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I have a measurement request. I need to know the diameter of the machined portion of the distributor body. The section that slides down into the...
BTW, 3.7L - 226 CI 4 cyl.
It's a Mercury Marine alum block that has a Chevy bellhousing pattern and that accepts a 385 Ford cyl head. Bespoke crankshaft, cam , etc. They...
It's very easy to make a limiter for the vac adv. Just a flat piece of 1/16" or so steel or alum with a hole drilled in it. Use the inner most...
You really sacrifice drivability and economy when you delete the vac adv. This is assuming of course that your mechanical adv curve and the vac...
You are right but for class bragging rights it's heads up. That's why I said build a car for the biggest class. This way you get to actually race...
Most of the people here whining about bracket racing wouldn't come out regularly even if the local track did offer heads up racing. There IS...
Brackets=Dragstrips viable as a business Anything else=Dragstrips turned into mobile home parks.
Let me guess, not his first dui ???
Instead of thinking "dist drive gear" think "oil pump drive gear". It's the oil pump that puts all the load on that gear pair.
Some Q-jets used on smaller motors had longer stop tabs on the secondary air door. This would keep the air door from fully opening thereby...
I've had mig spatter bouncing around inside my Fruit of the Looms. Lesson learned - be very sure of your protection if you have to point the torch...
I haven't read all 12 pages but the last 2 posts are on target. For one day events, brackets or index is the only way to go because of the tech...
Why not just use an electric pump ??
As long as every joint has good overlap then spot welding will work fine. On butt joints I don't know if the seam sealer will last long term.
Can you have the pistons machined so that the outer rim is removed ? In other words make them flattops that are way down the hole. Somebody do...
You also need to let air into the motor. There is an oil separator / baffle in the vc on a factory set up. You need to make sure that where you...
I had a mid 14's 1980 Malibu with ladder bars and I just about spun it out one night making the first turn off. First time I ever countersteered a...
I always snort when an ad has " good deal! " in the description.
How about coil springs and a panhard bar ?
I made one for a V8 pinto. For a detent I used a piece of common galvanized flat stock and cut notches in it to stop the lever. The shift lever I...
I consider an engine test stand as a necessity for anybody building engines for money. The test stand is just cheap insurance against the dummies...
I think Speedway used to sell dropped ends and all you needed was the center tube. I made a straight axle for a dirt midget one time but that's a...
Welding up the slots only takes a couple of minutes. If you plot the original adv curve you can determine which end of the slot to weld up, the...
Are they saying that the torque converter shell is ballooning or is it being pushed forward by the hyd pressure in the tranny ? I had a 400 sbc in...
Some of the old OEM HEI dists had advance weights with small plastic bushings at the pivot and other ones had hardened weights with no bushings....
Mounting the shocks upside down doesn't change the damping inside the shock. If the shock is being compressed it doesn't know if which direction...
Mopar dists are a major pita to recurve because you have to remove so much stuff just to get to the guts. On the plus side the quality is high...
Swap some electrolyte out of each of the other cells until they are all equal then top up all of them with distilled water and trickle charge it.
I was thinking the same thing but why did it over cool without the t-stat if the pump is turning too slow ??
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