californiajohnny's other cars

also hand formed some tail light filler panels made from the old sheetmetal from my torino hood and frenched in some 89 cadillac deville tail lights with LED conversions too

a few days ago i swapped out the original Mitsubishi distributor for an mid 80's ranger dist. as i suspected the Mitsubishi cheap coil of wire style pick up reluctor may be starting to fail like it did back in the mid 90's... so with some wiring from an 80's f150 generously donated by pick n pull  i wired the ranger dist. to an accel GM HEI module mounted to a custom aluminum heat sink on the fenderwell and an aftermarket  50k coil 
 runs good but now i need to upgrade the electric fuel pump, as i also upgraded the carb from a 32mm to a syncronized dual 38mm! is runs out of fuel in the carb midway through a third gear burnout

ok some recent updates: finally figured out the miss in the sentra... after a new distributor (not the problem) and a clogged #4 injector, dried to clean it and while energizing it smoke came out of it so i ordered 1 from the parts store but picked up on when i was in another town, replaced it... working good, next day missing again #2 intermittently working, went to the local parts store to get the one they ordered they ordered 2 so i grabbed 1 installed it (used way too much grease on the o-rings so it was smoking blue for a few mins) drove to town to get another bottle of 75/25, run great until i got back and pulled into the local parts store to tell them... started missing real bad and i could smell gas ( it was coming out the tail pipe) so i got the extra one they ordered to swap it out for warrantee now you know why i hate EFI!!!
 so far it still working good! we'll see......

so onto the courier... a few weeks back i had issues with the drivers rear wheel heating up, cleaned and lubed the Ebrake cable, new brakes, took it for a 50 mile cruise with the group out to a town at the very west end of our county, out of habit i checked the rear wheel, hot again knowing it not the brakes this time it has to be the wheel bearing?
 ok fast forward to last saturday... on my way to the cruise night and local mini truck photo shoot, as well as a quick stop on the way for another brock's garage filming... everyone's waiting... get a block down my road boom it just dies hmm seems that the module died got a ride back home grabbed the cheap bad one from the garage and throw it on... fires up, i take off got almost into town it dies again turned the key off and restart it and go some more... dies several times in the next few mile to the filming location, after that my buddy john says he has one at home i can try well it dies like 7 times across town get to his house and put his on, fires up and runs great, so i decide to continue on to the cruise and photo shoot later... not an issue there and back ok i figured may i need to improve on my heat sink design and over build it for extra insurance that brings me to this week...go to the parts store and ask if the premium module is lifetime guarantee??? they said YES and the first crappy one has a 1 year on it so i found the box and returned it  but being master fabricator... i took a old computer fan that runs 12VDC and mounted it above the new module to help cool it 

 which BTW worked great this last sat night as the cruise was 109* that evening

yesterday i finally decided to remove the front damaged bumper on the sentra to repair the fiberglass that got damaged about a year ago when some guy backed into it while parked at the hardware store it required repair of the fiberglass and repaint and clearcoat...

   Let me guess. A flatbed tow truck?

Is it a car trailer, and I need to borrow it a few times later this year?

72 RS 351 wrote: Is it a car trailer, and I need to borrow it a few times later this year?

no, i built my own trailer 21 years ago




Edited by californiajohnny - 20-August-2021 at 11:18AM

Well that was an interesting read...youre a man of many faces Johnny, good stuff!

King of the road! would like to do an interstate trip in that one.

yep IDI i think is what they call them