The Jalopy Journal
Still own this one. [ATTACH]
Gas Ronda’s beautiful 65 427 cammer badly wrecked. In those days I would say he was lucky to survive. Notice the T-bolt on the right that won the...
I’m a Ford guy and should not be doing this but it’s 4/26 day…
Where are all the 409’s? and I’m not even a big Chevy fan. ;)
My timing marks on the balancer are off by about 2"-2 1/2". When I bring up the piston to TDC the timing mark is bang on 0 degrees and the rotor...
What’s the consensus on these? Anybody have good or not so good results using them? We moved last summer to a new location and the elevation is...
When your home address ends with double zeros. I laid them out and it just kind of came to me. Some folks driving by might get it. [ATTACH]
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Looking to get a set of used Johnson solid tappets done rather than use the off-shore Comp Cams lifters that my new cam came with. Anybody have...
I would like to change over from barbed fittings to AN style fittings on my transmission cooler. They make a compression fittings for this but the...
Pulled the 460 on my 57 removed the pan and found these in the bottom. There steel about 1/8" square. All six of them are pretty much exactly the...
I'm kicking around the idea of welding in a roll bar over the winter in my 57. One thing I've always had trouble with is seeing what your welding....
I was tacking some offset shackles and had used one of those large red triangular magnets to temporarily hold it together. The weld would spatter,...
I have a well used older USA made Craftsman socket set and the only one that's never ever been used is 25/32. Any car manufacturers ever used this...
On the left is a fairly new Ford 15x7 wheel I bought from summit a couple years back. On the right is an original Ford 1956 15x5 wheel. As you can...
31 spline Dutchman axles with 1/2" thread on the studs. The first time it happened I thought it was a fluke so cranked them up tighter. The second...
Found this on Super stock / Stock forum. Is that your car in the background? [ATTACH]
First stock engine to produce 400 hp. Also has to be the prettiest air cleaner to come out of Detroit. [ATTACH]
You'd be smiling to if you ran one of these in the 69 grand national series. [img]
I have a C6 with no drain plug on the torque converter but I do have a an external transmission cooler. I'd like to know if anybody has used the...
How many out there use them? I mean cleaning a paint gun with reducer is far different from changing anti-freeze right? It's all carcinogenic in...
Looking to replace my incandescent trouble light after replacing bulbs each time it's dropped and burning my hand, arm when touching it with a...
Anybody know where I can find a pair for a 1957 Ford? Lots available for tri-5 Chevys and other gm products. Or if anyone knows the bolt spacing...
I have a hood that doesn't quite line up like my original hood on my 57 Ford. The passenger side is perfectly level and follows the fender line...
Holley 950 hp on BBF. I have 11-12 Hg of vacuum, intial timing set at 15 btc, 6.5 pv. It's only the front passenger side doesn't do a thing, the...
Just picked up a used one and would like to know where to drill on the metering block for ported vacuum for my distributor. This mostly a street...
I dismounted a tire from a wheel that had been previously balanced on computerized machine and then remounted the same tire on the same wheel...
Are the shifter gates different between shifters. As in a turbo 350-400 would or wouldnt work with a c4-c6?
Anybody have experience with them? The track I race at and probably all NHRA tracks have an antifreeze ban. So I'm looking for an alternative to...
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