Here's a direct quote from Kelly about the steel hardness:
"This gutter steel is made from some sorcery. It's so incredibly hard, it smoked my flap wheel in less than a minute. I have to cut through each side of the spot welds with a cutoff...
Its been a busy couple of days. Some updates and questions: lists as usual.
1. I got the drive shafts, pinion flanges, and pinion seals all installed. Looks good. under there. I am stoked to have that all set up. getting one step closer to...
What are we drinking tonight?
I just polished off a bottle of wine and was deciding if I should go to bed or work on finishing off this bottle of Whistlepig…
Haven't put these in the registery yet, will get to that.
Made a 13 hour trip yesterday to get a pretty original and not terribly crusty 71 to got along with the 2 72s I drug home over the last year.
Got a lot of work ahead, hopefully will...
As you can tell, the interior is a lovely place to be.
These wee rigs are so great. Loving be back in the auto, makes commuting to work and daily errands so easy (when compared to flogging around the 1HZ manual!)
You could eat a meal off some...
That Sucks. Too many shops start and dont finish 😡. Cant even get anyone to work on my stuff. At least its in good hands now and it wont take 4 years and will be correct 🤔🧐😉😘
Hello,
Your pictures suggest that.
Make sure you get the right ECU (manual transmission) and, if possible, an H151F transmission.
1FZ-powered 70 Series had the transmission lever some 1 or 2 in. further back that 3F-powered ones.
Juan
I admittedly know nothing about this subject but in 10 minutes of reading it seems that would be the worst place to put them; although IMHO they would look best there. It also seems, again from 10 minutes of "research", that they don't help much...
I ran an LS engine on my pig and just removed a few of the cross bars to reduce restriction and never felt like I needed more air flow.
Kind of tell form this angle..
Awesome video! That guy is great - been watching a lot of his stuff too, but haven’t seen that one.
Pulled a pic off of SLOW71. He’s got the earlier style hood that looks like it was made for louvers. I count 31 on each side…
Later hoods have...
Had a little bit of time this morning and drilled out those two rivets from the backside of the tire carrier. I'm sure you are all dying to see what the internals look like. 😂
Throwing the three circled pieces in the "to be powder coated"...