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Yep, trade it off for a two door if you just have to have one. That's a good looking Chevy as it sits now, too nice to start hacking on.
While I haven't done this swap, I did swap an Explorer engine in my 84 GT and I noticed that the water pump from the Explorer was a good bit...
My grandpa's second car. Traded a Model T for this 31 Deluxe Tudor in 1937. Painted and reupholstered in the 50s before being parked in the barn...
Nice truck. I've got my grandpa's 1950 F-1, first brand new vehicle he ever bought. Looking forward to seeing what you do with this one.
My dad has a very solid 30 four door that needs the radiator shell and headlights off your yard art!
Unless it's changed, Patrick's had Mercury pistons for the same price as Ford pistons when I bought mine. I got lucky, I was given a flathead to...
I reported it. I live about two hours from Raleigh and a fake ad in my area got two people killed a few years ago. If I remember right, couple...
Me? No. There are some pretty serious no trespassing signs on the property and I've already got my grandpa's 1950 F-1 which is in much better shape.
Someone near my house started clearing the woods and found a nice little stone house with this sitting in the side yard. Had no clue the house or...
I see them all the time for $500 or less. I got a 1953 Mercury 255 for free, but it laid in the woods for 20 years with no intake on it, all...
To add to the tractors that were built/are built there, there is Jacobsen and the Economy Power King line.
Wow, I can't believe that paint. I'd raise the whole thing, go with the bigger front tires and keep the rake.
I broke up an 83 Mercury Capri with a maul but it probably was easier than an older car would be. I destroyed every bit of it, wasn't easy to control.
Google "Eagle crank failure", you'll get pages of issues. My friend lost a 331 SBF Ford with less than 2k easy miles on it due to a poorly cast...
Superformance sells a really nice copy now.
One of them was wrecked a couple of years ago while running a vintage race. I'm sure it is being fixed, how do you total a car that valuable!
Throw that Eagle crank in the trash! Look around online at how many failures their cranks have, I have a friend that just lost a block because of...
Mustangs had a 10" clutch until 1986. 1986 was the first year for the 10.5".
Yep, rods are the same. I'm building a 255 Merc for my F-1 and had to reuse the 239's rods. I bought my pistons from Patrick's years ago.
There is a difference in the 48-52 trucks and those won't interchange from what I have been told. 48-early 50 had a bed with a steel floor...
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Hot dip galvanizing would also warp it all to hell. You should see what it does to structural steel my company's shop has dipped.
I forgot about the Mark VIIs and I had one and it was just a Mustang HO. I hadn't seen anything else with a roller, but other thank truck engines...
Hard to believe what you started with, it's looking amazing.
That is true of the block only, not the cam. in 85, only the manual Mustang got roller cams, the automatics were flat tappet. The only Fords that...
You're going to have to take a look and see if it has roller lifters, sorry. All later blocks are roller compatible, but only Mustangs, Capris and...
Being a non HO, are you sure it has a roller cam? I wouldn't bet on it without checking. It may be a roller block, but it is probably like my 94...
I remember the first time I drove by that gas station, I thought what the heck? It's pretty cool. I can't tell you how many times I have driven...
I have a friend that is into British cars that benefited from someone's anger one morning. He was reading the paper and saw an ad for a 69 MGB...
That is true to an extent. 302 HOs have the 351 firing order, both flat tappet and roller versions.
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