New meat...not old 1979 olds 98 regency

[earthman]

Sounds like you have everything you need except a body

 

[Torch]

Sounds like you have everything you need except a body

yeah i, getting there. i was thinking bobber but every once and a while I see an old 29-30 sedan or something like that begging to become an extended cab bobber cab... 6' and 300# I have to discriminate...

 

[Sam_Fear]

How about something like this?

 

[Torch]

thats neat

 

[sgtpontiac]

Not sure who's been messing with ya Tman......

Nicht sicher, was sub Menschen man es zu tun?? Are you speaking of the government or of the general public???? When it comes down to it....
Ich möchte einen Truthahn Speck und Schweizer auf geröstetem Vollkornbrot .....[cl

 

[sgtpontiac]

For those of you who don't sprechen Deutsch

I said if it was up to me I'd order a turkey bacon club with swiss on whole wheat toasted....LOL

 

[Torch]

Nicht sicher, was sub Menschen man es zu tun?? Are you speaking of the government or of the general public???? When it comes down to it....
Ich möchte einen Truthahn Speck und Schweizer auf geröstetem Vollkornbrot .....[cl

with no google.... You ask not sure which sub-humans I mean?
I mean you guys! I stand with you my brothers! Us knuckle dragging tree swingers with our grunts and groans our hairy arms and lack of gold.

Ja, mit scharfem Senf lol google translate [cl
I did have 3 years of german back in highschool but am only just beginning to remember...
The fog of war...the fog of something lol

P.S. Sarge... look at your name in the quote above...You now have another official title
I play the game Insurgency in an online community. early in the day there are Russians and germans playing.
My freind Adri when I try to speak german laughs and says" You sound like a drunk"
Adri likes to climb up high in the map and snipe from a distance he lieks it when i say "Achtung die Furer ist in seinem hohen Platz"
He hates it when i find him, pick him off and say "der furor ist tot"
Insurgency is a mod based on game Half-life
Game mods are when you take an existing game and draw up new maps and skins for the players and weapons, change a little code and release it as a new game.
So in effect game mods are software hot-rodding or hacking
Yes hot rodding is hacking
Insurgency Is free to play as long as you have purchased "Day of defeat", "half life" or "counterstrike"
There is a new insurgency coming out.
The developers of Insurgency pioneered something new in fps gaming called squad based spawning.
When you re-ener the game in progress after death you do so in groups, not individually.
Team sucess in Insurgency marked by the capturing of objectives or depleating the enemy (as per each map) is heavily dependant upon communication and forming squads of specialists.
It's an older game but it's tactical realism is unmatched except maybe by the free dept of defense developed game "America's Army".
If you ever play a game on the STEAM network, any game on steam I'm known as Killy Killerton

 

[Torch]

Well i got something done... I sold most of the body parts off my 76 supercab and bought a 77 supercab with a better body for about 100 less than I sold my parts for YAY!
I also partially tore down the 350 olds diesel I pulled from the 82 regal. Looks like it should be an inexpensive rebuild. car has been sitting since 1994 with a head gasket leak... no rust in the cylinders! just a broken head bolt to extract.
I can get a pipe wrench on it.
It also has a turbo 350 with the lockup converter.
I'm gonna get the heads freshened up, tank the block, hone the cylinders and rebuild it with new bearings, arp bolts and studs, gapless 2nd ring on the pistons...
The head bolts and setting the timing right are the 2 most crucial things to having one live a long life. It's got 23:1 compression...you don't want to over advance it.
I have 2... I'm thinking of shimming the heads on the other one to lower compression and add a supercharger from a 3.8 v6 or use a vortech

 

[Torch]

I got something more done!
I stopped battling zombies....
Turned off the computer...
And went out to the garage.

I have a freind who has a 60 ford f100 who bought my brothers 460 and my c6.
back when it was out I couldn't get ahold of anyone so it got put away and it's been buried awhile.
When Ron finally came by to pickup his 460 the tires were flat on my forklift so we loaded the motor and I got busy doing other things
I got my inner tubes in so I went out to the garage and.... where's my impact sockets...
I have a 1" socket for the 3/4 inch drive and can't find the 3/4" ratchet
I have the 1/2" ratchet and... no 1" socket
And my strip of 1/2" impacts are also missing
Or so I thought...
So I go cross town to Harbor Freight for impact sockets and they have a sale on
I end up getting out of there for $300
I found the sockets, and air shears, and a die grinder, and a good supply of twist loc discs, and a new chuck for my air chisel, and a 4" air grinder, and some of that nice flexible synthetic rubber hose, and a full set of ratchet size adapters for 1/4" up to 1", and a few other nick knacks
but I did put alot of stuff back on the shelf when i looked in my wallet so that stuff ight there was plenty.


So I get home and start putting the air fittings on the tools, oiling them trying them out and putting them away...
And I find this tray of SHINEY 1/2" drive deepwells and I'm like oh yeah now I remember.. I never had impacts I had bought these deep wells <Derp>

So I got a little trash thrown away some tools found the bench half cleaned and my tools set out to do that inner tube job later this morning and get Ron's tranny dug out.
(Psst- Ron is on the prowl for an aluminum crown vic front suspension)

And...
After I got tired and went in...
I tuned up and refueled one of those old turbo style cigarette lighters I had laying in the toolbox.

I did look at the Regency and th eengines for a bit and planned where I was going to put stuff to get at everything.

one step closer to getting going on it again.
I get that baby running and I can start putting the supercab 4x4 conversion together.

I've had about enough of them damn zombies

 

[Torch]

My lil brother bought that 1960 apache off one of the South Omaha Turds, the guy with the 302 GMC motor in his custom job 50 something chevy...
Forgot his name.
I get some room and I can do some money work.
Lil brother wants to put a newer suspension in with disc brakes, power steering, and has a 396 or 402 with a th400 to install in that apache and I want to get this supercab done and sold.
When my projects lose their flow... I do too.

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

Good to see ya Torch! [ddd

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[Old Iron]

What Doc said ^^^^
I was wondering where you were just the other day

 

[Sam_Fear]

Get back at it buddy! But thanks for keeping us all safe from those virtual zombies - somebodys gotta do it!

(BTW, I used to like building levels for the old Unreal games.)

 

[Torch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZwFF67Gu8

New Iced Earth Album, epic metal

Volbeat is underrated I know you've heard them on the radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBaVlDIMKCU
And I've always found comfort in people from other cultures rocking out and revelling in the best of ours

 

[animal]

I like Volbeat a lot! I'm soon to be and still listen mostly to hard rock/metal. I haven't paid much attention to the epic metal stuff..... maybe I should. I also dig Southern Rock, even when it's kinda country, as long as I like the lyrics. My new fav is Blackberry Smoke.

 

[Sam_Fear]

Volbeat - I was hooked when I heard their 'Sad mans tongue'.

 

[Torch]

A little fiasco
I spent the week 60 hrs m-f grinding a rut up in the pavement and down I-80 between DesMoines and Cedar Rapids. Grinnell where I was staying is a nice little town
So next week's paycheck will be cool
they only had 1 days work for me the last 2 weeks. i think I'd like to find a machine shop to fill in at where I can work on my stuff lol

Status update on the Y2k f150 still a ticking time bomb, still running, and I now have a new mill for it.
Well not new but new enough. I bought a 4.6 with 50k on the clock out of a wrecked 2000 sedan for $600 motor and trans.
I had a 2002 5.4 longblock with the PI heads I could have used but it needed all manifolds (no luck finding cheap) and it would not have anywhere near the mileage I get out of the 4.6 (18/22)
so I got $500 out of the 5.4 and picked up this 4.6 and am now broke till next week but this is going to be an easy install

I'm looking at it and both it and my 2000 f150 4.6 appear to be both non PI heads
my f150 by the vin has the W code engine at 220hp/290 ft-lb The PI 4.6 wasn't used until 2001 and was 240 ponies. I thought for sure the 20090 sedan would have PI heads and i thought my truck also did but this just goes to show do ALL your research first.
Thankfully they are still the same. I think I sold that 5.4 too cheap but then again it was a freebie.
A kid bought it and his dad helped him get it running so I contributed to a father son project. I never really liked those guys who tried to pinch every last penny out of something.

so after pulling off the intake in my truck and getting the little weenie exhaust studs out I'm going to wire the manifolds up in the frame and pull the engine without them
This newer one is getting new exhaust studs
I might have to do some swapping with the oil pan and valve covers. IDK for sure yet.
parts list is short

Exhaust manifold stud kit and gaskets (ford)
Intake gasket kit $30
Oil filter pad gasket $7
new Ac compressor component kit (rock auto) with dryer and lines etc $150
new belt 3 yr warranty $40

and whatever incidentals like oil, antifreeze, and little breaky things I'm going to destroy hamfistedly




I was going to drop it in with the sedan trans too but I read it has diff valve body springs than the truck so it's going on the shelf for a spare and I'm bolting this up to my old trans
It's clean as hell who knows it might have already been replaced
The shop that pulled the 4.6 from the wreck said the trans on it has never had the pan pulled and was clean as hell inside

I bought this thing with timing chain noise at 184k it sounds like a diesel at idle
It now has 191k and still runs XD I'm a sicko
I've been changing the filter and oil enough to keep the sparkly things away from the important side of the lubrication system. I know what happens when that filter plugs and the bypass opens...bye bye.


I'm also thinking why not pickup a new pair of manifolds (less than 100 apiece) while I'm at it and have them ceramic coated
clean the engine really good paint it with some catalyzed black and use mag wheel cleaner on the aluminum with a protective coat of non yellowing clear
Would be a few hundred extra but going over the engine bay with a meguires rub, derust and paint all the brackets and black the frame... and making the engine look purdy for a long time has to bring some sort of return down the road.

 

[Torch]

I might even ditch the f150's clutch fan for an electric and leave the sedan waterpump on. I have a 16" aftermarket that cost me over $100 10 years ago still in the box
sitting on a shelf

 

[Torch]

When i say ceramic coating here i dont mean the expensive stuff that still rusts later
I mean the el cheap rattle can ceramic coating
I used this stuff on the exhaust manifold and turbo housing of the 454 in my 96 MACK.
http://www.vhtpaint.com/products/flameproof/

I know for sure it holds up to 1100-1300 degrees


These 460 manifolds were sandblasted and ceramic painted with VHT about 12 years ago

 

[Ratrod94]

http://omaha.craigslist.org/cto/4387315870.html

lOL hey torchie check out this baby