The Jalopy Journal
My stuff got deleted too, so I guess I am an offender??
Brentsen is capable of making one off's if he doesnt already make your kit. Bendtsen’s Speed Gems Inc. 763 767 4480 13603 Johnson St NE, Ham...
Take an extra pump shaft and file a sharp step in it lining up with the old motor mount bolt holes in the front of the block (by the front cover)....
Back in the early sixties, Earl Howard, Bill Coleman and me (David Coleman) were at York PA drags one night, when Red Greth had his rear engine...
Look at the mess the pros make of a flat piece of sheet metal, trying to rough it into something like a desired compound form. Then run that mess...
An early hemi Chrysler head almost bolts on to a Y block Ford. Do some slight plugging and redrilling of the block, and the heads would bolt on....
The starter solenoids had a copper ring that contacted the copper bolts holding the battery cable. You could clean that ring, or turn it over, or...
I used to see as much as 40 amp draw on the sixties era Chevy solenoids. The GM starters, cranking a decent small block, would pull around 150-170...
The cure is to install a fuel filter (inline say a Fram or?) with three lines, where one, through its tiny restrictor, goes back to the fuel tank....
The fuel trapped in the line gets hotter as the engine is shut off. As it gets hotter, the line pressure goes up and sometimes forces fuel past...
I went the other way. Took a 27T four door tourer glass body of and am putting an MG TC body on. The glass body was in too many pieces for me to...
At 78 years old, and welding since I was 13, my best advice is to spend some money and buy a dedicated to welding pair of prescription plastic...
Great, now I have something to go on. Shorter than this should be a four door sedan??
You the Greg Weld of Weld wheel fame?
If you are not too far in, the 52-54 Chrysler Windsors had 264," and would bolt in once the radiator was moved forward a little. They fooled a lot...
I recently found an old part in the garage. It is a door for 46 - 48 Ford (was a spare for my four door twenty years ago). Someone might need it,...
What do you call your wheel after you get your thumb stuck in it?
Kind of like them the way they are stock.
While I was working on the Jaguar suspension of my street rod, Beverly ran over my battery charger with our 743B Bobcat. The Bobcat won. I...
Had a customer put so much silicon gasket sealer on his intake gaskets, he blocked the front water passage of the intake manifold. I would...
I am in need of all the control arms, KO hubs, rotors, calipers, sway bar and ball joints for a Jaguar XKE if any of you readers have spares or...
If you want to run an old style electronic tach, wrap several windings around one spark plug wire, run one end, of the wire, in series, to one...
Google : Metalshapers.org and Metalmeet.com, pirate4x4.com, forums.hybrids.org, garage journal.com, chaski.org/homemachinist, Ron Fournier, Ron...
I just dug out an absolutely cherry front door for 46 - 48 Ford (was a spare for my four door twenty years ago). Someone might need it, but I...
Trying to finish my hot rod started in 1970. The MD thieves broke in and stole my 67 Jag XKE front A-arms, knock off hubs, disk brake rotors, and...
Cruise @ 50 mph , 2,200 rpm's with 19 inches Vac , AFR 10.5-11.5 ( rich) Cruise @65 mph 3,000 rpm's With 19 inches vac , AFR...
You have to realize that the different vacuum number power valve don't change WOT air fuel ratios. All power valves deliver the same amount of...
Only after the main jet selection has been finalized, you can choose to tune either WOT up a hill, by changing the jet sizes under the power...
Your (and most others) carb has five circuits. (1) idle for sitting there running when you are out of the car. (2) off idle for a tremendous...
Anybody have a trashed out firewall that could be harvested for the "X" embossment on the passengers side vertical surface behind and above the...
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