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Talking about modifying brake stuff, try this on as a project. I took a job on whereas I had to install a 400" sbc engine, and a switch pitch GM...
Walt, my brother and I chopped and channeled a near perfect '32 Ford roadster. Pretty much turned it into scrap metal. What do you think is...
Years ago, I was able to buy a three phase Rotophase, that runs off 60 amp, 220 VAC circuit to my play garage. With the Rotophase, I can run a ten...
Seems to me the Offy starter swap sideables was for Oldsmobiles V-8's
Ed Isky is as good a guy that ever walked the face of this earth. He might remember Coleman Bros Speed Shop
Find a shop that has a Water Blaster that mixes Glass Beads with the water stream. The finished job will resembles a Harley Davidson crank case...
Two ways to see fuel pressure. #1 is kind of dangerous, so be careful, and that is to plumb a tee fitting into your carburetor supply line and rig...
If any of the Hubmobile guys have a late 20's eight cylinder engine and trans laying around, I would like to hear about it.
Point of interest (at least to me) I have had three of these Blazer Chalets. Maryland weather, me driving them 400K miles, and the rust worms ate...
Here is an Internet photo of the same color Blazer Chalet as mine. Some had a front bumper mounted spare tire, mine does not just like this photo...
I just reached that age where I know I am going to die before I get to all my projects. I might be selling my 1976 Chevrolet Blazer Chalet. It is...
I am betting your coupe will go about 100 mph in 13.7seconds with the slicks.
(1) Be prepared to break your car. (2) Install a Nitrous Oxide kit (3) Do your racing on an asphalt road to ease up breaking the rear end gears...
I think me having a life-long skill of oxy-acetylene welding sheet metal, was a blessing when I bought my Miller Syncrowave 250 TIG welder. Very...
I did wash a filthy LP with soap, water and a sponge. I let it drip dry, then played it on a Chinese record player, and plugged the player's...
Suggested the leaf blower to the tech servicing our home's propane heater/air conditioner. He did, and was thrilled how well it worked....
Way back there, my brother and I tried drifting a newly purchased 1952 Muntz Jet down a hill, to get it up a ramp and onto our trailer. Its all a...
I usually get thrown off for being too wordy, but . . . Three things you should know: (1) a pitman arms swings through an arc, in neutral...
Brother Bill and I started out with a set of Blackhawk 7/16" ratchets, extensions and sockets. I bet most folks have never heard of 7/16"...
I used to have a speed shop, and I suffered through having to warranty MANY returned Mallory Unilights, none of which got me any dollars back from...
You mentioned a distributor adapter to "space" the distributor. I would mark number one cylinder "top dead center" on the fan belt pulley (off...
Pull a spark plug wire and hold it about an 1/8th inch from a clean spot on the cylinder head (wear gloves), have someone spin the engine with the...
I think 39 Ford Standard are different from DeLuxe? My glove box lid still has a two inch wide (or so) chrome plated glove box lock casting (...
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