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When I finished my last build all that scrap metal went away... Now it is just a small box of scrap....I am done with building anymore...Costs to...
That's why I live in Nevada... Left Dayton and the salty winters 40 years ago...
If you go the gasser route be careful because I believe that the original I-Beam axle 37's had different frames....Stronger in the front for the...
Where I live it seems the shows I attend there are getting less and less older cars 48 and earlier.... We have a tough smog laws here and even...
I think Hot Heads makes a duel quad manifold for early hemis....
I went to everyone of them up to the 25th.... Then Steve Gibbs and the NHRA had a fallen out and he left and took a lot of the show with him........
July of 1971
[ATTACH] If you want some info on building an early Hemi or an Ardun this is a good magazine to get....
Here is the magazine for that hemi tech article....[ATTACH]
The old restoration stores use to sell a kingpin bushing reamer and driver but guess the manufacture of these went away...
I guess because a lot of old stock cars were got from the junkyard and there a lot of old Fords in them because they were cheap everyday...
I removed the springs which were the stiffest that the tuning package had...I took a vacuum hose and cut it into about 3/16 long and put it under...
Blower makers boost in the manifold not in the carbs....One side sucks and the other side blows....
I run 3 degrees nosed down for my hotrod that has trailing arms and coilovers....Chrysler use to recommend 7 degrees nose down on there superstock...
I have a blown 392 hemi in my 34 Ford and it was always running lean at highway speeds....Tried replacing jets and metering rods but never seemed...
You can try Schneider Cams to....They helped me a lot to figure out what centerline I should use on my old Crane roller cam in my blown 392....
Had linex put under the fenders on my 34 Ford over ten years ago.... No issues...
Looks like a Midyear car with center of the door handles....Mine was an earlier production and has been updated some.....[ATTACH]
I had a 6-71 off a truck rebuilt 20 years ago by BDS and have never had any issues with it.... They don't rebuild blowers anymore but they still...
Contact Lock and Stitch.....They maybe able to help....
Best jack stand I have are Model A rear axle bells cutoff....
So what this is a restoration site for hotrods....LOL...That's why I left.....I like performance old or new....
I thought that was what a hotrod was....Something with horsepower....
If guys thought like this they would never have put flatheads in Model As or OHV motors in 32 Fords...Hot Rodding was always about...
No that is a good deal....People should keep rags in a safe storage container and in the shops at the mines I worked we always had safety cabinets...
There are not many early hemi's out there that make 700hp and will set and idle at a traffic light with the AC on while listening to the radio...
BlueTooth....Not very traditional....
Good home for a Gen III hemi or I hate to say,,, an LS....
When it came to race cars it was always a MoPar but my daily drivers were different makes....First car was a 37 Chevy coupe and then on to...
I had a radiator from US Radiator and it wouldn't cool my hemi at all....Had a one built by Total Cooling Products in Rexburg ID and never had...
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