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08-09-2012, 01:57 PM
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Buick 455 Fan
Drives: 1970 Buick, 2012 1SS LS3 Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Boston MA
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ever FORGET that you bought car parts?
I was up at my shop last weekend. Depressing, won't go into that here, but I saw something in the shop that caught my eye. Covered in dust- an Edelbrock box. Big enough for a manifold. It was gray with dust , couldn't read the writing.
I opened it. A looks-like-freshly-painted aluminum intake for my 455 is inside. Painted the right color. With a thermostatic choke set up for the dual-divorced chokes on the stock Q-jet that belongs on my vintage musclecar. This thing looks brand spanking new. A Carter AFB type with electric choke is installed now; always disliked the electric choke. I have no recollection whatsoever of buying this intake manifold. Must have been through my old club, since I doubt the intake fairy stopped by. Maybe I can find one of my several Rochesters...unless I traded one or more for the manifold! 
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08-09-2012, 02:31 PM
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Space Shuttle Aficionado
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I've bought LED strips for my footwells before.. Then totally forgot I bought them and lost them.
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08-09-2012, 03:19 PM
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Y'all have too much money on your hands.
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08-09-2012, 08:09 PM
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Buick 455 Fan
Drives: 1970 Buick, 2012 1SS LS3 Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Boston MA
Posts: 5,957
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Lol. I must have swapped for the manifold. Then again, at the time I was paying 600 buckls a year in insurance and had no car payments. Manifold itself was 300 bucks new. This one's painted and clean so it must have been lightly used. Somebody had a valley pan splash guards on it too, very clean underneath I take it that you've never done any car-club deals before. It goes like this: "Hey, glad you were in the shop when I drove by. I couldn't find that headlight bezel you wanted." "Damn. Mine's wiped out. The left side is like hen's teeth for a '70. I was hoping you had one" "Nope sorry. I did remember you wanted to swap to a t-stat setup on your carb and manifold though" "Yeah but I'm not giving them 50 bucks plus shipping for the thermocoil" "I know. But I went with a single plane for my prostreet GS. Want the dual plane? It has the T-stat setup" "I dunno. I'll have to go through my old Q jet to do it. No vacuum out of the front side choke" "Well I brought the manifold with me...." "OK how much?" "How about you swap me your 700 cfm Carter? It'll work on my 340" "Done. Shove the manifold under the bench willya? I need to set my lifter preload so I can drive to work on Monday. The carb is in the box by the heads over there" "Will do. Thanks" When you're swapping parts, it's easy to forget
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