Finally back at it
I figured I would just add to this thread, then all who missed the first chapter could see from the beginning. Well I knew the car wasn't done. After driving the car I felt the brakes were not up to par and the steering floated too much. I also wanted to change the rear gear ratio. So fast forward 6 years (holy crap!) I started the upgrades this winter. First up my vacuum pump seized up and I couldn't get a new one because that model was discontinued so enter a brand new star machine billet pump and overflow can. Now I have to fab up new brackets and pulley system. As long as I need to do that I am adding a new type 2 pump with a slick jones racing fabricated reservoir coupled to a 12.7:1 670 steering gear. I am in the middle of trying to make all the new steering linkage fit around headers and oil pan. Most recently I ordered a speedway engineering grand national floater yesterday with 13×1.25 rotors from Ron Sutton. He is so great to work with and spent 25 minutes on the phone twice going over my options. Can't wait for that to get here. I'll post more pictures as the car progresses again. I hope this time it will be so fun to drive that it will keep me from tearing it apart.
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Chris
1969 Firebird: injected Pontiac 462ci, T56
Last edited by Tinker; 05-10-2016 at 05:52 PM.
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