Yeah man!

We’ll miss you both for sure.

Field trip!

Car looks great. Lotta really sweet details.

Nice, Tom. Driving!

I like an oil pressure gauge & currently use a Smiths dual oil pressure/coolant temp gauge like this. The correct TD version is more money and only reads to 220F (100C). Eventually I’ll get round to printing a white face to make mine match the other gauges on my dash…

Gas gauge could be a simple ground or broken wire but…[Read more]

Long as you’re welding anyway you could just weld the nut on and cinch the ground strap on with the bolt & a washer or two. Good idea to do several ground straps on these cars and/or run a negative ground wire from the battery with a few sets of terminals on it.

If I already had a Buick/Rover aluminum V8 that was built as a race motor I would not have trouble making the decision. The RV8 can bolt right to the T-5 with the proper bellhousing, which is available.

That said…check the width of those blocks. The RV8 might be about the same as, or even a little wider than, the 350 chebbie (and so too the…[Read more]

I get slow uploads. Like when I press “submit” on this reply, that’ll take 20-30 seconds to resolve. I can live with it.

Update: timed it: 10.4 seconds.

I get slow uploads. Like when I press “submit” on this reply, that’ll take 20-30 seconds to resolve. I can live with it.

That works!

Yes. I have registered.

This problem is supposedly being worked on as we type. There is a way to post pictures but it is a bit complicated & clunky. Here’s the process, as of now: