Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Thanks Bob, I read page two and it says they have a diode kit to rectify the problem. My distributor came with no instructions, it was one of my purchases at Daytona last year from some vendor there. I wish I knew if it needed a resistor , but I guess I just have to try running it and see if it diminishes performance with it in there. If if does, I'll just pop it out of the circuit. I have been running the car on full 12 volts, but was afraid to do that for any extended period.

JR, yep, you shoulda seen the smoke coming from mine ! I guess that diode kit keeps the current from going to a dead short ground. I like the way this Powermaster cranks the engine, but I've had my fair share of issues with it.

BTW, today we got a whole lot accomplished. Don and I worked on his T and Dan worked on finished up my grille shell. He has about 30 hours in it already, but it is finally done, and he did a terrific job on it. He had to shorten and section it to get it to fit well, and he bead rolled two inner panels to fill in where the old ones were too small to cover the sides of my radiator. He really did a nice job on it, and now it is ready to sandblast and paint.

Don and I did a bunch of those little jobs that need done, like finishing up the brake job on the rear axle, installing his progressive linkage and Lokar kickdown and throttle linkage. Dan had fabbed up some front shock mounts for us, so we got those painted and installed and he now has shocks on the front too. Even got his skull shift knob installed. I think that was his favorite part.

Tomorrow night we are going to paint his radiator shroud and my windshield frame. The glass shop removed the old glass for me so I could do that, and then I will take it back to them to have new tinted safety plate installed. The old glass was in good shape, but was not safety plate. I stepped on the other half of the windshield one day and broke the glass in that half, and it went into a million sharp pieces. No way I was going to chance using 80 year old glass that shatters like that.

Here are some pictures of what we got done today.

Don