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She's Alive ................................... !!!!!

Started by 454CanAm · Thu 2009-04-02 (17 years ago) · in Mako/Maco Replicas

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Thu 2009-04-02 (17 years ago)

Got her up and running this past weekend, with the help of my neighbor Roy ...................................she's one radical sounding puppy !!! Sidepipes and noisy gear drive................. gotta love it ! Got a few issues to contend with..... blown header gasket and gotta readjust the valves................ but even without tweaking the dual carb set-up yet, the car can cool down for over an hour and still start up with a turn of the key.......... without having to touch the gas pedal !!!!!

I'm happy with my lighting set up so far too ............. I only used one bulb for the rear license plate and wired the other underneath the car so it shows the polished shark bite rear pretty good at night ! Rick }>

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Thu 2009-04-02 (17 years ago)

She's Alive ................................... !!!

Very nice, good luck getting it tweeked and fine tuned.

McBrain

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Fri 2009-04-03 (17 years ago)

She's Alive ................................... !!!

Man, that car really is coming along.
Excellent work and some really good ideas throughout the whole car!
I can't wait to see it in person!
Yea, it does sound wicked!!!

"Randy"

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Sat 2009-04-04 (17 years ago)

She's Alive ................................... !!!

That looks great from the rear!

I'm going to have to deduct points for the galvanized NPT elbow on the fuel line, though!

;-)

Bro' FF

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Sat 2009-04-04 (17 years ago) · edited by ShawkRider

She's Alive ................................... !!!

ROFL... now that you mention it. :+
I'm sure he's just waiting for the part in the mail to arrive.

Hey Rick don't feel bad, believe it or not Tim, Rick is not
the first to have done this. Believe it or not, my Maco came
with one like that on the fuel line when I got'er.

McBrain

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And Maco Lovers we shall be, for Chevy my Vette for thee.
Power hath decended forth from thy Foot so our tires may
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Sat 2009-04-04 (17 years ago)

She's Alive ................................... !!!

That looks great from the rear!

I'm going to have to deduct points for the galvanized NPT elbow on the fuel line, though!

;-)

You guys are getting hard to please............... !!!

I thought that custom touch was pretty cool !!!!!!!!!!

Actually, I couldn't get the car to stay running last Saturday. It would fire up .......... run a bit (about a minute at the longest) and then shut down. Then wound up not starting until it had sat awhile. Roy and I both said it was just like running out of gas ! I researched the Holley fuel pressure regulators and found out a major problem was they get mixed up (even in the factory !). They make two of them............. one 1 to 4 psi and the other 4.5 to 9 psi.

Guess which one I got ?????

I picked up another one locally on Thursday, so hopefully this one will be the proper pressure............. got the other on ebay -- so now it's history !!!

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Sat 2009-04-04 (17 years ago)

She's Alive ................................... !!!

Hey Rick...I love your NPT elbow!!!

I have a brass one on my water line to the block...adds class.... :D

Your car sure is looking great and coming along in leaps & bounds.

Can't wait to see it...keep the light on in June...;)

Say Hi to Susan for us.

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