"banjo cat ghost of oppo past" (brgdsm)
01/18/2016 at 14:13 • Filed to: Car Dreams
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"banjo cat ghost of oppo past" (brgdsm)
01/18/2016 at 14:13 • Filed to: Car Dreams | 2
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For a couple days I had been under the impression that, after storing it for the better part of a decade, my car’s engine had a catastrophic failure and I would never drive it again...
I dreamed it had snowed a bunch and I was finally up early enough to beat the plows. The DSM was running
perfect
. No odd quirks of a project car to hamstring my fun this time.
I’m driving around my old neighborhood when I come up on the snowy sort-of culdesac thing where the childhood mean-kid used to live- a nice big round expanse of asphalt, now covered in snow.
...and I just rip into the most perfect sno nuts.
Emboldened, I pop my upper torso out of the sunroof (s’actually just a tilting moon roof in real life, but—dreams).
Because of the magic of dreams I am now kneeling on the roof of the car as its still perfectly spinnng on its axis, chainsaw of the 4G63 buzzing away.
I tilted my head back and spread my arms wide, twirling away...
fin
PS
Happy ending- the “rebuilt” starter shorted while I was driving and stalled the car- which at the time sounded like the pistons had just seized or something horrible so I had been waiting days for this new mechanic to give me some very bad news which turned into great news. I mentioned check the starter first but I thought it was the end. New gasoline and a starter made it sound about as pretty as an overbored 4G can.
deekster_caddy
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
01/18/2016 at 14:47 |
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I had an engine that was making an awful banging noise. I had been hooning on a dirt road dukes of hazzard style and kicked a big rock into the oil pan, denting it to the point where it was being hit by the crank. I parked that car for several years. Finally needed a motor for something, pulled it out of this car, flipped it over and took the oil pan off to see what the banging was... found the dent, remembered what had happened, banged the pan back into it’s proper shape (or close enough), and poof - good motor!
A couple years after that, I finally got around to bringing the whole car back to life and now I have this:
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banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> deekster_caddy
01/18/2016 at 15:27 |
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That is freaking amazing. Also amazing you went Duke bothers in the four door Lesabre. Also awesome its a LeSabre, love that full body crease. I really, really want an Oldsmobile Electra for pretty much the same body theme. Also I have like a billion questions about efi conversions. Like is it hard.
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deekster_caddy
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
01/18/2016 at 16:20 |
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Thanks! Heh- Electra was a Buick. The Delta 88 and 98 were the Olds brothers of the LeSabre and Electra, with a similar body crease. By ‘Dukes of hazzard’ I meant lots of drifting, not jumping over Roscoe’s cruiser!
On EFI conversions... well the hardest part is building the fuel and timing map. This is an old Speed Pro system, which is now FAST - http://www.fuelairspark.com/ . They make a system called ‘Self Tuning EZ-EFI’ which can do a lot of the mapping for you, but it is also fairly limited in how much you can do with it. Our system is from the late 90's and took quite a few years to dial in the tuning. That said, we had pretty stringent requirements on having the tune just right. Not only was this the first BBB I know of that had a system like this, it was also a daily driver, 1/4 mile racer and occasional nitrous user... so everything had to be perfect!
The intake manifold we had custom plumbed for injectors by somebody else, we bought the dry throttle body from the same place: http://www.force-efi.com/ . He’s a FAST dealer and has been in the game for a long time, so knows what he’s doing. He also installed our nitrous rods directly in the intake manifold right under the throttle body, so there’s a lot of work in that intake manifold - really the heart of the whole conversion.
The electrical installation was a hack job the first time around, and in a different car. Not so much a hack job as a ‘we are new here’ job. It’s a lot of wires to run! The EFI installation in the old car it was in had an external fuel pump. I’d never go that route again, it would eat a fuel pump about once a year. In this car we replaced the gas tank and added an Aeromotive stealth pump. Also put a hatch in the trunk floor, just in case we ever do need to replace the pump here. It works very, very well and is quiet too!
Any questions, just ask.
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banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> deekster_caddy
01/18/2016 at 20:01 |
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It
IS
a Buick!
F*$k!
lol
I spent... a stupid amount of time, over the years, on the internets trying to figure that out. Of course to no avail because I likely had the names switched and google is actually pretty fucking dumb. I just deleted the GM stock photos last week.
Then the cool old dude at Autozone tells me he has one and it
is
an Oldsmobile so I walk away feeling satisfied
Thank you
, seriously, for clarifying that once and for all. I can now go on ebay and stalk like I always wanted to
I used to see a pearl white, ‘68 225 two door around town, lowered on chrome that actually went with the car. Chrome accent crease. Gorgeous. Its the only car of someone else’s I ever wanted to buy as it sat.
...aaand force-efi is bookmarked. I’ve wanted to dive into something like that with a Ford or Buick but my biggest concerns were how big a trouble is it to jive a dry throttle body and finding someone to weld in injector bungs. I really hope I find an Electra.