Ole Yellow getting some work

Mama has issued a decree to slow up on the deer harvest, freezer is reaching critical mass, and 5 weeks of season left. So catching up on some projects. I’ve been running a fairly rare P type, 4 spider cone posi, 3.55 ratio. Had plans to swap in an overdrive transmission, but seems that isn’t happening any time soon and I’m tired of the rpms at highway speeds. So I had a good O type 3.23 posi in reserve. It’s getting freshly sealed and a little paint. Will only drop me about 250 rpm, but every little bit helps. We’ve had everything from 2.78 to 4.10 in this car over the years, and the older I get the less I like hearing an engine buzzing on the 4 lane. Do still have the 2.78 in the shed, but it’s a one tire fire, open differential and just can’t bring myself to go there [emoji6]Attachment 478357


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Nice. I got tired of my loud exhaust fairly quickly when humming down the highway. Of course you could just eat more venison less veggies…lol.

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Nice. I got tired of my loud exhaust fairly quickly when humming down the highway. Of course you could just eat more venison less veggies…lol.

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Yessir, one of the first major mods I did after I got it home was an exhaust swap. Everyone around here thinks I lost my mind doing that. It had a super nice, high $ mandrel bent 3 inch exhaust with race flowmasters coming off hooker super comp long tube headers. Sounded great until you got on the highway, then it droned so loud you had to yell to carry on a conversation with passengers. I went back to factory high performance cast dual exhaust manifolds and a Gardner reproduction full exhaust. These cars had a fairly elaborate system from the factory with chambered tailpipes. Has a unique sound that I wanted back. Probably knocked it back over 50 horses, but now it’s pleasant going down the road. Also took off a high rise air gap intake manifold and barry grant stage 3 holley carb for a performer intake and quadrajet. Probably another 50 horse cut there, but got an electric choke back, and nearly doubled highway mileage. I’m all about just cruising now. Still probably around 400 horse. 30 over 455 with aluminum heads and roller cam.


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3.55 on the floor. Now if the other one would just jump in…
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I agree with the cruising now. So much more enjoyable rides that way. Maybe for Christmas the magic elves will install the other for you.

Good looking ride

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I agree with the cruising now. So much more enjoyable rides that way. Maybe for Christmas the magic elves will install the other for you.

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Got the hard part over. Once you get all 4 bolts into the upper and lower control arms and a nut started on them without it falling off the jack,
It’s all downhill from there [emoji1303]
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Little people….:Rofl. Merry Christmas Jeff

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Little people….:Rofl. Merry Christmas Jeff

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Merry Christmas friend! [emoji4]


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Buttoned it up today and went for about a 30 mile spin. Like I predicted, no miracles, I can run reasonably comfortably at 65 now.
Man, modern overdrive transmissions have just spoiled me.
Still sounds like too much rpm going down the road. How I ever was happy driving 4 series gears on the road when I was younger baffles me.
My Dad used to drive 25 miles each way to work in one of these cars with 4.56 gears. Then drive to the drag strip and race every weekend. Opened her up a couple times, still running out of fuel, will hiccup about 80 mph at WOT then pull again. Looks like my next project is opening up the carb and putting in the high performance needle and seat sitting on the bench. Always something!


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Good job. There’s always something.

Finally aroundtuit. Pulled carb off Saturday morning and put in the high flow, larger diameter needle and seat, and ethanol rated accelerator pump plunger that I bought about a year ago. Was a little worried I’d tear a gasket since its been a long time since I was in there and didn’t have a replacement. But was running the bowl empty pretty quick under wide open throttle. Made a loop to town and back, made several pulls wot in high gear. Pulls strong past 120 or so without a bobble, yay. But also realizing my nerves ain’t what they used to be [emoji38]
Starts getting a little floaty past 100 and I was plenty ready to back out of it.


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Pulls strong past 120 or so without a bobble, yay. But also realizing my nerves ain’t what they used to be [emoji38]

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I got a chuckle out of that comment. Gotta wonder how much is nerves vs getting a little wiser with age?

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I got a chuckle out of that comment. Gotta wonder how much is nerves vs getting a little wiser with age?

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Yep I still get a little chill thinking about how dangerous some of the stuff I did back in the day was…
Definitely made guardian angel earn their pay.


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