ReefBlueHatch's Progress Thread

1991notchbackLX

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Where I come from, THIS is called a "rim" by people who call these rims:

Anything normal, on a normal car, driven by a normal person, is a wheel. The tire wrapped around the wheel? Well, we call that a tire.

Reef's progress thread is not the place for this discussion, though. Carry on!

 

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^^^
Please remove that image from my progress thread, LOL. That looks almost as bad when my car had chrome Cobra R's.

 

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Haha, sorry! Just making a point. I'll take it down tomorrow if you wish.

 

CarMichael Angelo

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foxbodymike87 said:

because ASE is by the book correct way for doing things in our automotive world..so TECHNICALLY a wheel is a tire and rim together.

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OHH!

Forgive me great god of ASE. I,...I....just didn't think.

 

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ReefBlueHatch said:

^^^
Please remove that image from my progress thread, LOL. That looks almost as bad when my car had chrome Cobra R's.

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Hey Reef what's wrong with us cheap azzes with Chrome cobra R's ???

By the way nice progress. Been a while since I have seen you post

 

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madmike1157 said:

OHH!

Forgive me great god of ASE. I,...I....just didn't think.

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You are forgiven.

 

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1991notchbackLX said:

Haha, sorry! Just making a point. I'll take it down tomorrow if you wish.

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Naw, I was just kidding

 

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1989DropTop said:

Hey Reef what's wrong with us cheap azzes with Chrome cobra R's ???

By the way nice progress. Been a while since I have seen you post

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Nothing wrong with Cobra R's, they just didn't look right on my car. The progress has been slow, but steady. I really want to be driving the car in April. I still need to get rear disc stuff and trac lok rebuild before True Street in October.

 

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Looking good man, not going to have those headers coated?

 

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A friend who does porting worked on my lower. He opened it up for Felpro 1250's and did some smoothing out. Now I should be lowering the engine into the car next week.






These cool alignment pins that came with my oil pan gasket look like they'll work great on intake gaskets.


And I bought a new DD!

 

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nice pick em up truck

 

ReefBlueHatch

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Update.

 

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Ohhh the color.

Looks good mayne.

 

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Thanks! I'm pleased with the way everything looks; other than the intake, the bay looks stock.

 

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why did you take off the front end? I mean that's a pretty extreme set of fender covers.

 

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Looking good. Your build is a series of well planned executions. Enjoying the thread.

 

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madmike1157 said:

why did you take off the front end? I mean that's a pretty extreme set of fender covers.

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I knew I'd be doing a lot of work on the front and I didn't want to risk messing up any paint. Also so I could unbolt and remove the doors for new pins, bushing, rollers, and tension plates. I still need to clean up the outside of the aprons with some POR15 and paint.

 

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BTW, anyone know where this end for the battery negative wire originally went? I'm thinking to the block, but I can't remember.

 

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I'm 99% certain it attached to the block somewhere behind the P/S pump

 

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just looked at mine. right behind the lower radiator hose where it attaches to the water pump, a finger length away on the engine there is a bolt for it. it goes into the side of the engine with the head of the bolt pointing to the drivers fender. picture taken leaning over drivers fender.