Ryan Weaver's 1969 Olds Cutlass S W31 Club Coupe

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

Originally Posted by junior supercar

Hope it doesn't work how my XRi did. I yanked it and no more bizarre electrical issues. I have heard from others the built in rev limiter is off by 500rpm

I hope so too.

Dan Jensen did the ignition top to bottom and recommended the crane unit. Can't wait to be finding out what makes the most horsepower vs what grinds the best:-)

Ryan

PS: Update: I have a welder (machine/gas/Helmut/etc) ready to pick up so I can start small repairs:-) Not sure of the Easter bunny will keep us busy every second of the weekend....

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

No progress today, yard work, and Good Friday events.

I did snap a few pictures of my Valve cover sticker:-) Can you feel the tension in the air? :-)

Ryan

[daverd]

I have a tach drive distributer for an Oldsmobile
And a moroso jones tach....

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

Call me about these items in 2018:-)

Ryan

[DW31S]

I agree with Dan. Put a Sun Tach or a Sun Super Tach (but absolutely NOT a Sun Super Tach ll) on the steering column and forget about it and move on. Then you'll thank ME and DAN years down the road. Sell that one at a swap meet and get yourself a nice Sun.

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

Send a picture of one:-)

I am pretty sentimental about my monster tach:-) My wife used to show me her "high score", it has a memory button:-)

Ryan

[daverd]

Ryan use ant tachometer you
Want to it's your car!!!

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

My car, my money, my Tach......... "I did it my way"

I love the back and forth and aLways get great advice on here:-)

I can't wait till my car is together and my big ugly tach is the top priority/decision:-)

Ryan

PS: I have the morning carved out of a busy weekend for more wire wheeling are preparation for small rust repairs.

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

I spent a solid 5 hours Saturday and 5 hours again today on the car:-)

I am going after rust spots :-(

Here is one of the body mounts that rusted out, I will media blast it and move the cage and nut over to a fresh piece of metal and weld it in.

Ryan

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

I have been working away at the drivers side rear wheel well, there is rust where the trunk floor, inner wheel well, and trunk support all meet up. I have wire wheeled and ground and picked and hammered away but the rust is deeper than I can get to from the outside....... I want to be able to sleep at night after completeing this chassis restoration...... so I drilled out the spot welds and removed the trunk support. This will allow me to media blast the inside of the support and weld up the body mount and a few week spots in the support. I will spray the back side with weld through primer and it will be good for a hundred years:-)

This will also allow me access to repair the trunk floor right at the edge where it meets the wheel well, I will add a pice of sheet metal and weld it all at the same time where the spot welds were:-)

I will also grind the backside of the wheel well in this area so no rust is left:-)

I am pretty sure this means I will be restoring some of the inside of the trunk, which I was going to do later anyways.

Pity no one will see this:-)

"Quality is doing the right thing when no one is watching" but if I share pictures you will be watching..... it's late:-)