360Rocket

20 minutes ago, Ringo64 said:

Completely understand the want, being a tech geek but yeah, didnt get one myself till I was out of my parents place. 

Looks good on your new monitor!

Yeh it was a gaming motivated want. Had to do with "refresh rate?" We got a lucky break because the BB salesman stepped us up to the gaming monitor technology in a 50" that my son wanted, sold us the TV and suddenly they were "out of stock". They made it right and gave him the next model up in the same tech but in a 55" model. I guess he can pair our internet, his phone, as well as HULU, Netflix, YouTube, you name it, he can do it thru that TV. These have certainly outsmarted me at this point. 

Merry Christmas gang.

And that doesn’t mean color pictures Ringo that means a red background to highlight a subject on the page. Ha ha. 

So I have suddenly gained an affinity for all things old and nostalgic. I've tracked down a 1970 Chilton Auto Repair manual. I had one of these as a teenager and never forgot its usefullness back in the day. I have also tracked down a Chilton manual specific to the 1968-1973 GTO, LeMans, and Tempest thats on its way in the mail. I'm starting to collect old Pontiac advertising and will probably display this cool old stuff in the car at car shows. Its better than the stuffed kid on "time out" learning against the bumper. lol.

I'm diggin' that wheel Frosty, but polished or chrome. Billet is officially dead.

Hey Dennis?

https://www.carid.com/us-mags-wheels/u429-trans-am-2pc-forged-welded-u17905b85stl48cp-87723927-1132384550.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIr5f6pNn13gIVT__jBx07lwWzEAQYASABEgKWbfD_BwE

http://us-mags.com/bandit-u109-g-20509.htm

http://us-mags.com/bandit-u109-g-15399.htm

2 hours ago, Frosty said:

I understand the look your are talking about Two Lane....the ET's I remember were a variant of the Torq Thrusts design. I like the Torq Thrust design but I seem them everywhere these days. It is a little over done for my taste. However, they are classic, good looking, traditional muscle car wheel. 

Gawd.....I do remember the Kraco 8-track players and Mind Blower speakers. I put a set of those speakers in my Vega. It was connected to a Pioneer AM/FM/Cassette radio! Kraco's and Craig's were some of the first really affordable aftermarket radios back in the day!!!!

 

360 - The goal has always been to fill up the wheel wells with tire and rims. The stock 14" tires and rims just don't cut it. I made the mistake back in 1978 with the '73 Lemans and I put too much tire on the Cragars and the back tires rubbed the rear fender lip, so I had to add air shocks to jack it up and prevent it. It's what we did in those days.

Tou

probanly had a fender rub issue because you went too wide not too tall. I had the same issue in a 69 R/T Charger. Went with Kelly SuperCharger N 50 tires back in the day when I should have chosen the M 60’s instead. Kept chewing the sidewalks until I got my Skyjackers aired up. Lol. The good old days 

I would change the look by going 17” Cragar or Rally 2's. Fill up that wheel well gap!

In other news, came across this filter on one of my stops today that came out of a Toyota Camry with 147K miles on it. This could possibly be the original filter.

beautiful car, 1969 grills in it right?

1 hour ago, Ringo64 said:

That’s part of voting, my friend. This isn’t who owns the car or what model the car is, it’s what looks good and that picture should be voted in  . 

I 100% agree but there are cars that deserve to be in this calendar but will be out because of a lack of attention to detail. Or worse a car gets voted in and your left with a dilemma of putting a bad pic in the calendar or breaking someones heart.

Got up before the sun did this morning (530 am) and scratched off another bucket list item by driving across the bay and attend my first "Cars and Coffee" event at the offices of the DuPont Registry. WOW was it packed! So packed the local police were out in force to direct traffic into the show. I arrived in the GTO at 7 a.m. and the show lot was already full to capacity and closed. Parked in spectator parking which turned in to its own car show venue and had a great time. ALL the big names in super cars and custom builders were in attendance. I guess the early bird STILL gets the worm.

10 hours ago, Frosty said:

360, the only concern I have with what you are doing lies in something you didn't specifically state. What type of oil are you using for oil change #1?  If memory serves, the LS motors, particularly the Corvette motors all require synthetic oils. So I would make certain not to use a cheap conventional oil while trying to flush the remaining dirty synthetic oil out in change #1. I would try to find the least expensive synthetic or at the very least a synthetic blend. 

My reasoning is this, synthetic oils are for very tight tolerance motors, like the LS, modern Hemis, and Coyotes. So why risk possible cross contamination (and worst case - engine damage) between a conventional and a synthetic?  

Now if I am off base here and you aren't doing this, I have no concerns.

"What happens when you mix synthetic and conventional oil?"

According to Mobil Oil, it should be fine to mix oils. This manufacturer states it would be unlikely anything bad would happen, such as a gel-forming from an interaction of the chemicals (a common fear), because the oils are compatible with each other. In fact, many oils are a blend of natural and synthetic oils. Any SAE rated motor oil can be mixed with any other with no problems. That’s one of the requirements to get a SAE rating.

Oil Change, obsessive? or just OCD?

So I thought I would just throw out my oil change procedure just to see if there are any like minded auto fanatics out there that use the same oil change thought process as I do or maybe even a better way to do it. So here it goes. A 2005 Chevrolet Corvette with an LS2 motor with 95K miles on the clock. I change my oil at evry 3K miles. I will NEVER be caught waiting until 7500 miles, or 10K miles, or 20K miles or changing my oil once a year nonsense that you see in commercials. The oil viscosity tech may have changed but we have yet to discover "self cleaning" oils.

I started a bit differently this time by letting the car sit for a week without the motor turning over at all to let everything settle to the oil pan. I haven't done this before because it really isn't practical as this is a daily driver.

So I get the car up on ramps without starting the motor. I set the parking brake and pull the oil plug and oil filter and a thick black dirty oil pours from the oil pan drain and you can feel the micro carbon grit in the dirty fluid. The DIC read "37% oil life" after 3K miles this oil change when it normally reads "50% oil life" in previous oil changes. I change the oil at 3K miles regardless of what GM or my DIC demands.

Next step is to replace the oil plug, screw on an inexpensive STP oil filter, and add 6 quarts of basic STP 5W-30 oil, start the engine and let it idle until the oil comes up to temperature and then shut the car off to let the "first oil change" as we will call it settle to the oil pan once again.

I again jack up the car, crawl under to once again remove the oil plug, oil filter, and wait until the last drop of oil falls from the oil drain. This time the oil comes out cleaner than the old oil and even cleaner than in past "first oil changes" and i think its because the old oil in the car got the opportunity to settle to the bottom of the pan for a week.

So last step in my oil change process is to button the bottom of the engine back up and this time add a top of the line oil filter and refill the crankcase with Mobil 1 5W-30 synthetic as the manufacturer recommends, put the car back on the ground, fire it up, let it get to temperature while looking for leaks, shut it off and then read the dipstick. I then slide a piece of clean cardboard under the car and come back in an hour and look for a leak to show up on the cardboard.

Is that all too much? is it crazy? is it obsessive? is it OCD? or are there OTHER car fanatics out there that have a similar procedure? a similar love for the care of their autos?

Do you have any similar oil change processes or ideas you want to share? and opinions on this procedure? my madness?

If you liked SATB, you'll love HOOPER starring Burt Reynolds and Jan Michael Vincent. Of course Cannonball Run kicked ass as well. Here is a hilarious scenes from Hooper.

A cool dude for sure and sold more Pontiacs than any dealer in America. I had the pleasure of working for Burt on his horse ranch in my teens right before I left for USMC boot camp. He will certainly be missed by us fans of Trans Ams, and fun movies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/burt-reynolds-movie-star-who-played-it-for-grins-dies-at-82/ar-BBMY3KT?ocid=spartandhp

Same here, I used to trade in cars every 3-4 years but this vette has been double that average.

Now there is a car I would love to own. welcome aboard.

Congrats. Nice whip. 

I was a Meguiers "mark" for decades until I discovered the full line up of "Surf City Garage" detail products. I'm old school and use their Carnuba wax straight from the can. I apply it in small sections with the applicator pad and then use an orbital buffer letting it dry to a haze. I then pull it off with brand new microfiber towels. I don't like to reuse the towels.

https://surfcitygarage.com/barrier-reef-carnauba-paste-wax.html

1 hour ago, JUSTA6 said:

Sorry bout the rims.  1 of 2 guys I was looking for showed up today, he said he might have 1.  Doesn't help much.

Its all good brother, next event will have three sets there for bidding. lol. Hope you guys had a good time. Thanks for checking for me.