Bamfster's Chevelle, the History & Coming Attractions ...

[TheSilverBuick]

My brakes are way over kill. 12" vented on the front, ~10" vented rotors on the rear. Doesn't take much. I'm running the stock V6 booster on it, which the V6 was a dog enough to have a tough time getting vacuum.

[SuperBuickGuy]

When I had the blower motor in the Buick, I ran a vacuum reserve cannister. Worked fine, it solved the following problem: The booster itself stores the vacuum until you need it, so if you're in stop and go traffic, it generally doesn't build up enough vacuum to use the brakes more than once (with boost) so if you get a vacuum reserve, you get twice, maybe even 3 times before you're back to manual brakes. Just my 2cents.

I can just hear what would have happened next if his friend had called the cops. Cops arrive, and say "Bamf, long time no see buddy, remember the time when {insert civil right violation here}" Bamf replies "good times, man good times," Cop looks at friend "so why did you call us" Friend explains situation. Cop says "I see there's dust on this box, you know that's a violation of __.__.__ subsection (2)?", Friend expresses amazement/concern. 1st cop gets out handcuffs, "we'll have to take you in", friend says "but I didn't know", Cop, "ignorance is no excuse buddy."

[Bamfster]

I can just hear what would have happened next if his friend had called the cops. Cops arrive, and say "Bamf, long time no see buddy, remember the time when {insert civil right violation here}" Bamf replies "good times, man good times," Cop looks at friend "so why did you call us" Friend explains situation. Cop says "I see there's dust on this box, you know that's a violation of __.__.__ subsection (2)?", Friend expresses amazement/concern. 1st cop gets out handcuffs, "we'll have to take you in", friend says "but I didn't know", Cop, "ignorance is no excuse buddy."

Isn't that the way it's supposed to work?

[Beagle]

You guys remind me of "The Big Chill" where the cop and Harold are discussing what to with Harold's buddy Nick, the yankee drug dealer. "What do you say we take him out back and kick the sh*t out of him"...

when I was wildly ripping all the power junk out of the Lincoln, I neglected to notice it has (had) what looks like a hydroboost unit. My theory is, if the car needs power brakes, it weighs too much. haha.

Did you pull the trigger on the vacuum pump or is it doing okay without it?

[Bamfster]

Beag's, after several months of driving it and a few thousand miles (hooked up speedo back in April ..... 3000+ miles as of today) it definitely needs a pump for anything more than 3 successive stops in a short period. It works pretty well as is, but can be better.

The flip side of the update .... I'm getting bored with the combo! I keep thinking new wheel and tire combo ..... maybe new paint ..... idk.

Definitely want to do away with the 'glass bucket seats and add something more comfy. It'll be getting heat barrier/sound deadener and tail pipes this fall to make the 4 hour drive thru the Rockies easier on the ears.

Throw some ideas out there guys .... should I pull my famous walk-away-from-it-for-a-few-months-and see where-I-go tactic? I've been thinking autoX or something where I don't hurry up and wait all day (bracket racing) .....

Let's hear it.

[Bamfster]

So I have the Bamf-mobile up in the air .... one of the fuel pumps has sprung a leak. Went over it trying to see what needs attention/maint./etc. Kinda put together a list, and with the "new-business-start-up-not-a-ton-of-money" blues, any upgrades or changes need to be extremely budget friendly. So in no particular order, here is the short list that will happen:

1. Swing-out side bars
2. re-seal all interior body/floor seems and add sound/heat barrier (lizard skin perhaps)
3. Tailpipes!
4. 3.73 gears

I'm still up in the air on the wheels, I love the look of steelie but the cost of another set of wheels and tires is outta reach right now .... New tires alone are doable, so do I add 60 series front and back on the welds? or paint the welds black? or

Hmmmm .....

[milner351]

Keep us posted!

I think the alston folks have swing out kits with nice hardware to make that change a lot easier and nicer.

Lizard skin is basically ceramic micro spheres mixed into paint.... check out this microspheres here:
http://www.epoxyproducts.com/2_fillers.html

for this kind of money:
1 quart - 0.28 microspheres - $7.00 (about 5.1 oz)

I would think even if we mixed in the whole quart to maybe half a gallon of paint - to paint the floors - we'd end up with a good substitute for lizard skin for way way way cheaper.

I wouldn't paint the welds - look into the hubcap over lug nut idea to change the look if you want - painting or powder coating is sort of permanent... hard to "undo" without a lot of effort

[Bamfster]

These may be doable ...



But this would be cheaper .... I know I know. Not concerned with undoing to be honest ....



Throw some ideas on making a way to attach a dog dish over the welds ... The pic Squirrel got me says that the will cover the holes ...

[R442]

You could spray your Welds with black plastic dip. It's easy to do and easy to remove if you dont like it. My brother did the Centerlines on his Camaro and they turned out great.

[Bamfster]

You could spray your Welds with black plastic dip. It's easy to do and easy to remove if you dont like it. My brother did the Centerlines on his Camaro and they turned out great.

Yea, i've been thinking about that. I've heard that the plastidip washes of fairly easy w/a pressure washer tho