It has been so long that the original thread I posted was closed.
I'm not sure how to post the link.....I'll get to that later. Plan is still roughly the same
Car as it sits today. The Hudson is the direction I think I'm going with the trim pieces, or at least some of them
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The Coupe is very cool, and I LOVE that Hudson!
Nice!
@Lane Anderson posted:The Coupe is very cool, and I LOVE that Hudson!
Thank you, that Hudson i super cool, I agree
@Michael Pickett posted:Nice!
Thanks!
Are you going to slam the coupe?
Uh...tell us more about the Superbird?
@edsnova posted:Uh...tell us more about the Superbird?
I had a buddy growing up. Started working in his parent’s grocery store at 12. (Back when you could do such things). The day after HS graduation, he paid cash for a Superbird at our local Chrysler-Plymouth dealer. (Back when you could do such things)
I had a sore neck for a week after he took me for a ride. That kind of torque w/o real headrests was a bad combination. I’m happy to relate Ralph nonetheless lived a long happy life. No idea what happened to the Superbird. I imagine he sold it after his few couple of speeding tickets.
@WNGD posted:Are you going to slam the coupe?
It seems low enough to me already......
@edsnova posted:Uh...tell us more about the Superbird?
It a recreation, if you google Scraptona, the car will come up. It has a Nascar motor in it, sounds like the hounds of hell have been loosed when goin down the road.
@WNGD posted:Oh, it is, they are.
I just thought with your comment about going after the Hudson and it looked really low, maybe just the bodywork.
The thing I like about the Hudson is the copper accents on the black.
oh and the viper engine, but that’s not going to happen😩
I think a Viper engine in the back would seriously mess up your weight distribution.
I decided to buy these blackout LED headlights from Flat 6, one arrived broken. No working on the car this weekend, my daughter is graduating high school.
I was under the car yesterday measuring something, so I did some cleaning.
definitely have to figure out an alternate plan for the exhaust.
When I ordered the rims, I was looking for same dimensions I had on the car currently. They got built as 16" vs 15", how this happened I don't know, it was a long time ago, pre covid for sure.
I ordered the same tires I had on the car. I get a call from the shop installing the new tires on the new rims, letting me know the rims were 16". Somehow they had managed to get one of the tires half on, miraculously without damaging the rim.
The rim sat, tire half on, half off until today. I have ordered new 16" tires, so it was time to get the tire off the rim. A sawzall and dremel, and off it is. Note the mop bucket to hold things up!
Here’s a screenshot of website, couldn’t figure how to post a link
Thanks. Here is the link.
http://billetwheel.com/alloyreplicas-com/
This link will bring you to the alloy replicas site.
"Somehow they had managed to get one of the tires half on, miraculously without damaging the rim."
That is really amazing. Must be one helluva rim!
I've had 16" rims on my Speedster since day 1 and I love 'em.
@LI-Rick posted:Thanks. Here is the link.
http://billetwheel.com/alloyreplicas-com/
This link will bring you to the alloy replicas site.
I'm sure I'll like the 16's as well. New tires arrive next week, so I'll know soon
@vegas356 posted:I'm sure I'll like the 16's as well. New tires arrive next week, so I'll know soon
You'll like the 16s because there are actual 16" summer compound tires available (rather than A/S). I've got Firestone Indy 500s in a 195/55R16, and they're a nice tire.
Since the car hasn't been running right, and it sat for quite a bit, I decided to rebuild the carbs. Fairly straighforward, most of the time spent was on cleaning.
And losing a part, I've searched online and can't seem to find an assembly video of an EMPI carb.
I lost this split washer in the pic, I can't really even see what it was there for. Does anyone know what this part of the carburetor is called, maybe a more specific search will yield a better result.
I don't know the name, but that split washer keeps the choke components in place. Ask me how I know. 
@Lane Anderson, thanks for the reply, that narrows it down. Also helps me eliminate the possible route of "who needs that" !
@Lane Anderson posted:I don't know the name, but that split washer keeps the choke components in place. Ask me how I know.
THE BRASS THINGY THREAD!!!
It’s back.
We even have a reward for the best brass thingie that goes missing.
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The only reason it's made from brass is to make it impossible to retrieve with a magnet should it fall into some dark, inaccessible recess.
EMPI — "the quality is going in before the name it is going on."
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Where do I claim the reward? Is it made out of brass?
They are part of the choke mechanism.
If you block off the choke mechanism I think you don't need them(but I'm not 100% sure).
I AM 100% sure that your car won't run right if one is missing. I am sure that it disappeared when you took the carb top off, 100%!
Empi carbs made today don't even have passages machined under them.
@DannyP, thanks for the reply.
It made me think of when I took the carb top off, I never checked the gasket. Sure enough I just went and checked, and there's the washer embedded into the gasket hole! I spent an hour looking for the damn thing the other day.
Nice work, @DannyP!
@vegas356 posted:@DannyP, thanks for the reply.
It made me think of when I took the carb top off, I never checked the gasket. Sure enough I just went and checked, and there's the washer embedded into the gasket hole! I spent an hour looking for the damn thing the other day.
You're lucky - @Lane Anderson is still looking for his "Brass Thingie" in his garage.
It's been several years now, for him, and still no "Thingie". ☹️
I miss my thingie! 
Dammit Lane, quit playing with your thingie.
@vegas356 posted:Where do I claim the reward? Is it made out of brass?
There once was a "Brass Thingie" award for Perseverance, which was to be a "traveling" award presented at the yearly Carlisle gathering and passed from recipient to recipient. I believe the last recipient was @edsnova (Lord knows, after so much time spent on his Spyder, he deserved it), but I have not been a Carlisle regular for a few years so I don't know where it is.
But!, and since I made the award in the first place to give to @Lane Anderson after his personal Thingie ordeal, this is what it looks like. BTW, That is a Gen-U-ine Porsche Pre-A Brass Thingie right there......
Of note: the brass thingie immortalized in this audacious plaque is not in any way related to the real original brass thingy that probably to this day is still hiding in Lane's garage somewhere. That part came flying out of his Weber carburetor while he was pretending to be a mechanic.
