Greg,

As an original hot-rodder myself with my father, I have to say that I love what you've done! Beautiful Deuce!!! Enjoy the new toy...

Looks awesome. Congrats

Gotta be proud of that Greg! Very nice

A nice sunny day out today and you couldn't take any pictures outside??
Pictures in the building and inside the trailer.:wow:

Greg, you are a technological pile of dung. :lol:

I record in the upside setting because that's how my roll bar mount holds it and then I just convert it with my video convertor (free, and recommended by GoPro on their support website page for this -- called Streamclip). It's pretty slick and easy to use.

http://gopro.com/support/rotate-stream-clip/

Let me know if I can help! :cheers:

Greg- The rake is perfect, the car looks awesome- Nice job :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Rich

Ah, it could only have been! Same color my deuce was. Thanks!

Looking good that will for sure be a fun ride for you

Overall beautiful execution of the car. I would like to see a picture of the rear. The exhaust looks sweet! The wheels really compliment the car, too. We need better pictures.:thumbsup:

Car came out nice Greg. Are you going to the June Pleasanton show with it?

Very, very nice Greg. You have a killer ride there. Gotta love the color scheme. Glad you finally have it in your hands. ENJOY!:cheers:

Love it Greg! Great balance of everything!
BTW, I have room to store it in my garage.....just sayin'! ;)

Greg,

Car came out great! All the little things make a world of a difference!

cant wait to see some pictures under the sun~ :thumbsup:

Looking good, ...Street Rods are the sh*t :hail:

Wow --- so many responses! Thanks to all that have expressed their undying love for my new 'toy'.... I can tell you that after the initial drive --- I like it more than I even thought I would! It sounds GREAT! It drives great... The IRS/IFS was a good call! The Tremec 5 speed shifts like butter. I might flip the quick change gears to the 4.30 position.... With the tall tires - I spent a lot of time in 3rd gear.

I'm on the road to Santa Barbara.... I'm pooped after a 12 hour trailer haul.

Tomorrow we'll be in Santa Barbara --- going via San Luis Obispo and maybe a stop in Monterey.... Then I PROMISE I will take proper shots of the car and post them.

Picking the car up was the usual CF.... a couple of tweaks needed after a short drive... and running later than I had planned. I needed to get to my mother in laws - whom I love dearly (she's 85) and take her out to dinner etc.... so pictures just weren't "important".

I will get 'er done!

I am a dung pile and you know it!


Thanks for the link -- I'll look at it and see if that helps me out. I use Mac's so some of this stuff isn't "supported" in the OSx format.... but will check it out.

Skip --


The driving position is perfect for me! I'm short (and fat) being both 5'5" long and about that in diameter.... short arms... short legs... short memory... and hold the jokes about short... you bunch of losers...

It has a tilt wheel which helps get in and out -- and puts the wheel where it belongs. SAR repositioned the pedals and got 'em PERFECT! The shifter falls to hand exactly where it belongs. I love it. The cup holders might need some "tweaking"... but that's hardly important.

So you likely use quicktime perhaps? if neither of those, I am no help! :lol:

http://gopro.com/support/rotate-quicktime-pro/

gitter dun -- enjoy the car every minute man! :thumbsup:

Ditto what everyone else said, the car looks awesome! Seeing you wrap it up is almost bittersweet for me though because the "journey" inspired me to actually do some work on my own. ;) Tug it to Columbus now, and take me for a ride to help me stay on track! :lol:

Got into Santa Barbara tonight and brought the POS out of the darkness and into the light... :lol: These are shots still only taken with my iPhone.. the battery is charging now for the "big" camera.




http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/IMG_0889.jpg


http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/IMG_0890.jpg


http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/IMG_0897.jpg

http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/IMG_0889.jpg

What a change...The below looks so dated compared to the above
http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/a...2fordred01.gif

Great job :thumbsup:

Damn, Greggers... I'm not even into rods but that shiat looks fantastic! I wanna hear that thing! :thumbsup:

Greg,

Wow!

Very cohesive design. :thumbsup:

I really like those pics...you got some shade.

I'm especially starin' at the exhaust and how Lupé tucked it. ;)

Greg,

That is absolutely stunning buddy! Very well thought out and executed. Now drive it like you stole it! :thumbsup:

beautiful car Greg. :cheers:

Looking good u lucky bastard :hail:

Looks good Greg! Let me know if you need anything in Santa Barbara, I live downtown. See you on Sunday!

David

love the change! looks very good

X100:drool: :drool:

nice job Greg..when do I get my first ride in a hi-boy?

Well -- Santa Barbara is a beautiful town! I love it here! We had a nice day of cruising down "old town" if that's what they call it - and just generally scoping things out. The car was running like crap... so ended up doing a big of the ol' parking lot re-do... coil wires from the MSD where bundled with the EFI wires - SUPER BIG NO NO.... so got that straightened out. Having a trailer is where that pays off... nice big box full o' tools... wire... etc. Then the injectors are LS7 versions - rated at 58 #'s (39# injectors - but MOST injectors are rated at 43#'s).... so that's where they were set.... Poor thing was PIG FAT.... so dropped that down to 50#'s and runs FAR FAR better....

The rear end is puking gear grease on my fancy dandy exhaust --- and that will just have to wait for a better time to fix it. SAR can handle that when I get back north.

The one thing I want to say -- this car DRIVES fantastic! As in 90 MPH on the freeway is like driving my big four door... well not quite... but it drives GREAT. I lowered the tire pressure to 25#'s all around and that really made it handle so much better... but the suspension is terrific in this car. I'm very very impressed with that. My buddies '32 with the dropped straight axle is a lane hopper. And it's rough... and wanders. Not because it's loose steering but because it's axle etc is all over the place. (The '32 I down here with is different than the one I say drives like crap... this one I'm with is a "Great 8" car -- all torsion bar suspension and a Northstar motor - and it's SWEET).

:thumbsup:

Jody -- I've got to run the rack in the AM... nothing better than cup of coffee - beach air - sunshine - and motor oil while adjusting valves. I think they're too tight having been adjusted one full turn -- I'm going to back them off and do 'em all at half a turn. Long story - but I think this might help. They're hydraulic rollers.

Wait... if you have the lakester sidepipes, how come you've got a central pipe?

Greg, That '32 is freakin' awesome! An average person might not think it, but looking at the before and after pictures is night and day difference in the transformation. I would love to own a rod like that. :thumbsup:

That obviously is huge....congrats on that. :thumbsup:

I don't how they did it, but the exhaust has got that nice Ford tone.

:P

that looks
AWESOME!!!!

Cant wait to cruise at Puyallup SP
now i think i need to bring the 33 down the 2 would look wicked together

Greg,

See you tomorrow at the show!


--Eric

Not if it's raining buddy! If we go - which means we're getting up and leaving the hotel at 6 AM IF it's not spritzin.... if it's spritzin' we'll decide if we all want to pile into my Nomad and just take it --- and if it's really raining - we're heading to VEGAS.....

The car drives great - but I have many other stories to tell when this saga plays out. This morning at 6 AM I adjusted the valves out in the IHOP parking lot... I have intermittent brake lights - I can't get into the trunk half the time - I have water leaks - I have gear grease puking onto the fancy friggin' exhaust... sometimes it starts - sometimes not. I've had to have it towed off HWY 101 (thanks for AAA) and back to the trailer parking so I could repair the wire that came off (terminal broke off because the wire was too tight) the alternator... and I've had to rewire the MSD and get that wiring all away from the ECU bundle. Funny -- I told SAR -- "DO NOT" place the MSD anywhere near the ECU. Great! They put the ECU under the dash - and the MSD under the seat... fine.... then they BUNDLED all the wiring in one loom. The car wouldn't run - it crapped and backfired and did all manor of ill mannered things. NOTE TO FUTURE EFI PEOPLE.... DO NOT RUN THE COIL LEADS FROM THE MSD ANYWHERE NEAR THE ECU OR IT'S WIRING!! How stupid.... Why would you relocate the brain boxes only to bundle their associated wiring.

I now know why I have a shop in my own backyard... because (sorry "pros") most of the supposed "shops" don't know diddly about nuttin'!

Can you tell I'm pissed? :woot:

I'm a greaser - not a waxer.... all the fancy chrome in the world doesn't mean squat to me if the car is dead on the side of the road! Take your chrome and shove it! Give me a dead solid reliable car any day. My Nomad has far more extensive electronics and systems in it - I did it ALL myself - and thank god - because it's down here (brother in law drug it down) and it's been the parts chase car... and the come get me off the freeway car... and it starts - drives great - runs better - the brake lights work - the headlights work... it doesn't rattle... and I'd drive the POS to NYC and back tomorrow. It was BUILT RIGHT! Attention to "circuits" in electricity - grounds - and +'s are EQUALLY important... Don't even get me started about the nightmare wiring in the '32 that was just "done" and then "Re-done" because I bitched about what I saw. Guess what... I'm not sure they'll get the chance to re-do the re-do.

It sounds one hell of a lot better now that I ran the rack on it.... I picked up a sound in the exhaust note (don't ask me how I hear it - it's just "experience" I guess) that said valve adjustment....

Ran the rack this morning --- the note is "solid" now... without the "backwash" hiccups I picked up on. :willy: :willy: :woot: