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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CAP1 on May 25, 2011, 08:40:08 PM
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yep.....a 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. thing was friggin HUGE.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/coupedeville5.jpg)
i'd swear you could fit an entire smartcar in the front seat of this thing....or more appropriately, put that ugly little POS in the trunk, out of sight.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/coupedeville4.jpg)
the guy failed emissions. pretty badly to be honest. this one has the 7 liter v-8 with a bogjet, with only 105k on her. it was kind of obvious that him, or someone else had taken a few guesses at it, as it had a rebuilt carburetor on it, along with new cap, rotor, wires, and plugs.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/coupedeville2.jpg)
it wasn't too hard really to get it down into limits....and well below those limits. whomever had rebuilt the carb., didn't adjust it properly, nor did anyone think to actually check the ignition timing.
as much as i like working on my fuel injected computer controlled cars, i hafta admit.....i REALLY miss working on beasts like this. adjusting the carb by ear, till she sounds juuuuust right, then bumping the timing to where it belongs, then check the emissions, and tweak it till it's where i want it to be.
the hardest part of the job, was that i don't have any of my carburetor adjusting tools at the shop anymore. i had to go across the street to borrow the right socket to get on the needle valves.
yea......old cars are fun too. :aok
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yep.....a 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. thing was friggin HUGE.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/coupedeville5.jpg)
i'd swear you could fit an entire smartcar in the front seat of this thing....or more appropriately, put that ugly little POS in the trunk, out of sight.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/coupedeville4.jpg)
the guy failed emissions. pretty badly to be honest. this one has the 7 liter v-8 with a bogjet, with only 105k on her. it was kind of obvious that him, or someone else had taken a few guesses at it, as it had a rebuilt carburetor on it, along with new cap, rotor, wires, and plugs.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/coupedeville2.jpg)
it wasn't too hard really to get it down into limits....and well below those limits. whomever had rebuilt the carb., didn't adjust it properly, nor did anyone think to actually check the ignition timing.
as much as i like working on my fuel injected computer controlled cars, i hafta admit.....i REALLY miss working on beasts like this. adjusting the carb by ear, till she sounds juuuuust right, then bumping the timing to where it belongs, then check the emissions, and tweak it till it's where i want it to be.
the hardest part of the job, was that i don't have any of my carburetor adjusting tools at the shop anymore. i had to go across the street to borrow the right socket to get on the needle valves.
yea......old cars are fun too. :aok
was it Afroman's?
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was it Afroman's?
negatory on that. his is a cherry red convertible. :D
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Had one of these a few years ago. Dark Metallic blue. Ran like a top :aok
Some kid pulled out in front of me in a Minivan and I plowed him. The engine of the van was almost sheared clean off, the T-Bird was still running. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgApLR8oync&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgApLR8oync&feature=player_embedded)
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negatory on that. his is a cherry red convertible. :D
lol i didnt even know that,but thanks.ever work on his?lol
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ah dood...when i was in the corps i bought a 71 el dorado...had a big 472 caddy engine in it...it kinda "glided" on the road, and the faster you got it the smoother it road.
that coupe looks like it was taken pretty good care of...until...would love to drive it around, and not have to fill the gas tank :D
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Almost bought one last month, lol
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Almost bought one last month, lol
well this one was/is in extremely good shape. you can see how clean it is under the hood and inside. very few blemishes on the exterior. cadi used these plastic spacers though, between the end of the quarter panel, and the tail light bezel. those are covered with black duct tape. other than that, this thing's a beauty. and that's coming from someone who really never liked land yachts.
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well this one was/is in extremely good shape. you can see how clean it is under the hood and inside. very few blemishes on the exterior. cadi used these plastic spacers though, between the end of the quarter panel, and the tail light bezel. those are covered with black duct tape. other than that, this thing's a beauty. and that's coming from someone who really never liked land yachts.
Back in the day, my father-in-law had a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham ... that car was HUGE. Plenty of power and cruised like it was floating on a cloud.
(http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B5320.jpg)
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I had one of those in college. I bought it for $500 from an old man that just wanted to get rid of it, the thing had 225k miles on it and still ran like a champ. I traded it about 6 months later for a 1986 Toyota 4x4 pickup truck that had 75k miles on it. At the time I got better gas mileage from the Toyota truck than the caddy so it was a no brainer for me. I wish I still had that Caddy.
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First thing that came to my mind (then I remebered I lived all the way over here in CA, lol), is the owner looking to sell it?
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My daily driver is a 72 Dodge monaco lately. 19 feet long :cheers:, 25 MPG on my commute which is all highway. A rolling couch floating over the road. Hunting gremlins on it, CAP Utah vacation? :D
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My daily driver is a 72 Dodge monaco lately. 19 feet long :cheers:, 25 MPG on my commute which is all highway. A rolling couch floating over the road. Hunting gremlins on it, CAP Utah vacation? :D
THAT has the lean burn system on it, doesn't it?
my 85 5th ave had a 318 with lean burn.....friggin thing did me 26 or 27 miles/gallon coming back from florida one year..........i dunno how fast i was going though...the speedo was pointing at something besides numbers. :noid
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Good thing that car wasn't 2 years newer sporting a E4MC or E4ME carb or it would have gotten a lot more interesting.
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Growing up my dad had a 77 Mercury Marquis 4r....It sat 3 inthe front..4in the back and 6 in the trunk.:) Talk about a monster of a car.Ive seen smaller container ships lol
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/197820Mercury20Grand20Marquis.jpg)
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Good thing that car wasn't 2 years newer sporting a E4MC or E4ME carb or it would have gotten a lot more interesting.
which car? the cadi?
bogjets are easy.
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dayum! they must've charged you double in a parking garage. :devil
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Gotta love an engine that you don't need a computer to work on. I miss the days of carb tuning and setting points gap. Good times.
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Gotta love an engine that you don't need a computer to work on. I miss the days of carb tuning and setting points gap. Good times.
yea....and i had to dust off my timing light. :rofl
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No I don't have the lean burn thingy, that I know of anyway. It's just a chrysler 360. I had 25 MPG when it was spitting oil with a 2BB carb. Now that I rebuilt the engine and put a Edelbrock manifold with a 4BB carb, I wonder if I ll get better or worse. I ll find out sunday as I will fill her up again, ive been driving all week on that 20gal tank. I drive 65-70, I'm always easy on the throttle at the red light anyway, never understood the ' pedal smashers', so hard on your car and so unnecessary. :) cept if you got some fun car to drive off course.
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/olythekid/713584761_photobucket_44421_.jpg)
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/olythekid/713584761_photobucket_44420_.jpg)
So Rebuilt engine, rebuilt 727, I'm hunting down a repetitive vibration which I think comes from my tq converter. Then ill tackle the interior/body work/vinyl to match the nose/engine bay I already painted.
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I was replacing cracked exhaust manifold on 1979 Olds something something. First thing i noticed there was no gasket, brilliant! Second, bolts were in better shape than in modern two year old car.
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I was replacing cracked exhaust manifold on 1979 Olds something something. First thing i noticed there was no gasket, brilliant! Second, bolts were in better shape than in modern two year old car.
old gm's were pretty good for that. 70's fords.....not so good, 'specially the big blocks, and the "FE" blocks. they had gaskets that tended to blow out. then the best part, was that the hardest to reach bolts would break, 'cause they were rusted in, and partially rusted through.
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No I don't have the lean burn thingy, that I know of anyway. It's just a chrysler 360. I had 25 MPG when it was spitting oil with a 2BB carb. Now that I rebuilt the engine and put a Edelbrock manifold with a 4BB carb, I wonder if I ll get better or worse. I ll find out sunday as I will fill her up again, ive been driving all week on that 20gal tank. I drive 65-70, I'm always easy on the throttle at the red light anyway, never understood the ' pedal smashers', so hard on your car and so unnecessary. :) cept if you got some fun car to drive off course.
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/olythekid/713584761_photobucket_44421_.jpg)
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/olythekid/713584761_photobucket_44420_.jpg)
So Rebuilt engine, rebuilt 727, I'm hunting down a repetitive vibration which I think comes from my tq converter. Then ill tackle the interior/body work/vinyl to match the nose/engine bay I already painted.
i think....not sure..but i think you'll get better mileage with the 4bbl, if all else goes unchanged. :aok
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Well I had to go 4BB because the 2 BB would not fit the Edel intake, and I had to change the intake because the original one was such in apoor shape. It's the one with the early egr, there's a chamber inside the top of the intake where the exhaust gas go in, and there's two little tunnels going straight up to the base of the carb. Clever, but after 30 plus years, the thing was so clogged with charcoal deposit that it blew that chamber plate inside the lifter valey. I tried to save it by cleaning everything and rivetting a new base pate, but I had to much intake leak between the heads and the intake anyway. I junked it.
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which car? the cadi?
bogjets are easy.
I got one to flow over 900 cfm in 1981.
They are great carbs and I especially like the computer controlled feedback loop quadrajets.
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I got one to flow over 900 cfm in 1981.
They are great carbs and I especially like the computer controlled feedback loop quadrajets.
the feedback versions drove me nuts at first. for whatever reason, i couldn't figure those dam things out. then something just seemed to "click" one day, and i never had a problem with them again.
i've never hot rodded one of them though. always kept them stock. if i was hot rodding anything, i always used either holleys or carters. now if i hot rod something......no carbs at all. fi all the way.
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This was very, very, very close to being my first car, but in a light metallic blue, primer, and rust color....
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Cadillac_Eldorado_Convertible.jpg)
'71 Caddy El Dorado convert.....
Instead I wound up with a Triumph Spitfire! From Land Yacht to English go-cart!
As much as I loved my Spitfire, and the 5 other Spitfires and GT6's that followed, there's a BIG part of me that wishes I could have had that Caddy.... or have it today! Just not to drive, tho.... with $3.45/gal gas! :(
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No I don't have the lean burn thingy, that I know of anyway. It's just a chrysler 360. I had 25 MPG when it was spitting oil with a 2BB carb. Now that I rebuilt the engine and put a Edelbrock manifold with a 4BB carb, I wonder if I ll get better or worse. I ll find out sunday as I will fill her up again, ive been driving all week on that 20gal tank. I drive 65-70, I'm always easy on the throttle at the red light anyway, never understood the ' pedal smashers', so hard on your car and so unnecessary. :) cept if you got some fun car to drive off course.
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/olythekid/713584761_photobucket_44421_.jpg)
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/olythekid/713584761_photobucket_44420_.jpg)
So Rebuilt engine, rebuilt 727, I'm hunting down a repetitive vibration which I think comes from my tq converter. Then ill tackle the interior/body work/vinyl to match the nose/engine bay I already painted.
360 right?
put that engine and tranny in an old duster :aok
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This was very, very, very close to being my first car, but in a light metallic blue, primer, and rust color....
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Cadillac_Eldorado_Convertible.jpg)
'71 Caddy El Dorado convert.....
Instead I wound up with a Triumph Spitfire! From Land Yacht to English go-cart!
As much as I loved my Spitfire, and the 5 other Spitfires and GT6's that followed, there's a BIG part of me that wishes I could have had that Caddy.... or have it today! Just not to drive, tho.... with $3.45/gal gas! :(
wrong color, but know what movie that pic just made me think of? and it was on last night?
undercover brother. and that was one friggin FUNNY movie.