What did you buy this week?

[masseyrider]

Bid $33,568.32...some weird number like that.
That's how I won the bid on a car I wanted last year.

This guy looked nervous at the $18k so I bid enough to spook him and not have him even think aboot it.
Could probably have done it at $25K.
Something this well preserved doesn't come along often.

 

[masseyrider]

Plans are:
New fuel tank and lines.
Rebuild original 4 barrel carb.
It has the Pontiac 400cid engine not the smog Olds 403.
Mild upgrades. Improved performance aluminum intake manifold. Retaining the original carb.
Port and polish the heads.
Mild cam update/grade.
Replace exhaust manifolds and exhaust with free breathing unit.
Tranny is a TH400. Change fluids for now.
Suspension should only need minor work. Performance shocks, new bushings, springs look to be sitting OK.
Brakes get a whole replacement with everything new from the master cylinder to all four wheels.
A heavier duty rad.
New hoses etc.
More stuff probably.
Keep me busy project for the winter.
Be ready for my birthday in May.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Headers.
Advance timing (34° max). Q-jet epoxy where sponge is...bottom plate. 1.6 rockers on exhaust (I can't type fast...my "Pontiac" wife talking too fast). Find #92 heads from a 428 if you can. Save Q-jet, 650 Holley spreadbore mech. secondaries w/pump cam kit (more & sooner). Power valve by formula: vacuum at idle in drive ÷2...so 12" Hg=6.5 pv.
Save HEI, use steel points distributor, adv. all in by 2800.

 

[masseyrider]

Headers.
Advance timing (34° max). Q-jet epoxy where sponge is...bottom plate. 1.6 rockers on exhaust (I can't type fast...my "Pontiac" wife talking too fast). Find #92 heads from a 428 if you can. Save Q-jet, 650 Holley spreadbore mech. secondaries w/pump cam kit (more & sooner). Power valve by formula: vacuum at idle in drive ÷2...so 12" Hg=6.5 pv.
Save HEI, use steel points distributor, adv. all in by 2800.

I'm a nut and bolt grunt guy. Loosen and tighten.
I have a friend who is the fine tuner.
Talking aboot electronic ignition.

 

[BleedingOrange]

Massey, post up some pictures. We all love pictures !

 

[Eagle1]

... girl friend standing up through the T-bar topless waving to people up at Wasaga Beach.
She was an exhibitionist and I have pictures of her posing 96% nude (just a bit of the slip and slide hidden) on my original TAs hood, bent over the hood and even lying on the roof.

You're on the right track, lot of fun and trouble back in the day. Still better tape my mouth shut tonight....

 

[jjeff]

Bought a rather expensive weller brand soldering gun. After my cheap pos hf joined my growing scrap pile. Man does this thing work good and worth the price imo I'm soldering new micro brake light switch wiring on my old snowmobiles. Seems when I go Xmas shopping for others I run into things priced cheaper than normal. So I buy them for myself. Probably shouldn't be in a tool aisle shopping for my wife but sometimes I can't help it lol.

 

[scootr]

Bought a rather expensive weller brand soldering gun. After my cheap pos hf joined my growing scrap pile. Man does this thing work good and worth the price imo I'm soldering new micro brake light switch wiring on my old snowmobiles. Seems when I go Xmas shopping for others I run into things priced cheaper than normal. So I buy them for myself. Probably shouldn't be in a tool aisle shopping for my wife but sometimes I can't help it lol.

Wattage matters

 

[grsthegreat]

Bought a rather expensive weller brand soldering gun. After my cheap pos hf joined my growing scrap pile. Man does this thing work good and worth the price imo I'm soldering new micro brake light switch wiring on my old snowmobiles. Seems when I go Xmas shopping for others I run into things priced cheaper than normal. So I buy them for myself. Probably shouldn't be in a tool aisle shopping for my wife but sometimes I can't help it lol.

Im also a bad shopper…. I got the wife a new Dewalt pruning saw. Store threw in a free dewalt 5.0 AH battery with purchase. Im keeping the battery …. She gets the saw.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Bought a rather expensive weller brand soldering gun. After my cheap pos hf joined my growing scrap pile. Man does this thing work good and worth the price imo I'm soldering new micro brake light switch wiring on my old snowmobiles. Seems when I go Xmas shopping for others I run into things priced cheaper than normal. So I buy them for myself. Probably shouldn't be in a tool aisle shopping for my wife but sometimes I can't help it lol.

I have several Weller guns from the 60s-70s still working fine. Tips are expensive though, so just take a length of bare copper wire (6ga-8ga) simply bend & form legs. Squeeze middle together for the tip. Flux & tin the tip.
I say length because you can make it much longer if needed. (43+ yr tech)