Thread: For Don Shilady

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While I am glad I took off the air cleaner to see the "dangling shift cable" I already had an appointment this morning for Va State Inspection and I took the car to "Performance Transmission" in the nearby Hanover Air Park. This is a one man shop with Bruce Orlandi who maintains a very neat shop with three lifts. Bruce runs a Cavalier with a 706 cu. in. aluminum block and twin 750 cfm Dominator carbs. He spotted the dangling cable as due to the flimsy aftermarket socket jumping loose when I did the acceleration tests and the cable popped back into place. I have a lot to learn about the 700R4 and I note that my setup includes a Summit accessory to make the OD shift automatic. I tried to understand every aspect of my roadster build but the installation of the 700R4 was limited by a restriction of my observations after the manager of the first shop limited my access to the shop interior claiming I asked too many questions. That shop was interested mainly in treating me as a "customer" restricted to the waiting room just reading magazines. Eventually I got my car out of that shop but there is a gap in my understanding of the car with respect to the 700R4. So far Bruce at Performance is much more informative.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder