Beautiful garage!! I'm considering getting a Barrel Blaster to replace my cheap HF POS. How do you like yours? Is it roomy enough to get the job done? Any leaks? Any mods you had to do to it? Thanks in advance! Oh........did I mention 'Beautiful garage!!!!!
Thanks. The Barrel Blaster has been great. I've owned it for like 15 years. It was one of the first ones, so I updated it with the foot pedal and the new window when they came out. It's roomy enough to blast wheels, intakes, heads and stuff. Sometimes you have to be creative and move your work around to get everything if you're working on a big piece. It doesn't leak, and it hooks right up to a shopvac. You might get a little sand on the floor when you open the door, but nothing to worry about.
The guy builds them down in Texas with his Father. Great guy. Mopar nut if I remember correctly.
Haven't touched the car in more than a week. Yesterday, I got the fuel gauge sending unit from Cougarman. Tonight, I'm painting the fuel tank straps. Tomorrow, I'm going to get back to work. Maybe more wiring. Maybe, I'll begin to POR the undercarriage. I'll see how I feel about it in the morning. Only get to work on it for a one day this weekend. Sunday, I drive to the farm to cut grass. Monday, I promised I'd hang out with the bride...
I had a Boxster. Lost that one in the divorce. Replaced it with a 996 C4 cab. I love it. It's really not that ungrateful. I was just stinging from having a bad day trying to fix the top mechanism. I think what I needed was an engineering degree. The top was obviously much smarter than me.
In 1986, I worked at the White House. A guy I worked with bought a brand new '86 951 (first year) - Guards Red with black. God, that thing was beautiful. We used to run around DC and Northern Va - the Porsche and my Mustang GT. We were pretty evenly matched in a straight line. Eventually, he would lure me out into the twisties. When it came to corners, he was gone. I've thought about buying one many times. Honestly, one of my all time favorites is the 928 S4. For some reason I've just never pulled the trigger. One of these days...
I have some other Porsche projects too. For some reason, I don't think I'll be as financially successful as you were with yours...
Falcon - I threw the AC compressor on there on Thursday, but I haven't run the lines yet. It looks like it'll end up being a combination of my old T-Bird and SN95 stuff. The T-Bird compressor was up high. The SN95 compressor and its lines mount down low, under the PS. Could be interesting. I'll let you know what I had to do to make it work.
I thought the SN95 electric fan, fan controller and overflow tank would be a slam dunk. It's anything but. I'm going to need to make brackets to mount the fan and then figure out how to modify the overflow/controller brackets to work on the T Bird core support.
Lear - I have the EVTMs for the bird and the SN95. It's actually going better than that photo would suggest...I think. I hope to be back at it tomorrow. Worked on the friggin' Porsche all day today. Fixed two things and two more unrelated things spontaneously broke. It's an ungrateful little Kraut.
Vinnie - Your reply made me think of Top Gun after Goose gets killed. Meg Ryan says "He'd have flown anyway... without you. He'd have hated it, but he'd have done it."
Fishing through the wiring harnesses from three different cars, trying to mate the '95 5.0 HO engine harnesses to my '83 Bird. Whomever said the sn95 harness doesn't mate up very well with the early fox T-Bird was right. My head hurts...
On the other hand, the motor itself went in without a hitch. I'm using all the '95 accessories, so I can run the sepentine setup rather than the three belts that were originally on my car. Other advantages were the later model AC and 3g alternator. The engine compartment looks very different with the more modern components - plus I deleted all the emissions. In this lousy picture, you can see I had to move the battery to the other side of the engine compartment and use a later model windshield washer bottle. The duraspark is just sitting up there for right now while I'm wiring. It'll be going away. All in all, things are going well and I think it'll be a nice clean looking install when complete...
Sorry for the py iphone pics. Hopefully, I'll have it up and running soon and I'll take some finished pics with a real camera.
Like all of my projects, this one's spinning out of control. While I have it apart, I'm doing all new exhaust (x pipe, Flowmaster 40s and new tails), converting to floor shift, doing the undercarriage in POR15 and then UPOL Raptor, throwing up some subframe connectors, a driveshaft loop, etc, etc, etc. Then I have to take the rear window out and fix some rust. Once the window doesn't leak into the trunk anymore, I can install my audio...
I deleted all the emblems when I painted the car. My car had all kinds of on it. It had "electronic fuel injection" emblems on each fender and "automatic overdrive" on the trunk. It was like driving around with the whole option list in chrome. Now, only the birds in the tail lights and grill remain.
