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Monthly Archives: April 2024

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24 04, 2024

Rebuild of the Holley 600 cfm carburetor

By |2024-09-27T08:09:09-05:00April 24th, 2024|68' Firebird project|0 Comments

Today I decided to rebuild the carburetor which was a Holley 600 cfm. The car has not been running right and was dumping alot of fuel into the engine. So the car was running very rich with smoke coming out of the exhaust. It was putting so much fuel that it was getting into the engine oil which is not [...]

13 04, 2024

Smoothing out lips on wheel well quarter panels

By |2024-09-27T23:54:54-05:00April 13th, 2024|68' Firebird project|0 Comments

I planned on finishing the car without the chrome wheel well molding that was originally on the car. This made it more crucial to ensure it was smooth where the lip of the newly welded quarter panel met the inner part of wheel well. The lip was welded in place so it was quite imperfect with a lot of wavy [...]

10 04, 2024

Drilling holes for quarter panel Louver ornaments and various body putty patches

By |2024-09-27T07:23:33-05:00April 10th, 2024|68' Firebird project|0 Comments

One of the new quarter panels that I welded on to replace the original rusty panel did not have holes for the louver ornaments (or whatever folks call them - gill accents).I first tried placing the ornaments up near the indentation spots in the quarter panel and scratching the mark where the hole needed to be drilled. Then I was [...]