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David, I too had a weak burn out till I read up on my he fabulous ST400VP transmission that our 65 came with, get a toggle switch cut into the top wire that goes from the trans detent , pull the plug on it and you will see two blades like this _'_ the top blade is the + Kick Down passing gear for the trans , cut into that wire run it to your dash and hook up the other side to a 12 v source, these trans were the best ever made 400 with a high stall low stall dual converter. It's like an extra gear , in a dead stop once you flip that toggle it flips the angle of the stator blades in the converter multiplying the fluid and torque. Believe me on the next burn out you could sit there and burn off the tire if you want.

Welcome to the club, IMO you have the best Riviera ever made, enjoy!

POR -15 T Bird Red, 3 coats

I have Best gaskets on my build, they are steel showing around the cylinder rings about 1/4'' and fiber gasket covering the entire gasket.

first off a happy new year to all, I seem to be in the same boat, I noticed the egge .030pistons somewhat in the bore plus using the best gasket will also cut down on compression. the head I have were resurfaced as well as ported , the cam I chose was a isky 270 int dur 280 ex dur .469 int lift and .496 ex lift. on a 110 LC , my question is this do I need to check for valve to piston clearance or is there more of a gap now. Im also using adjustable pushrods on this build.

thanks

I Wonder about the antenna switch, since I removed the antenna could this switch be used if wired properly to open and close my electric sunroof?

That concept would of been an ultimate Riviera , just like the boat tail , I've also saw a 1st gen Riv with a boat tail , that also would of been awesome , what I like about this one is it keeps the nailhead, now that's class for a newer build custom

2010. Now

Ed, Using a smaller Sanden 508 compressor, not using that rear bracket, Roadshshark the coating on the intake and exhaust manifolds are ceramic coated, has the look of polished aluminum, you have to ground down and sand the manifolds real good and smooth before you coat them

Started assembly , cleaned block torqued heads and cap block bolts, installed cam, need to get some break in oil set lifters and pushrods

Starting assembly of 425 , torqued heads and cap bolts on block

I am attempting to skin over these lower arm rests with real carbon fiber, will let you know when I start.

napa had the ones I needed,m $10 for a 6 piece pack ,

Marvels mystery oil will do exactly the same thing and is good for lubricating the top end

With the epoxy and poly primers from PPG you are off to a great start.

That looks sweet, talking about the entire wood dash

David , This is Gunmetal grey metallic , but Harley PPG calls it Charcoal Satin Bright

Not so, or at lease the shop i take it to said it would of been OK

Leave them attached to the scissor assembly, another words don't dissasmeble them by drilling out the rivitts leave them on and gave them chromed with the assembly on the clam shells , it's gell finding replacement rivitts plus it's so much easer to install

I'm running custom, on my resto so I had those parts smoothed and chromed, same with the side rockers and clam shells

On the engine bay pictured, my engine will be almost the same set up, i would like to do my headliner similar to the one pictured but with an art deco design, I will wrap the Steering wheel the same with leather but two tone black and grey with red stitching. for the rear bumper Im going with the same cut outs but different stailess tips, I have already modded the rear brake light and taken out the verticle lines leaving just one horizontal as the one pictured, just need to have it chromed, and this is the lokar 3 speed art deco shifter I will use. More later.

Funny things we find in our Rivieras, I was technically the 2 me owner siahen I stripped it down inside I found near the center console tabs seals from pints of liquor , blue chip stamps , beer pull tabs, wooden cigar tips, cig butts, and some old coins, silver dime 1964. This was a party car for the owner that had it, didn't find any rubbers when I removed the back seat.

Thanks, will check out

Yes, I turned on a friend from my parish to the shop and he's in limbo, maybe your cousin can recommend a sprayer, and what type of paint. Lately paint has been very expensive and the type of paint your going to use( solvent or waterbase) and you can't get solvent here anymore unless you have connections, and I do but it's not cheapWe are talking over $400 a gallon and a good clear is is the same. And you probably need two gallons of each if your doing jambs , under trunk and hood. There is a place in Sylmar that did a friends car from work and the turnaround was real good like 3 to 4 months finished, but not sure if they will do a " bring in " material. They seemed to do a very excellent job.