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| | | Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 18,536 Likes: 136 Supreme Master | Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 18,536 Likes: 136 | Excellent work. So much wicked cool stuff going on here. Arianrhod:2003 Chevy Astro Black Magic: 1985 Dodge B-250 Serenity:1985 Chevy G-20 The Outcast:1983 Ford club wagon Luna 1974 VW bay window transporter Freedom:1990 Ford E-150(parts van) Outcast Vanners van club Support your local 2% | | | Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van | Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 member | OP member Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 | Thanks guys, appreciate the heads up! Now a bit of rant... Some young guys at automotive shops lack of common sense. I went to pick up washer fluid tube and one guy just couldn't figure it out how to help me. As my wipers are at the top now I need close to 10ft of tubing to route from my canister to the wipers. Home Depot plumbing stuff won't do coz it'll crack in winter and I needed a rubber tube sold by a foot or similar length roll. I asked a guy where to look for it and he was like a broken record keep on asking me for make/model/year and was saying that without it he can't help. Like a feckin old Windows- throws "error" and that's it, no way around. Power down and looking at me like a goat to new gates... Jeez, it's just a tube, it cannot be more simple than that! Lost my patience playing chess with a pigeon (they just knock down chess pieces off the board and walk around with the head held high:) and it took me less time to scout through the whole shop to find what I was looking for, than trying to explain him that any rubber tube will do me. Maybe he would be better selling condoms in a drug store where people are too shy to ask for inner diameter of the rubber...LOL
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| | | Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van | Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 member | OP member Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 | Finally got a chance to lower my back. I took one overload leaf spring and next shortest one. As you can see from the pic I didn't do it the right way by disassembling whole leaf system. Bushing mount bolts were rust-seized and wasn't coming out at all. It stripped the rubber and started spin around with their retaining tube inside. I just couldn't hammer them out. So I just cut that second leaf leaving it's ends on existing leafs for alignment. I was planning to drill another hole in a mount, 3 inches higher to raise my front bushing so I can get that extra inch an a half lower but it didn't happen as I couldn't get them bolts out. Two leafs were nearly an inch combined and with some sag from weaker rest of the leafs my back dropped 2 and a quarter inches. I needed that extra inch a half down but it is what it is. If I want to make that changes I have to get another bushings and bolts as old ones would have to be cut, front and rear as new ones would have to be pressed in. In other words it's not worth coz later there will be 4-link suspension with airbags and leafs will end up as scrap metal anyway. She sits much nicer now anyway, and the ride is much smoother as well. I'll get another picture when it's level later.
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| | | Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van | Joined: Jan 2014 Posts: 2,290 Likes: 137 veteran | veteran Joined: Jan 2014 Posts: 2,290 Likes: 137 | Lookin bitchin' man! Keep knocking it out. | | | Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van | Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 member | OP member Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 | 'Sup lads, did you miss me? :)) I've been gone for few reasons. Separated, and due to that I ended up not having anywhere to work on the van, not even outside. And when the weather turned shite then things went to nearly full stop. Since I was gone of the forum I still did some work on the van:) Brand new fuel tank. Even they are galvanized, extra primer will only help: Once fuel tank was swapped then I could get my hich done so I can haul my ATV/bike on a small trailer. I didn't want original GM one as it is sticking out quite a bit. I got one from 06' Toyota Sienna, shortened 6in to fit, welded together. This way when I make my own fiberglass bumpers, my number plates will hide the hole and it'll be all flush to the line of the doors. Put small mirrors on:
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| | | Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van | Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 member | OP member Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 | Got some bodywork done as well: Also in the pic you see my aircraft style fuel filling cap. Looks cool indeed but I had to modify my filling tube with breather: Being a cheapskate hit me in a nutsack here... I didn't want to pay mad money for flexible fuel hose, adapter for breather and so on, so I bent and welded existing steal one. Not that it has nearly 90deg bent, at a gas station I can't put fueling pistol fully in and not to spill any gas I can fill only at 1/4 to 1/3rd speed of the trigger. Filling my tank with gas became a long painstaking process... lol Oh well, not the the first time I'm sacrificing convenience for the looks, definitely not the last time either:)
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| | | Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van | Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 member | OP member Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 | MORE POWAAAAAH !!!! I have quest to squeeze out close to 400hp from my 305 V8 sbc:) Some might say it's not worth it but no, I do not want an LS swap. For me it's worth moneywise coz I have a good source of close to nothing $$$ parts and the work that my mechanic brother does to help me is measured by amount of beer:) And one thing at the time doesn't hurt my wallet much. I'll have freeflow exhaust, performance intake manifold, on to which I'll slap 454 throttle body onto my 305 and a superchip to deal with all that extra fuel and air. Cold air intake with inverted scoop on the hood and eventually big job will be swapping cam with lifters and performance aluminium block heads. More likely all of this is not coming this year coz I want my airbags in first but we'll see:) Let's start from exhaust. Got long tube headers and wrapped them in fiberglass. Geez, my wrist wasn't that sore since I was a teenager... lol It's true dual, coming out both sides in front of rear wheels. 3in exit from headers, a foot of tube, then 26in glass pack mufflers, and another 2 feet of bent pipe. It is really short, has that "bop bop" american muscle sound while idling and quite enough on low revs. But when I boot the pedal I'm getting an orgasm... I already feel increase in power, especially from mid to end range of throttle:)
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| | | Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van | Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 member | OP member Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 | Stock air intake sucks: So let's make it breathe easier with cold air intake:
If it's broken- I'll fix it! If it's not- I'll break it to figure it out how it works so I can fix it.
| | | Re: Robo's Lowrider Boogie Van | Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 member | OP member Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 112 | There's mixed opinions about throttle body spacers, but I'm going with dyno test based research that shows a wee bit increase of power. Even if it's just a tiny bit, I need it:) I didn't double checked the size of the holes and my came with smaller holes than my tbi ports. There's a lip of ~3mm therefore air is restricted atm. I wouldn't have put it in but while taking my tbi off the gasket was destroyed and no shops were open during Xmas. And didn't want to drive without a gasket with fuel leaking on the engine so I put it in and when I got my gasket I took it out. My buddy on milling machine will bore out the holes to the right diameter and I'll put it back in later.
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