I don't know, its all pretty easy to me... except for 80s vintage Honda carbs and A4LD Aerostar minivan transmissions... Hate those things.
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Originally posted by Thumpin455 View PostI don't know, its all pretty easy to me... except for 80s vintage Honda carbs and A4LD Aerostar minivan transmissions... Hate those things.
But it was Doug and Wayne. They took turns, who would hold the fort while the other guys in the shop went out to lunch. It was Wayne's turn that day, he was in the shop alone. He was underneath a VW microbus on a creeper trying to change the muffler. By all of their accounts that was the worst task in the world for any of them to do. Wayne busted his knuckles bloody and pushed himself out from underneath that microbus cussing a blue storm and threw the wrench all the way across the shop....(ya'll would have to hear Wayne tell it, specific profanity included)....and got a shop rag to slow down the bleeding. Still cussing and bleeding and cussing and cussing as loud as he could. Screaming mad. PISSED OFF and mad and bleeding.
He turned around and there was a lady standing there, no telling how long she'd been standing there, a new customer. Wayne said, "Can I HELP you M'am?"Charter member of the Turd Nuggets
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It's something I think about now and then...The Bug Shop. SOOOO many years ago. I paid those guys to work on my hotrod Bug, a 65, it was for the most part already built when I got it. 74 x 88, after I had Doug put the 48 IDA Weber carbs on it and a Gene Berg exhaust system on it, it would for sure run. It would pull the front wheels off of the ground.
But I missed a lot that should have learned. That Bug platform is easy to work on, you can see it, the parts are obvious, not like everything today. But I didn't. So that made for about about a 35 year gap in my experience wrenching, I was 18-19 years old at the time, I wasn't even interested in learning about wrenches, I just wanted to drive it.
And I wonder how Red and that Bug I had would stand up in a drag race. That Bug would pull Red out of the hole for about 100 feet while Red was spinning the tires but after that it would be all over. I'm "sure" of it. But I don't know. Ya know how the stuff you think you remember might not be exactly like it really was?Charter member of the Turd Nuggets
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Originally posted by Deaf Bob View PostYou sure? The next owner might have taken it there!
But you made me go looking. No, I can't find a Bug racing at Daytona, but here's one on another track. At over 2000 cc's, this one is gonna blow, it can't stay together for very long at all. You have to hollow the block to make those MUCH bigger pistons stay in it. But it's hell when it's well...sort of temporary hell raising.Me in my 1972 2054cc Volkswagen Beetle. In front are two Datsun Fairlady Roadsters. The black one is powered by a modern fuel injected SR20DE, the other is a...Last edited by pdub; August 6, 2017, 04:42 PM.Charter member of the Turd Nuggets
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Put a 396 into my '57 Bel Air long before anyone made a kit to do that. Or side motor mounts. Or mentioned that the firewall needed to be massaged a bit. I had the engine in & out at least twenty times before I lost my temper & grabbed a BFH to "massage" the firewall enough to get the needed clearance. That cost me the original cowl tag (broke the rivets) and I damaged the firewall throttle arm mount so badly that in a couple of years it was beyond repair & would no longer hold the throttle arm to the firewall. It split the firewall between the two bolt holes that held the throttle arm. All of that would have been about 1973. But in the end it probably saved the car. There were no universal throttle cable kits available in those days so the car got parked when I moved on to Harleys in 1975. Now it sits in my garage waiting for the GTO LS2 that sits beside it. And that is drive by wire....when you got a fast car, you think you've got everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpvfmSL6WkM
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