In the midst of installing the new Holley Hyperspark distributor, ignition box and coil, detailed here, I decided to make a few other upgrades to the 1972 Pontiac LeMans. My vision for this car is to make it a great grand touring car. I want it to be reliable and
New Distributor, Ignition Box and Coil for the LeMans Having started down the road of modernity with the installation of Holley’s Sniper EFI throttle body in my 1972 Pontiac LeMans, I decided to go all in and add their Hyperspark distributor, coil and ignition box. As chronicled here, the Sniper
I am on a never-ending quest to make my 1988 Porsche 944 an ideal daily driver. The car itself has all of the ingredients I want to fulfill this function – good visibility, great handling and brakes, comfortable and with good modern audio technology thanks to the new receiver and
The drive home from work in the fall of 2018 was pleasant enough. Clear and sunny weather, traffic opening up for my Porsche 944. The car had been a solid commuter to this point. Reliable, respectable gas mileage, good visibility and quite fun to drive with its summer performance tires.
I crawled under the 1972 Pontiac LeMans for the 50th or 500th time of the weekend. I laid on my back on the Craftsman creeper, the Ford nine inch rear end inches above my head. My daughter crouched in the trunk directly above me, tightening a button-head bolt with an
The original differential in my 1972 Pontiac LeMans was the 8.2 inch open 10-bolt with drum brakes. This is the worst rear end one could find in the GM A-Body. Asking the 8.2 to hold up to the 400 cubic inch Pontiac engine is like asking Justin Bieber to lift
When I bought the LeMans, my intent was to have a car that required little attention. This would be the car that was ready to go at a moment’s notice. There would be no LeMans projects. I could devote my time in the garage to perfecting the Corvette’s mechanicals, cleaning
I spent Sunday continuing the suspension installation on the 1972 LeMans, with just the left rear corner left to do. I went into this task thinking that this shouldn’t take very long at all but knowing I would be lucky to finish on this rainy Sunday.
I count one muscle car in my small collection of vehicles – the LeMans. It ranks highly among the cars that I have with its nice green paint, handsome styling and strong Pontiac 400 cubic inch engine.
Things rarely go as expected when working on a project in the garage. Inevitably, one will discover a part is missing, something needs to be removed and there is no tool to remove this something, or one discovers that while this is removed, it would be a good idea to
Sometimes I perform jobs in the garage that may not be quite as technical as others. I might do something that requires no tools whatsoever. It’s possible I would perform a task better handled by a six year old. This post will cover just such a task. Corvettes from 1968
My 1971 Corvette will see some fairly hot weather. We intend to drive it down to Napa, CA next summer. Napa itself is fairly temperate, but to get there from Seattle one must venture through such places as Redding and Corning, where it’s not unusual to see temperatures north of