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

CarMichael Angelo said:

Ok...I'm back.

The orange 90 isn't long for the world...ill end up replacing that thing with black...( despite the fact that I have 3 of these damn orange 90's)
Obviously, I chose not to wrap any of the hot side..it will be a pain in the ass.
Left to do:
I gotta splice the fpr back into the vacuum/boost system so the it'll start adding fuel under boost. I have to plumb in oil feed and oil drain lines... I gotta re plumb the boost duty solenoid into the Wastegate.

I gotta reconfigure the crankcase vent lines to some catch can..( I'll probably just buy one)...
i have to mount the Snow cooler activation/safety solenoid as a fail safe against accidental seepage/siphoning of the water meth into the engine...

And I gotta Hook up the BOV... to the iron lung.

Once all of those odd and ends are complete,...I have a running engine again...I'm thinkin Monday....

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CarMichael Angelo said:

And for the rest that responded..I don't expect everybody to offer a different path when I offer something up,..And I know a "like" is a way to let me know people are out there paying attention...but there are some guys that get on here, and blanket like everything I say, or have said.
It's not uncommon for me to get online and have 7 likes from the same person all at once. They got online, read what they've missed, and liked everything.

I'm just not somebody that tolerates some of society's norms...

You guys should go out for a beer with me....As long as you keep your face out of your phone we'll have a good time. The wife is guilty of checking up on her BFF's texts, and constantly using google to settle arguments, so sometimes..I get a little testy with her...( (As much as I can w/o starting a war).

And that brings me around to the latest assortment of items for my CAI:

This:

Goes inside this:


That's attached to this:

That will have this clamped to it:

That's coupled to this:



That I'll add the necessary appearance items to make it look like I didn't just go to Home Depot and buy a bunch of heating and cooling duct work, and a metal paint bucket to make a cold air/ram air intake setup.

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CarMichael Angelo said:

It's weird for me. There are weekdays when if I decided to close my eyes after looking at the time first thing,......
I'd go right the hell back to sleep,...and wake up hours later.

Too Late for morning coffee,.......too late to watch any news,....too late to check in, and dick around here for awhile...too late for work.

Butttt...........

Let it be a Sunday.
Let it be the day where I absolutely don't HAVE to do nothin'

And I'll be dead awake at 6AM.........and have to force myself to stay in bed.

I just get up instead.

It's the cars fault. The car talks to me in the wee hours. It's like it's alive. Like a dog that you started to pet, and now the damn thing won't leave you alone. It corrupts free space in my head....You guys just think I do sht over several times......you should see how many times it's already been hashed over in my head before I ever bend, cut, or weld a single damn thing.

Remember this?

This idea had been rolling around in my head since 2007. I actually tried to put it into play on the 1953 Studebaker street rod that I was trying to build back then. But failed at it.
I failed at it twice in this current car before I finally figured out how I wanted it to look..
What something looks like in my head, or on paper never turns out to look that way in reality....
But I get it close..

The plan was to have the bars "float" with no obvious tie to any mounting system. And they were supposed to be one continuous circle of steel,....completely surrounding the driver and passenger..
The freakin little Japanese Kid forced me to adapt that plan.


How about this?

That took 5 times to become this:

In reality, I'll bet that the current version don't do jack with regard to forcing air into the rear radiators...I always kinda regret sht-canning the original "Countach style" scoops, given that I didn't know then how the whole monster was gonna turn out..( I think he coulda carried those things and rocked them...) id probably have had to call them "Gila bags"...since they were kinda saddle baggy looking.

Of all the things that started out in my head, moved to paper, then into reality on this car that ended up looking dead to rights was this one little detail....the front lower valance.




But look at all of the rest that didn't carry....
My right side bulged hood ( that was its own total project ending fiasco)
The license plate lives in the bumper, the tail lights are recessed, and the original G-hole exhaust tip is gone,...cut up for scrap..

All of this reminiscing revolves around my choice to stick that air filter in the wheel well, or attach it directly to the turbo, and build a box cover over it to isolate from under-hood heat.
I'm really getting tired of all of the fab work that's stopping me from being done.
The simplest damn thing is to stick it in the fender well again, but the vey next time I'd get caught in a rainstorm like I did last summer, I'd be gritting my teeth wondering how much tire spray that filter was soaking up,...wondering how much longer I could drive it until a completely soaked air filter was gonna stop me dead on the side of the road.

The other painfully simple solution is to just attach the stupid filter to the turbo, and build a two sided box that mounts to the fender apron and seals the filter from engine bay heat ( which effectively make up the 3rd and 4th sides of a box)

Then I'd have this " what the hell is that big box thingy in front of the turbo" thing that I'd have to deal with......if not from onlookers,......then definitely from my perspective.

You'd think that I live for this sht but I don't...I just want to drive it...
But it's gotta be fun.
It's gotta look good.
And I gotta like it.

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