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  1. Irishman999

    opinions on these wheels on this truck needed (pics)

    I like them, get a mother polish ball and go to town. I would put them on the SS.
  2. Irishman999

    must have modern creature comforts?

    Cars have way to much bullshit, thats why I drive the old shit. I cant say enough good about Dynamat though, I think its one of the best upgrades you can make to an old vehicle. Just lining the doors in my 85 made a world of difference. If you line your whole cab up the the windows your crew...
  3. Irishman999

    500hp 350 carbureted and 700r4

    I am really trying hard to not sound like an internet shithead keyboard warrior but when you mentioned supercharger and not being able to afford running 91 octane all the time I had to post something. Shop around on the online speed shops for forged pistons, compare that to...
  4. Irishman999

    LMC Truck

    I will say some bad stuff about LMC, they sell some of the cheapest bullshit I have ever seen. My bad experiences outweigh good ones, I would never order a body panel after some of the stuff that showed up. -The "Reproduction grill" for my 85 was around 300 bucks through LMC, I found pretty...
  5. Irishman999

    supercharging your truck for cheap

    Sense* How is your v8 power coming along? Guy from Vancouver- I am excited to see what happens. I did see a video once of a cobbled together turbo setup on a small block, only difference was it was a huge turbo off a commercial truck engine and it was really hacked together. Point is...
  6. Irishman999

    Debris in motor- fell into Distributor hole

    You might as well just plan on a complete teardown, that chunk of gasket is sure to find its way into an oil galley. I think that year is the single year all pickup tubes did not have wire mesh screens. Its going to find its way into the crank and block flow to everything and put a bunch of...
  7. Irishman999

    454 TBI Unit for Conversion

    God damn it dude, I just threw all that stuff away. In all honesty though it is just junk, that adapter is so god damn thick if you tried to use it with any after market intake manifold your air cleaner housing will contact the hood. As of right now I have a regular performer intake, not a...
  8. Irishman999

    GM Square Body is RockAuto's Forum of the Month!

    I contacted Rockauto and put them in touch with Shaggy with no other intention than getting our forum featured as forum of the month. Not sure how many years its been now but it finally happened :wtf:
  9. Irishman999

    squarenut from Germany

    I know you from 67-72chevytrucks, it only took one picture to figure it out. That truck is beautiful.
  10. Irishman999

    New member from AZ.

    I dont care what the Native Americans call it, it will always be Firebird. We are stopping by Tuscon to get my brother in law and taking the scenic view down I-10. Im not coming home without at least one drag slick and meeting Ron Capps. We made out pretty good last year, we got 2 pisons, 2...
  11. Irishman999

    New member from AZ.

    Your C-10 got my blood flowing, funny you mention all the front end work because I am currently doing the exact same shit to my 90 454SS and its paint is ugly. Who cares about the body, make sure it burns tires and stops before looks. A couple years ago I was delivering animal food product...
  12. Irishman999

    Driver4r's Monte

    When is it going to be tearing up the dragstrip? I have already messed up a set of tires with the black SS truck.
  13. Irishman999

    Replace accelerator pump during carb rebuild?

    Every kit I have ever got came with a new rubber seal thingy.
  14. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    If you read back there was a rocker hitting the inside of my valve covers I got to clear aftermarket rockers, nothing is an exact science. Something will always give you problems. What my machinist suggested is that the resistance wore our the posh rod tips making the little hole big enough...
  15. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    Gen VI engines had oil system revisions. The factory sending unit is down on the bottom of the block on the front on the drivers side. There is also a threaded port on the top of the bellhousing on the drivers side which is where I connected the mechanical gauge when I was breaking it in...
  16. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    I just herd back from BTM custom machine- He said the lifter thing mentioned before could have been caused by the ends of the pushrods getting wore down and making the hole bigger letting more oil through. That makes perfect sense considering the valve cover was stopping it from going all the...
  17. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    So what your saying is my oil pressure sending unit thats screwed into the front of the block on the bottom drivers side is actually measuring FLOW coming from the the oil pump in the back of the engine? Is there a check valve I missed between the two main oil galleys on a big block? This is...
  18. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    I dont see how its going to create oil pressure with oil gushing out of the holes in the lifter bores. From everything I have read and looked at on my block the oil goes in the block straight to the cam shaft area, from there it goes through galleys to the cam bearings and another circuit goes...
  19. Irishman999

    hello from new york

    I think its awesome you just decided to build a tow truck with no intentions of trying to put it to work. Its a beautiful truck.
  20. Irishman999

    Harbor Freight Tool/Product Review

    Look through the snap-on book, the last one I had included the country it was manufactured in next to the product.
  21. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    Run the lifter scenario explanation by me one more time, not sure what you mean exactly. Just curious, do you guys think I will have good oil pressure if I totally remove a lifter from the bore?
  22. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    Gen VI blocks have oil cooler ports built into the block on the same machined level the oil pan bolts to. Mine are blocked off, I am currently running no oil cooler even though I have a brand new sandwich adapter kit ready to go. There is two check valves in the area you are talking about, the...
  23. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    You are totally on the same wavelength as I am, there was enough oil gushing out of that one rocker I remember making this mental note, "if I have any oil pressure issue I will check out this rocker gushing oil". There is way to much oil coming out for it to be a normal thing. I wont pull all...
  24. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    Its not the sender, I bought two of those MF'ers just to be sure. I have a mechanical gauge too, I might go plug it in and check it out. Most likely I will just put the new electronic one in and hope it fixes my issue, if not I will keep speculating about it on the internet and rebuilding engines.
  25. Irishman999

    Fresh big block with low oil pressure at idle.

    Anyone know how a oil pressure gauge in a 90 is constructed? Is there something mechanical that could be worn out causing like a dead spot in the gauge? It hits a point about 20 psi where it just drops to zero, it did the same thing with the old engine and I drove it around like that with...

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