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Success, i think! All distributor gaskets are not created equal! I put in a different from inventory that measured a little thicker than the one that came off. It was oil soaked. Seeing that made me not pull the intake. I let it idle in the garage for a while to burp the cooling system. After a 4 mi...

Yeah, Ive cleaned it a few times. The area it leaks from is towards the passenger side. Oil pressure sending line (copper) is clean and dry. I bought the new distributor because it seemed to be in that area. It was also something i had recently fucked with, so it seemed more reasonable than an intak...

Its been on there aince 2011. If I have to reseal an intake after 13 years, i guess that isnt terrible. Im just under the gun with the Bair's Corvette show on Saturday.

Unbelievable to throw your life away, plus the people he ran over, for over doing donuts.

Team Tiresmoke was well represented in Steve Stanley's post on FB.

Test drive complete.. oil leak remains. Passenger side rear of the engine. UGH. It's not the oil pressure sender, thats dry. I can't tell if its coming up between intake and distibutor, or if it is somehow leaking directly out the back of the intake. So I think my next step is pulling/re-sealing the...

I figured I would start a new thread for this year. I changed the oil + filter with Pennzoil 10W30 Full Synthetic + AC Delco PF454 just before going to KMP on 5/8. Other than that, I haven't touched anything on it since last fall. First pass of the season was a very nice 12.18 @ 110.8 MPH. There was...

I got my new radiator modified by Steve McBride.. I think this will work better. I need to find a different hose. Worst case, I might have to have Steve shorten it up a bit, though.

I bought a new distributor off ebay a couple months back. Seems they are clearing out the mechanical tach-drive distributors. A couple years ago, they were $199 on ebay, I got one for $109 + shipping. Brand new. The guts look just like an MSD distributor, which also means I don't have points anymore...

The disorganization was off the charts. Are we running 1/4 or 1/8 mile? Why did we have three different announcements about it? Why is this even a question on Wednesday night? We're gonna start calling classes to the staging lanes like a Saturday? It was clear to me that ownership/management opened ...

I just pulled the Chevelle into the lift bay. It'll get an oil change over lunch today, because I spent too much time working on Maliboost last night. Should be a good night, I've heard from a few friends who aren't regulars who are planning on going out tonight. I think Team Tiresmoke will be well ...

This weekend I started tackling the new radiator + fan install. The old radiator +2fans that came with the car were just not up to the task. Even when was at Dragway 42, it got up to 200 and was a pain to cool. I have limited room to work with, so I got a Proform radiator with the same height/width,...

Wow, those turned out really nice. C4 seats seem to be notoriously bad, almost every one i see for sale has failed upholstery.

Effort wise, it's honestly not terrible. Its a manual-steering box, not like a power-steering box with no power. I'll take the video game look! Driving around with the O2 sensor unplugged killed it, so I threw in a replacement and have good data again. My tuning changes paid dividends! Chris and I t...

I'd really like to do the Charlotte Autofair, but I'm busy that week. Georgia in November sounds pretty nice compared to Ohio in November.