Recent content by SuperDave

It's your car, do what you want with it. I started out with a turd. 73 Newport 4 door sedan, doggy doodoo brown, absolutely no one wanted it. I was the last one standing between it and a crusher, I saw potential when everyone else saw a turd. I gave it a musclecar makeover. Now it turns heads...

Do you have the chrome Chrysler script?

When water mixes with oil, it turns into creamy milkshake yellow or brown. I've nuked LOTS of motors (thanks to an oversized heavy right foot), and I've overheated many a motor in my hot rods; warped heads, blown head gaskets, cracked blocks/heads etc. I've also spent a good deal of time working...

Looks to me to be a confluence of issues added together that led to this: 50+ years of use (& possible abuse), especially with drum brakes (lots of heat/cool cycles) Steel belted tires as opposed to the bias ply these were designed for Bad roads And you mentioned your alignment isn't top notch...

Long winded response, my apologies in advance. But bare with me, I've been there. I know what I'm talking about. In regards to timing: Your ignition timing can be dead nuts on target, but if the original nylon coated camshaft timing chain is excessively worn (likely for something that old) and...

For the cost of used original Mag500s on fleabay (crusty, rusty & missing the chrome dress rings) I could get these new lightweight aluminum repops. I've always had a thing for these style of rims, they just look right for that period of vehicle.

I went with American Racing reproductions of Magnum 500s (w/ the bullseye center caps) on Cooper Cobra RWL radials, cause I was going for a muscle car makeover, & Mag500s just look so right for that period. Coopers weren't my 1st choice but they were much more affordable than BFG TAs so I went...

Easy enough to test functionality, even during cool weather. Turn it on, look under the hood & see if the compressor clutch has engaged and spinning when engine is running. If so, touch the condenser core in front of the radiator after it runs a few minutes. Is it hot? Feel the silver pipes...

I personally bought a "Universal" STAINLESS exhaust kit off of Amazon, cut & trimmed it to my liking, hung it myself with clamps, spot welded them in place, THEN I went to a professional exhaust shop & had them thoroughly weld everything up. I have one of those cheap Harbor Freight 110v gasless...

Been there, done that. Short of removing the master and bench bleeding it, this next part requires 2 people: one to watch the pot under the hood & a 2nd person to work the pedal. You want to soft tap the pedal and only "Bump" it, no more than an inch of travel, repeatedly. Don't use your foot...

The TURD, on account of it being Doggy Doo brown & it gets shitty gas mileage. It's what it was called when I got it, as it was (then) a POS.

This vid showed up in my Google feed a couple days ago. I've been eyeing the Holley Stealth 4150-style TBI injection unit for a while now, been wanting one. (At $2k, I need to mow a lot of lawns to afford one!) My issue with this is finding a low profile single plane intake that'll let me run it...

You mentioned body bushings: from my research, can't find any. However, lots of guys have taken hockey pucks, split em down the middle to half thickness, drilled holes in the middle and used them and reported great results. I'm not there yet but likely the route I'll be taking.

Rubber lends a soft, cushy feel, poly is firmer, more sporty. But poly can be too hard, on potholes & dirt roads, transmitting shocks, jolts and vibrations to other parts, leading to accelerated wear & tear. Think long term: How long are you going to keep this car? Are you fixing it up to...

I have successfully used RTV gasket silicone as well as hot glue gun silicone to "pot" hand crafted circuitry before. I have built several "roll-your-own" CDI modules for 1 cylinder motor scooters small enough to fit inside a pill bottle. (It's amazing how simple these are!) Once it was all...