TB removal and then some!!!

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by Mystic ZR-1

Hey?
It's raining there?
Tom, be careful, Big John just wants to
see ya get your car all wet! 😋
He tryed to get me too...

Paul showed up and parked next to me!

[BigJohn]

Tom,
You missed another cruise!
Mystic ZR-1 and I saved you a parking spot.

[Roadster]

John,
Looks like it was a good turnout...you really saved that spot for more sitting space..lol

Ok have to test my memory, is the roadster in front of your vehicles a Morgan, or ???
That looks like it is in great shape. And also quite a variety of cars...
BTW, needed sunglasses to view, as the reflection off the Z was too much for me to handle..lol


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[Mystic ZR-1]

Believe it's an Excalibur?
Tasteless 80s retro of a 30s special on a
Ford Torino chassis...
As Nancy Reagan said, "just say no"....

[Roadster]

I hear you there, but from here it looked decent, although couldn't view the entire car....maybe I should take off the sunglasses...lol

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[Roadster]

Been busy lately with the 74, haven't done much with the 94 until today. Also slight back complications slowed me down some and recently started a new FB page for the 454 during the early to mid 70's. May also be including 396/402's and 427's from previous years, as we now have some of those owners who have joined the Group.

So when you mess up, you mess up and I messed up....went to remove the elbow from the front of the plenum and it did not go well.....chipped some of the paint on the plenum in the process and the elbow broke off. So part of the rim is still attached to the plenum......oh well!!!!
Did a touchup and have to figure out how to plug that hole, so far the caps don't want stay in there......so have to give this some thought so I don't mess anything else up....lol

new size caps came in...3/8"


not too much of a difference between the 3/8" and the 1/4" that I can tell...


the dreaded busted up elbow extension...I would have been better off leaving it in place.....lol

when you mess up, you mess up.....

[Roadster]

I am not too sure how good this paint will hold up in the future.....so there may be another plenum pull next year....lol
Don't know if I should take a chance and try to get the rest of the "tube" out of the plenum.....hmmmmm....

the mess up...

the touch up....not NCRS....but good enough.....

also gave me the opportunity to go over some of the pipes....

[QB93Z]

Your paint job looks great Tom. Get that ZR-1 back together and bring it to WAZOO WMD. We can get the tube remnants out.


Jim

[Roadster]

Originally Posted by QB93Z

Your paint job looks great Tom. Get that ZR-1 back together and bring it to WAZOO WMD. We can get the tube remnants out.


Jim

Thanks for the compliment Jim, still have to finish up on the TB, which I am doing tomorrow. Also responded on the WAZOO WMD thread a few minutes ago.

received the SS bolts from Jerrys last week and installed today on the MAP bracket....so some other progress was also made today.....lol

[Roadster]

As you know I have working on and off on the TB, well today I wanted to see if my idea with the dry moly lube worked out better than using the dag. Answer, not really. So I can still see daylight through the secondary blades, but I now have sort of a "dag" foundation on the blades and in the bore. No one to give up (just a glutton for punishment, lol) I will order another container of dag and this time apply it better than before learning from my previous application.
So the process continues......

inside the bores, still taped up...

tape removed and you can see the line of the dry moly lube in the bore...

and on the blades...

daylight....not good.....

ugh.....lol