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Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:49 pm

brgnascar wrote: [img][/img]

You should set up your spark plug wires (using stock holders or at least zip ties) will do wonders for the look of your motor, and they stop getting tangled around your ratchet.

looks like you put a lot of working making that one your own, the manifold heat tubes over the chrome look cool.

Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:05 pm

Try not to be jealous :P jk. The results of an engine fire:

Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:42 pm

Does anybody have a pic of a standard 69 "stock" engine

Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:59 pm

Crappy phone cam pic while doing some jet work.

Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:19 am

letthemusicflow wrote: Try not to be jealous :P jk. The results of an engine fire:

Ouch, that blows. I've got a similar view in mine :cry: except minus the toasting.

Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:35 am

Thankfully it was like this when I bought it. The PO's didn't take very good care of it I don't think. I'm going to remove all the melted wiring and blast the whole area, then prime it and replace all the electrical stuff.

Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:12 pm

letthemusicflow wrote: Try not to be jealous :P jk. The results of an engine fire:

Hot damn, it melted the entire engine!!! :wink:

Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:42 pm

Viande wrote: Crappy phone cam pic while doing some jet work.

Nice. 8)

Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:13 pm

mnussbau wrote: letthemusicflow wrote: Try not to be jealous :P jk. The results of an engine fire:

Hot damn, it melted the entire engine!!! :wink:
hahaha. Actually I have some of the engine parts. Some of them are worth keeping ;)

Nice matching vert and sedan btw :)

Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:22 pm

Excellent!
Thanks, they make a nice couple. :twisted:

Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:38 pm

Before:

After:

(fuel filter placement & lack of tin temporary)

Sat Jan 23, 2010 2:17 pm

The day I got him.

Tar board ha been replaced. Tin is B/C. Oil bath is rattle canned.
PS. I wish I would have posted eariler so I would not have to stare up @ that sweet engine above mine. =P~

Sat Jan 23, 2010 2:37 pm

1973vdub wrote:

Tar board ha been replaced. Tin is B/C. Oil bath is rattle canned.
PS. I wish I would have posted eariler so I would not have to stare up @ that sweet engine above mine. =P~

Holy crap is that nice.

Edit: What is the lining on the inside?

Sat Jan 23, 2010 6:32 pm

It's not the nicest but I like it. I do not know what liner you speak of. If it is the black behind the engine it was the factory tar board. It was replaced with a new one from WW a month or so after the pic.

Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:20 pm

clean and simple.

I know, I know, I already got rid of the fuel pressure regulator.

Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:42 pm

bubbasnow wrote:
Ok, that is one of the coolest things I think I have ever seen.

Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:34 pm

Why is every one talking about fuel filter placement? Am I overlooking something that might kill my car?

Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:49 am

rubsterob wrote: Why is every one talking about fuel filter placement? Am I overlooking something that might kill my car?

Well the fuel filter is in the engine bay and if the fuel hose connecting to it is too rotted or becomes disconnected while the engine's hot, you've got a perfect recipe for an engine fire. That's why most people usually place the fuel filter somewhere out of the way. Like near the gas tank.

Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:58 am

JOR82 wrote: rubsterob wrote: Why is every one talking about fuel filter placement? Am I overlooking something that might kill my car?

Well the fuel filter is in the engine bay and if the fuel hose connecting to it is too rotted or becomes disconnected while the engine's hot, you've got a perfect recipe for an engine fire. That's why most people usually place the fuel filter somewhere out of the way. Like near the gas tank.

I'd place it past the hard line though, like where it comes out of the tunnel. That way it filters rust and crud that might be in the unreplaceable hard line.

Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:57 am

Ok that makes perfect since thanks