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DOT 5 is synthetic. DOT 3, 4 and 5.1 are mineral. Your system will be built for one or the other, they are not interchangeable. Synthetic can eat...
Friend of mine had to do that, his secondaries were opening unevenly. Not sure if it makes any real big difference to performance, but for racing...
Yes, mine would take off like a scalded cat from crawling along at idle, to spinning rubber and howling tires, just by stamping on the throttle....
I was told to expect zero low end power, no pull below 3000rpm, flat spots etc, but mine revved and took off far better than it ever did with a...
I’ve always thought a tube axle and hairpins would give a fair amount of anti-roll, as various parts will flex to a degree. Assuming they don’t...
[ATTACH] I put a Weiand tunnel ram and twin 600 Holleys on my RPU. No advice to give really as I never ran it to the max at all, or set it up...
I got laid off in the oil industry aged 55, two years ago exactly, but luckily that was retirement age too, so I took the obvious step. I had...
Have a look down the carb when it is idling, see if you see fuel dribbling in big drops. I had an Edelbrock that kept doing it, some stupid tiny...
Weiand tunnel ram on the hot rod I built in the Philippines. Nothing unusual for the HAMB, but the natives over there had NO idea what it was....
Trying hard to keep positive, hoping my ‘mojo’ will return soon. All my life there has been a mental list of projects I want to build some day,...
I actually retired almost two years ago, took it early, at 55, thought I’d got it made, pension, dream house, cool hot rod, nice workshop.........
Well, just a few pics left to show for the five years I put into my hot rod. It has been sold now, I’ve left the Philippines, wife and I are...
Yes, I have a few build threads and hundreds and hundreds of pics here, all gone now. To go through and replace all the pics would be damn near...
Well, it looks like Photobucket have fucked me, decided there is no third party sharing unless a subscription is bought, so all my hundreds of...
My wheels look similar to this, but I re-drilled the spindle holes an inch and a half higher, so the arms were a lot lower to the floor, so it...
Yes, seems so long ago now I had nothing but this in the spare bedroom...:( [IMG]
Unfortunately the world has changed and I've sold the car and moved back to England. :( Been very busy the last month or two. The guy who bought...
Chances are high that you never burned deep enough so it didn't thoroughly melt the plates all the way to the other side. That leaves a line, a...
Does the body actually look twisted? Can you run a spirit level across the front and rear fenders, screen frame, or across anything that is fixed...
So I guess your point is nobody here knows if they can weld properly, thus the need for extra doublers and gussets and reinforcement ad...
I'm pretty sure that properly welded the piece will be as strong as the parent metal was before it was cut. Basic welding 101, why do people...
I never realised people actually thought that.:eek: I was told it is the other way round, one figure is the cold viscosity, sort of heavy and...
Water speed will push most bubbles out, eventually, as long as you have an expansion/overflow tank hooked up so no air sucks back into the system....
Wouldn't take much wear before you have a couple of inches slack at your steering wheel rim. Add that to slack in the steering box etc, probably...
Couple of years ago I contacted the guy who made that prop shaft video and asked if he could do a demonstration with the angles like the...
I never met Denise in person, but the fine lady stripped down, boxed up and delivered a complete Model A front end to my hotel in Houston when I...
I could change out the fluid again. There is a drain hole in the converter so I could drain that too. How about refilling, without taking it all...
Yes, it make everything just that little bit harder. ;) You would not believe what I just had to pay to order, ship and get reamed for tax and...
But it is physically trying to pull the car along, holding it on a hill, so things must be working and moving inside the tran, surely? If not then...
The transmission is moving, rotating, clutches and plates are engaged, and holding the car still on the hill, so yes, it does have something to do...
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