Now she sounds like she should!

August 20th, 2008

Today the kid and I put a glasspack on Holliwood. We found a local dude parting out a '73 and the previous owner had recently added the dual "cherry bomb" exhaust. And since the seller is planning on taking the '73 to the demo derby after all the good stuff is gone, he wanted my old exhaust.

Consequently, not only does she SOUND like a muscle car now, I got additional help with the job. He got us started and helped us remove the old exhaust and my 19 year old and I had a great time working together to install the dual. We had to tie the back end up with wires the seller pulled down from his commercial garage ceiling so that we could drive her home to finish up later. (that was a crack up).

He also had a good door latch. We switched those out. My drivers door is still a little loose but doesn't rattle as much as it did. Got some advice from another connection of a connection and will try to adjust the strike bolt as soon as I can locate a T55 star wrench head.

Getting the old pipes off was tricky. The bolts were frozen solid. A few sprays of WD40 and a pipe for leverage did the trick for us. We still need to drill a hole on either side of the frame for the rear mounting bracket.

Note: I've had her sitting in my driveway for three months. I pull up this afternoon with the new exhaust and my neighbor says "hey, what is that that you're driving?" Guess he finally noticed it :o)