Ran good backing out of the driveway and I goosed it once and immediately after it started stumbling again. I just don't get it. Runs OK with no load
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First Gen, all hardware no software
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So I bought this '70 K5 and fell in the rabbit hole ever since. It was tired, a victim of someone's "perfume on a pig" restoration. Original 350/350.Paint is nice.
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Did you have HEI dizzy before? Reason I ask is first gens had a resistor in pre HEI on the power wire to the dizzy and after start up the power would drop from 12 volts to like 6 or 8 because that was all the old school dizzy's needed, I ran into it on an engine swap I did to HEI and it ran the way you are describing.
Yea I've run into that before but the dizzy is running off its own 12v source
These came out nice will probably run a firewall mounted hood hinge and have to figure out mounting. Carbs ordered but not here yet
How heavy and how much flare?
I belive 3" flare but I don't know the weight yet. Not much
Carbon fiber bulge Fenders are in! Too bad I'm prepping to move so I can't take em out and try to fit them yet.
What did you get figured out on the move thing? Not sure if I missed something in your other thread on the homestead thing, don't want to go searching lol.
Well we kept running into snags and impossible situations with the state and local pinelands etc. It was discouraging so I started looking for fixer-uppers with land and happened to find a rancher with a garage on 16acres that needs a septic and a lot of remodeling. I feel we kinda lucked out. So our house goes on the market this week. With the market we hope it will take care of some debt and leave a little room to finance a pole barn I can finally fit a lift in
Awesome! That's what we were looking for when we moved back to this area in '17 but there was nothing on the market. Ended up buying a 26 acre farm on a first time farmer loan with the USDA and then building a house. Way more expensive than the option you are going but it's worked out good and we will just stick with it. Just did a refi the other day and lost our PMI and dropped our payment $400 a month so it helps.
Oh I hate pmi that will be the first thing I get rid of if I have it but we are financing conventional so we may not require it. Are you currently farming?
Yeah I have 6 acres of hay and another 10-15 of pasture. We currently have 8 cows, 7 calves from this year and the bull and this year we tried sheep and have 5 ewes and 2 bucks. We are also set up to do some pigs but we didn't get any this year. We will be getting rid of some cows to downsize with the drought we've been having and way high hay prices we gotta get ready for winter. We also have a shit ton of chickens and a bunch of turkeys and a few peacocks and 3 worthless goats. Still working on figuring out the farm to get it to actually make some money. I also do my neighbors 10 acres of hay 3 times a year.
Funny you say "worthless goats" bc my wife wants goats and I look at anything we husband more pragmatic. I'm sure I'll have chickens but I doubt on my small acreage I'll have large livestock or even pigs. I'm hoping to hunt more deer on my wooded property and an acre garden is for sure on the list. Well see I still have a lot of general maintenance to address on this property before we take on the farm end. Basically we'd like to have at least a year of food on hand.
Mine are worthless because they are wethers. Males with no nuts. Just pets. I could eat them I guess but the wife says no cuz we've had them since babies. Meat goats are a big thing around here. They sell for more and easier than cows at times. If I had woods to hunt I'd plant a food plot and grow some bucks. We are slowly working on the garden thing. Our ground sucks. I love the homestead idea of being able to provide my own stuff. It's a lot of work and money to get going but a good way to go.
Hmm I didn't know ppl were into eating goat that much state side, our ground is good but I dunno if my wife realizes how much work it's going to be for us. Honestly with the way the world is right now I can't see a better thing you can do for your family other than make sure you aren't completely reliant on supply chains. It just makes sense
So apparently it's almost impossible to get an FST carb right now. They moved the ship day to mid December! So here we are back to a reliable out of the box QFT Vac secondary elec choke. No frills.
I'm in the midst of boxing up my shop to move in a few weeks but my trucks still need love.
I'm in the midst of boxing up my shop to move in a few weeks but my trucks still need love.
So this should run correctly now. The coil is wired switched to the battery via the console panel. Hopefully the spark was just being blown out as a result of it being wired to what I believe was the pink "resistor" wire. Will also see tomorrow once I make room at the new shop to pull it in.
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Still ru s like total chit. Missing cylinders. Weak. Rich af. Rear drums locking up like a cut brake so that's rad. It looks good tho 11miles away. I'm putting the carb on. Then I'll decide if I'm changing the hei to a pro billet and 6aL
I made a rather large purchase for this today... Details to fallow 
