1971 Firebird Build ("The Other Woman", a.k.a. Project "T.O.W.") - Page 53 - Lateral-g Forums

chichirone · #**521** 09-19-2015, 07:00 AM

Good progress Bryan. I could stare at the engine pic for hours. (Good pic or not...

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The Holley EFI rails look great. I would love to paint the MSD rails on KLRBRD just like yours. What TBI are you using...I have an assumption of the Holley part but...you know what happens when you assume. I would rather make it clear to you I'm an a$$ by asking a dumb question!

**andrewb70** · #**522** 09-19-2015, 08:48 AM

Looks like an Accel throttle body.

Andrew

**waynieZ** · #**523** 09-19-2015, 09:23 AM

It looks good, you have a lot of nice parts going in there. I like how you did the rear sway bar. Nice work.

carbuff · #**524** 09-19-2015, 09:48 AM

I have a Frankenstein intake setup. The manifold is from Edelbrock, the fuel rails are now from Holley, and the TB is from Accel.

As best I can tell, Accel does make/sell the same one anymore for some reason. I've been really happy with it. I chose it because it was shortest one I could find (someone here or at PT.com recommended it to me), and hood clearance was at a premium.

Eric and I are going to replace the factory seal with something shorter, which is giving me more clearance. I'm taking advantage of that to add yet another piece to the Frankenstein intake setup: a Moroso carb spacer.

I put a 1/2" one on this week (after a little grinding to open it up).

carbuff · #**525** 09-19-2015, 10:05 AM

Eric has everything ready to go to powder coating. He ground down the welds on the axle housing as we had a few small leaks and rewelded them. We also had to remake the Watt's link bars and the LCAs. Hopefully the PC process will go quickly, as we're under 2 weeks now to departure! :\

**glassman** · #**526** 09-20-2015, 09:14 AM

Nice work!! photos showed up the other day on my desktop, but i cant view them now from my ipad (of the latest).

I'm rewireing and heads n cam and new accessorie drive on mine as we type.

Fun to play with legos in the garage huh? or is your car still at Erics?

Whens your new test run? (didnt see your last sentence)

rat_rod_russell · #**527** 09-20-2015, 04:03 PM

If you want to bring them down to Luling I can turn them around in 48 hours if you just want them black.

-Russell

carbuff · #**528** 09-23-2015, 11:01 AM

Russell,

Thanx for the offer, I do appreciate it, but Eric has dropped them off at the local guy. And we are doing 2 different colors on the different pieces also. :\ You aren't that far from me though, so I'll keep this in mind for the future for sure!

So this is where the car sits as of last night:

7 days to departure. Yikes!

Here is a shot of the brackets Eric made all welded into place...

Cleanup, seam seal, and paint coming shortly.

Here is a shot of the adjustable Watt's bellcrank mount which Ron Sutton sells. Eric had some fun cutting the crossmember and wedging this into place yesterday.

Part are scheduled to be ready from PC on Thursday (fingers crossed), so we have a long weekend ahead. I reassembled the GA3's last night after having the centers recoated, it takes a long time to install and torque 30 bolts per wheel! I have a little bit of electrical work to do on the engine, then install all of the suspension components, hope that we're not missing anything, and also hope that the engine fires up ok! Fun weekend ahead.

rat_rod_russell · #**529** 09-23-2015, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by carbuff

Russell,

Thanx for the offer, I do appreciate it, but Eric has dropped them off at the local guy. And we are doing 2 different colors on the different pieces also. :\ You aren't that far from me though, so I'll keep this in mind for the future for sure!

No worries, The PT crowd in the central Texas area is small so I like to help where I can and I'm sure the drive to Luling wouldn't make it worth the price for future powder coating. I've just worked under the gun before on a project like this and you still have to do some shake down and tweaking to be competitive before you can leave on top the rest of the work you need to do. So I figured I'd offer to speed things up a little, my appartment is in the shop so I can do stuff like that. But I don't stock a lot of colors so that would have blow the time line right out of the water anyways.

I stock various press in AN fittings and hoses as well as rod ends and a few other things I don't normally offer to the general public. If you get in a pinch in the middle of the weekend or even late at night just google the Nerd Rods number and call or text me on it, I'll help if I can.

Good luck!
-Russell

carbuff · #**530** 09-23-2015, 03:32 PM

That is good to know. No telling how many times I've paid the overnight fee to Summit for parts like that. And this weekend will be a thrash! Hopefully I've gotten through all of the plumbing, but we will have to remake the brake lines. Little things that take a lot of time!

As for the time shake down, that will likely happen on I-35N on Wednesday unfortunately! There is a Spokes event on Saturday, but I won't make that... Heck, I probably won't even get on a dyno before Wednesday. Thankfully the Holley HP EFI is good at self-tuning and my map shouldn't need to change much. I'll be able to do some idle tuning myself before I go.