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There's a sweet fire truck in NY. https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=1&acctid=10884
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Ran the packer a few times then it lost all compression. Princess auto had a briggs and stratton snowblower motor on sale for $120. Bolted right up and runs mint.
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Feb 11, 2018 03:10
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So some random guy knocked on my door today and gave me this Not the first time someone has knocked on my door in regards to my eagles but this is the first time they gave me something. score.
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Feb 14, 2018 03:34
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Been super busy at the new job still learning the ropes, getting good on the equipment. Crushing cars with a excavator is a great stress reliever. Got the PT loser on the road as my dd and trying to sell the ford. In other car news i will soon be getting my grandpa's 81 camero due to his failing health. he is the original owner. Has a 305 and its auto.   just needs a tune up and a good wax as he has not been driving much so it has sat for most of this winter but it fires right up and runs mint. Im going to keep it mostly original, just going to put a 4 barrel carb and new stereo then get collector plates and drive it on weekends.
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Mar 4, 2018 23:42
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Sorry to hear about your grampa but drat, that's awesome.
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Mar 5, 2018 13:13
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Busy day driving the old international flatbed picking up cars and processing them. Picked up a vw scirocco an old land barge and a blazer\jimmy (i will be crushing the blazer with extreme prejudice)   if i can find a good place to mount a go-pro in the excavator i will try and get some video of smashing the gently caress out of them.
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Mar 6, 2018 01:44
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Not the scirocco! Or the land barge! 
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Mar 6, 2018 02:51
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Not the scirocco! Or the land barge! Yeah I... would not have the intestinal fortitude for that job. You're a stronger man than I, eberbs
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Mar 6, 2018 08:17
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Land barges look cool but unless they've been hot-rodded they tend to be absolute pigs that are terrible to drive, even in a floaty-highway-couch kinda way.
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Mar 6, 2018 08:20
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Enourmo posted:Land barges look cool but unless they've been hot-rodded they tend to be absolute pigs that are terrible to drive, even in a floaty-highway-couch kinda way. I dunno, 350HP is easy as pie (cam, headers, 4-barrel) and it slots nicely into that "effortless power to get out of its own way, but not fast" zone in the middle of your extremes there
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Mar 6, 2018 08:29
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Raluek posted:I dunno, 350HP is easy as pie (cam, headers, 4-barrel) and it slots nicely into that "effortless power to get out of its own way, but not fast" zone in the middle of your extremes there Am I missing something? Cause that looks like a malaise-era American Car. By which standards 350hp is a hot rod.
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Mar 6, 2018 08:51
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Enourmo posted:Am I missing something? Cause that looks like a malaise-era American Car. By which standards 350hp is a hot rod. I admit I was thinking of something older and bigger based on the description (isn't that a midsize?), but I think that's still a RWD V8 so it can't be that bad, can it? Both SBC and BPO have aftermarket support. 
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Mar 7, 2018 06:26
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Raluek posted:I admit I was thinking of something older and bigger based on the description (isn't that a midsize?), but I think that's still a RWD V8 so it can't be that bad, can it? Both SBC and BPO have aftermarket support. A 1980 Oldsmobile got a whopping 105 hp from a 4.3L V8. The 5.0L V8 would bump you to 150 hp. They were strangled with poorly engineered pollution controls, applied ham-handedly.
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Mar 7, 2018 06:46
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Deteriorata posted:A 1980 Oldsmobile got a whopping 105 hp from a 4.3L V8. The 5.0L V8 would bump you to 150 hp. Sure, and if you do the simple stuff like cam/intake/4-bbl/headers like I suggested above, all that stuff goes away. Although I've never owned a BPO, so maybe they all suck like you suggest. E: Although this is all academic, since it's a malaise era car that's not going to be cool no matter what you do to it, just like every G-body that isn't black with a <6 on the fender. Far be it from me to defend an 80s anything. Raluek fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Mar 7, 2018 06:51
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This. Stepdad had an 83 or 84 Olds with a BPO V8 of some sort (305? 350?) briefly, and I got to drive it a little. "Glacial" would describe the power. The engine wasn't in great shape to begin with (had tappy lifters on one cylinder and we suspected it wasn't running fully on all 8), but it was incredibly painful in the power department. It could hit ~60, but it took forever to get there. Good luck keeping up with modern traffic. 0-20 was pretty decent, once you broke what I'd guess was 2000-2500 RPM it just faceplanted. It was the most comfortable car I've ever driven though, and I certainly wouldn't mind one with a modern powerplant. My first car almost wound up being my best friend's grandmother's car - an 84 or 85 Buick or Olds (I forget which), mid size. It was equally sluggish, but it was a hell of a couch.
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Mar 7, 2018 07:35
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With my grandpa's health situation I am going to be helping him in my spare time with his wood milling business. Its a pretty small operation but he does good work and makes a killing. 16 foot Alaska mill  He has a massive collection of lumber including oak, cedar, sequoia, pine and some i cant remember.   And been using a 1959 Massey Ferguson work bull tractor  Gonna start a few projects of my own, maybe make a sweet coffee table out of a slab of sequoia
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Mar 11, 2018 03:51
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I think that “land barge” is an oldsmobile delta 88 which likely left the factory with a 307. The only boat anchor worse than a 305.
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Mar 11, 2018 04:49
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I'm looking at the stats of 80s oldsmobile v8s and they are comparable to the i4 in my Versa. 
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Mar 11, 2018 13:22
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Got the olds on the rack today, ill check what motor it has before i crush it. But like you guys are saying it is probably gutless as gently caress. The Blazer is gonna get a beating tomorrow.  And i picked up a new victim. I think its a 75 250 ranger. Has a 460 motor with an edlbrock carb. 
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Mar 14, 2018 01:41
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That truck looks like it would be sweet as gently caress without that godawful box of hantavirus sitting in the bed.
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Mar 14, 2018 03:46
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Fermented Tinal posted:That truck looks like it would be sweet as gently caress without that godawful box of hantavirus sitting in the bed. Yah i pulled all the copper, wiring and appliances out of it today. The sledge hammer made things a bit easier. The inside had no joke probably 2000+ dead fly's in it along with a few live ones. Got under the hood of the olds and it is a 1980, but i couldn't find a sticker for the motor but here's a picture if someone can tell what motor it is.  The rest of the day was spent doing maintenance on some of the trucks. Grapple truck and one of the garbage trucks needed oil change fuel filters and greasing   and fixed a bad o-ring on a coolant line and fixed an oil leak on one of the loadals. Only had to drain out a small lake's worth of coolant to change it. 
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Mar 15, 2018 04:50
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I see an engine bay crying out for a motor that produces more than 100hp.
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Mar 15, 2018 16:16
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Its nearly impossible to tell without stickers or casting numbers, but the blue paint and 4 barrel intake makes me think its an olds 350. Although a small number of 307’s came that way in 1980 as well. Any way you cut it, its junk from the worst era of cars. Nostalgia from my teenage years of rusty beaters in upstate NY.
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Mar 15, 2018 16:38
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Processed an 80's turdcel and someone took the time to rivet a piece of plastic to the air cleaner lid, its hard to see in the picture but it has maintenance stuff like oil changes and mileage. not a bad idea.  These old tercel wagons are pretty cool, but it wasn't a 4wd one.
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Mar 17, 2018 01:08
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I saw a Mercury Mountaineer with a lift kit and swampers today. I guess you go muddin' with the 4x4 you got, not the one you want.
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Mar 23, 2018 16:13
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Towed this in for scrap. Apparently its hydro locked from driving through a puddle. Twin turbo right hand drive 5-speed, t-tops.     Its amazing what some people will throw away.
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Mar 30, 2018 03:11
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 How did he at least not pull off a bunch of parts?
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Mar 30, 2018 04:01
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:
They're worth like zero loving dollars. Even five, six years ago there were JDM Z32 300ZXes going for almost nothing. I saw one with a full set of period HKS speed parts get pushed into the crusher in 2009 because it cost the owner nearly ten grand in labour rewiring it to get the thing to run again. They were the hot JDM import like a year before the R32 Skyline became legal. It was probably getting ridden hard by teenagers since it landed in, what is it, a 1989? 2004, so 14 years of getting pounded on as an already cheap turbo car. The only other people who would want parts are other skinflint teenagers, and chances are the car is mostly OEM except for stickers and dorifto body damage because installing a set of Chinachargers and a manual boost controller into one of these is a multiple-weekend project so it would never get done. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Mar 30, 2018 04:54
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I wouldn't mind a 300zx with an ls swap.
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Mar 30, 2018 04:56
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Tearing into the 300 And picked up an old ex-postal jeep   It even says "right hand drive" on the back.
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Apr 4, 2018 01:25
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Someone was selling a custom painted hood for a d21 for $50. I could not say no
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Apr 11, 2018 02:24
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eberbs posted:Someone was selling a custom painted hood for a d21 for $50. I could not say no loving AMAZING
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Apr 11, 2018 02:32
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Nice. Is there anything over top to protect the art?
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Apr 11, 2018 02:34
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Nice. Is there anything over top to protect the art? its been clear coated
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Apr 11, 2018 03:02
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That hood has booty and skeletons on it!
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Apr 11, 2018 03:05
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Took the Eagle out for a drive yesterday for the first time in months. I played around with some of the ignition wiring so hopefully it wont leave me stranded on the side of the road. Im gonna put a few days of insurance on it and see if its reliable enough to drive on the regular until a Cherokee comes into my work so i can do the head swap to efi. Work has been crazy busy, got about a dozen cars waiting to be processed. Did this old diesel square body the other day, picked it up in the tow truck off some ghetto barge from one of the gulf islands. Backing a tow truck onto a tiny barge that only holds like 3 trucks while the waves are bashing and moving the barge while trying to load this bitch was pretty hosed up.   Also sold the F150 for $500 to some guy for parts. glad to see that gas chugging poo poo heap gone, now time to sell the pt loser to make room for the camero.
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Apr 22, 2018 16:22
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eberbs posted:Someone was selling a custom painted hood for a d21 for $50. I could not say no oh my
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Apr 24, 2018 14:28
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towed in a car-bq today. Only got 1 picture but can anyone guess what kind of car it was?
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May 2, 2018 04:11
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Cavalier?
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Looks like a three hunnert
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