Category: Installation

A Hand Me Down Camaro Gets A Fresh Spark

Installing SQR Performance Ignition in a 327 Hand me down Camaro

Installing an SQR Performance Ignition Kit on a 327 SBC. Fellow Mercifuls Car Club member Travis received his dad’s first year 327 equipped Camaro. He said this car has a checkered history for him. Every time he was there to…

Bruising The Blacktop

Don’t you just dig the projects where everything goes as planned? Can you tell me what that is like? Lately it seems that everything I touch just snowballs into a big deal. Case in point working on the Blacktop Bruiser…

Inside Blacktop Magazine #27

The Post-War Issue By Candie This Full Featured Fuel Fed Fanzine is bursting at the get-go with the incredible Angela Ryan! We start off this special issue with a jump on the blacktop for a road trip up Ventura Highway…

Smooth Steering

Full Size Ford Power Steering Conversion There is something magical about driving an old car. Now, I don’t mean to wax philosophical on you, but if you have been behind the wheel of a classic car, I am sure you…

Kleinn Hog Kit Upgrade

Installing the black-out HOG KIT Air Horns from Kleinn. You may remember about 5 years ago we installed the chrome Hog Kit from Kleinn on Tony’s ’04 Road King Custom “Down Payment Blues”. (See the article here) Today we are…

The ArtMartyr Issue

Blacktop Magazine Special Print Edition #26 – The ArtMartyr Issue is chock-full of creativeness! We explore the world of Kustom Kulture with artists like Space Giant, Rebel 13 Photography, Wicked Lines Pinstriping, Dale Sizer, Boneyard Artillery, Trisha Turner, Doug DoRr,…

Keep Your Cool

Cold Air Induction Heat Shield by Thermo-Tec The COOL-TUBE Heat Shield by http://www.ThermoTec.com. Here is one of those products that you wonder: “Why didn’t I think of that?”. We installed an AEM Cold Air Induction System on the Blacktop Bruiser…

Underhood Details

Here are a couple of videos adding some nice details under the hood of Riff-Raff, our 1956 Fairlane Club Sedan businessman’s edition. We start off with insulating the hood with Thermo-Tec’s COOL-IT Mat. I also dig the way the highly-reflective…

Third Member Rehab – Pt. 3

Follow along as we install the Ford 9″ with brand new Eaton Detroit TrueTrac Differential and US Gear 3.50:1 Ring and Pinion Gear set. We do the standard break-in and get ‘er back on the Blacktop where she belongs. On…

Third Member Rehab Part Two

Installing the Differential and Gears at J & S Gear Company. This has been an interesting project. The closest I have ever done of something like this is when we replaced the rear end on my nephew Marcus’ #KidWrencher ’66…

Third Member Rehab

Part One With a small leak in our rear end of Ol’ Riff-Raff, we decided to open it up and see what we have in our Third Member. In this video we talk about how to determine gear ratio and…