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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #660 on: June 07, 2012 - 06:01:15 AM »
I bet you were grinning from ear to ear on endorfins from the 300 mile drive in that bad boy!! Really turned out nice!




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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #661 on: June 16, 2012 - 05:16:27 PM »
:iagree:

And that is a way cool number plate :bigsmile: :2thumbs:

ordered that plate back in 87 I think. Glad I hung onto it
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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #662 on: June 16, 2012 - 05:22:23 PM »
Took the car back down to the bay area, got the alignment done and an estimate on getting the paint issues fixed. So I put about 600 miles on it in less than a week. Drives a lot better with the new alignment setup. I ended up 4 degrees positve caster, .5 degrees negative camber and about .020" toe in. I want to spend some time working on adjusting the shocks. Car runs a little hot on the freeway but I hope I can address that with closing up the gaps in the radiator support and the area between the grille and the hood. I am way overboard on cooling the trans though, might have to go to a smaller cooler or add a thermostat for the cooler lines.
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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #663 on: June 24, 2012 - 05:45:48 PM »
Went to the Capital City Mopars show yesterday and won a trophy in the under construction class! So I guess people liked it, warts and all  :woo: I ran into a couple of members of this site too. It was nice talking to you guys.  It was a nice day, not to hot - which is odd for this show. Usually it's over 100 this time of the year.
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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #664 on: June 24, 2012 - 08:08:46 PM »
Cuda looks spectacular, great that your getting to enjoy the drive  :woo:
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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #665 on: June 24, 2012 - 10:45:08 PM »
Went to the Capital City Mopars show yesterday and won a trophy in the under construction class! So I guess people liked it, warts and all  :woo: I ran into a couple of members of this site too. It was nice talking to you guys.  It was a nice day, not to hot - which is odd for this show. Usually it's over 100 this time of the year.

Congratulations Eric.

Your car looked really good when we met at Ohlone.
I didn't make it out there. Was working on mine.

Any chance you took some pics of the show?
I've seen that big fancy camera you had before.   
Mike, Fremont, CA.


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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #666 on: September 17, 2012 - 02:39:25 PM »
Mike,

I don't think I took more than 5 pictures at the Ohlone show. Sorry

So I've finally finished one part of my instrument cluster, I like this a lot better than the previous piece of wood with gauges in it....I need to find some black screws or just fill the screw heads up with paint



wish it didn't take me so long to get stuff done on this thing, I need to invest in some more tools....
« Last Edit: September 17, 2012 - 02:55:58 PM by ntstlgl1970 »
70 Cuda, 7.0L Gen-III Hemi, Viper T56 w/9310 gearset, 3.91's, Megasquirt MS3x v3.57, Innovate wideband, Firm Feel upper arms, torsion bars, springs and strut rods, QA1 DA shocks. I did everything on this car except the fancy paint stuff and I drive it...and I can't seem to stop messing with it....

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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #667 on: September 17, 2012 - 09:58:30 PM »
Hey Eric looking good. Do you have a pic of the cluster from the door? I'm still on the fence about guages. Rallye or aftermarket. How's the mega squirt running?

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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #668 on: March 27, 2013 - 08:09:51 PM »
 :bigsmile:
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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #669 on: March 28, 2013 - 01:17:01 AM »
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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #670 on: March 28, 2013 - 11:55:41 PM »
Hope to see you at Ohlone again. June is creeping up fast.
Mike, Fremont, CA.


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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #671 on: April 03, 2013 - 01:37:00 AM »
:bigsmile:
After not posting in many months, I'm trying to get a bunch of stuff buttoned up for Spring Fling. I've had to have the trunk lid repainted because part of the paint failed. I'm supposed to pick it up tomorrow.
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Re: First serious road trip
« Reply #672 on: April 08, 2013 - 05:01:17 PM »
After not posting in many months, I'm trying to get a bunch of stuff buttoned up for Spring Fling. I've had to have the trunk lid repainted because part of the paint failed. I'm supposed to pick it up tomorrow.

Got the trunk lid back and it looks good. Nice to not have all that messed up paint going on back there
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Re: Willow Springs or Bust
« Reply #673 on: April 08, 2013 - 05:25:26 PM »
Looks nice

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Re: Willow Springs or Bust
« Reply #674 on: April 29, 2013 - 01:05:01 PM »
In a couple of week you will be doing this!



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