lnevill
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After nearly 25 years in a serious coma, lots of surgeries and a few transplants, Bonnie and Clyde came back to life with a vengeance!!
The original 390 fired up and ran like one would hope after a complete rebuild. After about 6 minutes the temp continued to rise and never stopped. I had an old radiator cap on the tank and I saw it start to boil over just as my buddy did and as he pulled away the cap blew off and scalded his left arm pretty good. Blew all 3.5 gallons of coolant all over herself and my shop (ceiling and all). Got her shut down and Bill taken to the ER to dress his wounds (mainly 2nd degree with a small 3rd degree burn under his watch). He is much better now.
Figured out the fan clutch was bad and not engaging. Spent the rest of the day cleaning up, replaced the clutch with a new unit the next day, started her up and ran her in for 20 minutes w/o any additional issues: major sigh of relief!!! The 390 rumbles at an idle and spools up pretty good! Can't wait to get her on the street and do a little "seat of the pants" tuning!
My wife figures Bonnie and Clyde came back to life remembering how she left this world, and was looking for vengeance. Once she figured out we were the good guys, she mellowed right out! I sure hope the guy who did the shooting back in 1991 does not cross her path!!
Fan clutches are hard to test without being on a running car! I spun the new one and the old one at ambient temp and they feel the same. I should have heated it up with my heat gun, because as soon as the new one started to get warm it became harder and harder to spin, as it should!
A few items to finish up and some shake down time and she will be ready for the auction block! I will, of course, offer her to anyone on this site at 4% below my reserve (what I pay the broker who sells my cars). I'll post in the classified when she's ready, but if any one is looking for an extremely rare S code 4 speed GT/CS (111 of these built, this is the ONLY ONE of them in Brittany Blue), with a very unique story, drop me a pm. NOT A CONCOURS car, but a very, very nice driver! No surprises here, I'll tell you everything I know about the car, including which panels were replaced, etc.
Lee
The original 390 fired up and ran like one would hope after a complete rebuild. After about 6 minutes the temp continued to rise and never stopped. I had an old radiator cap on the tank and I saw it start to boil over just as my buddy did and as he pulled away the cap blew off and scalded his left arm pretty good. Blew all 3.5 gallons of coolant all over herself and my shop (ceiling and all). Got her shut down and Bill taken to the ER to dress his wounds (mainly 2nd degree with a small 3rd degree burn under his watch). He is much better now.
Figured out the fan clutch was bad and not engaging. Spent the rest of the day cleaning up, replaced the clutch with a new unit the next day, started her up and ran her in for 20 minutes w/o any additional issues: major sigh of relief!!! The 390 rumbles at an idle and spools up pretty good! Can't wait to get her on the street and do a little "seat of the pants" tuning!
My wife figures Bonnie and Clyde came back to life remembering how she left this world, and was looking for vengeance. Once she figured out we were the good guys, she mellowed right out! I sure hope the guy who did the shooting back in 1991 does not cross her path!!
Fan clutches are hard to test without being on a running car! I spun the new one and the old one at ambient temp and they feel the same. I should have heated it up with my heat gun, because as soon as the new one started to get warm it became harder and harder to spin, as it should!
A few items to finish up and some shake down time and she will be ready for the auction block! I will, of course, offer her to anyone on this site at 4% below my reserve (what I pay the broker who sells my cars). I'll post in the classified when she's ready, but if any one is looking for an extremely rare S code 4 speed GT/CS (111 of these built, this is the ONLY ONE of them in Brittany Blue), with a very unique story, drop me a pm. NOT A CONCOURS car, but a very, very nice driver! No surprises here, I'll tell you everything I know about the car, including which panels were replaced, etc.
Lee