The Stickman's Custom Cruiser Build thread

Well I bought the wife a new shifter like mine and one of the new features that are availible for these shifters is a lighted top plate. Well I decided I needed on to so I had him make me one up too. I have yet to install it but here it is.

Pretty cool huh?

 

Looks cool. You won't have any excuse now to beat the rice-rockets in neutral.

 

Hehe I have been very bad. And I am not gonna tell what I am gettting

 

Well time for an update. I had a water pump go and used this as an excuse to do some upgrades. I added some aftermarket fans, an stainless resivior and a better fan controller. Now I hoped to save some weight with these upgrades but with the water pump going it forced my hand. See I was running an Aluminum water pump that came with the engine I bought off Ebay. But when it came time to change it I had a hard time spending a $100 more just to go aluminum. Now the cast iron pump is 5 lbs heavier than the aluminum one. But the fans I was using were stock GM ones without the shrounds with my own custom mounts. Well the new fatermarket fans would have saved me 5lbs but since that got added back on with the cast pump It's a wash so to speak. But it does look cleaner and I think it will cool better.

 

Do the rads have a pass-through for the fan bolts? Looks clean for sure. Love that 'tool tray' above the rad.

 

Lookin' good!!!

 

No had to use the wire tie type things that pass thru. I didn't want to use them but they worked fine.

 

Thanx, she is getting there. Should be more updates soon.

 

They used to use tar paper to protect the copper rads from metal-to-metal rubbing. Don't know if something exists like that for aluminum.

 

Well the fans and there tabs are plastic but still the same. I used weatherstripping foam between the tabs and the radiator.

 

Now that sounds like the cat's meow.

 

Stick, looks dam good, I really like your Honeys shifter plate also

 

Well I think I got my cooling issue fixed. And while I was at it I finally got the new magnesium valvecovers on. I was super worried drilling into these things. I have heard horror stories when working with magnesium. Then to top it off I thing some got in my eye and I am still freaked from getting metal in my eye the last time. That and the tops of the valvecover are kinda thick so getting grommets to fit is a pain. I hope the PCV one stays in. But I finally found my oil leak. There is a puddle under the distributor behind the intake. The rear of the intake must be leaking. Anyway here are the pics.

 

You sure do nice work. Magnesium is tricky to machine.

 

I've been missing this thread.