Ever Had a Car Project Not Go As Planned?

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So, I decided to do a little weekend project on the Slant Six. My dad picked up a 2bbl manifold and carburetor known as the “Super Six” package. I spent a couple nights rebuilding the carb and painting the manifold. After that I was ready to install it and fire up the car. It’s the kind of project that should only take a couple hours.

But the Gilligan complex overtook my car. What should have been a three hour tour turned into a never ending project from hell. I gingerly removed all the nuts holding the intake on and when I got to the last one, it gingerly broke off. That’s right, I broke off a stud down inside the head. At this moment, little horns grew out of my head and my eyes burned red. My voice dropped into a lower range than is humanly possible as a guttural growl emitted from my throat. My wife popped her head into the garage when she heard the noise, but she retreated when she smelled the burning sulfur and saw the savage beast under the hood of the Dart.

So tell me, have any of your projects not gone as planned? A full write up on my Super Six conversion, complete with colorful adjectives, is coming soon.

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Posted at 2:37 am in Chrysler, Dart, Diablo, Dodge, Mopar, Plymouth, slant six, super six

Comments

lilredchev
Apr 28, 2009 at 10:33 am

Haha good story, looking forward to your full write up

AudiobahnV8SHO
Apr 28, 2009 at 10:28 am

91 SHO+spun bearing= Junk car

Moparmaniac07
Apr 28, 2009 at 8:42 am

Almost any time I turn a bolt on my Charger. Even the times when I plan on it being a pain in the ass and it take only a fraction of the time I thought it would. I don’t mind when those days don’t go as planned though.

Oldsmoletic
Apr 28, 2009 at 7:13 am

How about a whole summer of nothing going as planned????? Starting memorial day and ending at labor day. Trying to paint my car out in the driveway (because the garage was too full to fit my car in it). What started out as a quick spray weekend, turned into a 4 month resto. Had the car ready to paint after the first weekend, but a wind storm came through and took down my temporary garage/shelter, which landed on my car, ruining my primer work, and put a nasty crease in my roof. That was week 2, the next few months were spent stripping the whole car down to bare steel, redoing body work three to four times over, because of bad weather, staying up til 3 in the morning working fearing what the next days weather would be. Fiting rust, tarps that wouldn’t stay on the car, a two or three hour window that I could reprime steel when the sun went behind the trees and hope it dried soon enough so I could put the tarp back over it before the dew got to it. By labor day weekend I was ready to paint, again… Built another temporary paint booth, thought I had another gallon of “medium dry” reducer, turns out it was “fast dry.” of course this was saturday afternoon and everywhere had closed down. I sprayed it any way, 85 Dgrees outside probably 100 in my makeshift booth, needless to say car is covered in orange peel, oh well better luck next time..hopefully.

Alex Vickers
Apr 28, 2009 at 6:56 am

I figured out that Ford trucks before 1992 are the biggest pains in the ass ever built on a Ford assembly line. I started tearing the dash out last weekend to see how bad the wiring is from an electrical fire, and every time I thought I had a piece ready to come off, there’s another bolt holding it on. Good thing the entire dash was ruined in that fire, because I was so annoyed with it I started stabbing it.

gold94corolla
Apr 28, 2009 at 6:13 am

The worst thing is you’ve got your car apart and you can’t put it back together to go and get the part you need… so you need some other vehicle somehow.

gold94corolla
Apr 28, 2009 at 6:12 am

hahaha great story and picture!

FordRulesAll
Apr 28, 2009 at 4:49 am

First ever time attempting tint, strobe lights, headliner all went wrong. And the worst thing is when you think you have enough of some material, and you find out Sunday night(when all the stores close early) that your just that much short. I’d have to say car modifying can be a great pain sometimes.

Bourkemaster
Apr 28, 2009 at 4:42 am

HAHAHA! Not a single project goes as planned. So I just stopped making plans. I just learned to laugh.