360Rocket

21 minutes ago, JUSTA6 said:

Good luck, 

Thanks, Its gonna make a huge difference in the driveability of this car.

Here is my adventure for tomorrow.

https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/pts/6633833493.html

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

The Motor City POCI show is this Saturday. They might have some in the swap meet area. How much are you willing to spend for a pair?

Also, the Norwalk Pontiac Nationals is less than a month away. Perhaps Don and Ann have some room in their "Winnebago" to bring back a pair for you. I can't imagine there not being 15 x 8 Rally IIs at Norwalk. That swap meet area is too dang big.

Of course new ones are available online. I know - you're looking for cheap.

Cheap and the ones online are on back order always. You got my number brother, send me a text if you see any. Much appreciated as always my friend.

7 hours ago, Frosty said:

Nice. It's also an excuse to get a new set of rear tires - these are shot! 

275/60/15 BF Goodrich as soon as I find a pair of 15x8 Ralley 2's Anyone out there have some for sale?

6 minutes ago, JUSTA6 said:

Looks like ya figured out your probs buddy.

yeah at least the timing and carb issue for sure. I think I have tracked down a complete rear gear solution that I'm ready to pull the trigger on here real soon. Those 4:10's are just too much.

Ain’t that the truth. Might stand on it a bit longer before letting go of the brake. 

looks like Ill be notching one side, thanks guys.

190 Pontiac GTO. the headrest locks? or escutcheons? inboard? or out board? I have two of the same side headrests so I have one side of locks facing inboard and the other seat has them facing outboard.

Cars Frosty? I haven’t even got to the part of noticing ANY car, wheels, tires, road, gas in that pic.......yet. Lol. Glad you enjoy. 

Have a great weekend Poncho fans. 

2 hours ago, Frosty said:

 

What? No cold sodas? No cold beer? A man gets awful thirsty pickin' off zombies.

Cmon now Frosty, he’s Justa bit old sir, I can’t gontoo hard on him it’s tough to fill sandbags with a walker. Maybe you can charge of refreshments and entertainment. If not I got a whole militia lined up to pitch in. 

19 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

I'm tag teamin with you bro when the zombies try to take over.

Just make sandbags, sammiches,  reload mags, or cover my back and its a deal.

Thanks to all that served and passed for the freedoms we enjoy and a special Semper Fidelis to all my devil dog, leatherneck, and jarhead brothers in arms that made the ultimate sacrifice for our great nation and its citizens. You will always be remembered, appreciated, and honored.

1 hour ago, JUSTA6 said:

WOW that takes some gonad's (at least a couple beers) to cut that hood.  Does look good!

Brother I didn’t sleep the night before going they all the scenarios and processes good or bad before I pulled the trigger and did it. 

I am so far happy with the outcome I don’t regret doing it and I have read a 40 degree drop in oil temps, up to a 20 degree drop in coolant temp and noticeably more downforce on the nose of the car at speed. 

Huevos Gigantes needed to start this project and its been in the back of my mind for quite some time. I've wanted to do some type of exterior mod like add an aftermarket hood to the Corvette but in most cases that party starts around $1,200 - $1,500 just to get in the door so I decided to add my own ventilation to the hood this weekend so here's the beginning. Enjoy.

I'll have more pics up as the mounting of this heat extractor continues.

Cleaned up, dailed in, running smooooooth. Will change out that fuel injection line soon for something braided I'm sure but for now it feels good to drive her again.

ENJOY>  Feel free to add you own discovered Real Deal Pontiac Power videos including those of your own ride to this thread....No Chebbies allowed !!!

very cool car, welcome aboard.

So I got the carb installed and wired. I had plans to pull the intake manifold and have it powdercoated but its just not in the budget for now. I couldn't stand the mottled bare aluminum look anymore so I just taped off the rest of the engine and attachments and feel I did a pretty good job of painting the manifold still mounted to the engine. I'll get it powdercoated later down the road but for now rattle can will have to do. I still need to plumb it and I'm still not sure to mount the fuel filter up near the carb or mount it inline back by the tank. Of course we had to have issues. When installing the air filter stud my Gearwrench came apart and dumped the ratcheting parts down the carb throat. no magnets, no claws, no balls of tape on the end of a screwdriver were removing those parts the easier way so off came the carb to retieve parts before they ended up in the engine. Here's a quick pic.

Thanks Steve, I think I'm going to discover that all this trouble was as simple as the car not having a fuel filter on it. That's next on the list before a single drop of fuel runs thru this new carb.

So I've thrown in the towel on the current Holley carb on the GTO. This is the second car that I have purchased that came with a basic base model Holley 750 that have both given me endless headaches and on the previous car I purchased a new Holley 770 cfm Street Avenger, removed it from box, set the idle and idle mixture screws and the car ran flawlessly for years w/o nary a hiccup. My budget these days is as bad as I can ever recall can't afford a brand new carb or even the Fitech I originally planned to put on my car so I have watched Craigslist everyday for months now and today it finally paid off. New in the box Holley Ultra Street Avenger 770 CFM and man is she a beauty. Billet metering blocks and base, 4 corner idle mixture adjustment, clear bowl sight plugs. I'm not a fan of the Spectre dual feed so I have plans to trade that out for something better. Would you believe $275 ? with the hardware and a chrome 14" air cleaner? I also want to track down a period correct day 2 FRAM HPG1 canister fuel filter as the car didn't come with any type of fuel filter.