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Well, struck out at a couple of the local home improvement stores trying to find the right pieces to make my adapter cord. Tried McMaster-Carr's website last night, and for some reason the parts/pieces were outrageously expensive, Got one more big store to try, and also an electrical supply...

Well, as usual, things aren't going as smoothly as I think they should. I cut and filed a new divider for the plenum, and the next steps are cleaning and masking the plenum area to keep trash out of there while I'm welding. I removed a few years worth of dust off my TIG machine, and prepared to...

I've got two lithium batteries presently, AntiGravity brand. A 5.7# 880 CA in the Corvette, and a 1.4# 150 CA in my perpetually disassembled Triumph 900 cc bike. These batteries seem to have minimal self discharge rates. And the nice thing is, when (not if) I forget to turn off an electrical...

We're finally in a warm spell this week, in the 60's today. I started up the car this afternoon, and two observations. The four year old 5# lithium battery, despite sitting for the past five months without any trickle charge, cranked the engine over just fine. I continue to be rather impressed...

An item I fabricated a couple years ago was an aluminum cross shaft (bellcrank) for the clutch linkage. It's not NCRS compliant, as a couple of the physical dimensions differ from the stock steel piece, but it bolts in the same as the stock piece, and has (thankfully) worked at track days the...

I wrapped the length of the steel tubing (from the header collectors to the start of the aluminum tubes near the transmission mount), I don't presently have the courage to (thermally) insulate the aluminum tubing portion. I bought the ribbon type wrap and a pair of the insulators that Richard...

In the event that I happen to get a sudden burst of motivation and energy this spring, I thought it might be prudent to have a set of intake gaskets handy. I went on our favorite online auction site and I can't believe the price of the gaskets these days. Most are at least twice as expensive as...

Thanks for the input, guys. I appreciate it. As much as I enjoy making performance/weight improvements to my car, I have an equal amount of dislike for spending time to repeat tasks or rectify my mistakes (given my track record of mistakes one would think I should be used to this by now;)). I...

I removed the plenum divider a few years ago to see if there was any resulting upper RPM power gain. According to my buttometer it may have helped. But, no pun intended, the idle quality really took a hit, probably from cylinders 5&7 interacting in the plenum. So, I want to weld a divider back...

Guys, thanks for the suggestions. The various insulating materials look reasonable in price. I'll pick up a variety of those to experiment with. Thanks again. (y)

Unexciting update, but I have a question. I now have the back half of the exhaust system rubber mounted/isolated, but am presently scratching my head on the front, specifically the hard mounts outboard of the transmission mount. I realize there's some bracket isolation at the transmission mount...

Timing belt, that's a rather novel idea. (y) There's tons of them just laying around at my favorite junkyard. Next trip there I think I'll pick up a couple for material to try some things. Thanks!

Glad it's back up and running. A 4WD comes in damn handy during the deep snow stuff. We got a similar foot of snow earlier in the week here in Missouri, and I have to confess I've enjoyed driving around in the deep stuff in my old 222k Tahoe.

I currently have an H pipe and two Y pipes in the system. The mufflers are definitely seeing the same exhaust mass/volume and pulses, and as I mentioned earlier, the rear exhaust note is relatively quiet. Unfortunately for me, a tuned setup won't completely fix my issue. I'm pretty much...