The Jalopy Journal
These are close to my numbers on my 355 SBC. It came in as 9.73 : 1.
I have a couple of the smaller Holley filters that take the old Ford fuel pump elements. Those are great for tight spaces.
I learned about Caddy wheels/hubcap when I was slinging tires as a summer job. Tire customers with Cadillacs would come in and want to mount a...
The e-brake is very essential to sort out on those cars. Parts are available, I used an old Motors Manual to do one around 1975. This was after...
Paint the plate with white glue, peel it off after.
This is what we HAD to do when junk battery prices spiked around 1978. Especially if we had to park on the streets.
Make sure that your compressor has a water-seperator or something similar. It is never a bad idea to drain the tank at the bottom.
Regardless this will run into some serious coin if you are not very mechanically inclined. Those old carbs are pretty easy to rebuild, it may be...
Almost anything will work. Drill blanks are usually Vega-ish tool steel. I would look fie the on-the-money stock size material. Just cut it to...
I use a distribution block on my car with a built in adjustable valve. Wilwood makes a nice simple one.
Hit the old ones with a file to see how hard they are. Use the corner of the file. If it digs in, modify a grade-5 bolt. Or the 4140 steel will...
I helped a buddy sort out a steel 5.3 from a 195k mile GMC suv. It went far between oil changes. At the rebuilder, it was cleaned 3x, it was...
I had a bunch of 332, 352, 390 and 406 parts until a car accident and divorce ended all that in 1978. Some of it went for scrap, including some GT...
This is what I use in my Ford. I have no O D. and I'm around 3200 RPMs at 65. Transmission is a Muncie M20, it had a 2.56 1st gear, now has a...
I'm quite suspicious of things that suddenly fix themselves :eek:.
Bad cuts.. you have to decide whether or not to hit the ER .. or KEEP WORKING! Usually the decision criteria is, can I stop the bleeding? Paper...
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My last time in a PB was on a Friday evening a few years back. I needed the little clip to hold the e-brake arm to the brake shoe on my Ford. The...
I went there to get a battery for an OT car in 2018. The whole area was real messy, so was behind the parts counter, stuff everywhere piled up. I...
They have a couple by me, still open...no parts. Just service. In 2014 they started selling speed equipment, t-shirts, etc. That rapidly fell...
Some teams used the Galaxie front stub only.
Ooooo... a '59 Ford...
I had one like that, belched oil from the breather, for some reason it didn't foul the plugs. I ran straight #50 racing oil and good old Alemite CD2.
I had 3 of them, 2 powered by a 352, 1 by a 390.
I have a Daytona book that covered the LSR attempts in that time era. Way crazy engineering considering they had no CAD, no CNC machinery that we...
Vacuum leak?
Yup, buy once, cry once :cool:. Plus I'm a lazy S.O.B...
I knew guy that worked at a big truck shop as a painter, he knew his stuff. I worked and became friends with his son, they both were into old...
A glass guy explained urethane to me. The usage came about as a safety thing, it keeps the windshield from coming loose in a crash. Personally,...
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