Recent content by NotLaw

Now towards middle October, the time had finally come to start taking apart the Arizona car. With the CAD designed parts more-or-less finished, I needed access to the car's firewall so that I could deal with the modifications for the power brakes, power steering, and the air conditioning. So I...

So, I had all this CAD designed sheet metal, and I needed lots of parts to be precisely made. Making them all by hand would have sucked, and taken forever, so, enter a company called OSHCut. Their based out of Orem, UT, and their web interface for quoting and getting laser cut material made is...

Thanks. I've been really pleased with the project so far. It seems like 10 years of driving the other car, and thinking about all the ways I wanted to make it better is finally coming to fruition. GR, the rims are from Legendary Wheel. The LW69 model which apparently is based of the '69 Shelby...

Around the same time as when I was working on the air compressor and it's wiring (late march, early April) I managed to find a deal on Ebay for something that I've been wanting for a very, very long time. To you, that might look like a box, to me though, it represents the opportunity to turn...

Sweet. That's some good progress. This will be a fun little hotrod when it's all done.

As per usual, turns out that I'm not that on top of making regular updates. Of course, a global pandemic didn't help, but if we're being honest, my lack of updates has nothing and less to do with that haha. So, instead instead of regular updates, I'll instead cram 7 months of progress into...

I think your "mechanic" is either a moron, or they're trying to kill you. That ridiculous. It's true that brake systems are split systems (front & rear) and if you loose all fluid in one system, the other should still work, that's the point of a dual system. But that's intended for the...

Man, that sucks. I like using NiCopp these days. Advance auto/carquest stocks it and it's much more corrosion resistant, while still being easy to work with.

Hmm... I like this. I like this a lot. Next years going to be very interesting. If I can get the Fairlane project done, I might need to figure out how to make room to park a new vehicle.

I'm no stranger to big projects, but I'm not going to lie, that degree of cancer would send me running. Good on you for getting started on dealing with it though. Old cars only get older and less common, so It's good to keep them going. Good luck!

Another stupid idea, but those rims look original. Have you have them checked for trueness? Maybe after so many years they are out of round, or slightly warped. Might be easy to do a imprecise check on your own. Get the car up in the air and rig some kind of fixture on the ground that points...

When I get new rotors for the Fairlane, they usually have new races already in place, maybe it's a similar situation?

I had a shake similar to what you describe in my original blue fairlane back when I got it. A pulsing vibration that increased with speed, though mine also increased in intensity when I was coasting. I never definitively figured out the root cause, but after I exploded my differential by being...

I'd be down for a fall or spring '21 trip, depending on when things return to some semblance of normalcy.

So today's post is actually only tangentially related to the Fairlane project, but it's an important infrastructure step that makes the next jobs possible. To tell the story though, we have to go back to middle October, 2019. At that time, my father approached me about getting some or all of...