Professur

LOL I have an anniversary party SAT. and a family get together Sunday. My frame project was totally unplanned. Found out thurs the car was junk. Was told by the bodyshop manager the body was too far gone as well. Get it outta here. Asked if I had a frame there Monday AM when he opened, would he drop my body on the new frame?. Since it was already on the rig. He said, IF you have a frame here Monday, I'll do it for free. If your not here when I open, I'll have it towed. OOOOOHH A challenge HUH?? I left my house Sat @ 5 AM after finding a donor. Had to completely strip a complete car in a barn in Saleen. Right down to all the glass and doors, drivetrain, front clip and wiring. Fought like a banshee over the dash harness as it had all missing light sockets I had been looking for. Was home by 2:30pm! and had my frame out by 6pm!. Body was on my trailer by 8pm/dark. Stayed up all night sanding/blasting painting and by 3pm Sunday, it was in paint. Showed up at the shop @ 8AM with a new PAINTED frame. Shop owner still calls me Houdini. LOL

Guess my longwinded point is, I was in the middle of an unexpected clusterfuck and using unsafe materials. Take your time N be safe bro. You'll be fine. This is the only way I know to get your frame in/out. I had to go a LIL higher than you will to clear my trailor.

I worry greatly that you ever thought that was a good idea.

Didn't Mythbusters actually lift a full car with duct tape?

There's one of those 'coaster cars' ... actually a minivan, at the place near me. Part of the problem, Frosty, is that when we were young, nobody thought twice about taking your car to an icy mall parking lot and 'playing' ... a lot of our skid skills were learned there. Today, there aren't many wide open parking lots anymore ... and none of them are allowed to ice over for fear of getting sued. And kids doing doughnuts today is a call to 911 instead of their parents. Add to that today's cars with their FWD, AWD, ABS, self parking, lane tracking, auto braking, yadda yadda yadda .... actual driving skills are going the way of Latin. Fully autodrive cars are already in legislation ... highway 'trains' are soon to follow. Actual drivers will soon be looked at like that guy from iRobot ...

Just gonna muddy the water a bit ... here in QC, new drivers must take professionally offered driving lessons while holding a learner's permit. Those lessons take no less than 12 months. This ensures that new drivers will have driven with an instructor during all seasons. During that time, they must always be accompanied by a licensed driver ... neither may have any alcohol in their system. Passing both the driving school's and the DMV's theory and practical tests nets you a freshly minted 2 year probationary license ... half the demerit points of a full license and .04 alcohol tolerance.

Oh, just FYI .. the lessons total $1100, and do not include the cost of the DMV exams, or the learner's permit. It does include the cost of a school supplied car for the test. Once.

Could we maybe weld the two of them together ... and add some bumpers ..

Pizza and beer for about a dozen buddies does wonders and its cheaper than renting a lift - for the lift. The trick is you have to feed them after the work is done - not before. Do it on a Sunday, tell them it beats watching the Lions.

not all of us are likeable enough to count a dozen people who'd lift a finger for us .. never mind a car body. Heck, I couldn't get enough to carry my coffin unless some folks decide to come along just to make sure they bury me deep enough to not sprout again.

I haven't found a WTF thread other than this one so ...

http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/cto/4025143287.html

If you cover one eye you might not go totally blind .. or lose your entire lunch.

Wait a minute ... a system in place that would prevent people speeding and completely cut any chance of ticketing them for profit? Politicians would never let 'this violation of people's rights' to happen. Imagine the voluntary tax shortfall ....

A nice 3800 would probably offer a better power to weight ratio than the Northstar anyhow.

copies seldom improve on the original ... and this is no different. I'd rather spend the time removing my leg hair with a belt sander.

But how fast did he get?

I tried to avoid looking too closely .. but they looked new. I'm due to swing back through when he gets the AL tailgate from NY ... supposedly in the fall. That would leave me all winter to look for specials on 300/50R15 rubber.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Speaking of rims ... I mentioned that the guy just south of Frosty with the parts had some rims for the wagon if I wanted them .... If memory serves ..http://www.ebay.com/itm/15-Cragar-Street-Star-5-Chrome-Wheels-Rim-5x5-Chevy-1500-stepside-Vintage-weld-/111150848069 That's the same model ... 'cept he's got 10"s for the back, not 8". I'm fighting a losing battle with myself on that front.

No, this is a guy who works here with me. They were busting on me about having the old iron battleship ... they ate some crow when they found out that his car and the boss's Edge were both within a couple of hundred pounds of mine ... and mine didn't top the list.

Speaking of GE .. any word about how things went at the salt flat?

My friend's 2008 Charger Datona weighs the same as my '85 Parisienne. Doesn't make a lick of sense to me.

What you really want on that is the MDS.

Looks like Lesionaire's disease to me.

the tobacco was sick?

When I'm at the beach ... I'm usually freaking out about how no other parents seem to be paying the slightest bit of attention to their kids right next to that much water.

Neither do paperbacks oddly enough

I wanna know how he's holding that front end up. Nobody uses caddy engines because they're stupid heavy ... but he's got that front end almost skeletal.

The heatsink on the very front is the tranny cooler, so he's likely got one or two small 4 banger rads mounted underneath with electric fans and is using one of those two kegs as a fluid reservoir. My money's on the rear one, giving the fluid a long trip through stainless hoses to bleed heat.

My second tank of gas after buying the car was host for a full can of seafoam. Next up will be ignition, although buying the parts can now comfortably be pushed back to the next paycheque. The missus should be arriving with my timing light tomorrow night, so that should tell the tale whether or not the timing chain needs addressed before the snow flies. The distributor we discussed should fit .. the only question being the metal of the gear at the bottom. Along with the head change in '84, they also changed to roller lifters ... and if I remember correctly flat and roller lifters take different gears. At worst, I shouldn't have any trouble just pulling the old one off and using it. At the moment tho, I'm just going to fall into the "It's working, don't mess with it" position and get the brakes on the Parisienne sorted before anything else happens. Having a back up car is hard to sell when you've 3 on the sick list at the same time.

Pretty sure the Parisienne is the same filter.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-GM-70-Camaro-L78-396-Chevelle-LS6-Nova-Dual-Snorkel-PCV-CLIP-3972132-/271260733786?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=uRFbE3uv%252FFfSDD97PJwkmjPm69o%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_1721wt_1348

rofl!!!

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