What happened to the Mulholland "King of the Hill" RSR?

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Originally Posted by Banning

Very cool Radu. Sorry to miss you last weekend (went to Catalina with Jane), I really want to see the Tesla. Everything that I have read about it sounds incredible. You are a lucky dog to have one to drive.

Here's a good example to everyone how hard work, patience, and a good backround (education) can be rewarded so awesomely. Way to go Radu!

I'll bring it by one of this days. Derek and I had a little dispute on Mulholland with a pimped out S2000.......fun!

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After recieving this, I thought that it was interesting and should be shared with the thread.



How many remember this car.



How would you like to have this sitting in your garage for 'show and tell,' and short drives on nice days?
This is the 1936 Ford built for and owned by Allegheny Ludlum Steel.It was attending our open house and then was featured in alocal parade with over 100 of our salaried, hourly and retired employeeswalking alongside. This is 1 of only 4 in existence and is the only onecurrently in running & in roadworthy condition. The car is in exceptionalcondition, with the interior and even the frame looking great.All 4 cars each had over 200,000 miles on them before they removed them from service.These cars were built for Allegheny as promotional and marketingprojects.The top salesmen each year were given the honor of being able to drivethem for one year.The v-8 engine (max 85 hp) ran like a sewing machine and wassurprisingly smooth and quite.I thought this was a much better looking automobile than the Ford Thunderbird that visited us last year.
FYI, the car was insured (we were told) for the trip to Louisville via covered trailer for1.5 million dollars. We were also told that the dies were ruined by stamping the stainlesscar parts, making these the last of these cars ever produced.
More information of the history on these automobiles can be found atAllegheny Ludlum's website



http://www.alleghenyludlum.com/pages/companyinfo/stainlesscars.asp

[nameisbauer]

Congrats Radu! Sounds like a fun job.

[nize]

that car looks like the father of the more modern delorean dmc.

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Peter Linsky for Excellence Magazine asked me to take a few more interior shots since he has left L.A. and would like them for the article.
Dave (slodave) is assisting Excellence with a motion shot on Mulholland. He can elaborate further. It's a pan with a flash at the end going thru the turns of Mul.

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Since starting the car after many years it seemed that the starter was getting slower and slower.
I called Dave at TRE and he told me about a lightweight racing starter as a good replacement.

So I went and got it along with a few other needed parts.



The starter never needed replacement before so I didn't know what pleasure was in store for me. Stainless steel oil lines block the way to the upper starter mounting bolt.
Dave M. came over and helped me get to the upper bolt. I had to dump the engine oil and take off the big line that goes to the breadbox cooler.
My arm is too big to get into there. Dave just was able to do it. Thanks Dave.




Here are the two starters.
The little one is the American made replacement. It develops 2 horsepower while the Bosch develops 1.5 horsepower.
The little one weighs 8.2 pounds, the Bosch weighs 12.4 pounds.
The little one costs less than half of the Bosch starter and has gear reduction.

It sure sounds funny.
But it works very well.



While the oil was out of the engine, all oil leaks were repaired.



New Mahle filter and 12 quarts of Brad Penn and we're off to the races.
Wait...not quite...the alternator is screaming. Called Jeremy at TRE and he will have a new one for me on Monday. Thanks agaiin to TRE, (Dave and Jeremy).

[slodave]

Originally Posted by Banning

Peter Linsky for Excellence Magazine asked me to take a few more interior shots since he has left L.A. and would like them for the article.
Dave (slodave) is assisting Excellence with a motion shot on Mulholland. He can elaborate further. It's a pan with a flash at the end going thru the turns of Mul.

If the art of 'panning' during the day wasn't hard enough, this panning shot is done at night with a slow shutter speed, with the camera is set to fire the flash as the rear curtain of the shutter closes. Using rear curtain flash allows motion to captured in the frame and then right at the end, the flash fires, freezing the subject. The panning will allow the city lights in the background to streak and blur. The real difficulty is keeping the camera straight - no tripod and keeping the car in a specific portion of the frame - when the mirror flips up on the DSLR, ya can't see anymore!

The last test shots I did with Alarick came out alright, just need the weather and a certain car to behave...

Chris, that was a bummer yesterday. All that work, car is running OK and then reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - and a mad dash to turn the car off. Hopefully this s the last issue for a while...

[Heel n Toe]

Dave, why aren't you using a tripod for these shots?

[slodave]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

Dave, why aren't you using a tripod for these shots?

I may end up on one, but there is another effect that happens when the camera can sweep a wider arc. You end up with a bit of fish eye distortion. It does not seem to be very dramatic at night with the longer shutter speed. The tripod would help to keep head light and tail light streaks straight.

[slodave]

Alarick (Noah930) has 4 new cv joints tonight as well. What a messy project. He at least was able to install new cv's. The hammer was the key to getting those bolts started on the left outside joint. A couple of years ago, I opted to clean and reuse mine. I will borrow my friends parts washer next time!

Alarick - I did forget two tubes of lube and the old joints. I'll take them, clean them up and see if they are reusable.

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I remembered them as I was cleaning up, Dave. They were hidden under some newspaper. I'll save the cleaning of the CV joints for another night. Phew. I'm pooped. Thanks for your help. I couldn't have done it without you.

[slodave]

You are very welcome. We need to get you some taller stands for now, but working on these cars is always fun.

Since we were talking about lifts earlier... While house shopping, you need to take a good look at the garage for each house and base part of the decision on overall space AND height. The taller the garage, the better candidate for a lift.... If tall enough, you can fit three cars into a two car space - would make selling the idea of a lift easier to your wife...

[flatspot]

hello,anyone home? lot's o' tumbleweeds round here ;>)

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After getting the new alternator home, it was discovered that a little more patience would be required.
Here is the new Bosch alternator.



The alternator is driven off of the crankshaft with a V-belt that also serves to drive the cooling fan for the motor.
First we take off the drive belt.



After removing the bolts to the cooling shroud and the big holding strap, the generator housing/fan assembly comes back towards the rear of the car just a little.
Enough to get your hands inside of there to remove the nuts and washers that hold the alternator shroud to the fan assembly. This is fun, don't drop anything.



Once the alternator shroud is loose, then the wires to the alternator can be removed thus freeing the fan assemby/generator housing for removal.
The 2.8 RSR cylinders are visible on the right inside the cooling shroud.

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The Bosch replaces the Motorola.



With some gentle persuasion, it all comes apart nicely.



Voila, the two alternators.



Unforunately, the studs were too short on the Bosch to be able to connect it to the housing and gen. shroud.
A new and correct one is on the way with a little help from Jeremy at TRE.

Since the old alternator works and just has a bad bearing, maybe it can be repaired, we will see.

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TRE supplied me with these much needed parts.

A new front license plate mount and all the parts needed to finally fix the fuel overflow system. Thanks Dave B.



The old 1986 El Camino that I've had for 15 years is beat (over 300,000 miles) so I found this replacement.

It's a 1973 El Camino with 64,000 original documented miles and it drives like new. An old man from Sunland that collected Corvettes, Caminos, etc. passed. His wife sold off his collection and all of these cars had very low mileage and were like showroom condition. I was lucky to be at the right place at the right time.

The sale of the 86 Camino will pay for the 73 Camino, not a bad trade.
Both trucks are SS models. I have the build sheets for both cars.

Gotta have a reliable truck to pick up Porsche parts you know.
I'm glad the new Camino is so low key.



Just like-a-new Mario.
Loaded with factory air, pwr windows, a perfect 8 track am/fm stereo with a box of great 8 track tapes, etc.



It's all original except for the wheels/tires and the paint.
See y'all at Bob's.

[Heel n Toe]

Low key. Uh huh.

Sweet trade, Chris.

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HOLY SWEET CAMINO, BATMAN!!!

or...

That is one B!tchin' Camino.

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Thanks guys, see you on Mul!