Subj : Re: Anyone seen/connected to...
To   : Accession
From : esc
Date : Tue Dec 05 2023 15:47:41

 Ac> You didn't push the throttle hard enough, obviously. ;)

My wife would dispute this. Frequently. :P

Wish I could capture some reaction vids! haha.

 Ac>  es> But yeah, essentially, I bought the car considering it as a nice
 Ac>  es> rolling shell and built it completely.
 Ac> 
 Ac> How long did all that take?

The better part of a year. I still need to tune the EFI. I've kinda...reached the apex of my ability level for that type of thing. Any more and I need to go to a shop with a dyno and someone that's really dialed into doing this specific type of work.

I also need to button up the interior. Basically I plan to yank everything out (except for the glass and the headliner, which I've already done). Then I'm going to sand the floors down to metal and do POR-15, sound/heat deadening, new carpets, and all the other bells and whistles. Really all I need to purchase is new seat foam and covers and interior door panels, everything else I already have in my garage. :P

Oh and I guess the trunk interior needs to be finished as well.

 Ac> Not sure how much of the drag racing drama series' you watch, but it
 Ac> seems I've really gotten to like the looks of old Novas. Murder Nova and
 Ac> Goliath are a couple of beautiful looking cars, IMO. Don't even need to
 Ac> be tubbed with monster slicks on 'em. ;)

Ha, I haven't seen it :) But I do love Novas. Ever see Death Proof, Tarantino's half of Grindhouse? Stuntman Mike's 70 Nova is badass.

 Ac> That's nice. Unfortunately, mine would be stuck in a heated garage for
 Ac> 3-5 months out of the year. I suppose I could visit it from time to
 Ac> time, sit in it and make 'vroom vroom' sounds while looking at the snow
 Ac> out the window. :\

Or you could move! hehe.

BTW - I remember coming across an older post of yours where you talked about your proxmox setup. I'm looking at doing a little homelab project myself and migrating all my BBS stuff out of cloud VPS and into my house. Any hardware recs? It wouldn't be doing anything super stout, just a few VMs - linux, windows, and (if possible) some DOS VMs. Not even sure that's a thing lol.

Thanks!

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