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I have swapped input shafts between a 6cyl Camaro box and a 4 cyl Ford box...both had a 4.03 1st and had the same tooth count/pitch/dia on the...
The shackle plates are 1/4". I've been building these solid axle TA conversions for years, to replace the IRS in customer '86-'91 Maxda RX-7's....
The T/A's i make are used on cars that have the rear located by links (not leafs), so we have very little fore/aft movement of the linkage as the...
I got to sit in the original when it was in the showroom at a Buick dealer (Romer & Ruble?) in Santa Maria somewhere around 1966 (my uncle worked...
If ya gotta add weight to stick a rwd car, adding it as far back as possible will get you the most weight transfer for the least amount of added...
Not fenderwells but... Here's the headers and dumps on my OT car. I made some short 3" extensions that bolt on when the plates are removed, they...
Another time i'm going to work w/ the Chevelle's headers open and see a state trooper coming in the opposite direction. I let off the throttle and...
I'm aware of 5 different gearsets used in the Saginaw 4spd... No grooves= 19 tooth input, 2.84 low, 2.01 2nd, 1.35 3rd, (all had 1:1 4th) One...
Back in '75, I had a '65 Chevelle w/ a tunnelram and fenderwell headers, drove it to highschool everyday w/ open headers. One day I got a written...
Subscribing... I lived in Nipomo back in the '60/70s, As a kid I spent a lot of time at the JayCees track in Santa Maria and also at Santa Maria...
I've got an SROD that i'm thinking of installing non-overdrive gears and putting a jeep shift tower onto...basically turning it into an old school...
IMO, doing away with traction compounds would be a step in the right direction...
I built/drove a couple reverse rotation dirt late models back in the '80s, ran real good when the track was slick. You had to drive it different...
In my own search for a small body 4.3 V6 dist for a carb that has vac advance, i came across this old thread. I recently found a solution from a...
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