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• General, Old Car Adventures

  Great news!

  07.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Found the stud - it was just chilling in one of the secondaries.
  Pulled the valve cover and maybe fixed the leak, hard to tell just yet. My #8 intake rocker had popped off again so I set the #8 at TDC and reset the lash. Took it for a drive and it seemed [...]

• Cars, Old Car Adventures

  Good news and potentially bad news?

  07.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  First the good news. I started up the ‘95 today (sans blower belt) and it ran AWESOME. Not too shabby considering that it was my first stab at a tune with the new mass air meter and the 2x bigger injectors. Oh yeah and it’s pulling air through a stationary blower.
  Datalog looked good, idled great. [...]

• Cars, General, Oh Baby!, Old Car Adventures

  Pretty dang busy if you ask me

  06.26.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Well the latest that is going on with me is this… a LOT.
  Kayla has really been growing leaps and bounds. She’s learning all sorts of new tricks, including how to go straight to sleep when put to bed at bedtime and how to giggle at me.
  The ‘72 Mach 1 is alive and well - I [...]

• Cars, Old Car Adventures

  Dirty picture…

  04.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  
  

• Cars, Old Car Adventures

  Off my rocker…

  04.16.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Somewhat distrubing news in the Mach 1 department, but there is a happy ending I think. My #7 and #8 intake rockers were too loose and they were causing the knocking noise I was hearing. Sucks, eh?
  I took the car for a drive (while it was knocking) and after a while it stopped… and my [...]

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