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Got a photo of the badly fouled plug?
a project is what it is.
Long and lumpy would be my choice.
did you clean the red off before applying the white? looks more like residual red sitting in there.
If all else fails pm me and I’ll see what can be done.
Hate to suggest it but find someone in “that” country and have a batch of chilled cast blanks made. Problem will be QC. There is probably a...
I wouldn’t do it by hand, buffing wheel and compound.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/4-banger-question-chevy-ohv-heads-on-ford-b-blocks-good-bad.177893/
amazing
easy answer is to ring a competant cam grinder of choice and tell them all the details and what you want to acheive.
You don’t want to bite your dash? ….. me neither
Concept for ya, hole too big? Make a pattern to cast in aluminium to reduce the hole and make a statement, If I can do it anyone can. Dodgy...
Australia , T bucket run, the brass T was really nice. [ATTACH]
Think of relays as HP for electrics, more power at the light more HP (light) if your 12 volt system has 10-11 volts at the bulb supercharge it...
Watch the Videos on YouTube on cam and lifter design and how to recognise a dud.
Don’t buy cheap lifters, don’t buy cheap cams, it costs to produce these things correctly out of the right materials. If lifters don’t have the...
use the 3 bears system to work out lengths, not too long , not too short, just right :)
cool, but slow the damn camera down, got sick of stopping the vid so I could actually see the photo. Still cool though.
measure what you add to the clear or intercoat, I use a tea spoon, heaped, so if I need to do more I know what my ratio was. I add till Im happy...
the rockauto ones are like $90 for a melling .............. have you bought one yet?
have you looked at Rockauto? Auto surplus in Victoria probably has them.
86 arrived, gotta say I like his never give up attitude. Well done, keep at it.
Yes the wider seat is for heat , if you mean seat , if you mean the thickness at the edge , the thickness is to allow for wear and reco. And...
Dry powder extinguisher is what a car needs, halon for electrical fires inside.
if your in a an area that gets heavy snow cheap A/C may help to keep you cold in winter.
below should give you an idea of whats good and whats not, this was pinched from a motortrend article. the point of contact is off centered to the...
so , was the engine started and cam run in? if so I hope they put the lifters back where they came from. Take a non rotating lifter out and look...
Once it’s copper plated you can soft solder pits etc and file it up, then back into copper, then buff taking lots of care as the buffing could...
Turpentine ( what’s the US English translation of that?) Denatured alcohol, methylated spirits (metho here) both try somewhere you can’t see...
You need to visit and see, ask others who use them, start with something replaceable, I’ve been using the same guy twenty years but he’s thinking...
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