The Jalopy Journal
I used a mid seventys LTD station wagon for a donor got a 460 1 1/8 thick disks and a nine inch for the rear, did the spice under the firewall...
3003 H-14 needs no annelling as it does NOT harden it has good correstion resistance but is dead soft all the time and as it really does not work...
I am building a T bucket with a 331 and an early hemi 4 speed I am using a set of stock rubber mounts made out of 3 X 3 X.187 tubing cut at a 45...
What TR Waters said. I am using 5 degrees also on my 331/354, but I am still in the mock up phase.
At work the owner has a Bentley with a BMW V12 in it it is supposed to put out 550 bhp don't know if it does but I do know it will do 160 plus....
oh yea nine inch units are not as dime a dozen as they used to be but every old Station wagon had one so if you find one in a U-Pull-It yard it...
Even with a small engine in it they tend to be wicked quick. T's can be a hand full if set up wrong but if set up right it is hard to find...
the hardest part of getting one of these moved around is shipping as it does not break down for shipping as this one is made at a shop rate of $50...
Right now I am rebuilding the engine in my DT360 so I can move my shop out to Galveston TX and as I was cleaning the cam i found the lifter are...
I got a chance to get back out in the shop today and I pulled the stand out into the sun so lets see if these up load:cool:
I made the center not moveable for alignment reasons but it might work anyways that way but with a 725 lb engine I was not taking a chance and I...
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Sorry 354 not 356 yes I have used maybe forty to fifty different engine stands over the years some massive some pretty but useless.this is the...
Take it from me let the kid do the changes my son built his T-bucket from mostly my parts (cast offs) and I still don't have mine built yet.
I finished a new engine stand so I could tear down the 331 Industrial Hemi I picked up recently from Steve at Industrial Chassisthe engine was...
I have a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan and I am leaving the roof stock (two door ) and the tail light stock the grill I am doing something total...
oh Sorry Top Loader Only all the rest not worth the time Especialy Munce or any other BM Trans
Back in the day I used to build Ford Top Loaders with Liberty Gears Syncro in First only all shifts by banging into speed limiter or a fast dump...
I do have the cover as Steve had one and a Flywheel also I had a 331 about twenty years ago it was in the engine shop when the shop burned down so...
AS I have wanted one of these for some time And thanks to Steve at Industrial Chassis I now own one I have an early hemi four speed and i would...
Sorry I don't have time right now to read the entire post and reply's but bottom line is IF you polish it it will never shine as well as,if it was...
for porting work I like to use an eliptical style long shank solid carbide I get mine from where ever I can find them normally the tool guys at...
If you use a chain drive from the rear bevel drive to the power to the rear wheel you could change your final to most anything you like not change...
As I drive a Honda Pan America or as we call them here a ST1100 I think it would be awesome as a beginning for the type of car you are describing...
I have worked in speed shops and worked on engines from Sunbeam Imp to 429 BOSS and boat engines up to Rolls Royce Griffin Most of my customers...
I made my own out of some tubing I bought from the metal yard and some ball bearings from a scrap yard along with the receiver hitch tube from a...
I don't know if you can beat this one I got this out of the trash. It is from PPG called Insl-x Checkrust polyurethane enamel in International...
I found a rear end out of a mid eighty's ford and have seen several like it in the U-Pick-it places that have the ears already cast into place on...
I have fixed casting like this before I used silver braze (med or hi temp)or even brass the trick is to get it hot enough if someone in your area...
I made my own took me about fourteen hours over the course of a week after work I used 3 x 3 x .25 for the frame and 2 and 1/2 pipe for the legs...
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