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Smart Shoppers Louisville Ky. Produce road. I couldn;t find their site, but I used to buy from them from back in the eighties, when I was doing...
Back in the day, I used nailheads in many projects. Offy and Webber both offered cast aluminum belhousings/adapters for the Buick to std trans....
It is an old TRW forging sold as a 2252a or a 1754p depending on who is selling it. 350 chevy std rod, about 12-1 compression with 64 cc head.
The 2252a and the 1754 are the same piston. High compression 350 chevy with a standard length (5.7) con rod.
In Michigan they will not only issue a warning after 5 sales. They will send a representative to your address on the titles. Had that happen in...
Usually the crack is welded or stitched and a new seat installed along with a cylinder sleeve. Depends on the severity of the crack. Iron stitch...
What do you intend to do with the car? Back in the day, I liked the 4.30. I had a fairly radical big, big block in a 3200 lb car. Drove the car...
No pics, but I have done a couple and extending the frame is the simple remedy. Otherwise it takes a firewall/floorboard mod, later short water...
the bearing should be the same diameter. The difference in the bearings is because the rear cam journal on "early"cams used a flat spot to meter...
I have a 60 Stude flathead six with OD trans for almost free
Numbers mean nothing to the relationship of the rod install. The bearing tangs go to the outside, toward the pan rail, when the piston rod...
I had an older name brand cutter that was getting tired, consumables had to be ordered and getting $$$$. I was producing p-up beds and...
Yes and not only different between the Mark series. GM started changing the blocks/gaskets in the early seventies. Blocking or opening passages...
Your problem will not go away until the gasket problem is corrected.. I ran a 4.375" bore BBC in an Anglia on the street.. This car had a...
PCV valves come in many different vac specs/rates.. A modified engine will take a different valve than the same in a stocker
Been building engines professionally since late sixties. And usually a BBC with a constant overheat is because the builder used the wrong head...
yes, freeze crack. Had a customer bring in a 454 block that another shop had done a lot of work on.. He assembled it and of course had a pan full...
My old big block, tunnel rammed, Anglia used to pop the passenger door about mid way thru first gear. I put a slide pin type safety lock on the...
My bucket had set in the barn for a few years when I decided to resurrect it. Had the exact same problem. Goo in the bottom of the master reservoir.
I like them tight. But ,,OK up to 1/2" deflection mid way between installed gears. If new stuff. How are the main bearings and cam bearings?
As to where it is displayed. I would contact the Alfred P. Sloan museum in Flint, Michigan. It was displayed there and also the Peterson museum.
Does the aluminum wheel use a stock OEM type ring gear? Or is the ring gear from Weber? I change ring gears frequently in my job and have found...
Be very careful.. The things you have heard are all true.. Jasper tends to use all of their cores and the result is components that are "odd ball"...
You are really asking for trouble. A ball hone will only disguise the problem. The bores will still not be correct. The walls won't be straight...
There has been movement. I would take the caps to a good machine shop and have them use a Sunnen rod cap grinder to accurately remove .0005-,001"...
A grade 8 lock washer will do the trick.
Buick pushrods are solid, so no need to soak anything in oil.. Lube the ends and the pockets they set in, lube lifter sides and cam break in lube...
Yes, I buy many kits from them. They can build about any reasonable variation on kits.
Why are you so set on .020" pistons? If the block has to be bored any ways, go with the cheapest, available piston.. .030" is a more common...
No, Nailheads do not oil thru the pushrods. The difference in your pushrods will not cause a problem. If they are the same length. They are just...
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