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I don't believe they are any slower than other engines, dad and I have built a lot of them with no oiling issues. There is a hidden oil galley...
Any way to get a longer bolt and nut on the back?
You can always do it this way if sanding is to hard, [MEDIA]
I use this on manifolds, haven't seen it burn off yet after years of use....
Are these guys in DisneyLand? ^ See the monorail in the background?
I doubt you would see much gain going to higher lift. The 2801 has more lift than the factor 068. The factory cams had .407" lift on both...
The green and yellow wires at the pickup coil are know to break, might check them. Put a jumper led from battery straight to the BATT terminal on...
Sounds like a good plan. You can reuse a lot of parts if you take the time to inspect and clean. I was on a pretty tight budget back in the late...
Dad and I have built a lot engine over the years, http://www.pontiacpreservationassociation.org/nominees/jim-hand.html...
With the angle the shocks are mounted, they are not going to do much dampening. They are in low 60% efficiency range. [ATTACH].
This is from the NAPA E-Rack site, it's all the catalogs they have and have had....
Thanks for the information, we got it figured out and the car is insured. They just moved what he had to Hagerty, dad is 92 and not driving...
Dad ( 91 years old ) has his house and one car, 1971 Pontiac insured through Statefarm. He has received a letter stating they are going to...
My '37 Chevy truck is tapered, the '40 gear box I put in was splined, and a '46 I had for awhile was splined. All three were 3/4" diameter shafts.
I remember seeing the Corvair advance unit, it had a port on both sides of the diaphragm, advance and retard.
Pressure wash it using the RED nozzle tip, my 3500psi John Deere washer will remove paint with the red pin point tip. It will blow through the...
What type of saw was used to cut the core, it left a really clean cut. I was expecting to see the tubes mangled, but the look really clean.
Dad and I were building a 455 for a friend of ours, for some reason dad picked up the 400 rear main seal out of the box instead of the thinner 455...
Same here, two to three weeks minimum to see them again, or sand them, clean , and have back on the engine in a couple hours. The shop I used...
Looking at that last link, a fellow could simply mount a micro switch to a vacuum advance unit off an old distributor, a couple of small screws...
Sanding is fine if you are just resurfacing or removing dings and rust from storage, it will not work to correct poor machining or casting flaws....
This works really good for sealing the blades, https://pontiactripower.com/collections/1965-tripower/products/throttleblade-sealer-dag
I have a large flat piece of heavy material, 2' x 5' x 1" thick wood with vinyl outer layers, with three sheets of heavy sand paper discs stuck to...
My twin carter W-1's can set for three or four weeks in the garage, it takes a few seconds of cranking to fill them enough to get the pumps...
My 250 likes the 3.08 gear ratio with 28" tires, it will run all day long at 2400 rpm and 65 mph with no overdrive. The engine doesn't have...
On my 250, my crank pulley would squeal, so I added a belt from water pump to crank. It somewhat stretched over and fit in the grooves,...
Pakistani radiator repair, no shoes required! [MEDIA]
When you wrestle alligators, you can wear what ever you want !
What changes with an extension is how much farther around you have to move the torque wrench before the bolt moves, assuming the extension twists.
I'm not a Chevy guy so I may be wrong, but those exhaust ports look like some one has really opened them up. If the intakes are ported as well,...
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