed them to .500 exactly. Then I cut the rocker pedestals down, drilled the holes and tapped them for studs. Cleaned them off again and then pressed in the 11/32 bronze guides. The guides I'm using are set up with a step that locates the spring locators and use positive viton steel jacketed seals. So now the heads have a lot of the prep machine work done and the block needs a hone and the oil line fabricated. Good day today. Took me 8 hours, but I feel like I got quite a bit done. The plan is to have the short block together and the heads finished by the end of next weekend. I still need to put new exhaust seats in the heads before cutting a valve job in them, then I'll get to work on the porting. I'll be staying after work for a couple hours each day this week, then I'll put in whatever time I need to next weekend. I need to have this stuff ready to come home in a week. We won't be putting the motor together just yet, but there's a reason for the rush.
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Traveller
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Posted: Jul/16/2011 at 8:38pm |
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Worked on the heads a bit today. Shortened the bronze guides to flush with the casting, reamed the guides to .342 and then honed them to final size. Nice fit with the Ferrea valves. Put them on the seat and guide machine and installed new exhaust seats. I put in a set of seats that is the same O.D. as normally would be used to replace them, but the I.D. is smaller. That allowed me to set the valve job where I wanted it and then blend with a 75 degree bowl cut. I'm using a 1.625 exh. valve, so I wanted to set up the bowl to work properly. Went ahead and cut the intake seats for the 2.08 valves. Then I ported on one head to blend the bowls and a bit in the runners. Then I worked on one intake port to get it to the dimensions I wanted for the complete port. I roughed it all in with the carbide and smoothed it with the cartridge rolls. After going back and forth on the flow bench 3 times, I picked them up another 20 cfm over my initial try. They're flowing 267 @ .600 on our flow bench, which puts them just about 270 with the corrections. That's more than enough flow to make the power I wanted, so I'm stopping there. I'll use that port as a template for the other ports. Tomorrow we're going to go in and finish the hone on the block, mock up the crank, a couple rods, pistons and the cam, then I'll check deck height and degree the cam. Should be able to surface the heads and take it all apart to bring it back to the house.
I may or may not be working at the shop after tomorrow morning. I'm going to be giving my boss two weeks notice tomorrow, and if he's in a pissy mood (like lately) he'll probably just tell me to leave. If not, I'll be working there until the 29th. Machine shops just don't pay very well around here. I was making MUCH better money as a master auto tech, but I didn't want to go back to that since I trained to build race engines. Being that we like the area up here, we've decided to take our money and invest it in a business. My wife and I are buying a tool truck and have been approved for a Matco Tools territory. We'll be taking delivery of the truck on the 6th and starting the week after for an orientation of the route, then I go to Ohio for 10 days of training. I'll be back the 26th and start running the route the 29th. Looking forward to being an owner/operator again. So, the car is going to be worked on, but not much more money going towards it for 3 months or so until we decide how the business is going. I'll be picking up the transmission before the end of the month, I'll assemble the short block here at the house and the cylinder heads need to have the porting finshed then I'll assemble them here. I'll need to match up the intake and port on it a bit as well. Still need an oil pan, front cover, oil pump and some gaskets to put it all together. I'll have the motor together this fall as well as the transmission. We're still building the car, just taking a bit more time to do it with the employment change. Should be updating as things go together. Totally forgot to take pictures this afternoon, but I'll try to remember tomorrow.
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Marv
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Posted: Aug/05/2011 at 9:23pm |
Love that look, striping is great . They need to make that exact one !
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