Ace-Garageguy

Forum is more than threeum and less than fiveum.

Very authentic. I'm old enough to remember when low-pay blue-collar workers...handymen, groundskeepers, landscapers, etc...actually drove and worked out of cars and trucks that looked that rough. They always had a couple of lifters ticking and left a trail of thin blue smoke and slowly dripping fluids, but they ran and ran and ran.

More whishkee, beertender; I'm not unconshush yet...

OEM NOS Delco Rochester 2G/GC multikit. Supposed to service most Rochester 2G carbs. The 2GC has a choke and is the standard 2bbl on many '60s GM low-performance applications. It's also frequently the center, primary carb on 3X2 setups...and is required for my fancy-dancy 3X2 manifold for my '63 394 Olds. The non-choke 2G is used for the end, secondary carbs on Rochester 3X2 setups. Sadly, the last aftermarket kit I bought from a "reputable" source had a plastic accelerator pump cup that turned to goo in less than 2 years. Apparently, ethanol MAY be the culprit, so I need to do further research before I build the carb. "Ethanol resistant" cups are available, but you never know what kind of bottom-of-the-barrel plastics our "offshore" manufacturing buddies will slip in to make a few more rice-grains of profit. The follow-through required to be a non-chimp mechanic takes experience, knowledge, thought, time, and effort, and it's no surprise so very few bother. I also sprung for the head set for the little Neon, and I'll start building her junkyard head, on the bench, on Friday. Though the head that's on the engine definitely has one or more bent valves, and between the two heads there are probably enough valves do git 'er runnin', my SOP is usually to replace all the exhaust valves whenever I do a head...but that practice came from my aircooled days. They're about $12 a pop fer the Neon (but there are 8), they're available overnight locally, and are relatively cheap insurance...assuming they're not Chinese potmetal. HOWEVER...since there are 8, I'll be looking carefully at the condition of what's in the junk head before I spring for noobies. I'd prefer to build the head 100% on the bench BEFORE I remove the head that's on the engine in the car.

I did something stupid that, while not terrible, is definitely going to take some non-billable effort to make right.

Defined delts are something I need to focus on, 'cause old geezers tend to get narrow shoulders if they don't work out.

These are the kind of folks who can't wipe their own backsides effectively.

Follows logically from John Wayne's misattributed quote "Life's hard. It's even harder if you're stupid".

Looks like a great kit, a lot easier than the mashups of available kit parts and repops I've been doing.

Nice build. Always liked these, wish I'd bought a real one when that was still a possibility.

Always good to see unusual power in period drag cars. These are what made the early days so interesting.

"Choice" meats used to be below "prime" in quality, but I don't know if anyone bothers with those classifications these days.

Evil is real.

Love does not actually conquer all.

They're everywhere !!!

Special people who betray you lose the "special" classification.

Nothing yet...but give it time, just give it time...

That's surely one abused-looking little race car. If it was real, it'd make me sad to see that done to a '65 fastback, but at least it'll go out fighting...which is better than being abandoned to rot.

74F, 88% humidity now (8:15 AM), forecast high 89 with popup T-storms after 2:00 PM. Going for an early hike/walk, see if I can make some rehab progress on my left hip. But first 2 more cups of coffee.

Whatsamatta you? You don't like ads IN YOUR FACE?

Why only get paid once when you can double dip...and IF anyone notices, you just say "oops!".

Thanks for the heads-up on those.

Yup. I've never bought a new computer. They've all be either hand-me-downs from friends who just had to have the latest-greatest, or trade-in refurbs. Kinda like my approach to daily transportation. I refuse to pop for a tool that is designed to become obsolete, and computers are for the most part the textbook definition of planned-obsolescence. Closest I ever got to a new one was a build of a 95 machine from new components back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

The only program I have any use for whatsoever on PBS comes on at 8:00 PM...H. Johnson's weekly Saturday night Jazz Classics produced right here in the big swampy ATL. It's worth a listen if you like real jazz from the '40s through now. Hear it here: https://onlineradiobox.com/us/wabe/ He's one of the coolest people I've ever met, has been doing the show since 1978, and is still going strong at 88.