Hey there everyone,

After a ridiculously long wait for the Edelbrock to arrive & a supply mix up with my distributor, the car is back on the road & running beautifully 😃

I've also managed to source a replacement generator, which is in - keeping the original as a working spare.

And after much deliberation, I've followed some advice & had a thermo fan installed. I expect the purists among you probably won't agree with the decision but I now have some piece of mind that if I'm sitting in traffic or idling around in hot weather, I'm not going to destroy my brand new engine 🤷‍♂️
It's set up as a push fan on a manual switch so the original fan is still in there & working, which keeps the original look right.

The car was first set up with 6 degrees initial timing, but it pulled so hard it was forcing the transmission to slip. Great fun but I don't have the funds to either replace or rebuild the transmission right now, so changes had to be made! We've settled on a happy medium that still lights up the back wheels if prodded in anger, but isn't too savage on the rest of the gear. It is a cruiser after all...
It now cold starts first go, drives away easily after a few minutes warm up, & is silky smooth at any revs 😎

Even my daughter loves driving it, although she seems to be a little too keen on the throttle 😬😂

I've dropped in a couple of photos too 🤙

 

 

 

 

 

Very cool Paul 

the edelbrock is a great upgrade too !!! 

Great job Paul!