Just got off the phone with the oldest "Scout age member" of my Boy Scout Troop; had been discussing with him his latest long-term goals for the Troop. You gotta know this guy; he initiated the call. Some people would call Dave "highly self-motivated, willing to plan out and execute forward-looking developmental changes in the mission statements on an organizational level"; others would dispense with the bureacratic ruffles and fluorishes and just call him "Obsessive-Compulsive". I just call him "extremely driven". You have to understand that I met this kid when he was one month shy of 11 years old; and he turns 17 in another 5 weeks. Anyway, Dave mentioned (at the start of this one-hour-long "quickie phone call") that he "had an epiphany"; that what he had been advised (on any given subject) by his parents, teachers, priest and Scoutmaster was good advice, but when "it happens to me personally, it really makes sense". In essence, when the problem that he had been told about finally comes up and "smacks him in the face" and priorities have changed, the advice makes sense. Well, something like that "smacked me in the face" about a month ago.
Anybody that's been around here for the last couple years has heard that I had this dream of a 67 Stang ('vert, coupe or FB - didn't matter, I just had a thign for the cheese-grater fake scoop on the quarter-panel) built up by me and for me. Not some "Stock as a Rock" (copyright SuperDave) Stang, not some fire breathing FE twisting the body, but maybe a li'l old 393 Windsor with an AOD behind it and Trick-Flow 5.0 MAF pushing in the fuel. Something not quite in the same vein as the sleeper 351 Gran Torino 4-door or the 406/C6 "haulin' fool" of an F100 from my youth; but a little more sophisticated cruise-mobile with an EVO-killer quietly lurking under the hood. The EFI not only would look good, but it would make days of "tune, jet, re-jet, re-tune" a little shorter.
Well, because life has a way of changing your priorities; things are a little different. Now, the project is a '73 Cougar XR-7 with a rebuilt 2V Cleveland (not a four-bolt like my old Torino, but still...) that just needs a proper "finishing-out". And, the project car will be a semi-DD for my 16-year-old daughter Jessi (Tink's younger sister).
So, anywayyyyssss, the Big Brown Truck dropped off a box tonight; 30 pounds of Cleveland goodies priced at $12/pound - not a lot of dough or HP, but it's for a 16-yr-old new driver. New lifters and pushrods, a "drill-tool" for spinning up the oil pump before firing up the engine.
Oh yeah, while I was talking to Dave, I had a Performer intake sitting on my lap - no, it's not a Performer RPM Air-Gap (or a Weiand Xcelerator); but remember the 16-year-old "new driver" on my insurance! Mainly, it's just to replace the "funnel-spacer" that separated a 600CFM Holley 4160 from the factory 2BBL intake. Aluminum, shiny (but not polished); just sitting there on my lap, promising fun under the hood.
So now I have to get some time to tell Jessi that her weekend plans have been canceled; 'cause she's gonna be under the hood with me!
Yes, there will be pix, because
Hey, you East-Coasters! Why are you buttoning up your Stang projects for the winter??????? It's just getting cool enough to work on cars here in the desert!
Anybody that's been around here for the last couple years has heard that I had this dream of a 67 Stang ('vert, coupe or FB - didn't matter, I just had a thign for the cheese-grater fake scoop on the quarter-panel) built up by me and for me. Not some "Stock as a Rock" (copyright SuperDave) Stang, not some fire breathing FE twisting the body, but maybe a li'l old 393 Windsor with an AOD behind it and Trick-Flow 5.0 MAF pushing in the fuel. Something not quite in the same vein as the sleeper 351 Gran Torino 4-door or the 406/C6 "haulin' fool" of an F100 from my youth; but a little more sophisticated cruise-mobile with an EVO-killer quietly lurking under the hood. The EFI not only would look good, but it would make days of "tune, jet, re-jet, re-tune" a little shorter.
Well, because life has a way of changing your priorities; things are a little different. Now, the project is a '73 Cougar XR-7 with a rebuilt 2V Cleveland (not a four-bolt like my old Torino, but still...) that just needs a proper "finishing-out". And, the project car will be a semi-DD for my 16-year-old daughter Jessi (Tink's younger sister).
So, anywayyyyssss, the Big Brown Truck dropped off a box tonight; 30 pounds of Cleveland goodies priced at $12/pound - not a lot of dough or HP, but it's for a 16-yr-old new driver. New lifters and pushrods, a "drill-tool" for spinning up the oil pump before firing up the engine.
Oh yeah, while I was talking to Dave, I had a Performer intake sitting on my lap - no, it's not a Performer RPM Air-Gap (or a Weiand Xcelerator); but remember the 16-year-old "new driver" on my insurance! Mainly, it's just to replace the "funnel-spacer" that separated a 600CFM Holley 4160 from the factory 2BBL intake. Aluminum, shiny (but not polished); just sitting there on my lap, promising fun under the hood.
So now I have to get some time to tell Jessi that her weekend plans have been canceled; 'cause she's gonna be under the hood with me!
Yes, there will be pix, because
Hey, you East-Coasters! Why are you buttoning up your Stang projects for the winter??????? It's just getting cool enough to work on cars here in the desert!