What did you do to your car today?

Tnfastbk said:

The tail light bezels are a pain but worth doing in the end. Nice job.

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It was tedious but definitely worth it.
Thanks

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Man, I’m tired.

Your taillights look great! I am looking forward to seeing your car in color.

Steve McMahan said:

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Looking good

Picked up a Junk Yard 8.8 rear and Cut off the Spring Perchs. Going to Start on Welding soon.

Threw this POS new never used pump in the garbage. Finally installed a fuel pressure gauge on the carb inlet hose. Replaced in line fuel filter with a new Summit one that mounts directly on the fuel line of the carb.
Ran Earl’s vapor guard hose with the proper clamps don’t want to get called out for using worm clamps, which I’m am not impressed with. You can’t put much of an arch in it without it kinking it.
When I first installed the nice expensive liquid filled Holley fuel gauge my pressure was only reading like 3.5-4 lbs.
after installing the new filter and hoses which just led to a head ache running the new hose which sent me looking to install that pos pump. Since that pump was no good I had to come up with a new fitting for the standard pump already on the engine.
That lead me to order new fittings, new standard pump and new fittings.
Back to using a different fitting on the pump so I didn’t have to put a loop in the vapor guard hose.
After installing all that and running the engine my fuel pressure was now 5.5-6 lbs.
So this all brings up the old question with fuel pumps for our beloved Clevelands.
Why is there not any really good options for these great motors?
My first Carter pump only lasted a couple weeks so I went to a Delphi one which has been working fine for about a year now.
My motor made 525 tq and 527 hp and it never seemed to me to ever run out of fuel. Granted I have never laid into it full throttle for long periods of time.
I really don’t like to outlet on these standard replacement pumps.
A standard pipe thread outlet would be nice but I do understand it is made to except the original steel line to carb.
I have considered using a replacement steel line and cut it off and flare it and run a hose the carb.
What are you all using?

70cobrascj said:

Found this fuel pump it is pricey but might be the only real decent replacement. Need more pics to see the outlet.
Might be a cheaper vendor out there in the Marine world.
Not real sure about the McRobb one it seems confusing with all the different set ups.
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Just fyi, this is NOT a Cleveland pump.

Cleveland Crush said:

Just fyi, this is NOT a Cleveland pump.

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Yesh my bad when I first looked at it it looked like it had the correct bolt mounting orientation.
I deleted it.
Sorry about that Ugg

Took my car to a car show, my yellow '72 is in the background of these pics. Every year the factory that I worked for for 39 years straight and retired from 2 years ago (Thales, in Bendigo, Australia) puts on an employee and ex-employee end-of-year car show that is not open to the public.
In the second photo the vehicle at the front is a Hawkei military vehicle made by the factory, heavily modified and lowered into a V8 street machine.
The other two vehicles are the Australian Army’s promotional "Team Army" project vehicles - an Australian Ford LTD from the 1970's (also shown doing the burn-out) and a Mercedes G-Wagen.
For a few seconds the thought entered my mind that the LTD might possibly careen out of control and take out my close proximity car , but thankfully the army dude in the LTD knew exactly what he was doing