Build Thread 1978 Mercury Cyclone. The pig is in the pen.

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CarMichael Angelo said:
When I finally make Gulfport, I'm 319 miles in the bag. To get to the venue requires that you deal with rush hour traffic....that means that after driving for 5 hours,...I gotta sit in stop and go traffic...with a car that wants to get hot for no apparent reason.

Traffic bumps the temp up to 220...but it holds. As soon as I move, it moves. At the next light, it goes right back up..but again it holds...I stop looking at it.
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Is it set to increase RPMs at idle above some threshold temp?

I hope you can relax and have fun.

Dan
 
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What a place!
Now, with two trips to Mustang week behind me, and this one halfway through, I just gotta say....

This thing kills MW.

Muscle cars are the prevalent category, followed by 50's Stuff, street rods through the 30's, and 40's, pick ups, rat rods, crazy junk, and late models.
All scattered across a 100 mile stretch of gulf coast Mississippi.

The drives are beautiful, most of the parking venues are under the branches of 200 year old Spanish oak trees,.with a breese coming off of the gulf that is only a couple of hundred yards to the south..But the cars.....you will never see such a giant diverse selection of American iron in any one place in the country...period.
Thousands of them..even the super rare..
( like 1969 428KR Shelby vert super rare, 1970 Buick GSx Super rare)
The Monster is in his element...he fits in perfectly, unlike MW, where the car is a fish out of water. I'm continually hearing things like " it's been a long time since I've seen one of those", or "Out of everything else down here, this is the first one of these I've seen" ( Could the Monster join the ranks of the "Super rare")?:cautious:.
I'm trying to decide which night will be my "Stupid Night" where I go out and test how much sense it makes to beat a car that's 330 miles from home...;)

This was written yesterday after choosing NOT to go out with the car...i was hot after being outside all day, and I just wanted to cool out...that requires drinking.

And since I'm staying in a casino, free drinking I might add.

And, free drinks, and a long hot day do not make for a wise choice when high horsepower is involved.

Ill make a concerted effort to capture some pics today...after I'm tired of talking about the Australian headed noisy sewing machine that lives in the Monster.
( and...as many times as I gotten asked..i do get tired of it...( like literally tired of talking tired)
 
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General karthief said:
When I called it a girl with an accent said she needed help converting her inheritance into american dollars.
send her $389 on a itunes gift card and she would split 3.5 million dollars with me. :banana:
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No no no no no....she told me that! I aint splittin that 3.5million with you too. I sent her $411 in iTunes cards. Or was it a Western Union Moneygram?
 
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@CarMichael Angelo I think in spite of being tired of talking, it's not the Monster, it's YOU in the element! It sounds like you are somewhere where people appreciate the build skills that went into the Monster and don't look at you first like you destroyed a Mustang, but rather you created a rather odd, unique, noisy, tire frying American hot rod! In other words, you're mostly among friends!
 
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I think I'm done....maybe I'll attempt a cruise, but at present, the traffic going east is bumper to bumper, and creeping.
Craig ( Stangboy) is sitting along the east bound lane with some friends, but since I'm going the other way,.... all I could do is honk. Which is a shame, cause......
( He needed to hear the wheeze)
Ill do my "exit update" tonight.
 
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@CarMichael Angelo I think in spite of being tired of talking, it's not the Monster, it's YOU in the element! It sounds like you are somewhere where people appreciate the build skills that went into the Monster and don't look at you first like you destroyed a Mustang, but rather you created a rather odd, unique, noisy, tire frying American hot rod! In other words, you're mostly among friends!
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I'm sitting here at the bar, and I turn to Kate and say...( after some reservations)...
"Did I really do something special here with this car, or is it just because these people are all unfamiliar with what they're looking at?"
She sat in a chair next to the car this afternoon, while I feilded question after question, comment, after comment...mostly about the same sht, mostly from the average Joe, who didn't even know what a Fairmont was.
But all of it collectively positive, with people telling me stuff like " this is the best engine here," " This is the most unique", "rare", " amazing", blah-blah-blah.
Even when compared to 50k billet laden LS themed powerplants in 100k+ cars

I'm kinda farklempt..

"Did I do something special here?" I ask her?

" Of course you did, she says...the people making those comments have already seen those shiny, mega dollar cars....your car speaks to people because you did it yourself"

I'm really proud tonight.
 
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I should go into the casino, and gamble tonight....because with my luck, I'd strike it rich.

I finally meet up with Craig, and we decide to go out west of town to play around. Craig says that once we get past civilization, it's all pretty much no man's land.
I tell him I want him to hear my freaking loud turbo anyway, so we decide to take a drive.
The problem is.......( I got no clue where civilization ends...it all seems pretty dark in front of us.) We're both at a light, and I roll into the throttle it comes into boost, I mat the gas, he mats the gas,...were racing.

Right in front of the local Gulfport PD.
Let me say that again...
We're drag racing in front of cops.

Oh we get pulled over instantly...the officer that comes to my window wants the cursory license and ins...reads me the riot act, and tells me that I should pay more attention if I'm gonna drag race in front of the police...im speechless...

I tell him my ins is on my phone, and he tells me that he's sure that I have insurance..he tells me to wait right here......

Then he comes back, hands me my license, and tells me to get the hell out of here, tells me that the car is awesome, and adds that I had the other guy.

( Craig sees things differently)

Turns out, Craig knows this cop. They grew up together..and the fact that he's a firefighter buys him a "on the job" get out of jail free card.

We both get away with out even a slap...and this could've been so bad.

How freakin lucky can you get?
 
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"Ok, dispatch, I just pulled over a turbo charged 400+HP 1978 Fairmont with a bad-ass 6 cylinder for speeding"

"unit 4456 return to district for medical check. You must be hallucinating. There is no such thing as a fast Fairmont."

Good job! Back in your glory...you deserve it!
 
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