The Official Hot Rod Thread - Part 2: No Replacement For Displacement

[Brad69]

So these dudes are pulling 1.81 to 1.85 60 Ft on stock tires?

I smell some drag radials in the mix!

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Running 11?s with a factory stock 2018 Mustang GT!

 

[churchmouse]

So after months of waiting on the body shop we are setting the engine in the Olds Cutlass tomorrow.
Loading it in my truck in the morning and off we go. Get it set and make a list. Half inch fuel line and wire loom need to be ran back before the bady is set back on the frame.

The frame is ready. Looked it over today.

Color is amazing. Pics do nothing for it.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Super cool mouse! Other than the dubs...

 

[churchmouse]

Super cool mouse! Other than the dubs...

Hey man....it is their world now. They actually are not all that bad. They fit up in the car really well.
I will get some pics when we set the engine.

 

[Brad69]

I have a theory that CM builds Cheech and Chong cars !
I do love the color and that was the best looking Olds ever made.
About 1984 a dude I knew had a 71 Olds Cutlass SX with a 455 I think it had about every option you could get it was the sedan style. He crashed the car while drunk what a waste the car was factory dark green with a white top in perfect condition.

 

[Bigtanker]

Running 11?s with a factory stock 2018 Mustang GT!

Freaking amazing.

 

[femurphy77]

Super cool mouse! Other than the dubs...

I don't mind the dubs on certain cars. The wheel wells need to be full of tire and wheel. True that rubber band profile tires look out of place on some cars but as long as you avoid the Conestoga wagon look they have their place.

 

[churchmouse]

I have a theory that CM builds Cheech and Chong cars !
I do love the color and that was the best looking Olds ever made.
About 1984 a dude I knew had a 71 Olds Cutlass SX with a 455 I think it had about every option you could get it was the sedan style. He crashed the car while drunk what a waste the car was factory dark green with a white top in perfect condition.

If you show up with a stack of fresh $20 bills and a smile.....and I like you.....yup, low ride

 

[Bigtanker]

I just bought 4 new control arms w/ ball joints, a set of coil springs and new stabilizer links for my truck. After 180,000 miles, things are a bit loose. (03 Ram 1/2 ton, 2wd) I did the inner and outer tie rods a two years ago, along with new shocks. Now I just have to wait for a break in the weather. I don't have a garage (big enough to fit my truck in).

Once I get it done and aligned, it will be back to tearing up the round-a-bouts!!!

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Wifey hit a massive pothole the other day. Not her fault, right over the top of a crest. Took out the passenger rear tire and something is clunking in the front passenger suspension/steering. It’s gonna be an expensive pothole....

 

[femurphy77]

Wifey hit a massive pothole the other day. Not her fault, right over the top of a crest. Took out the passenger rear tire and something is clunking in the front passenger suspension/steering. It’s gonna be an expensive pothole....

I bent a wheel and ruined a tire a few months back. Only out about $400 on that one, of course the city denied it. . .

 

[churchmouse]

I bent a wheel and ruined a tire a few months back. Only out about $400 on that one, of course the city denied it. . .

Our roads suck. Period. They have sucked for a good long time. Nothing new but they suck. Screw the damn high speed train and fix the damn streets.

 

[churchmouse]

OK. Loaded out at 10:00 this morning. Stopped for chow and off to the body shop.

Had to get the frame out of the corner and out where we could have our way with it.

Off loaded the engine.

And set it in the frame.......But

In this car getting shuffled from shop to shop.....then the frame stripped and powder coated the K-frame engine mounts were lost. The owner of the car and the shop owner wanted to get the new set so I stood back and smiled. Yup....the engine sets back 5" to far in the frame now. Wrong mounts. The headers hit everywhere. Same engine/trans cross member/headers/trans that came out of it.

 

[Bigtanker]

Street outlaws tonight is the "Daily Driver" race. Pretty good.

 

[thunderchicken]

Street outlaws tonight is the "Daily Driver" race. Pretty good.

I'll be watching tomorrow sometime but the preview looked good

 

[thunderchicken]

OK. Loaded out at 10:00 this morning. Stopped for chow and off to the body shop.

Had to get the frame out of the corner and out where we could have our way with it.

Off loaded the engine.

And set it in the frame.......But

In this car getting shuffled from shop to shop.....then the frame stripped and powder coated the K-frame engine mounts were lost. The owner of the car and the shop owner wanted to get the new set so I stood back and smiled. Yup....the engine sets back 5" to far in the frame now. Wrong mounts. The headers hit everywhere. Same engine/trans cross member/headers/trans that came out of it.

Well did they ever find the correct mounts?

 

[churchmouse]

Well did they ever find the correct mounts?

Apparently the frame mounts are the correct ones. We all burnt up the interwebs looking. They make 2 sets for the Olds. We have the right ones on the frame.
A local named Cutty Bob (go figure) that is the Olds Guru told me I had the engine mounts in the wrong holes on the block. There were 2 sets of holes. WTF really...???

Yes, really. My bad.....
The 2nd set is just behind the ones I used. It moves the engine forward the 5" needed. Duh.....

 

[churchmouse]

I'll be watching tomorrow sometime but the preview looked good

It was OK in a humorous break from the intense staged setting with the fast cars.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Apparently the frame mounts are the correct ones. We all burnt up the interwebs looking. They make 2 sets for the Olds. We have the right ones on the frame.
A local named Cutty Bob (go figure) that is the Olds Guru told me I had the engine mounts in the wrong holes on the block. There were 2 sets of holes. WTF really...???

Yes, really. My bad.....
The 2nd set is just behind the ones I used. It moves the engine forward the 5" needed. Duh.....

I’m hoping my K-member has Pontiac motor mount holes and GM motor mount holes.