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Last Indian

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  1. Copy that buddy! All the tree huggers and touchy-feely don’t hurt my feelings, so call liberals drove this country straight into the ground! Trump may not be great, but he’s 1000 times better than any democratic in the past 100 years! IMO!
  2. Ahh, there is! Don’t buy anything made in China or built in China or parts made there and assembled here! Dah! Now look what you did! You got me started! Dang!
  3. Typo or dam spellcheck, not sure which now! The second one! Crisco!
  4. JustA thought, but I usually hate to destroy OEM stuff in a car if I can see another way to get there! So you could keep your existing wiring, but just deactivate it or tape it to protect it. Than run new wires from the fuse block, coil and ground. Napa even sells some really nice fuse block add-on wire adaptors! I remember we talked about the hydraulic rams you installed before and I had some questions as to the connection threads. So if you want when you get there take some pictures and see if you can resolve this for good!
  5. More like Olive Cisco now!
  6. The gage fits the dash though right? Are you JustA going to tape up the old wire setup and the do new wiring? If not what? When you get to the top cylinders and lines take some good pictures and maybe we can help you get where you want to be.
  7. Usually under the back seat, for the old cars like that one. Like JustA said, looks like you did well! Do I see a frame off resto in someone’s future?!
  8. It’s not what I did, JustA what it was! Today, actually the 28th, last Indian turned 20 years old! Wow! How old am I! I owned the “69” Z for 35 years and now the Indian for 20! I think I need to lie down!
  9. Sounds like COVID-19! Isolation, out of touch! Who knew!
  10. Well, it was just a three hour tour you know!
  11. Well?! What’s the problem? Take the best parts and make that best rebuild! Then take what’s left and sell it as is! Or rebuild that one as best you can with what’s left and keep it or sell it! The frame that’s bent on your original one is fixable! Especially once you have the frame out from under the body!
  12. Well while Kiwi has some exciting fun, I’m JustA here tinkering away making incremental progress!🤫 The top is close to done, but still some very tedious work to do for the expanded metal body! Very tuff stuff to polish!
  13. Yup! Should be good the ECM is the brains that reads and controls the other sensors. Tells them what to do. The only issues you could see are possible with the MAF on the throttle body. Sometimes they changed the throttle body from one year to the next and the MAF mounting will be different. If that were to occur, either replace the throttle body with your old one or get the correct MAF for that year throttle body, the pigtail should be the same. Before you take the engine out take good pictures of how the wiring harness are laid out for everything. Fuel injectors, coolant sensor, MAP, IAC, IAT, crank sensor, coil packs, EGR, etc!
  14. As far as the engine goes, there shouldn't be an issue. I will assume all you’re getting is the engine? Or just the short block? Either way I again will assume no electronics come with the engine? Your ECM will interface with the components that attach to the engine. MAP, EGR, IAT, etc! So take those from your current engine and you should be fine!
  15. Great accomplishment Mike! Nothing better than seeing it all come together!
  16. Yes I can still see pretty well for an old fart! I think I had mentioned before that I had been a tool and die maker first, than a R&D machinist for a number of years before doing the engineering?! Those two crafts require very good measurement perception to accomplish. You need to be able to differentiate down to at least .010 of an inch. I hold the copper in place with 3M emblem tape. It has fairly high resistance to heat! And since these will be seeing engine heat I’m a little hesitant to use an epoxy adhesive and a press fit without a shear to cut the copper is out of the question! still need to polish up the copper.
  17. That’s funny! ! I thought the same thing! The cast iron head deal makes no sense to me! There’s got to be more cast iron heads out there than aluminum! Heck the 3800 was still running cast iron heads in 2009!
  18. Yes, I would have a concern! A shop who’s lively hood runs on doing machine work on engines who doesn’t have the equipment to do it would make me question their ability!
  19. You’re on the right track buddy! I have a long 24” square, so I scribe a straight line JustA off the edge. Then move over 9/16” and scribe another line. I use a very fine, 24 tooth, band saw blade and yup, cut slow! Then comes the pain! I put it in the vise, like you see it, only with jaw protectors, and start filing the edge, 6” at a crack moving it and overlapping with each movement to get the edge smooth and straight. Than I flip it to the other side and repeat, but this time I use my calipers measuring the width incrementally to make sure it’s parallel and the right width. When I get really close I trial fit to see where it’s hitting, then mark it, measure it and file it till it fits properly!
  20. Ok this has been really tedious! Where’s a shear when you need it? JustA try to take .030 thick copper flat sheet stock, cut two pieces off it .500 wide 22” long and keep both sides parallel to each other to fit in a 1/2 milled slot! Fun! Real fun!
  21. JustA, you are never late to the party! The party doesn’t start till you’re here! Yes I saw it was a 535! Still won’t generate enough hp to to get to 8 seconds and most likely not even 10 flat! In the Lemans that is! The money you have to throw at a 10 second car is close to double that of a 12 second car!
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