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First drive after rebuild

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Thompsju

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I took her out for her first highway run last night.

Who wants to take the first guess/jabs at how I managed this?

Definitely belongs under the noob thread...

 


Whatever happened, it was scraping for a good few seconds, and pretty hard. I have no clue. Was it up against a curb somehow? Or did you take a belt sander and hold it there for a few minutes?
 
Forgot to screw the rocker panel in at the rear wheel well. Bounced it off the asphalt for a good few miles.

I thought I heard a clunking noise! LOL

Meh, add it to the list. Builds character.
 
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No need to screw with this guy trying to handle himself seems to be enough..............

At first I thought maybe that rust bucket completely came apart.

LMFAO Day one sh1t and I certainly know you couldn't handle running a welder now..... sad lets see if you can paint HA
 
Hey now, it wasn't dragging from the get-go. The front was screwed in and it was snapped into the brackets. It fell off from vibration/wind.

Had the car not been parked for 3 months, and removing the rocker was the ONLY thing I did, then yeah.

Plus, you can't make fun of someone who already beat you to it themselves.

Please stop acting like you're not impressed!
 
Let's ask the question that matters though. You ripped this car apart 100 different ways, put it back together and went out on the highway. Did you drive it back? If so.. I'll put that under success.
 
Lol, yes. It made it back home.

Definitely hurt my ego though when I pulled over. LOL.

Pushed it back on and drove straight home.

Wasn't even mad. I think I actually laughed and shook my head.

It's almost, 50* out today, Frick in heat wave compared to Monday, so it's a good day for some Bondo-ing!
 


I painted them red, and the heat shield black to break up some of the red.

In hindsight I'm glad I did, cause that manifold cooked right off (but the primer stayed, wtf)!

Cleaned, primed, painted, cooked in the oven got a phone call from the Mrs. as soon as she saw the FB pics of car parts in her oven, installed them, ran the car in intervals, then immediately Googling "will my car start on fire..." lol

Oh well, YOLO?

 
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blueguy said:
Did you really paint the manifold red and left the heat shields on...and painted them too?
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Well f### all, y'all! I'm goin' home! Ya know, I watched my wife work all day gettin' thirty bags together for you ungrateful sons of b###hes, and all I can hear is criticize, criticize, criticize! [tears off his mask] From now on, don't ask me or mine for nothin'! [rides away]

http://i1331.photobucket.com/albums/w582/thompsju2211/IMG_4149_zps57b75fe2.jpg

;)
 


Right, I thought you swapped the FPR on the buick rail after buying it, nvm. I'm thinking of getting a "Standard motor products" FPR. It looks like that is an aftermarket one, the corrosion on the rail doesn't match the FPR. I'll go with a delphi.
 
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02NavyBlue said:
Right, I thought you swapped the FPR on the buick rail after buying it, nvm. I'm thinking of getting a "Standard motor products" FPR. It looks like that is an aftermarket one, the corrosion on the rail doesn't match the FPR. I'll go with a delphi.
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I actually did try to swap it yesterday. The GP FPR is bigger. Didn't fit.

So I cleaned up the original and it seems to be holding strong.
 
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