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There may be a new player coming to the big 4 cylinder world. It should make good power. It was displayed at the PRI show this weekend. [MEDIA]
There are spacers available to put into the GM truck bellhousing that adapt it to car transmission bearing retainer size.
I don't quite know where that section is. If anyone is looking for stock iron cylinder head cores. I have 3. They are free. The buyer pays...
I would also pass on those heads. I bought an A460 for mine. It has the same issues with intake and exhaust fitment. It has way more flow...
I had access to a bigger glass bead blaster and used that. You have to really be cautious when doing this. The blasting media gets into...
When I look that starter up is says it fits the early air cooled VWs. I doubt that the bolt pattern or tooth mesh is correct. Those motors were up...
Closer inspection of the air cleaner showed it was not heat/fire that destroyed it. The pulses were sever enough that they tore the filter media...
That will get pretty costly. I paid $800 for yesterdays tuning session. Plus the $175 of diesel to get to and from there. It doesn't take long to...
I had not considered the springs. I have heavy ones here, but too heavy for flat tappet cams. The cam is really mild. The pulsing is what burnt...
I am so disappointed with my dyno session today. My motor isn’t happy. A wheel dyno was being used so there is driveline loss to consider. It only...
I saw on the Facebook performance group that someone made their best power at 34 deg. That is close enough for me. I will start under that and...
It was an accumulation of several things. 1) I believe the biggest issue was the very high cranking cylinder pressure. I took .140” off the...
Timing questions; I've read here about the base timing being reduced from 8 deg to 4 deg in a MerCruiser bulletin. I don’t think I have ever seen...
I searched that Speedmaster head. It appears it does use the SCJ exhaust header. Could there be 2 versions? I didn't see a link to the headers you...
I don't recall seeing which head your are using. The headers shown will only fit the standard style Ford head. If you are running SCJ or one of...
That looks like the throw-out bearing behind my motor. The one I bought specifically states that it is for small diameter racing clutches only....
My motor is spinning before the ignition turns on. The lack of rotating mass is some of my problem. I am not running a flywheel. I have a...
[ATTACH] This graph shows cranking speed on our 3.7 motors. The crank speeds up/slows down with each compression stroke. The tall bands getting...
arse, I thought my clutch setup was hard. It is nothing compared to yours. I do know that the clutch setup doesn't like long spacers. A fellow...
Here is a mechanical injection setup custom built for the 3.7 using the Trick Flow A460 head. [ATTACH]
Flatrod17, I'm really liking that track roadster.
Welcome to the site. I know of one guy with an affordable billet crank. I called the guy that made it for him. He said "No more". The machinist...
A tractor pulling buddy of mine has put a killer 3.7 up for sale. It's priced at $16800. There was over double that invested. On the down side it...
Just before reading this I cut the old battery cables out of the wiring harness to be replaced with new #2 welding cable. The oil drain holes were...
No, I am not. My motor is completely exposed in my application so it is easily done in the chassis.
I did have to make a minor modification to the MLS head gasket. The gasket overhung the block and head at the ends. See the 2 white arrows. I cut...
My motor keeps fighting me. It seems I have to do everything 2 or 3 times. It is on its 3rd head gasket and never has run. This last time was to...
I purchased another sealant, ThreeBond 1184 that was supposed to be comparable to Yamabond 4. The ThreeBond 1184 that I received is thinner than...
I have my motor reassembled. Now I need to install the clutch and trans again. Then it will go back into the chassis, followed by rewiring. After...
I have a new MLS gasket here waiting for me to get that far along again. The MFG says to put it on dry. The claim is that the gasket is coated...
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