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[ATTACH] My opinion, for what it's worth. is that the plug points should be as far into the chamber as possible. You have a combustion chamber...
Desmodromic If you were referring to my car, there was a turned steel adapter that mated the HD tapered shaft to the engine side of the Mercedes...
Hi Daren! Back to the car, which I called the TWA (for Three Wheeled Abortion) Clutch thrust was taken care of by changing the drive side main...
Well, last that I heard, that car was on it's fifth owner--and the same engine. The Pan was only a temporary engine, until I built a stroker...
Grumpy Since it is obvious that milling the head isn't going to get you any more compression, taking a cut off the top of the block was sometimes...
Kume--I would recommend that you put at least 2 dowel pins opposite each other, and between the flywheel/crank screws. Don't bother asking how I...
One thing to look out for. There was an early 4 speed--tagged M4---which has weak syncros. A couple hard shifts on a cold day--before the trans...
1886 Walter Brothers planer--I've had it since 1954. One just like it is/was in the Ford museum[ATTACH]
Hey Craze--First look I thought boring bar too short to go all the way thru-then I realized that it probably was that far already in the pix....
Same here. Even run 0 pounds in my "every day" Honda, and Ford truck with 7.3 Diesel "Course it's about 365 ASL here- but have gone 2500-3000 with...
Exquisite fuel and oil tanks, neatly fastened. Herb
Same here--I had just changed from bike tires (which would slide) to car tires (which bit in). Must have something to do with the sidewall...
Years ago I did this with the Morgan inspired replica that I built. Got it back down--by luck, not skill. I wasn't really worried--figured that...
Been away for a while, recently Danny showed me how to get past the dreaded "you do not have privileges". Thanks, Danny. At 83, I guess that I'm...
Back before the "improvement" I was a regular at the OFC. Then, with everything scrambled around I couldn't get back on--said that I had...
That's what Jim told me. She had never driven on the salt, and never driven that type car, so she had to make enough runs off course to prove that...
Jim, fourth from left, Zophia, the record breaker on his left [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Jim, fourth from left, and Zophia, the record breaker, by his left side
Zophia asked me to send her sincere thanks to all of you, for the kind words, thoughts, and prayers. She knows that the next few days will be...
Well kiddies--83---yeah--eighty three. Told that I look 63, some times feel like I'm 103. Still working on my last car, but v e r y s l o w...
"and we shall not have his like pass our way again''. Jim, my good friend, I will miss you, and our long phone conversations. You helped and...
BAD NEWS Bluto, aka Jimbo-- Jim P, had a heart attack Friday. Z, his wife was home at the time and called an ambulance, but the EMT's had a...
TERRIBLE NEWS Bluto, aka Jimbo-- Jim P, had a heart attack Friday. Z, his wife was home at the time and called an ambulance, but the EMT's had a...
Six Ball--Can't you get your friend to join us?--I'm sure that he could contribute here. Herb
TWN stood for Triumph Works Nuremberg. (I think!) Not any relation to the English Triumph Motorcycle. Herb
Thought that you didn't believe in three wheel vehicles Bluto-----
[ATTACH] Interesting story about the Nitro and the V8 racers. I would have thought that they would have burned a hole in the head of a piston--but...
First--the Ford A and B rods are 1/8" longer, and a LOT better metal that the Chev. Second--I have read that Ford A (and even B with...
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