Recent content by Joe Kelsch

Last month my cousin, his 3 year old, my uncle and I went to Cool Spring, PA to the Power Museum (or Powertrain Museum, either or I'm not sure). It's mostly hit and miss stuff. About all of it is gas and oil well motors. But there on top of the hill, in a building made around it, was the...

I haven't pulled the valve covers yet. I'll try that sometime this week. A wasted cam would do all the things that I've said. But the plugs look good. They all have a normal burn pattern and don't have any oil buildup, so I never assumed the cam would be bad.

Is it possible to have your camshaft in backwards? My car runs like crap. It has lots of power, but the computer will take up to 19 degrees out of the timing according to the scanmaster. My brother thinks this may be the case since my cam sensor was in backwards when I got it. It...

yeah I know this is an odd place to ask, but does anyone know of an air compressor parts dealer online? I was fiddling with my big air compressor that I bought with a broken flywheel. The compressor spins, but might need a rebuild. I’m looking for a rebuild kit and a new flywheel. The motor...

I'm putting HR mounts on the car. My headers are fine, but my crossover pipe is full of pinholes. I'm going to replace it with one from Kirban. I have the car in a garage that has access from underneath. I was thinking I could get to the motor mounts that way, but it's not going to work...

Is there an easy way to change both? The driver's side seems easiest. It looks like I'd have to pull the starter and maybe the oil filter to get to the passenger side.

Kevin and my brother (ratroaster) used to hang out when my brother lived in Youngstown. I never got to see the car race (I heard it was in the 10's with a stock motor), but I have seen in a couple times. Here's a few pics of it as of a couple of years ago. It was just out of paint and the...

I'd probably go. I haven't been to Carlisle since the mid 90's. That's when I decided that there are no Buick parts available for me there. Canfield, OH has a better selection.

I've heard of urea injection for the new diesels. I'm not sure how putting cow piss in a diesel motor is supposed to make it run cleaner. I wonder if there is a separate fuel door so that you can fill up the urea tank yourself.

So does that mean you're going to drive it up this coming weekend? It's the big campout at Miola, you know. Anyway Dave, I changed the oil in the GS, armoralled the interior and roof, put a different air cleaner on (since I want to keep the GS cleaner in "as is" condition--those things are...

I doing this swap because it's different and that it'll get me good fuel mileage. I drive over 25,000 miles a year for work so any improvement is good. The reason I'm going with the 4.3 is that the whole car comes with it. If the motor winds up pooping the bed then so be it. I'd just find...

Nothing new for Regals, but it'll be new for me. I thinking of putting a 4.3L diesel into an 86 two door Regal. The car was mine, then I sold it to my brother. Now it's shown back up on my doorstep. The 3.8L is pooping, so I figure it's prime for a motor swap. The diesel I plan to get...

Real car guys know the difference. When you hear nice monte carlo or, with my Skylark, nice chevelle, you know you're talking to a want-to-be. Someone who wants to talk cars but has no idea how to. I like to call them posers.

For giggles I weighed myself before and after a day cutting firewood. The results were that I lost 10 lbs and I cut almost 2 cords of wood. The weight is most likely water, but you can see where I'm getting. I've also cut pop out of my diet and I don't go to fast food joints unless I have too...

Here's a pic of my brother's 86 455 Regal after a snow storm. The pic was taken in my driveway. Here's a pic my buddy took of a rather rough 68 Skylark Convertible on the North Side of Pittsburgh. He calls it Heinz Sight.