Everyday Car Pics

[SJW]

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I saw your car in Canmore yesterday. What a great day for a drive.

[BavarianBeast]

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Nice!

A friend just picked up a V12 Vantage (again)... Is that MJ's?

It was lovely manual, his name was Jim.

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I saw your car in Canmore yesterday. What a great day for a drive.

It was absolutely perfect!

[vengie]

Out fer a rip buds

[Disoblige]

Is that Westgen unit in the back?

[ExtraSlow]

[zipdoa]

[JustinL]

Winters on, ride height up.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Mmmm boost.

[Sentry]

Ooooh, oldschool. Got more pics?

[BerserkerCatSplat]

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Ooooh, oldschool. Got more pics?

Not of the whole car (at least not recently) as I was just focusing on finally finishing the supercharger install. Took more finagling than expected. 1968 GT350, it's not a lot of boost by any means (5-7psi) but it certainly perked things up.

Here's what it looks like sans blower and upper half of the carb enclosure.



The enclosure doesn't come drilled for any through-fittings so I had to drill and install bulkhead fittings for fuel/power/vacuum. Washer reservoir changed, coil relocated, water hose riser changed, boost-referenced fuel pump, among other things.

[JfuckinC]

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Not of the whole car (at least not recently) as I was just focusing on finally finishing the supercharger install. Took more finagling than expected. 1968 GT350, it's not a lot of boost by any means (5-7psi) but it certainly perked things up.

k what? is it yours? old pics will suffice haha

[BerserkerCatSplat]

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k what? is it yours? old pics will suffice haha

It's my father's car, he's had it since the late 70s, I just turn wrenches on it. This is the only recent pic I have handy, until the supercharger project it hadn't had a lot of recent attention as we were working on finishing the GTX. It does get driven frequently though.

[Ca_Silvia13]

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The enclosure doesn't come drilled for any through-fittings so I had to drill and install bulkhead fittings for fuel/power/vacuum. Washer reservoir changed, coil relocated, water hose riser changed, boost-referenced fuel pump, among other things.

Seems like a carb hat would have been easier no?

[BerserkerCatSplat]

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Seems like a carb hat would have been easier no?

Unquestionably, a blow-through carb setup would have been easier. This is meant to be a period-correct installation, the carb enclosure with white SN60 Paxton blower is what would have been installed on a 1968 Shelby that was delivered with the dealer-installed supercharger option.

Technically, we should have used an Autolite carb to be completely correct, but we prefer Holleys in general and you can't see it in the enclosure anyway.

[Sentry]

Yup the oldschool way is to box up the whole carb and boost it, blowthru is relatively new. Paxton used to sell this:

[legendboy]

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It's my father's car, he's had it since the late 70s, I just turn wrenches on it. This is the only recent pic I have handy, until the supercharger project it hadn't had a lot of recent attention as we were working on finishing the GTX. It does get driven frequently though.

My dad almost bought a 69 hemi GTX, missed it by 15 mins apparently

[BerserkerCatSplat]

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My dad almost bought a 69 hemi GTX, missed it by 15 mins apparently

Dang, that's rough. My dad missed out on the convertible hemi GTX the guy was selling but managed to buy his hardtop a few years later. Would have been in the late 80s, car was an pretty bad shape.

[90_Shelby]

Awesome. Love the GTX and the period correct blower install on the GT350.

There was a Dodge dealership "Mr. Norm's" in the 70's who did dealer installed blowers on old Dusters just like that.

And Sentry nailed it with that Paxton kit as well, I remember that exact style when I worked at Davenport.

[legendboy]

Early 80's for my dad, I think it was also a convertible. He had a few 69 z28's so it wasn't the end of the world for him. He still talks about it tho haha

[BerserkerCatSplat]

It's easier when you can wipe your tears on your multiple Z28s haha. He had a '68 GTX 440 4-speed before this one, lot of good memories of that car.