Yes sir, i love Q-jets. If you get one that no one has touched and tje trottle shaft aren't worn. I've always got great gas milage and power out of them. Got tired of carb problems on my 383 mag Ramcharger. Found an adapter and stuck a Q-jet on it. Power and gas milage came way up😁

Tom buttoned up trans tonight and tinkered with a few things. Was just gonna back out of garage to move to the center of garage so i could get to the right side of the car. To hell with it, i backed into the street and drove her down the block. Guess my first official drive👍 Told Tom not to show back up here for a while, i don't need his wife pissed at me😄

 
Crappy pic Tom sent me from short video. But proof it drove again.

Heading into house for the night, glanced back, right side of car looks like a sissy with those skinny weird Rally wheels🤪

Thanks  guys!  Word must be getting out, care packages for Camaro are showing up. Some i figured out, some... no clue.

Well good news/bad news. Tom changed my fuel pump from the 1,800 mile Elcamino  save. Didn't pump for a bit, then took off for about 10mins, then started spewing out weap holes
 Sat on shelf to long. Got a new one installed and car runs under its own fuel system now. About 15-20 mins running smoke from all over clouded the garage, smelt like a forrest fire. Between the the rodent nest in exhaust and pack rat collection packed up above exhaust. Good is the Q-jet. Throttled it up a few times, them wound up kicking in those big seconderies, a little black sooty shot out pipe. Idols perfect. We shut it off for couple hours amd Tom just reached in hit key.... i don't think it made a full revolution and fired rihht up idoling perfect. Q-jets amaze me sometimes.

Cleaned up all the gauges and switches once apart. All came out clean and working. Went to reassemble all good, then started to install the clear gauge panel and noticed i must have caught the speedo needle on something amd broke it off😡

Dropped tranny pan to change filter, rather grainy in there. Tom said some clutch material and maybe a small chunk of band. Said it would either work for quite a while or fail quick if age/heat related material failer. Told me to drive this fall and come winter he would pull pan and check. If more crap, he would pull and overhaul for me.

Finally got Trooper from KHP over for my MVE-1 inspection process. Got my insurance on it. Tom had jury duty in the city so he took all up and registered it for me, brought back all registrstion_ temp tag till they print mine in a few weeks.

Gaining, i think!
 

That is a lot of progress! The time will be well spent.


"Sixball, i have been truely blessed with great freinds since moving here in '72. Although probably 1/2 are dead now😕"

I have had a lot of great help here too over the years and, yes, most of them and gone now. I always tell people to keep making new friends, younger if possible, so they won't end up with no help when they really need it. It really hit home a few weeks ago while I was standing on the hilltop above my house and watching the wildfire about 800 yards away. No one to call for help. There is no comfort in being the last man standing.  I need to follow my own advise

Great job and the Buick looks awesome! Well deserved!

It must be nice to have friends.