Cletus' '68 Plymouth post car

[flyingbrick]

I reckon your plan is great Clint. 

[mjrstar]

I reckon a shallow angle merge is the way to go, from a looks and flow perspective. You can mig /tig the easy access stuff then the tricky to access bit can be arc welded.. 

[RUNAMUCK]

Just run the gate to atmosphere lil Johnny......

[yetchh]

Shit, your definitely gonna have to exhaust wrap that.. Not much in the way of clearance.. 

[SOHC]

That hose clamp trick around the tube for marking is the best trick ever

[datlow]

Just now, cletus said:

Fuck cars

I'm going to start a more lucrative career in wind chimes 

Man there’s not much more annoying than a neighbour with some wind chimes when your trying to sleep!!

A+ turbo/zorst work tho...

[Valiant]

Yeah fuck cars.

You could start a brass band if the chime business is a flop.

[Toddy415]

So whats the plan for tuning this thing with the blow through carby? Just drive and tweak it or still going to dyno tune it?

[cletus]

I'll probably get it as close as I can myself then dyno to finish it properly 

Finding someone who wants to do it or knows how might be a bit of a challenge but that's later on clints problem 

[1vaknd]

that is some beautifully tight radius bends for the shock hoops! who did you go through to get them bent up?

[cletus]

Bicknell autosport engineering in east tamaki, they do some pretty interesting stuff. I'm not actually sure if he did it or gets it done somewhere else, I just dropped off an old bit of fuel pipe I'd bent into the shape i needed  

[Kimjon]

@cletus roughly what ballpark number will the under side blasting and painting cost?

Its on my should get it done, but other things come up I want more list.

[cletus]

The guy there said $1950 +gst to blast, prime, and paint. 

Quite pricey but everyone I've asked says they do a good job, I could get it done for less than half the cost but I dont think it would be as good as I want it to be 

[f100_dreamin]

Man that’s some clean sheet metal there Clint! 

[cletus]

Yeah pretty pleased to not find any ugly stuff hiding under the guards  

[piazzanoob]

just something you might want to fix with your new sump.

the new sump doesn't have a notch for your dipstick so the stick wont go in.

a easy fix is some heat and bend a area in the sump for it to clear past

your old sump does if you check the photo.

otherwise good progress

 

 

[SOHC]

There is a good plaster/ painter in west auckland who is very cheep and dose a nice job, I have seen his work and he did my TS250 frame, he dosnt really have an advert anywhere, I can find his number if you want.

Probably good to put a stock oil pump back in I have been told they do more harm than good for engines that are not race engines with the extra bearing clearance 

[morkster]

Sucks when 'professionals' work on your car and fuck it up for ya :-/

[cletus]

Yeah I am more than capable of fucking things up all by myself for much less cost  

 

On a positive note I called in to the painters to have a proper look at the hoodlining and it looks like some stitching has let go so my mrs should be able to fix it good enough for now, it wasn't mint anyway so meh. 

@piazzanoob cheers for the heads up, the new pan clears the dipstick ok, I did have to put a hole in the baffle cause I'd already got that wrong once before on the engine in the vg

 

@SOHC thanks but it's already at the painter, is that an indian guy around Cartwright road somewhere? I had a customer with a torana that had been painted quite cheap and it was surprisingly good 

[SOHC]

8 hours ago, cletus said:

 

 

@SOHC thanks but it's already at the painter, is that an indian guy around Cartwright road somewhere? I had a customer with a torana that had been painted quite cheap and it was surprisingly good 

No way, this guy was at the bottom of forist hill road, he blasts car under body’s and dose a surprisingly good job