Great Post Uncle Bob:

I found this site with a search engine in 2005. I was helping a friend’s son out with a 400 SBC build and for the life of me couldn’t figure out why this thing would not run above 3,000 RPM. I’d fiddled and futzed with every possible thing I could think of with no luck. It was certainly hard on my ego as I had built a lot of Chevy small block motors in my day and never had one stump me like this one.

Long story short – I started to post here and was amazed at the knowledge and level of patience displayed by the members. Lots of people chimed in and it was like having an international conference call with the world’s best hot rod car minds! In the end, it was a combination of some bad head gaskets and vacuum problems – things that I certainly “should-have-known-to-check” but they got by me on this one. I chalked it up to being a bit rusty, but more importantly, I started working once again on a long time project of my own (63 Nova SS). She’s still not done yet, but getting closer in “hundred dollar increments”. As a matter of fact, I took the old heater box out this last weekend and rather than just “replacing” the leaking heater radiator, I took the sheet metal down to bare metal and repainted it, put new gaskets on all the flapper doors, ordered a new motor and a new resistor. I also got to thinking how much I like stainless so I thought hey – let’s do it! I soldered NPT fittings on the new heater radiator and made up some 5/8” and ¾” (10 AN and 12 AN) and made up some real nice hoses and viola! (Pictures to follow)

All this to say, “Happy Birthday Club Hot Rod!” I enjoy this site a lot and learn pretty near every time I visit. I know my posts kinda ramble sometimes, but I trust there’s some value from time-to-time if nothing else than from reading a good story.

Regards All,
Glenn