New to the group, Two days into ownership, Slow slow car...

['76mintgrün'02]

Your car has vacuum tubes??

 

 

I don't see a problem with removing the tubes, since you removed everything they attached to.   

 

One thing to check is the wiring at the coil.  Blue coils have built in resistance, but the stock coil required an external resistor, to bring it up to 3 ohms total.  The Blue coil has 3 ohms, so you don't want to run the stock resistor wire with it.  That wire is inside the blue bundle and looks like an old yellowed speaker wire.  You can simply bypass it, or remove it completely.  It is spliced into the loom behind the distributor at one of the joints in the nice blue wrapper.  There is a crimp and you can simply crimp a new wire at that same point and run it to the coil +, or trace the wire to the end and run a whole new wire.  Or, run a black coil and keep the resistor wire.

Tom

['76mintgrün'02]

Here's the splice.  I crimped a new wire before it when I ran a PerTronix for a short time.

Tom

 

[Son of Marty]

27 minutes ago, Shiparino said:

So no one has a problem with removing all the vacuum tubes? That’s what I was worried about the most. 

Not so long as you caped all the engine side nipples where the vacuum hoses were.

[7502]

1 hour ago, Son of Marty said:

vacuum tubes?

I can't resist sharing this picture I just snapped of my right channel vacuum tube power amp.  The circular deposit on the inside of the larger rear power tubes is akin to an old engine loosing its' compression.

 

The hard working full wave rectifier tube can be seen in the back behind the output tubes and multi-electrolytic capacitor can.  OK, last time way off topic.

Edited August 2, 2021 by 7502

[Shiparino]

Hoses, ok, hoses!  ha  Nice looking equipment.  I have 4 or 5 systems, but they probably don't all add up to that baby in price or power.

[Shiparino]

Since I left gaping holes in my exhaust manifold by removing the smog stuff, I started looking for headers.  Since everybody was currently sold out, I thought about it for a second and just cut off the smog plumbing and made caps out of the threaded pieces. My welding skills aside, it was a pretty easy (although not elegant) solution.  Also cleaned up the heat shield and reinstalled.  No more open headers or backfiring. 

 

Now off to tackle the wiring mess.  Maybe do a quick power wash in the engine compartment first.

[irdave]

I link this thread all the time, but it's amazing how many times I'm so freakin happy that I have the right tool, or the ability to make the tool, to do the job properly.  A welding machine helps so much with this.

[2002iii]

You can also check out your local community colleges for welding classes.

[Stevenc22]

Please god wash the engine bay

[Shiparino]

2 hours ago, Stevenc22 said:

Please god wash the engine bay

Haha!  I power washed it last night.  First of many cleanings to get all that crud off.  Ultimately, the engine and trans will have to come out to really clean and paint prep the area.