1:45pm Monday, Oct 24 2005...........

[65ShelbyClone]

..........after a huge expenditure of time, effort, money, blood, and profanity, I started my car for the first time .

The carb was some POS corroded Holley I bought under a deceptive description on ebay. I rebuilt it myself and didnt touch a single adjustment. I just threw the distributor in and knew the rotor was somewhere around #1 terminal. I clicked the key on, ran the pump for a second, turned another click, and it actually started and not just ran, but idled! It was a high idle, but it turnes out I (by luck) hit around 18* advance, so I backed it off, adjusted the primary float, and now its down around 600-700 Can you tell I'm happy? It hasnt run since about 1998, and I bought it in April. Open headers sound pretty intimidating too . Oh yeah, aluminum flywheel...

I have a sound file, but finding a free host is an SOB. I'll try to get a better one tomorrow with an official mic.

 

[limey66]

Oh baby, I'm hoping that'll be me this Sunday - I bought the car over four years ago, and finally I'm ready to turn the key...am I excited?

Looking forward to hearing your sound file...

 

[65ShelbyClone]

Hope you get yours running soon also. 10secgoal just got his back up an going again as well. We're on a role in here!

Mine's not without its teething problems, though. I found out that my SCE one-piece "reusable" pan gasket is in fact not reusable. In other words, its leaking oil from the back of the pan. I also have a small water leak from the lower rad hose where it meets the pump.

I suppose I could email the file out, but for the potential number of requests I need a host.

 

[HistoricMustang]

Good Stuff. Congrats are due..................

HistoricMustang
www.historicmustang.com

 

[68 Coop]

Congrads Men, you must be as proud as new papa's.

 

[steel1212]

Have you tried streetfire.net? Congrats!

 

[rhyno9]

I have a sound file, but finding a free host is an SOB. I'll try to get a better one tomorrow with an official mic.

I believe putfile.com would host it for free but they may only do video.

 

[94CobraPace]

Congrats on getting it started & running. It is a good feeling to get one started after a rebuild or long hyatius.
I know the feeling, I just got the 69 Mach I started & running after a rebuild. Feels good...

 

[69Rcode_Mach1]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I am in the same boat my friend. It has been a year since I have driven the car. I have started my car but it will not run for **** because of certain issues. I got my money back from that guy that screwed me with that carb, and have a brand new oil pump and carb on the way. Hopefully this weekend I will get it timed and ready to go so I can actually here it run and then next week I get to DRIVE IT!!!!!!!

 

[65ShelbyClone]

Thanks everyone.

I got a wild hair today after changing the pan gasket and decided to take it for a spin down the road. I found out that the carb needs alot of tuning and that it doesnt make the bottom end torque it did when installed in my '89 GT(EFI and stock intake). Combine that with the flywheel and 3.00 gears and takeoffs need some finesse. Despite all that and not even having front or rear shocks, I got it to clear out and gave it some heavy foot. Holy hell, this thing is fast! Faster than my GT was, and it ran right! The front pitched up, the back squatted down, and.....damn. Then I put in some KYBs and no more Uncle Buck ride.

I bet the neighbors hate me....

 

[Edbert]

You are driving it around your neighborhood with open headers?

!!!!!

 

[10secgoal]

You are driving it around your neighborhood with open headers?

!!!!!

Haha that's not that bad. I used to come home and fire mine open header at 2 am in the morning after a drive back from the track. Had to get it off the trailer and put it in the garage. But I hated my neighbors.
Outstanding man. All you have to do is hear it right ? Driving is better. But just hearing it changes the motivation. And the teething time sucks. How long does it take to drain 8 qrts of tranny fluid thru a cooling line. A:1/8 mile.

 

[65ShelbyClone]

You are driving it around your neighborhood with open headers?

!!!!!

Like I said, they probably hate me. I'm with 10secgoal, though; I hate alot of them too. One has been building a wannabe Beverly Hills house out here in the sticks.....for the last 8 years. He has all the loudest contruction done on weekends. Opposite of him is a yuppie wannabe cattle rancher. He gets new batches of roping cows in and they moo and call 24 hrs for a week on top of his weekend tractor work. I figure its only fair that I test drive my car as late at night as possible and with as much WOT as possible(all that is half of why I'm putting cutouts in my exhaust; so I can be quiet until I get in front of their houses ).

Uh yeah, I found part of the reason why it was bucking and leaning out off idle: the primary float was WAY too low. Also, does anyone think a 65 primary jet is too small for my setup? I had 65s-66s in a 600 pumper on my old stock-headed 289 and it was about right/borderline small(more airlfow now). Should I start tuning with a 68?

 

[10secgoal]

If it's stil the 600, 68 would be a decent start.

 

[x73mach1x]

congrats on the start up... i just started my engine rebuild so i got a long time before i hear mine... but other than that its good to hear so many people finishing up some projects around here it helps keep the rest of us looking at the big picture...

 

[65ShelbyClone]

If it's stil the 600, 68 would be a decent start.

I was just using the 600 as a comparison; now I have a 650 pumper with 65p/76s.

congrats on the start up... i just started my engine rebuild so i got a long time before i hear mine... but other than that its good to hear so many people finishing up some projects around here it helps keep the rest of us looking at the big picture...

Thanks. Its weird how so many are getting their cars up and running all of a sudden. I was doing the big push before winter. Maybe everyone else is too.

I got tired of all this talk without offering something, so try this:

Mustang audio

 

[69Rcode_Mach1]

That car sounds nice in that sound clip. Congrats! I am also going for the big push before winter.

 

[x73mach1x]

i agree sounds real good... nice tone..do you have hooker headers on that like it says in your sing..???

 

[65ShelbyClone]

Yup. Everything in my sig is now on the car. I had to hammer on the driver side header in three places to make it fit around everything, though.

 

[D.Hearne]

Only thing better than starting it up for the first time with open headers, is doing so at 2 a.m. , in the middle of a small town, with a house full of recent Vietnamese immigrants living next door. That was the scenario when I fired up my 427 in my old 67 Stang twenty something years ago. Or you fire it in the garage and stuff starts falling off shelves from the vibrations:SNSign: while you've got a bunch a teenage boys watching , who are experiencing this stuff for the first time