Thread: my engine swap

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Barb,
It happens to me once in a while, also. That''s why for me I like to have a couple of projects.
I wish we all lived closer to each other, it's times like this it would be really nice to drop by and give a hand.
Hang in their.
Ken

This is from an old Friend of yours . Now set the Points and make sure you have Power to your coil and Fuel in the Line / carb and start that Engine up .

thanks tango. and thanks to my old friend. i believe that my firing order is correct. when i redid my spark plug wires i did them one at a time so as not to get them in the wrong order. going to get a neighbor of mine to come over this afternoon to check my wiring. he is a electrician and knows how to read the voltage meter. ken i wish that you guys lived closer too.

Your husband might not like it if he came home to find 20 guys trying to help you do stuff!!! HE! HE! HE! I could just hear him, Barb you have some splanning to do!!!
I am still waiting for that burn out video.
Hope you get it going real soon Barb.
Kurt

waiting on a distributor to be shipped in. there were none locally. thanks vara. hubby is used to me hanging out with guys and talking cars. thank goodness.

HE! HE! HE! I like him already.
My buddy had a real nice girl that knew about cars and she would go to the races even if he did not. She was pretty and smart and liked cars.
He went out and cheated on her I wanted to smack the piss out of him after that she met another guy and he didn't like her hanging out with a bunch of guys or gears heads so she stop comming around. She was a good girl and my buddy was a idiot.
Kurt

sounds like he really was a idiot. my hubby used to go to sea with the navy for 7 months at a time. he knows that i stayed true to him. if i did not cheat on him then he when he was thousands of miles away he knows that i am not going to when i am in our back yard in the garage. as far as other guys he knows all i am interested in is their cars.

cool barb.you bout got that thing ready for a drive.cant wait to see that thing on the road.

Did you and your neighbor find anthing out yet Barb???
I am starting to get excited for you because I think you are
gonna love that motor in that car. Some of those engine swaps
can be pretty tricky. Not just with the wirring but getting some
of the motor mounts right so the engine is not sitting twisted or
something. I think you've gotten past the worst of it though.
Let us know what you find. Kurt

Originally Posted by jyardgirl

waiting on a distributor to be shipped in. there were none locally. thanks vara. hubby is used to me hanging out with guys and talking cars. thank goodness.

i guess i missed it .. what kind of distributor you getting barb ?

trying to hunt down a used one. hei with vaccumn advance. contacted summit racing to see about a kit to change my points one over. every used one i find for a 74 caddy their website says that they have it but when i call to order one they say that they dont.

Tell 'em it's a '76, 500 CID. Their catalogs probably don't show HEI for the year of 472 that you are telling them. And the parts fellows probably aren't old enough to remember a 7.7 or an 8.2 litre motor.

thanks tech that helps alot.

Ya my brother's 76 Eldorado was a 501 with the HEI.
I love the car but I didn't like the front wheel drive on it. Seem's like every couple of years he had to do front end work to stop that clicking from the CV's.
Give me that Turbo 400 and rear wheel drive everytime.
Kurt

looking forward to driving mine kurt.