Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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08/29/22 10:16 AM
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Good luck! I hope you get it out again...you sure have had a time w/ this car lately.
CHIP '70 hemicuda, 575" Hemi, 727, Dana 60 '69 road runner, 440-6, 18 spline 4 speed, Dana 60 '71 Demon, 340, low gear 904, 8.75 '73 Chrysler New Yorker, 440, 727, 8.75 '90 Chevy 454SS Silverado, 476" BBC, TH400, 14 bolt '06 GMC 2500HD LBZ Duramax
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Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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08/29/22 10:48 AM
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Yes....And I think I have a trans brake valve body around, so if I can find it, I would also like to add this in and launch at 3k to see what it will really do. I will probably end up doing that over the winter, but I have not had it out with the efi on it...So this will be interesting.
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Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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08/29/22 10:56 AM
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And don't forget last years carnage....One broken Monoque wheel, one Firecore Distributer, One set of Hemi wires, a pile of under dash wiring that melted down....etc..
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Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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08/30/22 10:15 AM
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New radiator and custom shroud....No goofing around this time...Thanks to the guys at Wizard Cooling.
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Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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08/30/22 11:22 AM
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What a sweet hot rod. Good luck! Thanks....I have new front wheels & tires on it I should have posted as well....Maybe later. Car is coming around, just need to keep going. The plan is to buy some rear wheels and try out 315 drag radials and another set just for street tires.
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Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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[spoiler][/spoiler] Get rid of those junky seats. Put something comfortable in that beautiful car. There in is part of the problem....I have a Kirkey seat I bought for it....Well, it hits the roll bar. I have to throw these back in for now as they clear everything. IF...I decide to put a full cage in it this winter, then yes a set of Kirkey's will go in it.
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Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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09/02/22 08:30 AM
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So last night I got some more wiring done, and I have to say, I really do not like the Painless kits...Wires are too short, they are wired weird, use weird fuses, and for the money, I think the alternatives are much better. Luckily I ordered lots of extra wire when I bought their tripple relay harness. I should have built my own harness, and just bought the relays. Either way, its all coming out this winter or next for a nice Leash System...
As it got late last night, I looked at putting the seats back in, and for the life of me, the bolt holes in the floor would not line up with just the holes in the seat, even though when I got the car in '95, the seats were flat on the floor with lots of shims. I put them on brackets cause I was a lot skinnier then and needed a little more height....So trying to mount them without the brackets would require all new holes and a crap ton of spacers.....Well I pulled that Kirkey back out of the Lawn Ornament, and took a shot at it again....That actually mounted up semi -ok...Its up hard against the roll bar, and a little more straight up than I like, but its not bad. Roll bar has to go, but I think this will work for now....Only issue is, I only have the one!
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Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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Well, I wasn't sure I was going to make it to the biggest car show of the year that is local to me....At 10pm last night, I was going to throw in the towel...The wiring was just killing me. The painless kit I bought was way short, the new fans I got from Wizard didn't come with pig tails, and the mess under the dash is bad...
I put in a separate 4ga 150 resettable breaker just for the entire cooling system. I did not use that stupid weird 60a fuse from Painless. I figure the new fans need between 20-30A each plus what ever the water pump needs...And a weird fuse like that is going to leave me stranded.
Summit has these really nice resettable breakers that are perfect. ran the 4ga to that, and everything off there....Well I have to say, at 10pm last night, I made a semi cognitive decision to keep going....even if it was nowhere.
At 11:30, I put power to the system and had the water pump working where the fuel pump1 was supposed to be, and no fuel pump, but I had fans on the high setting only since I wired low into a 185 stat..Tinlered with it one more time, now had the water pump for fuel pump1 and fuel pump working under fuel pump 2 and fans on high cool....It all I needed....Except....It was all untested....And I could not test any of it with the engine running that late at night. Neighbors would collectively murder me.
Sooo I filled the system with water, and no leaks, and pumped it down a few times on just the pump alone.....Put the battery on charge, filled the darn near empty fuel tank, trimmed the tree blocking my exit, and moved the tractor bucket out of the way with the tractor....I also hooked the truck to the trailer, and put in place.
Went to bed at 12:24am and woke up around 5am and couldn't sleep.....Should I trailer it or drive it 35 miles to a show that you have to wait in line about 1hr to get into and killed the cooling system last year?
"Don't think Maverick, just do".....I climbed into the car, lit the fire, and left for the show at 6::40am.....
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Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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Pics man.
Keep on keeping on Sooo...I did get the one spare Kirkey seat I have to fit without chopping much. I cut one of the brackets they make for the seats down a little and spent the better part of an afternoon test fitting it. What a PIT nuts....Its a little more upright than I like, but it fit and I can deal with it for now. It is mounted very solid as the last bolt went right thru the damn flat steel drive shaft loop....
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Re: Almost Have the Cuda Going Again!
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So....35 miles to a car show with all new front wheels, front radial tires, old bias ply pro street rear tires, a totally untested cooling system, enough wire nuts & zip ties to open a Walmart and sell off what I dropped on the floor.....And some wires I couldn't figure out what they were and left dangling under the dash.
Did it make it.....Hell yeah! Even stopped for breakfast...Damn I need a cup holder of some kind......But a huge shout out to Wizard cooling on the awesome fans and shroud, and Griffin Thermal Rad for the awesome new rad....It was in the low 60's this morning and car got all the way down there at 149* where I parked and waited for the line to start moving....An hour later, I was in and parked, and highest temp was 152*...And would actually cool down further at an idle.
Thanks to the Mechman alternator for holding 13.3 vdc at idle with all this crap running....Just awesome, no issues at all...
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