libram
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I should clarify, grandma is granddads 3rd wife and a lot younger than him but still married before I was born.
Ughhhhhhhhh I'm pissed of and need to let it out to the atmosphere. As many of you have read I've been working on the resto of my grandmothers very first new car. It was a survivor until some bad decisions on trusting her brother were made and it took over a decade to recover it. The recovered vehicle was ratted out and I took it on as a project because it meant so much to her. Over ten years ago now I started and one of my first projects was to pull the motor and start to rework it. I took great care in finding the right parts for the performance the car really deserved and the reliability it needed. After finding the right machine guy, getting the work done, finding the right cnc shop in Australia........for a US car for the heads, a powder coater for everything that needed it, including the block, yes the block is actually powder coated 5 friends and I turned my garage into a cleanroom and spent a weekend, many beers, and a ton of time assembling everything together, torqueing to exact spec and rechecking everything top to bottom. Then we sealed it all up and it sat for a long time, safely in my garage mainly due to the lack of parts available at the time for certain componenets that were completely rotted or gone.
Finally the car was in full body work and resto, and the shop that was doing it took total advantage of the grandparents, think gt350 concourse money and what I finally took out of there was most of a shell with the hood and little extra body fillers unpainted and unattached, no interior, tires, rims, plumbing of any kind, exhaust, steering, etc etc.
The car went to another shop, a good shop, one that is run by someone who actually cares and does a good job, the engine is ready to be fired, the steering and almost everything else is done, so we turn it over, boom oil pressure shoots up and blows out the filter ring, a little testing later and it must be a bad oil pump right, lets replace it. We pull the pan and look at that.........grit.......
Engine goes back to the machine shop, to someone naturally detailed enough to take a close look. Someone in the crappy shop, opened up my clean room engine, and let it sit, in an open shop, body work, paint, assembly, fabrication its all in there. Machine shop was shocked that it was that filled with crap and had never been run.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOo ANGRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
:shootself:
Ughhhhhhhhh I'm pissed of and need to let it out to the atmosphere. As many of you have read I've been working on the resto of my grandmothers very first new car. It was a survivor until some bad decisions on trusting her brother were made and it took over a decade to recover it. The recovered vehicle was ratted out and I took it on as a project because it meant so much to her. Over ten years ago now I started and one of my first projects was to pull the motor and start to rework it. I took great care in finding the right parts for the performance the car really deserved and the reliability it needed. After finding the right machine guy, getting the work done, finding the right cnc shop in Australia........for a US car for the heads, a powder coater for everything that needed it, including the block, yes the block is actually powder coated 5 friends and I turned my garage into a cleanroom and spent a weekend, many beers, and a ton of time assembling everything together, torqueing to exact spec and rechecking everything top to bottom. Then we sealed it all up and it sat for a long time, safely in my garage mainly due to the lack of parts available at the time for certain componenets that were completely rotted or gone.
Finally the car was in full body work and resto, and the shop that was doing it took total advantage of the grandparents, think gt350 concourse money and what I finally took out of there was most of a shell with the hood and little extra body fillers unpainted and unattached, no interior, tires, rims, plumbing of any kind, exhaust, steering, etc etc.
The car went to another shop, a good shop, one that is run by someone who actually cares and does a good job, the engine is ready to be fired, the steering and almost everything else is done, so we turn it over, boom oil pressure shoots up and blows out the filter ring, a little testing later and it must be a bad oil pump right, lets replace it. We pull the pan and look at that.........grit.......
Engine goes back to the machine shop, to someone naturally detailed enough to take a close look. Someone in the crappy shop, opened up my clean room engine, and let it sit, in an open shop, body work, paint, assembly, fabrication its all in there. Machine shop was shocked that it was that filled with crap and had never been run.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOo ANGRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
:shootself:
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