What did you buy this week?

[Engineer42]

There a fellow in Texas I talk with occasionally who has a mid-'70s AMC Hornet with a 1979 J.C.Penny battery. The battery he said is now a conversation piece. For 46 years it still starts and runs fine.
Batteries are really strange.
Sort of like the light bulb that was turned on in 1901 in Livermore Ca. Still working for 124 years.View attachment 4117518

Is that the one that's in a firehouse?

 

[scootr]

Is that the one that's in a firehouse?

Yes that is what google says. Handblown bulb over a carbon filament > originally a 60w bulb
Station 6 in Livermore CA

 

[Engineer42]

Yes that is what google says. Handblown bulb over a carbon filament > originally a 60w bulb
Station 6 in Livermore CA

I think I have to credit 60 Minutes with my knowledge of that.

 

[dnw64]

I haven't actually bought yet but ordered and put a deposit on a bunch of parts and machine work for a small block Chevy 350 that we are turning into a 383. So, a new crank new rods, new Pistons, course cleaning and magnafluxing the block, decking the block to 9 inches, new bearings, new flex plate.

That's all the stuff that we're getting from the machine shop. We will also be getting new roller cam, lifters, push rods, aluminum heads with roller rockers, intake manifold & carb, and miscellaneous other ancillary stuff. I'd love to put headers on, but I am quite certain they would not fit. At least not without modifying the frame rails, and I'm not going to do that.

This will be replacing the bone stock 305 in my wife's 1955 Dodge C3 pick up truck*. I'm thinking we will need to replace the 215 rear tires with something a little more meaty, but my son thinks that it will be "safer" to do a burnout, than launch into space.

*Yes, I know that to some people that is sacrilegious. Let's make it even more so – it has a Ford 9 inch rear end. Yes, it should have a 5.7 hemi, but I'm not sure that it would even fit. The small block Chevy with stock manifolds barely fits between the frame rails.

 

[LouNY]

I haven't actually bought yet but ordered and put a deposit on a bunch of parts and machine work for a small block Chevy 350 that we are turning into a 383. So, a new crank new rods, new Pistons, course cleaning and magnafluxing the block, decking the block to 9 inches, new bearings, new flex plate.

That's all the stuff that we're getting from the machine shop. We will also be getting new roller cam, lifters, push rods, aluminum heads with roller rockers, intake manifold & carb, and miscellaneous other ancillary stuff. I'd love to put headers on, but I am quite certain they would not fit. At least not without modifying the frame rails, and I'm not going to do that.

This will be replacing the bone stock 305 in my wife's 1955 Dodge C3 pick up truck*. I'm thinking we will need to replace the 215 rear tires with something a little more meaty, but my son thinks that it will be "safer" to do a burnout, than launch into space.

*Yes, I know that to some people that is sacrilegious. Let's make it even more so – it has a Ford 9 inch rear end. Yes, it should have a 5.7 hemi, but I'm not sure that it would even fit. The small block Chevy with stock manifolds barely fits between the frame rails.

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[dnw64]

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Nope, I can see those are way too wide. The stock manifolds only come out less than 2".

I did see a set where the tubes go straight back before going down. Those might work, but still very questionable. Because this is a non-stock application, the pinch point is about at the bottom of the ports. It's already going to have way more power than we need, I would only be doing it for the looks.

 

[steve tym]

I haven't actually bought yet but ordered and put a deposit on a bunch of parts and machine work for a small block Chevy 350 that we are turning into a 383. So, a new crank new rods, new Pistons, course cleaning and magnafluxing the block, decking the block to 9 inches, new bearings, new flex plate.

That's all the stuff that we're getting from the machine shop. We will also be getting new roller cam, lifters, push rods, aluminum heads with roller rockers, intake manifold & carb, and miscellaneous other ancillary stuff. I'd love to put headers on, but I am quite certain they would not fit. At least not without modifying the frame rails, and I'm not going to do that.

This will be replacing the bone stock 305 in my wife's 1955 Dodge C3 pick up truck*. I'm thinking we will need to replace the 215 rear tires with something a little more meaty, but my son thinks that it will be "safer" to do a burnout, than launch into space.

*Yes, I know that to some people that is sacrilegious. Let's make it even more so – it has a Ford 9 inch rear end. Yes, it should have a 5.7 hemi, but I'm not sure that it would even fit. The small block Chevy with stock manifolds barely fits between the frame rails.

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Nice truck, it's even got "Live free or die" plates.

 

[steve tym]

Is that the one that's in a firehouse?

Lightbulbs were what started planned obsolesance.

 

[bigtiller]

I bought a passport card.
It took only 14 days to get it

 

[grsthegreat]

There a fellow in Texas I talk with occasionally who has a mid-'70s AMC Hornet with a 1979 J.C.Penny battery. The battery he said is now a conversation piece. For 46 years it still starts and runs fine.
Batteries are really strange.
Sort of like the light bulb that was turned on in 1901 in Livermore Ca. Still working for 124 years.View attachment 4117518

Putting out 5 watts