What have you done to your square lately??

[WebMonkey]

Finally put my steering wheel in

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beauty steering wheel.

nice seat cover work/fabricating.

 

[Vbb199]

New Flowmaster 40 series!
Now I can get my exhaust all welded up and STOP driving around town with open headers lol lol

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[Vbb199]

Here's the old blowmaster

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[RedBeard_83]

beauty steering wheel.

nice seat cover work/fabricating.

Thank you , can't take credit for the seat though , it was my idea and my wife made it happen .

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[Vbb199]

After finishing up my cat bypass with the Flowmaster, it's looking like I'm gonna need another end exhaust piece.
(after muffler)

It wraps over axle and dumps at the side of the truck.
Mines got rusty holes in spots in it, pitted, and in general just beyond usable.

I was looking at RA's walker exhaust in the pic.

I and others have had success as far as fitment goes on other walker products, decent price, machine welded seams (doesn't apply here)

What's everyone's thoughts?

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The OEM Exhaust is nice, 3x.062 pipe, nice, thick steel.
While I hate to get rid of the oem, I just feel like it's a hack job patching it all up

 

[Poppy 87]

After finishing up my cat bypass with the Flowmaster, it's looking like I'm gonna need another end exhaust piece.
(after muffler)

It wraps over axle and dumps at the side of the truck.
Mines got rusty holes in spots in it, pitted, and in general just beyond usable.

I was looking at RA's walker exhaust in the pic.

I and others have had success as far as fitment goes on other walker products, decent price, machine welded seams (doesn't apply here)

What's everyone's thoughts?

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The OEM Exhaust is nice, 3x.062 pipe, nice, thick steel.
While I hate to get rid of the oem, I just feel like it's a hack job patching it all up

I've used some Walker stuff over the years with success. Make sure that the pipe is mandrel bent. By the way, how long had the previous flowmaster been on your truck?

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[Vbb199]

I've used some Walker stuff over the years with success. Make sure that the pipe is mandrel bent. By the way, how long had the previous flowmaster been on your truck?

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I assume it be original? I didn't put that on there, dad didn't either, and he bought it a couple years after 1989. So Idk where it came from.

My 87 parts burb also had the identical flowmaster on it.

Might've posted here, maybe not.
A month ago, I was driving and down shifted and accelerated really hard, and following that it sounded like someone jammed a potato in my exhaust, and gradually, power loss got SO BAD, I couldn't even go up a hill or get above 20 mph, I had to limp it to a DG parking lot, assuming it to be the cat finally packed up and crapped out, I had dad bring my Sawzall to me (I was a couple cities away), I sawed it off after the cat, tied the remainder exhaust up with Dollar general rope, and drove home.
This past weekend I finally decided to check codes, finding out one of them was EGR related.
Figured a plugged up cat wasn't helping the situation, so I unbolted it and pried it off.

Cat was definitely packed, but I also discovered after fishing the rest of the exhaust out that the blowmaster (that's its new name) exploded, it was all puffy, cracked, and pieces of the chamber was rattling around inside lol.
Im sure all of that is a total performance thief, so I'm revamping the exhaust and just deleting the cat with a straight 3" pipe after the crossover, running a new Flowmaster 40, and I guess now.... A new end tailpipe... She should sound real good.

 

[Vbb199]

All in all, this has been a total hamster wheel of putting out fires over and over to try to regain that 333hp the freshly overhauled, 6 year abandoned 89 r1500 made when I first got it running like a champ after it sat by the woods.

For a short month after all the hassle I went thru going thru fuel, brakes, ignition and all from a stand still, she'd spin both rear 31x10.5x15 tires if I stomped the gas.
Truck really had some power.

But ever since then things I DIDN'T touch or replace are coming to kick my ass.

AC r12->r134 conversion ended up revealing new issues such as a bad clutch fan, and while washing the condenser out, I gusss I knocked dirt loose and caused the radiator to start pissing. I replaced that with a all aluminum radiator and new clutch fan.

Truck had ALWAYS maintained 160°, the hottest I've seen it (100 +/- 10 degrees outside) AC blasting, it will get up to 180, but earlier today, the thermostat scared the **** out of me and got stuck all the way until 220, I had the truck in neutral about to kill the ignition, then it finally released and got back to 160, held it.

Got home, truck cooled, checked coolant, no leaks. Lol.
So I need a new thermostat I guess!

What keeps happening as I'm saying is... The **** I DIDN'T tamper with or replace keeps coming and kicking me in the nads.

No worries, just when it's all said and done, I will have turned every single f'n bolt on the truck.

How foolish of me to think that the truck that used to carry my little ass (me and dad when I was a little guy) from NC to Maine, and everywhere in between wouldn't give me issues after being parked for 6 years.

It was a well maintained truck when dad drove it. So I can't blame him.
I just fault (and fling **** at him) for parking such a reliable truck by the woods
He did that about a year after dropping the HO350 crate motor in.

 

[Catbox]

Sent the boy to the junkyard today.
He went to fetch a set of L29 big block heads for the engine in the truck.
They will raise the compression by a full point as well as having way better flow capabilities than the peanut ports that are on it now.

He also found some other cool stuff for the junk in te driveway.

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[idahovette]

Way to go DAD, you taught him well!!!!!

 

[Vbb199]

Sent the boy to the junkyard today.
He went to fetch a set of L29 big block heads for the engine in the truck.
They will raise the compression by a full point as well as having way better flow capabilities than the peanut ports that are on it now.

He also found some other cool stuff for the junk in te driveway.

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Must have some cool yards that way....
Here you're lucky to find a set of sbc smog heads

 

[Catbox]

Our yards are full of random stuff.
He found an HEI and that is what the MSD module came out of as well as the aftermarket coil.
Left the distributor as we have a few fancy ones already.

When he sent me that photo of the HEI, I told him to look over the truck real well for other speed parts.
Then he sent the photo of the fans and fan controller.
Flex A Lite fan set up for $36, yes please.
I looked them up and they are in the mid $200's on Summit.

When he got home he told me the truck had an Edlebrock Performer RPM intake on it as well.
But he figured I already had one of those.
"Nope.
The one I have is just a Performer.
You should have told me, I would have made you pull it too."

Even though I don't have a small block for it now, I might in the future.
We will probably go back on Friday as I have the day off from work for the holiday.

See what else I can dig up...

 

[Catbox]

Way to go DAD, you taught him well!!!!!

For his 16th birthday the only thing he wanted was to finally go to the junkyard.
Now he and his buddies go and make a day of it.
I seem to finance the stuff, but it all makes it into my vehicles eventually.
He loves playing with cars and I fully endorse it in him like I wished my father had in me.

 

[jjester6000]

Had a minor issue with my '89.

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Back to driving the '74.

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[Vbb199]

Our yards are full of random stuff.
He found an HEI and that is what the MSD module came out of as well as the aftermarket coil.
Left the distributor as we have a few fancy ones already.

When he sent me that photo of the HEI, I told him to look over the truck real well for other speed parts.
Then he sent the photo of the fans and fan controller.
Flex A Lite fan set up for $36, yes please.
I looked them up and they are in the mid $200's on Summit.

When he got home he told me the truck had an Edlebrock Performer RPM intake on it as well.
But he figured I already had one of those.
"Nope.
The one I have is just a Performer.
You should have told me, I would have made you pull it too."

Even though I don't have a small block for it now, I might in the future.
We will probably go back on Friday as I have the day off from work for the holiday.

See what else I can dig up...

Would it be OK if I bring a truck and trailer and crash on your couch for a day?
I wanna scour your local yard lol.

None around here have anything worth a damn.

The oldest stuff is just TOO old, (pre 73), and theres no squares!!!

Last I was there. There's just 1 80's C20, I pillaged it myself for parts tho