My 1976 project thread

i wouldn't want to chance damaging the engine over it. i think the engine is in perfect shape other than a few sloppy bearings in the engine. the engine has always had great compression every time i checked with little to no change when doing a wet test.

I want great compression.

What are your numbers?

i think these are the last numbers i recorded
dry compression test
165
160
170
170
170
170
165
160

wet compession test
175
185
175
180
175
180
170
185

****, I want those numbers.

I'll be doing a compression test again soon, I have a feeling my tester was leaking down.

i know. they are pretty good.

did you even do a wet test with yours? i know you had that 1 low cylinder.

No I didn't. lol All my cylinders were low tho, that's what threw me off.

Well, I'm happy.


First is regular exposure



One second exposure, this is more of what you'd actually see sitting in the seat


Other gauges at one second

8 mpg on this last tank. That's with highway driving, as well as work driving...aka having to warm that ***** up in the morning. Plus while I was with my girlfriend we did some running around town, so that's not bad. $33.93

So this is where I'm at on my lights.

After having to tear them apart and RTV EVERYTHING, I put them back together and started looking at mounting locations.

Knowing there were holes pre-drilled in the core supported, I had been thinking about mounting a bar behind the grille and mounting them there. When I got to thinking about it I decided with the nature of the grille design, it would be a ***** of a pain to work with. I also decided that the lights would end up getting blocked out by at least one grille slat.

So I'm thinking one of two ways: somehow mounted to the top of the bumper or making a bracket that bolts to the core support and comes out of the grille there each light can mount.

Now, for the bumper mounted option, I am NOT, and WILL NOT, drill into my bumper as it's MINT 76 factory. I'm thinking some sort of deal that will clamp onto it, but I don't know what as I haven't gone to the hardware store yet.




Now, here are holes in the core support:


There are three holes, on each side of the support, all the same size, all evenly spaced. So I figure I might be able to use them to my advantage.

You can see the three holes here:




So what do you think? Bumper or grille?!

take your pick

Hmmmm how are the bottom ones mounted? They on the bumper or behind the valence? It's kinda hard to tell.

they are behind the valance

Hmmm how are they attached, you know?

nope. you would have to look

You're supposed to know everything

it is too cold out to look

Meh! I'll look Monday provided it's not raining.

Got bored the other day and spray some rust reformer on my rusting MC





Looks better to me.

did you ever try the led's out?

I did in one of my add-on lights. Going to be going with green most likely, haven't gotten time to pull the dash apart SINCE IT'S BEEN RAINING SO DAMN MUCH.