CentralCoaster wrote:
btdt. When it finally came loose, I jammed my elbow pretty hard into the headliner.

And don't be an idiot like me and pound it back in tightly after you're done.

Are you putting a Hurst shifter in while you're at it?

SpectatorRacing wrote:
I have one. It works fine and the coils are cheap and easy to find.

But once it dies it's over, no more replacement parts for the Delteq. In fact, I really need to buy one and hold on to it should mine ever fail.

BillH wrote:
What brand of carb? Walbro? Does it have a small "prime" rubber button?

There's nothing to screw up in these small carbs, easy to take apart & put back together.

Unless you spend big bucks, the new mowers are fairly junky.

BrianCunningham wrote:
Hate to say it, but you know you could have vented the older style Opti.

MSD sells units for early & late optis

If your going to swap cams perhaps it's time for HotCam setup.

SpectatorRacing wrote:
I vote no on the Delteq.

It's a good system, in fact I have one on my car. But it's defunct. In other words, no replacement parts available. At the very least, keep the all of the stock parts so you can go back to stock when your Delteq dies.

You may get many many happy years from it, or it may die in a week. If you're going through the hassle to change the system, do it once and forgettaboutit.

pr0zac wrote:
last time i did a cam swap it took 8.5 hours but i was really hauling ass. its not that bad.. i may have a stock cam out of a 95 caprice kicking around. i don't know if i threw it out.. if i still have it i would let it go for the cost of shipping.

pr0zac wrote:
you would need to change the cam too.. it doesn't have the proper hole for the new style distributer. http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u3/jdhawk93/sidebyside2.jpg

Matatk wrote:
Is it the switch in the dash or the controller board? If it's the board, you can cross reference that part because it was also used in fieros and firebirds I believe, and will interchange.

Matthew

TommyT-Bone wrote:
Well I'm Tommy T. and in my mid 50's. I'm kind, well
mannered and gentle. Stupider than some but smarter than
most. I have everything I need but still learning how to
use it. Here's a recent pic of me on vacation. I'm on the
left.

CentralCoaster wrote:
I don't remember having any issues with the lower bolts. I guess something must have changed in 88.

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bmwgsa wrote:

It's worth the $6 or so bucks to see it in the theaters.

Probably, except that they are charging $16.50 for a ticket down here. No thanks.

biggrizzly wrote:
I can't help but think someone is coaching for the media.

Ultraman wrote:
It reminded me of the night I was scooting right along and reached up to adjust the t-top on my 79 and popped it open and was instantly topless. Not much left when I found it. Alcohol may have been involved. Nobody hurt though.

CasetheCorvetteman wrote:
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Yea, I did, I traded it for the 01 coupe that I have now.

Step up you reckon? I recently steped way down in price but way up in quality, sold my 94 about 6 months ago.

Durango_Boy wrote:
This one of the cooler snow vehicles I have seen, and it's from the '20's. It starts out as a tractor and was even adapted to early Chevrolet cars.

http://www.flixxy.com/snow-vehicle-concept.htm

teebee wrote:
I live in the bread basket of the world, western Kansas. I like it here because it's rural, basically a good work ethic of the people, low crime, cheap to live, good schools. Taxes are low (I pay $235 personal property taxes on all three of my cars, 01 Vette, 03 Bonneville and 99 Silverado), my house is valued at $200K and the taxes on it are $1200/year.

The biggest thing against it is 4 hours to any city of any size (3 1/2 to Peublo, CO, 4 to Wichita, KS, Colorado Springs and Amarillo, TX, Denver is about 5, and a little over 6 to Kansas City where we have two daughters and their families and 5 grandkids). We make to trek to KC about every 4-6 weeks. We can't really move there because we have one daughter and family (3 grandsons) local.

When we moved out here, the wife didn't like it (too far away from her family), I told her that we would stay only for a 3 or 4 years, to gain some experience (teaching) and we would move on, but after 30 years we're still here. The place just grew on us.

Weather typically isn't bad summers can get into the upper 90's to lower 100's, but the humidity is low so that makes it bearable. Winters can get pretty cold, 0* and below, but typically low teens are the norm. It is dry, average annual rainfall is around 12"/year. So there are not a lot of trees, wide open spaces. Being able to see 7-10 miles is not out of the ordinary. There is a little town 7 miles away and we can see the grain elevator from our house.

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BillH wrote:
The whole "Made in China" thing has been overblown for years and years.

It's all about greed both from manufacturers and the public.

"We want cheap $25 brake rotors, Wah, Wah Wah" so someone gets them made in China and sells them for $25. Then you hear "These Chinese rotors are cheap crap"

Granted, there's a lot of inferior products coming out of China but that's because of greed not because the Chinese can't build quality parts.

Hell, my company has had factories in China for over 20 years building electronics.
The difference is that my company demanded "US" quality and that's what we got. We didn't have any problems with the product coming out of China.

you are reading my mind. That has been my contention for years. The Chinese are not entirely the fault; the problem is the foreign companies that don't want to spend jack on the product. China has let this happen; and it has about ruined their reputation. It will take years to recover from this.

I've been around long enough to remember "Jap Crap". That didn't last all that long, relitively. The Chinese chit won't last that long either.
Then people will be bitchin' about how crappy the $25 rotors are that they got from Africa,etc.

TommyT-Bone wrote:
The owl didn't give a hoot.