Gramma's Car: the new project! - Page 29

**njsteve** · #**281** 10-17-2015, 10:10 PM

Here you go:

[img]http://vid1087.photobucket.com/album...s/IMG_1572.mp4[/img]

[img]http://vid1087.photobucket.com/album...s/IMG_1571.mp4[/img]

I can't seem to figure out how to post the image of a photobucket video file. The video link tab only has Google, facebook, etc, no photobucket. Anyone have some advice?

**njsteve** · #**282** 10-18-2015, 04:09 PM

OK lets see how this goes. Click on the photos

**Canuck** · #**283** 10-18-2015, 04:24 PM

That is smooth!

**njsteve** · #**284** 10-19-2015, 08:42 PM

Took Gramma's car out for some mileage. I have 100 miles on the 455 now! Got caught in a freak, one-minute long, snow storm on Sunday. I stopped at a traffic light. All of sudden the clouds blocked out the sun and snowflakes started fluttering all over the place. The light turned green, the snow stopped, the sun came out and I continued back home. Very bizarre to say the least.

Maybe it was the odometer reading 797797 ?

And safely back at the ranch.

**Xplantdad** · #**285** 10-19-2015, 08:45 PM

Looks Great, Steve!!

**njsteve** · #**286** 10-19-2015, 08:52 PM

Thanks! I ordered a B&M shift kit from Summit Racing for the car. It should be here this week in time for the weekend install. The original TH350 transmission has been babied all these years and operates fine but shifts way too smooth and slow. I would rather have it shift firmly and quickly. This car is silent inside when you roll up the windows and you can barely feel the tranny shift when it is rolling. Needs some real exhaust, and some chirping gears! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

**Ryan1969Chevelle** · #**287** 10-19-2015, 08:57 PM

Great sound!!!

You are one of the most tenacious car guys around!!

Ryan

PS: what would happen to a sleepy old Oldsmobile if I dropped it off at your place? If you are hurting for the next project just give me a call:-)

**njsteve** · #**288** 10-19-2015, 09:06 PM

Maybe one of these days I'll get to work on my Father-In-Law's '71 Cutlass S convertible. It is that neat metallic orange color. He is retired and cruises that car every day in the summer months up north. It's got a 350 Olds engine.

I wonder if a 455 Olds swaps with a 350 in the same way as a Pontiac? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]

cook_dw · #**289** 10-20-2015, 02:58 PM

Sounds & looks great.. That cam definitely does a little talkin'..

**njsteve** · #**290** 10-25-2015, 02:10 AM

Today I went to my buddy's garage to use the lift and over the course of several hours, we installed the B&M Shift Improver kit. This is the one that gives you two options: heavy duty or street/strip. We went with the street/strip option. It made an unbelievable improvement in the transmission's operation.

Before, it felt like there was no discernable shifting from second to third - just a mysterious melange of engine and transmission movement/noise that would last for several seconds. It was way too buffered and smooth - like they designed it for a Cadillac not a Pontiac.

Now the thing shifts quickly and firmly like it should, from first to second and second to third. Downshifts are much crisper and firmer, too. Best $95 I've spent so far. We also installed the Summit Racing one-piece, reusable, rubber and steel backed pan gasket. Excellent piece and doesn't leak like the OEM cork gasket.

And what did we find in the filter? Well, anyone with a Jack Russell knows how those critters shed. I found one of his white dog hairs in the filter! What the heck he was doing in the transmission pan, I have no idea. But he has been known to drive the car now and then...

The filter. Note the hair in the orange circle:

The rest of the internals looked pretty clean for 79,000 miles:

The little hairball, caught in the act...