A year later.

Well these are fantastic,.. until their not.
So back to the Rubber Coated Aluminum.

Couldn't leave it alone. Thought I ought check the plugs for tune, and they were white as a paper plate. Figured I best go up in in jet sizes. 2020-06-01 Holley jet change.jpg Changed jets, and fought hand to hand with Mr. Gasket. We seemed to disagree on how well a fuel line should seal. I will say...

Fog horn leg horn.jpg Installing the .031 seemed to do the trick. 2020-05-31 Squirter change.jpg May order a .035 for the rear, or go to and orange pump cam. For now it feels more confidence inspiring. I'll call it satisfactory for then interim. Time to migrate to other project needs like a new fan...

The other day I put the new pump diaphragm in and all is leak free with that. So yesterday I took some time and went out to the 1st Annual Mid America Dragway Swap Meet. 2020-05-30 1st annual MAD Swap Meet.jpg Which was a lot of entertainment for 5 bucks. Had a good time and scored a few items of in...

Well don't that beat all.
The local O'Reilly sold out of Holley accelerator pump diaphragms over the weekend.
Word is this weekends Mid America Dragway opening led to a rush on all the little nick-nacks.

Guess I wasn't the only one with a dried out accelerator pump.

So off to scrounge some more/

So in comes Holley: I dragged out an old 4776 double pumper. No rebuild for this trial run. Just pulled it off a dusty shelf at let fly. (question how the molted snake skin got there next to it) Awe heck it'll be alright. I was going to install it at some point anyway, but the Eldebrock was there a...

Sad news for the Eldebrock Performer. After dorkin' with the timing, mixture screws, ported vacuum, manifold vacuum, no vacuum. compressed air blow of the idle circuit, and checkin this and that. I had the thought maybe my vacuum is not enough to keep the metering rod step up springs in the down pos...

Today was readjusting carburetor and checking timing along with the adjustments. As the two go hand in hand. There are of course many other things I want to try toying with, but had other non-car culture things to do. So delayed that for now. But I will say the idle is no longer up and down. So a su...

ok today it was installing "a little less" goober fuel system. The one I had ran rubber from the pump to the filter, the filter to the carburetor, and was playing hell with the idle adjustment since Edelbrock performers carburetors with their tiny floats don't handle 6 psi- 8 psi of fuel pressure li...

Well, with the steering box done it really brought out the full frontal nazzy-ness of the old factory wheel. One cannot have an ol' gran-ma wheel between driver and machine, regardless of the rest of the machines condition. The steering wheel is one of the prime bonding points between the two. I mea...