Now we're gonna have to send you to Top Gun school... so you can learn to control your afterburner... and maybe do a victory fly-by on NumberDummy's home office... just to see if you can make him spill his coffee...

 

Frame mounted coil?

Congrats on the 1st fire up Steve. Sounds real smooth.

 

Sounds fantastic ! What does that aluminum block under the intake manifold do? I saw how you built it but don't understand how it works.

 

Thanks, Jeff. I'm glad all the long hours and work put into it are behind me now. --couldn't pass up an opportunity for a little silliness to lighten some of the stress.

Thanks. Currently, the block doesn't do anything other than just sit there. I'll have to take it off, drill and tap the holes for some NPT threads to screw some fittings into that the heater hose will connect to. This will circulate warm water around that portion of the intake, directly under the carburetor, for more ease of driveability during the cold months.

The heater hose, with the heater control valve in it, will connect to the plate, in series. When the heater selector on the dash is not selected (off), the valve in the hose will be closed and that hose will be dead headed --no flow going through it or through the plate.

 

Oh agreed! I would have done the same thing.

 

Ahhhh ok, similar to this on my 390

 

Something like that.

 

I agree with the v8 sound. The straight 6s of yesteryear, with duals, had a higher pitched rap. You're probably too young to remember them. Chevy 216 and 235 cu " engines.

 

I'm not familiar with all the Chevrolet engines but, I'll be 5 decades (plus two years) older come the last day of September.

 

You don't look it at all. Wife version 2.0 is doing a good job of taking care of you.

 

Thanks. I suppose, for the most part, I've always looked younger than I really am.

This was just from a few years ago when I was in my late 40s. I don't look too significantly different now.



....This was a photo of me from just a few weeks ago, the moment after I heard the loud bang and then the immediate clattering from my 240, while I was on my way home from work. ...."HUH? What was THAT!?"



....aaand, this was a photo of me when I opened up the 240 to see the large hole in the #5 cylinder bore, a hole through the left side of the block and bits and pieces of the crunched up cylinder bore, piston and piston rings lying in the bottom of the oil pan.

 

And this one right after the 300 started.

 

....or, with more animated excitement, like this....

 

Yep. And I can just picture if your Buddy would have noticed a leak, You'd be sayin'.....

 

I drove the Ranger up on my friend's trailer this evening to take it and drop it off at the exhaust shop. Tomorrow (Saturday), it'll have a new dual exhaust system on it and soon the Ranger will ride again.



In the 6 weeks it's been down, it's collected a nice layer of dust and pollen on it. For all it has been through recently, it's due a good clean up on the outside to more match the new prettiness on the inside.