Great color scheme - make sure to paint the frame that sticks out chassis black. Really nice
Another 55 added to the bunch....... (1 Viewer)
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Nice work! Did you source that orange piping center seat material from ebay or elsewhere?
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You can be good/cheap/fast - pick any two...
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This ^^^. Good attention to detail...
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I bought the fabric at a company called Relicate.com. They had a lot of great products.
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Good and cheap is the way I choose to go, although cheap is definitely relative.
Cool thx!
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Well, it has been a whirlwind of a few weeks trying to complete this 55 for my daughter’s wedding. She wanted to drive off into the sunset in her now 55. It was short lived as I didn’t have time to shake down the engine and it has some problems. Here are a couple photos of the almost finished product.
Sure looks nice! What's going on with the engine?
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I finalized the rebuild a couple days ago. Durning the rebuild I found it had new custom domed pistons I added a Delta torque cam and had the head rebuilt. It’s got a Non-USA carb from City Racer and the original distributor and ignitor. I’m finding I have to have an excessive amount of timing to get it to idle, but it’s way too much for running as it pings like crazy. I backed the timing to where the pinging was minimal, but it still doesn’t want to run. I’m also having issues with it suddenly shutting off at idle so I believe I’m dealing with a couple issues. I believe the first issue is I’m starving for fuel. I’ll be changing the filter and will look to see if my tank has an issue. Secondly I think the idle solenoid may be intermittent, or the wire I’m using may be bad.
Please feel free to share any ideas.
With a more aggressive cam what are others setting their timing to?
Thanks in advance
Scott
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Pigs and weddings go together!!!
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Uh-oh, if the engine is out that sounds serious...
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Sorry, pictures were not in chronological order. Engine is still on for now. That being said it was an ordeal getting to that point, the machinist I took it to wasn’t overly attentive to details, cost me time and money cleaning up his mess.
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Yeah, got through break-in, motor sounds great mechanically. I haven’t started it since I got it home, hope I didn’t cause issue driving it back, probably should have towed it.
