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Thanks! So I don't have some oddball piston here. I guess they just screwed up on the marking??? Seems strange. As for the compression height...
So I bought a set of new (old) TRW 283 pistons p/n L2248a. At least I'm pretty sure that they are 283 pistons. They have stamped on the top...
Man....where to start. When I was 19 I was pretty much just like you. I started going to school for mechanical engineering, and it sounds like...
That has got to be the strangest analogy I have ever heard...
I have bought a total of 9 wheels from paulsen, all chevy rallys. They made them with custom offsets and each one was perfect. I checked the...
I think he means poopster.
That doesn't look like it has "never been run". Maybe the "assembly lube" is actually milky oil/water mix. Measure the bore, if it is 4.250...
There is such a thing as a vertical lathe. They are fairly large (the ones I've seen). At my current work there is one with a 6ft dia chuck. A...
Pretty much all straight axle 4x4's have kingpins. Its not really the same as a early ford frontend, but they definetely still have a kingpin...
Thanks for the tip.... I guess I'll try some mechanical stripping discs and follow it with some metal prep and use an epoxy primer. Thanks to...
Marine engines are setup a little differently than car engines. Usually they run wider piston/cylinder wall clearances, and then if it is an open...
I have three feet.... normally it's an inconvienence, but it helps when I drag race a manual trans car.
A good friend of mine ran a pretty much stock 8.5/10 bolt behind a nitrous'd small block in a 69 camero (sp?). It ran low 10's, slicks and an...
Looks like it is worth a try, but I don't know if it would get this car clean enough to paint over. It sat outside over a year. I'm leaning...
So this is for an off-topic car, but I figured that the answer could be useful to others. What I have is a 67 chevelle, which was left outside...
Thats funny..... I usually get asked to work on motorcycles because I was a motorcycle mechanic part-time while I was in school. I worked...
If it were mine and I was looking for some cheap fun with a "nothing" sbc, I would get a used flat-top piston'd 350. Throw some of those dart...
Did he show you the build pics of his duece? He started with that thickstun manifold. Nice guy, I met him a while ago. The banger powered 29...
That probably wasn't from binding (although it could be). U-joints create mechanical advantage/disadvantage through their rotation. The amount...
So after a long period of self-reflection......... I asked my grandmother............. And she hadn't heard of Bo Huff............
It has a buick hooked to the original overdrive ford trans. It's owned by (banned from the HAMB) Harlan.... You may remember him from his...
I scanned through all of the posts and it doesn't look like anyone said anything about using a Hewland LG box. There are a few different...
I really like 37-38 plymouths/dodges. There is a guy who lives near me with a 331 powered 37 dodge. It has a muncie and an 8 3/4 rear. Real...
Why did you mount the bars to the frame like that?
The flat twelves came in 917's and the some others. Bad ass, they dominated can-am racing. I think it is one of the most interesting race cars...
It's been done before, I did mine a little different than the ones I've seen, I think it turned out pretty well. I'll post some pictures later today.
Did you try and prime it? I don't think I would start an engine which has sat for that long without priming it first.
Are you talking about "dive"?? It really doesn't have anything to do with axle twist, its a spring rate/weight proportion/suspension geometry...
Build it yourself! It took me about 8 hours to make mine using a six spline coupler, the stock snout from the rear, a 10 bolt chevy yoke, and a...
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