Time For a Fresh Coat of Paint

[1960Hawk]

....some chrome

[1960Hawk]

a little project while waiting for the headliner and glass to be installed.

Retro looking Bluetooth pre-amp to fill in the radio opening.

[tsenecal]

The dash looks great. Can't wait to see the car competed!

[1960Hawk]

Playing around with the cold air intake
hoping to increase h/p about 2%
will be fitting a Edelbrock 500cfm AVS2 on a 1/2'' fabricated phenolic spacer

[1960Hawk]

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[1960Hawk]

tested the Bluetooth player and its sounding sweeeeeet



.........time for some carpet

[1960Hawk]

......registered

still a lot to do

[1960Hawk]

xmas present for Stacey...new plates

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[1960Hawk]

lol....she looks tiny amongst the other cars. looks like toy

[tsenecal]

What a nice looking car! Good to see it all back together again.

[1960Hawk]

thank you....
still have more stainless to install and bits and bobs to do....
and she definitely needs a wash and polish too

[1960Hawk]

Night and Day.

just swapped out the 40yr old Holley 600cfm for the Edelbrock AVS2 500cfm.
the difference and response is phenomenal.

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[1960Hawk]

# for driving miss daisey

.......Actually this turned out to be a disaster of an air intake

[1960Hawk]

.......off the shelf 500cfm avs2 dyno

the sealed edelbrock tuning kit didn't have a lot of the correct parts matching the box list.
had to machine metering rods and find correct jets.
and my cold air intake i made failed miserably

fuel 98
14"x3" drop base filter
pump middle-hole
spring 7" Hg pink
metering rod .062 .052
jet P.086 S.089

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyOKhKFKAk

[1960Hawk]

after driving around for a week.
I can say what great carby the 500cfm avs2 is
Just the simple things like starting the car after a couple of days and moving it 10ft with out hesitation is bliss.
Street driving and putting your foot down is very responsive and has brought back the fun.
Had the old Holley 600cfm dyno by the same guy and the difference is just night and day.

[1960Hawk]

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[Dwight FitzSimons]

Did I calculate correctly: 104.4 KW = 140 HP at the rear wheels ? (BTW, apparently one can't always trust Google. My search came up with: "1 kW is equal to 100 watts.")
--Dwight (Northern hemisphere)

[1960Hawk]

104.4kw......mechanic said at the Fly Wheel.
dyno was mainly to dial in the Edelbrock carby.
Liking the top end response and after driving around a lot more, thinking larger jets for the secondaries