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‘67 turned 67,000 mi today
Got a break in the weather and was able to road test the new Cliff Ruggles (by Ray) rebuilt carb today. Car ran flawlessly. No overhearing issues, no off-idle stumble, and when you opened her up, that SD Stump Puller absolutely screamed! Really happy with RY’s work.
Car roller over 67,000 miles today. I bought this car in 1998 with only original 55,000 miles on her, so you can see I haven’t driven her much the first 25 years of ownership (granted, she did go through a 7-year frame-off with Steve Barr), but I do plan on driving her a lot more the next 25! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Three times the sound peaks, falls back, peaks again. A throttling back to cruising speed, a dwindling grumble of thunder and...gone. The frogs take up where they left off. |
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VERY nice! Enjoy!
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Very nice! Mine isn't as nice, but has 190,000 more miles on the clock....I'm at about 257,000 right now. These cars are a blast to drive!
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Frank, good to hear that you are able to put some fun miles on it. Cliff told me a while back that he had passed on the Q-jet restorations to someone else at his shop. Anything Cliff has done for me has been first class.
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Thanks Steve. Cliff recommended Ray to me to do the carb and it really runs nice now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Three times the sound peaks, falls back, peaks again. A throttling back to cruising speed, a dwindling grumble of thunder and...gone. The frogs take up where they left off. |
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‘67 turned 67,000 mi today
I forgot to ask this question when I posted about my little cruise last weekend. Because it was only in the low 50s, I noticed a lot of wind noise coming in through the closed vent windows. In fact, as I was driving, I was able to pull on the vent window handle to reduce the noise, at least in driver-side. I know Steve replaced all the weatherstripping for me, so was just curiouS if there was a way to adjust the vent windows to close tighter, besides sticking a quarter between the vent window handle and the glass!
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My blue 67 has original ugly vent window seals and is dead quiet. I replaced the seals in the 67 red car and then had terrible wind noise. Only difference was I used a piece of cardboard folded up to tighten up the seal. Being overly critical I went to remove the vent handle from the glass to install additional outside round shims that are available in a kit from Ames. The original lock pin would not remove and somewhere in the battle the vent glass shattered. Seemed like such a simple task when I started. Ordered out a new vent glass and it wasn't very much fun getting it seated. Installed the new handle and added all the shims. Still have a little wind noise.
Anyway, they do have shims that place the handle closer to the upright, but be forewarned that things might not go smoothly.
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Mick Batson 1967 original owner Tyro Blue/black top 4-speed HO GTO with all the original parts stored safely away -- 1965 2+2 survivor AC auto -- 1965 Catalina Safari Wagon in progress. |
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Thanks for the heads-up Lust4Speed. I’ll take a look at the Ames catalog for those shims, and let you know how I make out.
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I have noted poor fit and wind noise in all the reproduction vent window seals I have seen on first-gen GTO's. Still running the originals in both of my cars.
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