BBR's 545 83GT..... it is alive

[milner351]

Tire rack shows 155/80-15 as available in a Radial TA for $78 each

[BBR]

I just ordered a set of Nankangs off of ebay for not much more than the other's were.

I checked locally, but everybody quoted me $65+/tire and would still have to order them. Add in sales tax to that and it's a wash. This way, they will just be delivered to my office and I can have them mounted when I want to.

[BBR]

I miss my shop. Just came in from building the exhaust system out in the driveway. It went pretty smooth. I have both sides made up and all I need to do is make the H pipe and slash cut the turndowns! Whoo hoo!

Gave myself a hotfoot with slag too. Right through the top of my shoe and burned the bottom of my toes. Oowie.

[STINEY]

The welders dance, its a hot number!

I've got some smokin' moves I can throw down to that one..... really clears the room...

[BBR]

Wow. Finally done with the exhaust....

I'm kind of a idiot because what I *should* have done (aside from taking it to an exhaust shop) is:

Start at the front and build my way back. What I did was hang the mufflers and build back to them, sort of. Also I should not have waited to do the H pipe last. That changed everything and I wasn't happy that one side was a little higher which would have caused the H pipe to be cockeyed under there.

In spite of all that, I am done with it. It ain't good, it ain't bad, but it's in there.

Oh yeah, the H seemed to mellow out the sonically abusive pop pop pop the Ranger had.

[TheSilverBuick]

Now drive it to work and take care of buisness!

Oh yeah, another "audio" video is due

[Scott Liggett]

I needed a 3' piece of exhaust tubing, so I went to the local Midas and they just gave me a piece. I love free stuff.

IF all goes right, the wife and kiddos are going to visit her mom this weekend and I am going to steal some time to build the Mustang's exhaust system.

THEN I am going to try to get the tach working.

THEN I might cruise out to Amarillo Dragway that evening. I probably will not make any passes since I do not have much time on it (I don't trust it just yet, lol) but I do want to make an appearance. I think the brakes may still need to be bled better.

I called just about every tire place I could think of in town and NOBODY has 165/80-15's skinny fronts in stock. So I ordered a pair of Nexen's from www.onlinetires.com. $121 to my door is about the best price I could find.

We used to go to VW bug shops and buy 165SR15's dirt cheap. Make great skinny front runners. I think I have a pic of my '73 impala with them.

[BBR]

The local VW shop could do no better on price and they would still have to order them.

Today's progress:

The factory tach now works and so does my shift lite but the ignition switch and battery have taken a dump. I'm not sure if my alternator is alternating. It's running a bit rich too as you can see in the pic... I'm slowly chipping away at stuff. I just don't completely trust it yet.

[Bob Holmes]

I miss my shop. Just came in from building the exhaust system out in the driveway. It went pretty smooth. I have both sides made up and all I need to do is make the H pipe and slash cut the turndowns! Whoo hoo!

Gave myself a hotfoot with slag too. Right through the top of my shoe and burned the bottom of my toes. Oowie.

I know that one!!!

[BBR]

Ok, so I put the battery charger on it for a while today, checked the fuses, hit the key and the dang thing cranked up.

Go figure.