The Phoenix

easier to reach the manifold bolts put some kind of breaker bar on them plus its easier to work on i can use the tire as a seat while im working lol you know we are getting old

got my rear flares on now its a little bit more orig and not a frankenstein,,lol Brooklyn heard uncle steve was coming over as soon as we pulled in the driveway she hopped out ran in the house ,,, and came back out with a rag and armorall and started cleaning the interior,,,,,lol steve you need to come out more often the car would never get dirty..

hey you guys i ordered a fuel line but it i like a inch to long any way to shorten it with out cutting it and using a rubber fuel line?

Send it back and get the right one.

it would cost me more to ship it back than to just buy another one didnt you say you needed one

I need the one just like you need. It would be the same on my carb.

got all my gaskets yesterday, now its teardown time,,

With it being a little cooler out i decided to work on the ta a little a good braker bar and a can of wd-40 , and i cant forget throw in a dr pepper, the stock intake on this thing felt like lifting a ton of bricks the new intake and four barrel was almost half the weight, also i got the manifold off the passanger side with no bolts broke ? it looks like it would be easier to take out the drivers side engine bolt and jack up that side to get to the drivers side manifold reb you would know would it be more work? here is what it looks like after todays work session wonder how that old 350 will run with the set of hedmans and this eldebrock and 4 barrel,,,,,,

Should help it

got up this morning everybody was asleep went out and started working on the ta took all brackets, alt , sprayed two bottles of degreaser on the motor and taped everything up wen it was finished drying i gave everything a fresh coat of pontiac blue , wen it was all dry scraped my heads and put on my new intake gaskets and intake, Then i tackled the drivers side manifold I gave up half the day jacking up the motor untill the manifolds finally gave up, ha i win no bolts broken, put new plugs in and started to put the carb on only to find out advance had given me the wrong gasket so i sanded down a set of valve covers gave them a new coat of blue and then sanded the fins what you think reb, i think they turned out good ,THANK YOU all i have to do now is finish the headers and carb

They look good Duke.

it was to dark to snap some pics last night so took some today.......here is my headers i sanded the flanges this morning to get them ready....here is the other valve cover before cleaning off the flanges....and here is the exhaust that gave me so much trouble yesterday i need a sawsall and i would not have had so much trouble.. wish it was not raining i need to get this done and out on the road lol

hopefully no rain wen I get out of school I want to work on putting on the headers, out of school at two cant concentrate got to hear what it sounds like with headers,,,,lol got to stop and get my carb gasket on the way home also

They just opened a new advance by my house which I love because it means no more trips here and there to get parts, so far they have giving me wrong intake gaskets, wrong carb gaskets, and sold me a set of valve covers that they assured me would fit on the pontiac, does it really confuse people when i say I have a pontiac 350 I mean all the numbers are in the computer all they have to do is hit the correct button ,,, guess I will be driving around still looking for gaskets or wait till they come in 3 to 5 days, this sucks

went out to work on the phoenix today spent all morning trying to fanagle the pass side header in finally I won went to the drivers side fig it would be way worse and it slipped in easy as pie, started to put the valve covers on and the stock bolts are to short for the new covers at least they look pretty sitting on it, time to cool down with a pepper and go to advance wonder if they will have bolts,lol

Prolly not lol

well they did have the bolts so I finished up the valve covers and new plugs, got the headers on both sides and put my oil filter back on,
I need to put the starter back on
I need to plug the harness back in and make all the loom nice and neat
I need to put the alt back on
and put oil and hook up my throttle linkage and kickdown cable and she should be ready to fire up, busy day tom maybe thursday I can jump back on it

It's coming along!

at school daydreaming about smoking some tires,,,lol

worked on the car today went to advance and picked up a new starter, stopped by to say hi to steve, got home put everything together all looking nice and pretty. hit the key nothing. I was so mad this car is cursed beyond belief. I get out take a break and bout half hour later I go back out rip off my harness and throw my old one back on no wire loom just wires running from the firewall to the dizzy, alt and batt laying on top of my tire, I hook up the ground cable and walk to the door, put the key in it and she turns over, i get back out cause i noticed the carb spitting, so i pulled out my haynes (again thank you reb} and made sure all my wires on the dizzy were right i had 2 backwards fixed them and got back in the car hit the key and she fired right up, called it a night cause it was about ten then, .the car is alot quieter with these hedmans on it, but it is one step closer for the run just need to put my throttle cable and kickdown on and the doghouse and some sort of exhaust corey do you still have those short stubby mufflers you tried to put on kyles mustang if so what you want for them, ill post up a video of it running tom.

sorry bout the cam its just off my phone, I still need to adjust the carb hook my throttle cable up and make all the harness look pretty how does she sound and look feed back is great let me know guys?,,,

, here it is running, quiet i know what you guys think of my wiring lol

Looks good Duke..

got the motor set and ready now putting on the doghouse, what you think steve does my fender look straight?