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Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:56 pm
by sinisterblue
Finally got around to taking some pictures of the car in front of my Texaco station that I built in my back yard...

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:41 pm
by zeke
Cool gas station! :th: Imagine if someone asked you if you wanted your windshield cleaned or oil checked nowadays. :lol:

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:09 pm
by sinisterblue
Entered the Vega in the Indianapolis World of Wheels Feb 13-15, 2015 and won 2nd place in class.....

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:11 pm
by sinisterblue
picture #2 from The Indy World of Wheels 2015

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 5:52 pm
by sinisterblue
Decent weather in Indy today so I got the Vega out for a while. Took a quick iphone video of it while it was out.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpkYHaJ5prc

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 5:24 am
by jon72vega
sinisterblue wrote:Decent weather in Indy today so I got the Vega out for a while. Took a quick iphone video of it while it was out.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpkYHaJ5prc


Could not get the video to load.
It says private.

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:59 am
by sinisterblue
sorry about the video post... I didn't realize it was set to private on youtube. It's been corrected and made public, hopefully you can view it now.

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:33 pm
by dindin
I love that paint..does the body work need to be perfect before its painted?

Al

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:52 am
by sinisterblue
a new friend drew this for me..... Thanks Mikey!

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:05 am
by sinisterblue
Did a few upgrades to the Vega over the last few weeks to address 2 concerns.... 1. Charging. Due to the serious lack of space the car had a tiny alternator on it, which also meant lower charging capacity. Fabbed a custom billet aluminum bracket and was able to mount a 140 amp Powermaster alternator in reverse (with the back of the alternator facing the radiator). It looks very cool and now the car is charging at a full 14.2 volts! Also ran a 2 gauge wire to power it. The old alternator charged right at 12 volts and when the lights were on, it would drop to 10.5 volts, so this extra voltage allowed me to address concern #2.

2. the engine temp would steadily creep up in traffic to 210 -215 degree which concerned me (even though multiple people said it was fine). I put a Maziere 55gpm electric water pump on (since I have the voltage to run it). Aside from looking great, so far it seems to be doing great. I haven't had a long drive yet but in the short cruise she went on Saturday evening, she never went over 185 degrees. Hoping this will be a big help in stop and go traffic. While it was down, had the opportunity to polish up some of the hard to reach aluminum. Also added stainless steel radiator hoses to make it look better and prevent a rubber hose sucking closed....

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 10:45 am
by zeke
I like the "out of the box thinking" on the mount - nice work. :th:

Those Delco CS130 alternators are perfect for our hotrods with their high idle speed output.

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 12:25 pm
by sinisterblue
Very cool news.... the Voodoo Vega made it into the Jan / Feb 2016 issue of Tubbed Magazine! Here is the link!
http://issuu.com/rpmmag/docs/tubbed_2016_01_02_web_c

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:34 pm
by waybad
Excellent!! congrats!!!! :th: :th: :th: :th:

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 11:16 pm
by monzacoupe
Incredible motor sticking out of a little car! Great!

Rick

Re: My prostreet vega

PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 10:13 pm
by sinisterblue
Had a little problem today.... lower control arm broke.... never seen one do this before...