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You could have told him to have is son put the money in a major American bank(not yours) then write you a check out of that bank,and then mqail it...
Where do I begin. One that jumps right to the front was back when I worked at a tire shop. I had my race car on the lift. I let it down and...
Show me an application for a 454 tall deck.
I like to think that I am a young gun. At 39 and having been doing this for 22 years,I am sometimes surprised by how much water has gone under my...
I always need to have a car that is at the "useable" stage when doing other projects. From there I can go in and out of interest with anything and...
Nope,the tall deck 427 is the same bore and stroke as a standard deck 427.They just used taller pistons with 4 rings on each piston. 366,396's and...
454's never came as tall decks. The quick way to tell a tall deck from a low deck is to look at the diistance between the top water pump bolt hole...
I run 2/0 on my race car with the battery in the trunk,with a high compression 439 big block. Years ago I had dual 1100 cranking amp truck...
Back in the day,a kid I went to high school with had a 72 Monte Carlo with a 355 in it with headers,2" dual pipes,to 2 Cherry Bombs and dual 1...
Take the distributor cap off an engine with a rear mounted distributor when yanking the trans out.
MSD makes little wire tags that clip on the wires. I use them on both ends whenever the wires are going to be run into hidden spaces. They are...
Yeah. The chrome steel ones are called street super tricks or S/St's the original Super Trick came out in 1970 and was 2 aluminum halves with an...
Lots of air in the tires,make sure the brakes are loose. I have used gravity to my advantage. I would rather push a car 200 feet across level...
Aside from being drop dead hot. It would be neat to call it the great great granddaddy of the sport compact movement. :)
Well in defense of your friend,he was right in so much that in situations where a "I know better then the factory" backyard mechaincs just leave...
This is the setup I put on my car(I know its a muscle car). I put some thought into it to design a system that was going o give me the most bang...
As long as you arent using really tall gears (numerically low) it shouldnt be an issue. You are stuck using the stock torque convertor,but it will...
And much more stylish and tastefull too:)
Thanks all. As it turns out the guy my friend was trying to hook me up with was Alan Johnson. He comes highly recommended. My wife has a freind in...
How about moving a portion of the firewall foward? Maybe cut out a section from the outer edge to as close as you can get to the engine and about...
Would that be a switch pitch?
Thanks. I never knew about them. A friend of mine has had some nice work done,but he seems to forget to get us together.
Bondo and paint make it what it aint:)
Aint nuthin an illegal restamped engine block and trans cant fix:)
Its a good thing you caught it because I forgot to even say I was in Jersey. Is there any way to get in contact with him? Does he come too Lead...
I just bought a NEW Camaro(yeah I know) I want to get a real pinstriper to dress it up a bit. Nothing crazy,just looking for a little classic pop....
I dunno. I think you "text bited" me a bit there. Were you implying that the fear should be over historic plates being revoked? In all honesty I...
I kind of deal with the same issues with much later cars(2nd gen Camaros :) ). I cut up many cars that are impractical to save,but I try to save...
I just want to know when Hot rodding was EVER legal? All the way back to the 50's,the image of a hot rod was always a souped up old car or highly...
Cool Bucksnot. I signed up here a while back but hadn't been around in a while. I saw that car and googled the name and it took me here and I have...
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