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cool!

"...Then again, I wouldn't want to drive that skylark much either"<P>Agreed

mabey because a 76 carb is calibrated so lean?

i'm of no help but noone makes parts for my 8 7/8 10 bolt either!

use stainless to not worry about it rusting out. I got stainless custom bent front to back for $500 including the mufflers! Thats Canadain so that works out to $325 American. Good deal eh?

I don't know any numbers but you will notice the difference. I did. I think 73Electra225 did too.

Got the engine back together finnaly! Weather hasn't been great so it has taken awhile. When I took my heads off alot of coolant drained into the left exaust pipe so when I strted her up she was smokin pretty good and since it lasted longer then i thought it should I was thinking 'oh great mabey it wasn't the head gasket' but it cleared up after a smokey (steamy) drive out the highway. It so nice to drive the big beast again! <BR>Would have been nice to throw a cam in and stuff while I had her all ripped apart but the money just ain't there. <p>[ 05-16-2002: Message edited by: 76Electra ]

Got some pics of you doin a burnout? <BR>My band got it's name from me and our guitarist walking down the street one night and seeing some rubber on the ground. He says "look, public display of posi" and then it just kinda stuck. Anyways, the site I'm workin on for us has an auto section and i want to make a gallary of "public dislays of posi" so email me pics if you got em! <BR>Adam<P> ninrule@perth.net

my electra has telescopic, never use it, different anyways...

ok got the head off now, see that exaust bolt at front of block does go into coolant passage. the gasket is all cracked beside the leaking cylinder but the metal ring is intact, but looks a wee bit out of round where the gasket material was all cracked. was this the leak. i hope so! now to get the other head off and get some new gaskets. <P>oh, should i get this heads checked for cracks just in case?, what's the cost of that kinda thing?

Hey everyone. <BR>Started tearing down my engine after my #2 cylinder decided to be a coolant resovoir, and am not liking what I am seeing. <P>First I pulled the plugs. Of course #2 was soaked but #8 was bent, like it had been hit by something, say the pistion?? <P>Keep going, distributor is seiezed into engine... soak in penetrating fluid for 24 hours to remove, and still is a pain. <BR>Hook up some air pressure to #2 cylinder, leakes into cooling system at less then 10 psi. <BR>Drained system, removed all the hoses and everything else in the way of getting the heads, intake, etc off. Start on the exaust manifolds. Of course there are 2 that break and two that are rounded off, yippie!!<P>Anyways, to the point, there was coolant on the threads of the exaust manifold bolt for the #2 cylinder, so do you guys think I'm looking at a cracked head, vs. a blown head gasket? I just can't wait to see that when i get to it I can't see the bolt going through a collant passage so what else could it be...

ok, after spending what seems like alot of money lately on the big ol buick (new master, wires, blower motor, carb parts) in the last week and over 1000 in the last year (dual exaust, new rad, water pump, etc.) she decides to be a [censored]! <BR>Since it had been running the best it ever has I decided she deserved a bath. so today i took it to the car wash, to get all that winter salt off, runnin fine... start up to pull out, missing not to bad, but missing. wet wires mabey i think, but brand new?? Go for a drive to mabey dry them, no difference. Get home, see lots of smoke from exaust.. hmm. pull out plug from which cylider i think is missing and along comes A WHOLE BUNCH OF COOLANT!! WHY!! How could washing my car blow a head gasket, crack a head or whatever has happened? God I'm not to happy <BR>I'm also broke so she'll be sitting for a while

no one lists a 455 buick with hei. What do you guys use for wires? I got a universal set of spiral cores and crimping the distributor ends and trying to slide the boot on is a pain in the ass! How are lengths, etc. on BBC wire sets or others? It would be so much easier to tell the parts gut I want a set of wires for a common engine w/hei then going through this hell again.

well hanger and rods are in. no huge difference except that it has seemed to cure my bog problem which I wasn't even expecting. All I need is a nice day and someone with a stopwatch so i can see if there is any difference in times. I might try putting the H hanger back in just to see then to. Whenever that will happen.(a nice day that is). The difference in tip sizes was huge! my tips looked like dull pencils while the new ones looked freshly sharpend. <P>I also order some Accel spiral core wires, while I was at it, since mine are at least 13 years old. (10 years in storage, 3 years back on the road)<BR>Thats tommorows project. Talk to yas later!

ok, done some searching. typing in hangers and rods and such has brought back a great deal of info on what others are using. I'm gonna order an 'G' hanger and some rods sized at .0410 tip. That seems to be the hanger i seen most in peoples specs. the rods are a bit bigger but I don't want to take such a huge jump and go down to .0300 tip. <BR>I'll try this and see what happens and let yas know.

I checked my hanger that i have now, it's an H. I didn't bother to pull the rods but my chassis manual says my sec. rods are DB. I used google to search for those letters in a qjet and came back with .0697" which is larger then the largest edelbrock piece. Since my hanger is closer to A then not mabey i should just leave it alone and get smaller rods or mabey step to a G and take a smaller step with the rods??? I don't know time to do some more searching <p>[ 03-31-2002: Message edited by: 76Electra ]

just in case anyone was wondering, what i listed as whats avalible to me are edelbrock parts for the qjet. They have those 5 hangers and the rods in between the numbers i have listed. they don't have the same lettering on the rods like the gm pieces just the size oh well, mabey i should get that book! If anyone wanted to look at what i was it's at carparts.com under performance/fuel/etc... not a bad deal at like 8 bucks a hanger or 3-4 dollars for a set of rods. mabey i should just buy them all

Wondering if anyone could tell me what primary and secondary rods, and what hangers I should be using for best performance.<BR>This is a 4bbl '76 455 Electra. Stock except for dual exaust.<BR>choices for me are:<BR>Primary rods: .048 up to .054<BR>Secondary rods: .0300 up to .0667<BR>Hangers: B,G,K,P,V (.520 up to .615)<P>What would be in there now?<BR>I could probibly leave the primary side alone or no?<P>thanks for your help guys

Here's my submission...<BR><A HREF="http://www.publicdisplayofposi.com/auto/burnout76.mpg" TARGET=_blank>76 Electra (right click save as)</A><BR>

Good luck! I got 2.25 stainless steel front to back with 2 turbo mufflers 4 months ago. Sounds great and a noticable amount of more mid/top end power. Not having to push gases through a 20 year old converter probibly helps alot too!

Although I can't compare to that, I've owned my Buick for 14 months now and have had to deal with:<BR>-rad recore<BR>-water pump<BR>-alt (twice, damn stereo)<BR>-power att. decideing to go up and down all day while you drive until it breaks<BR>-tranny pump leak / no leak / leak / no leak (still no leak)<BR>-blower motor that loves to squel and whine in cold weather (justifies loud stereo I guess)<BR>... and just last week I almost plowed into my garage door because my master cylinder decided to die. <P>But on a good note I finnaly got duals, stainless steel front to back, and I've never had a no-start problem ever so I guess all is not bad. <P>I'm glad my wheels stay on, although I've been a passenger in a car where the wheel decides it wants to go ahead of everyone else, lot's of pretty sparks! <p>[ 01-10-2002: Message edited by: 76Electra ]

Hi, I remeber Radio Shack used to sell 12V lights that look like fuses, don't know if they still do though.

I agree, I had the same problem also.

If you order these, tell me how they fit. I ordered the 3 rear fillers for the rear of my 76 Electra and also a RHR quarter extension, and nothing was right. All the pre drilled holes in the quarter extension were in the wrong spots and i had to cut it with a bandsaw and use a die grinder on it for about an hour before it would even fit on the car,as if it was twisted before it had dried or something. Once I find an original, I'm changing it. The curves on the fillers never matched the tail lights pefectly, though good enough, and the center filler reqired extensive cutting to fit without interfering with the two side fillers. I emailed them after all this to tell them of my troubles and they never even bothered to reply. Just thought I'd let you know.

what about the positive coil wire?