Mr. Brownstone - 69 PT Camaro

[flashlight holder]

I had a few questions for you mainly for my own feedback.

How is the over-ride fan switch working for you. Do you have to use it?

How is the engine temperature in traffic.

Did the remote air ride controller get hooked up?

I'm glad you finally got your car back home. I'm sure the neighbors love ya when you fire it up...LOL

I know when I came home last week and fired up my blower truck after 13 years of hibernation, My neighbor came right on over and said...."I remembered that sound and thought to myself....Nah ....couldn't be".

[Richio1]

Hey Joe - good to hear from you. Thanks for all your hard work on it. I appreciate it.

Was up at the shop today. She isn't home just yet. A few things to wrap up on the punch list up so it should be home next week after the Cloverdale show this weekend. Just got 2 new front regulators today. Couldn't get the cranks on the old ones so those have to go in along with a few other little things.

I got to take her out for a rip this afternoon though and bang some gears. Gotta love blasting the AC when its 90* out. Its a must have in these old cars. She is running great. Chris put in another new set of valve springs so she winds right up to 6500 before the MSD rev limiter kicks in with no problem. The first two sets were too light. She sure sounds sick at 6000 RPM with those Borlas.

The fan override is great. Dont have to use it but it is good to have just in case. Chris put a new temp sending unit in last weekend and that corrected the misreading on the temp gauge. After ripping around today for a good 15 minutes with the AC on she was at 195*.

Chris drove it to Pleasanton and sat in traffic on 101 and 680 with no problems... except for pissing off a few Prius and Volvo owners

The Air ride remote is still out. Seems that was the problem with the controller crashing. When the controller and ECU were sent back they upgraded the software so it wasnt working with the prior version remote control module. I will contact RideTech and see what they will do. They now have an iPhone app so I may just go with that instead.

Glad to hear you got your old truck running again.

From today:

[flashlight holder]

Your Very Welcome. It was a battle coming in to correct all the previous mechanics work.

I believe you will need the quarter window regulators as well since none of the window cranks would attach to any of the regulators.

The springs you are talking about are the Mechanical advance springs for the MSD Distributor.

I'm glad to hear you will have your car back soon.

I know your car and Bloodline very well. Wish I could have finished that one up as well but it has months and months of work on it before its done.

Take Care,

Joe

P.S. I may be at the cloverdale show

[John510]

Originally Posted by flashlight holder

I know your car and Bloodline very well. Wish I could have finished that one up as well but it has months and months of work on it before its done.

My car still has many months of work left? They told me they can get it done in 2 weeks? Is there more to my car besides the wiring it needs?

[flashlight holder]

I say give the shop a chance to deliver your car in two week. I couldn't nor would I give you that promise. It would take me several months.

I hope all goes well. You deserve to be driving that awesome machine.

Joe

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by Richio1

From today:

Bad ass shot.

[flashlight holder]

Hi,

Just wondering how you did at the Cloverdale Show.

I got a late call friday evening to run up to ALL IN ONE CUSTOMS which is across from West Coast and fix a $7,500 air ride system on a 64 Impala so the guy could cruise the parade. It was too funny. Another shop in Sacramento did the Air Ride install and they did some awesome work but failed to show the owner where the reset button was on the circuit breaker and how to reset it when it pops...LOL Oh it popped like designed. I told the guy you can't be dropping and raising the car 20 times and have 4 compressors running and not trip the breaker. Plus I had to point out his charging system is in need of a Power Master Alternator and another battery if he plans to play like that

I didn't see your car in the parade. I had a blast switching from riding in his 64 to riding in his 70 SS Chevelle. We left a lot of rubber up and down the main drag in that car...LOL

Two weeks ago I pulled a motor out of one of his chevelle's with a BDS 8-71 blower and he is hiring me to detune it and stuff it in one of his 64 Impala's...that's gonna be fun! After talking with BDS and picking a pulley with more teeth his poor motor lost over 150 hp and will now only be producing in the mid 700 Hp range. This is gonna be a fun project for me.

Funny story about that parade. The owner of the shop kept saying "hey that's my 69 Chevy truck"....point to a sweet baby blue 3/4 ton truck dropped and smoothed all out. I just let him talk and on the way back again he kept on so I finally starting busting up laughing and said..."Dude, I built that truck last year at my shop before moving up here"....Total Silence for the next few blocks.

Anyway, I hope you were at the show Saturday and finally able to drive your car home.

Joe

[Richio1]

I didn't make it up there - had kids sports all Sat. but Chris had it there. Funny story. Thats on of the best parts of the shows is listening to all the BS talk going on.

We picked this up though.

[WestCoastAutoCraft]

It was a good Cloverdale show. We swept the Camaro Class and won the Top Four award with a 37 Chevy street rod we built.

Jeff's silver car took first and another Camaro we built Bruce Kunkle's "Golden Girl" took second. We received a lot of great feedback about Jeff's car. It is a crowd favorite. I have really enjoyed building it. So many custom things were done to it (both large and small). I love the unassuming simpleness to it at first glance, but if you know Camaros you can really see how much it has been modified with a keen eye. I have put exactly 600 miles on it to date. I think I have shaken every gremlin out of her and made the corrections. The car is so much fun to drive, it is low, very loud, and fast. Blasting down a windy road is reminiscent to a Penske Sunoco Camaro I was hired to drive for two seasons in a historical race series. Now unfortunately I have ran out of excuses to keep it. It is time to send it home.

"It is so choice, if you have the means I highly recommend picking one up" ~FB

[flashlight holder]

oh yeah....more awards for your collection

How was your drive home....I bet it was really nice cruising down 101.

The Good Ole B.S. I love it actually...people over their especially seen to be out spoken in what they think they know. I just sit back and listen to them talk and catch them in their lies and just smile.

You enjoy that car and I hope you have years and years of trouble free driving...well except for tires, brakes and clutch replacements