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Brownfield turned into Air Flow Research (AFR); you might contact them and see if they have any info..
Can you post a picture from down low, shooting it from the side?? Maybe a few different angles too, so we can see the spacing between obstacles??...
Might be something that could work in the Schoenfeld Headers catalog. You looking for a fenderwell style header?? No inner fenders to clear? Or...
Part of the problem you are fighting is the softer material your fitting is made from. Holley's originals are steel, so the simple metal gasket...
I say for that reason the 455 Olds is also "in". It takes a serious Olds guy to tell the difference between a 330" Olds and a 455" Olds......the...
Have you got a dial indicator and magnetic base (or a way to solidly attach the indicator and arm)?? If so, degree the cam out and thus reverse...
You have to realize that a Sprint car is barely 1200lbs, soaking wet. You've got a 3200+ lb car. That's huge difference. I've got a brand new...
Powell Machine can as well, cost was $170 , at least just a few months ago it was. They are in South Carolina. They can also change the grind spec...
I'd love to see one run over a flow bench and charted out, just so the information would be available.
Relocating studs in the wheel hub is sooo much easier than plugging and redrilling the wheels. Looks like you don't even need to plug the old hub,...
If he has a pair of 6" calipers we can figure this out easily enough. We need a Measurment over on the edge of the piston, beside the end of the...
Video some might find useful. EngineMasters tested this Iron vs Aluminum recently. They address all those myths as well. Watch Engine Masters...
General rule of thumb is .006" tighter cold for first start-up with aluminum heads. then get it running and up to temp, shut down and pull a...
A lot of it comes from returning Navy veterans from WWII era but was more specific to the long skinny through-hull shafting. It got mis-applied to...
Old body guy up the road from where I grew up had a whole drawer full of rubber and plastic shims, wedges, blocks, chunks of hose, shaped pieces...
On a 355 that's a pretty deep breathing set of cylinder heads. Don't be afraid of a 750cfm carb. Even a small solid roller cam and it's going to...
Make sure to fully check your measurements....as far as I know Western did not make 3 pattern in the same wheel, as without a recessed locating...
Any pics of the finished tunnel ram interior??
For those that think angles don't matter...maybe this will help. Very good short video of what really happens. Drive shaft velocity
Right-O Nice ride, I like it! Cool
Try it, but if it ends up giving you a buzz at a certain rpm plan to get it out of there before it takes itself out. Been there and done that, had...
If you've got a dial indicator and magnetic base handy, you can just degree it and find out exactly what it measures. Reverse engineering a cam...
A 250 lb spring rate is at least double what it needs to be, just as Kerrynzl has posted. see this all the time with old rods, way oversprung on...
The pre-'86 blocks lifter bore height is the same as where the step is in the stepped bore blocks. The area above the step makes the height...
Kelly, Yes, that's right.
Machine shop is pulling your leg on the compression ratio. The only way that piston is 11.2 is with everything at or near minimum blueprint spec....
Unfortunately, it's just a 60 page "most common" catalog....the only Olds listing is the 1968-86 engines, .842" lifter diameter and 39° lifter...
Pin-up girl looks very 1962-1965-ish to me. Think "Beach Blanket Bingo" or early Elvis beach movie for reference.
Late 1940's-early 1950's Oldsmobile matches that center medallion.
I would plan to upgrade. if you plan to put a decent amount of power to it, better figure to reinforce the chassis somehow, most likely a roll...
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