Shitty Stairs

Shitty Stairs

Sophia

Update

Nothing new to tell so far, I started school full time and I am working on top of that so the shark has been neglected. Not to mention a serious lack of capital in the Shark account. If I ever do get some free time I'm going to work on the 4 wheel alignment. It's something I've been wanting tackle, since I actually drove the shark up n down the driveway the rear camber settled and it's crazy over adjusted. I have found some good references online on how it's to be done. I may actually do a step by step photo guide and submit it to C3VR for proofing before publishing it. Of course it will be on the cheap and similar to the power brake bleeder that you can make with the garaden sprayer.

Fired Up

I fired her up yesterday! Sounds freaking awesome. The 383 runs perfect, there's a lot of tweaking and tinkering left to do though untill she's right. I've been pushing pretty hard to get to this point and I'm going to continue untill I can get her to on the road a bit to work out the bugs that I know are there.

Body Drop

Happy New Year! To kick off 2008 I got the body back on the frame. I was seriously getting sucked into to every little detail and just finally decided enough is enough already. Everything went real smooth getting the body back on it, no issues at all. The front bumper was acting up a little but a couple of taps with the hammer and an all put that to rest. Still got an enormous amount of work to do but getting the body back on is a huge motivator for me.

After doing a bit research I'm looking at a crankcase evacuation setup and a vaccum reserve bottle for the ride the bottle will be a nice component for making sure the brake and headlights will have neccessary vaccum. I know they don't increase vaccum but to have a constant supply should address any issues. Decided against going with a common PCV setup. I have nice Sanderson hot rod headers a 2.5 mandrel bent exhaust and talk about free flowing mufflers there aint nothing inside them that I saw that would case any backpressure. I will continue to do my homework on this but I'm alredy kind of sold on this setup so it's going to take something signifigant to change my mind.

A little progress

Well I'm getting a little closer to dropping the body back on her, see the updateed roller pics. Just won my 409 stainless mandrel bent x pipe exhaust system off ebay (sounds a lot cooler than it really is), complete with mufflers and hangers. Someone was trying to be a slicky boy and sneak bid me out of it, well guess what? It's mine bitch! I really need to find the other reducer I misplaced(lost)and get a couple of down tubes and I should be good to go. Dropping the engine was a little anti-climactic. I opted not to get the Hayes clutch, a couple factors made this an easy decision. The clutch that was in it looked brand new and I didn't have the heart to throw it out. And after getting some advice from a transmission mechanic about the weak points being the tires for traction and possible problems with the clutch assembly due to pedal pressure I just couldn't bring myself to spend the money right now, it will be a decision made later based on how it works as is. Got a lot of little tweaking to do before the body goes, I'm going to try and get as much done as possible before putting the body back on but I'm almost there.

Shark Bait

UPDATE! Things are running about as smoothly as I could hope. Today is a clean up day. Focus for the next 2-4 weeks will be brakes, steering, trans cleanup, new hayes clutch and engine install. I still need to work out the water pump issue. I was recommended a CSI water pump by a local shop and turns out it don't work. Which reminds me I need to call them and get a status. I will update photo's as I progress.