'66 Malibu N/SA

[impstocker]

Dave I agree with the hours spent on body work just to make the car "allright" With my build of my 1965 Impala I am not a professional body guy so had to work slower. Since it is just a race car and not a show car I just did the best i can do. I cant afford to have someone else paint my car, that money has to go into other race parts!

Nice build !

Will Lamprecht
1965 Impala Div 1 i/sa IN PROGRESS.

[Dave Muller]

Originally Posted by impstocker

Dave I agree with the hours spent on body work just to make the car "allright" With my build of my 1965 Impala I am not a professional body guy so had to work slower. Since it is just a race car and not a show car I just did the best i can do. I cant afford to have someone else paint my car, that money has to go into other race parts!

Nice build !

Will Lamprecht
1965 Impala Div 1 i/sa IN PROGRESS.

Thanks! I'm in the same boat, even doing body and paint myself I'm still on track to be several thousand $ over budget. As with my bracket car, it'll be a work horse, not a show pony. But it should look pretty decent. And it's not the first paint job I've done, just the first one in 30 years! (Yikes, I'm gettin' old!!!)

[HandOverFist]

You might have some misfire issues with that coil so close to the MSD box...I tried that myself years ago and it did not like it.

[Dave Muller]

Originally Posted by HandOverFist

You might have some misfire issues with that coil so close to the MSD box...I tried that myself years ago and it did not like it.

Hmmm... Well, it could always go on the other side of the firewall. Or just higher up on the inside, there's some room to spare in that area.

[HandOverFist]

Originally Posted by Dave Muller

Hmmm... Well, it could always go on the other side of the firewall. Or just higher up on the inside, there's some room to spare in that area.

That is what I ended up doing. The plate was mounted in the passenger floorboard and I moved the coil to the engine bay firewall.

[Mark Yacavone]

Rich, What was the specific problem ?
I've built several cars that way.
Maybe the digital deal won't do it, whatever it was.

[HandOverFist]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Rich, What was the specific problem ?
I've built several cars that way.
Maybe the digital deal won't do it, whatever it was.

It was in a '85 Camaro Stocker we helped a friend build back in the late 90's. All the components were mounted on a plate as above in the passenger floorboard. It sounded like it was on a two-step all the way down the track. Fred Niel said move the coil away from the box and into the engine bay which I did...solved the problem. I can't recall if it was a 7 or 6 MSD box, but it was before the digital was offered. Something to do with electromagnetic waves and no shielding the way I understood it.