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Yep - this site is about as close to "social media" as I feel like participating................ my Mrs can enjoy that other stuff, but leave me...
Perhaps the "home built" approach might be to make a measurement of the distance between the carb / air cleaner mounting screw and the nearest...
When rigging the grounds on these I run the black Duraspark dizzy ground to the 4 pin tie down screw and also to the engine block. They should be...
Do the really big bars (1-1/8) ever cause a problem with the skinny tabs on the 55-56 A-arms? One of the photos shows the big difference in part...
Spend your money on a nicely bent set of pipes - and decent mufflers. Tests show bigger is better - but for a cruiser 2-1/4 would probably do the...
Have fun Rocky - keep in touch!
You don't "have to" use ported vacuum to run an engine with the later distributor. Could just limit the total vacuum advance, use manifold vacuum...
To build a road cruiser - you need some vacuum advance. Do you have an original distributor for the engine - or did it come with the Mallory when...
So how much advance do you reckon you have at your cruising road speed - combination of mechanical - and from manifold vacuum on the distributor...
If you are trying to use the factory wire guides, the MSD wire is a little too big for the rubber isolators. Taylors will fit - with perseverance...
Tim's been fooling with this Y-block thing a while......and Charlie Burns even longer... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=573420
Either one of them qualifies for the title "Boss Bird" if you ask me......... Spencer was truly one of the best car builders of any era. Hotrods...
Doc - a lot of the Ford "Big Car" spindles and Kelsey Hayes disc brakes have been used for the purpose you want over the years. A big Lincoln,...
My idea of a "re-power"........... there's a '59 Galaxie on Epay with a 460.
I get snotty remarks from some of the "real" T-bird restoration fanatics - every once in a while - but mostly they just go their way and I go...
I believe the wire from the oil light is powered. Key "on" - power flows to the light - but the ground side is routed to the block switch....
The "pin" of the lower ball joint is about 7/8 shank and 1.5" per foot taper on the older vehicle - the newer lower ball joints (and the old...
Maverick spindle/disc will work just like the Granada - still have to match up the lower ball tapers and tie rod ends - but not a big deal. The...
When I got my 'bird, it had been leaking P.S. fluid since the sixties - everywhere was goo. When I tore into it, I found that (probably back in...
I don't have direct experience with the '53 - but I can tell you about what I had to do to safely redesign the '56 version of the suspension...
They will work just fine - they will need the lower tapers opened up to the bigger "pin" size of the earlier car ball joints though. The original...
Goes on terminal "C" which connects to the primary lead of the coil.
When doing the floor clean-up, before you get to painting - try some WD40 to get the remaining glue off of everything. Does a good job, doesn't...
Personally - I agree with keeping the green birds green ..... but it ain't easy as the saying goes.... Not a lot of them around for sure....
I think that rundown is good enough for the horses you have to feed... If its a Holley - then I hope you've been through the business of setting...
I'm running the .120's in my Demon too - they were the smallest cheapest steel needle and seat assemblies I could get my hands on - .0113 square...
On the suction side of your fuel pump, the "PRESSURE" is atmsopheric - the vacuum created by the pump is just about the only force available to...
Engines that have a vacuum leak will speed up if you introduce a "fuel" substance near the place where it is leaking. "Starting ether" (petroleum...
Still running the Y-block? Still got a full set of pushrods? Its a steady miss for sure if you are dealing with the old skinny "bar type"...
These tail light treatments used to be a favorite mod for 50's Fords. I found a couple of examples of the 1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix/Seneca/Pioneer...
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