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Lubricating the bead may allow the tire to move around enough to seal, but using the wrong lube can make the tire more likely to spin on the...
Alcohol/water injection actually costs power on a turbocharged or supercharged engine, but, the additional compression, boost, or spark advance it...
Rather than optimum cornering, the geometry of the front suspension on GM cars of that era was geared more toward minimizing tire scrub, which was...
Many years ago I was a mechasnic in a Ford dealer. At some place and time I am pretty sure I have seen a front mounted 300 in some kind of truck....
At one time Ford was selling more cars than all the other car companies in the world combined. I have always wondered the same thing as you. Who...
Henry seem like one of those people who would have done exactly as you said. As I posted yesterday, his company outgrew him and the world passed...
It is possible to be a jerk and a mechanical genius at the same time. If Ford didn't start out that way it is what he became. He's not alone with...
Most fiberglass is done with polyester resin. Polyester resin can absorb some moisture(hygroscopic). I don't know about any effects from salt, but...
What "gotcha" are you talking about? Did you read my response to the NHTSA post? As to "breaks", I barely passed high school English so I...
Rolls-Royce actually did that with all screw and bolt heads, at least on the pre-WWII cars.
The problem is; brake fluid is sneaky and can't be trusted. It works in darkness and seclusion. With no means of direct oversight it is free to...
In addition to the various things a trophy chop can do, there are shops doing laser etching and cutting work that isn't overly expensive.
Electroless plating doesn't require electricity. Yes the chemicals are hazardous, but plater has worse stuff than one would be using at home....
There are plating processes you can do at home. Chrome plating parts this size at home isn't a good candidate. If you want to play around with...
The NHTSA info posted here didn't say there were complete failures, it says stopping distances were too great to avoid an accident. While that can...
Can't help you with a local plating shop. But, realize you have already done the hard part. A plating shop shouldn't charge a lot just to plate.
..... exactly, no matter how experienced and well meaning a person on the internet may(or may not) be, so long as you understand what you are...
I assume you meant brakes instead of "breaks"? If the brakes are spit front-rear(as nearly all older cars were) and you lose the front brakes,...
Of course you can polish steel to a mirror finish, that's a standard step in the show plating process. Not sure why you wouldn't plate it....
- Rover engines retained the Buick look. - Rover blocks were sand cast, GM blocks were semi-permanent mould castings. The castings look a little...
Hearing the name, now I remember seeing either magazine adds or an article about the Wedge piece.
If you get the right Rover engine it has a number of improvements, and displacement increase, over the GM produced units.
Wasn't it Ansen who made cast steel(rather than iron) flywheel housings that included a flat steel reinforcement plate for the block?
....... depends on what you compare it to. While it definitely wasn't the fastest thing you could buy, it was a lot faster than the non-turbo...
Based on what has been posted there is no way to know the size and size variations present in the crank or the rod/main housings. Without doing...
I agree, silicone isn't what you want for this. But just fir general info; there are several kinds of silicone RTV. Only the most common "regular"...
I saw an aluminum turbo mounting spacer/adapter melt on the dyno the first time it was used. For a variety of reasons, aluminum is not the best...
One of the primary reasons the average lifespan has more than doubled over the past 100+ years is sanitation and the clean water that comes with it.
I know people who have done it, in some cases for a long time. The office of my old shop/business is now a one room apartment for an old bachelor....
Obviously powder coating is not period correct. But like most of the paints available today, some of the things it contains didn't exist back in...
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