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Following is a link to Racing junk..com for my machine shop equipment that I want to sell , it is all in very good condition, and operable. These...
I have no idea of your mechanical skills and will not pass judgement if you are not in a position to pull the engine. I was in the custom engine...
I do remember a FED shown in Hot Rod in the late 50's / Early 60's with a Packard engine. right now I am in the process of putting my Hot Rod Mag...
I had a 1962 MGA in the ea5rly 70's (Still love that model) that had a factory hand crank and on numerous occasions I would start that sucker with...
You can get fuel cell foam that will stand up to alcohol. I used 25% methanol carburetors on oval track engines and with the alcohol foam and BUNA...
I have a very well tooled Winona PH2000 valve sear and guide machine, these units have an air float table that rolls and also can be set ti do...
I neglected to mention that on the standard everyday street heads we would use the ball broaches to get the clearance, they also tighten the fit...
I installed literally thousands of K- Line or the equivalent liners since the mid 80's and if there was a quality issue or a shop said they were a...
Check that lifter bore and make sure that the lifter moves freely not only up & down but is able to spin. Id there are ant burrs etc that impedes...
The dowels are absolutely necessary on not only the 302 but any engine that has them. They are available, do an internet search for Ford 302...
You can have mine, I can't afford her "rent" any more
That appears to be highly repairable with stitching (one brand name as previously mentioned is Lock-N Stitch. I have repaired much worse than that...
I have my father's Hot Rod magazines going back to the beginning and there was one letter to the editor bemoaning the fact that all the drag guys...
I live in Florida now but still get Area Auto racing News the oval track racing paper and will never let my subscription expire, I still want to...
Speedy was an astute businessman who constantly changed with the market rather than doing the same thing year after year and going the way of most...
When I was an outside salesman for an engine parts distributor in the late 90's one of my customers in Poughkeepsie NY had a street car with a...
Grade 5 is fine for the intake, install washers under the bolt heads to get a better torque & to avoid tearing up the manifold. 30-35 lbs. of...
Replacing the cam bearings after cleaning is no big deal, new is always better. I will say that in the day when I was very active with my machine...
Heck if you went Modified racing you could have made a small fortune had you asked for my advice. 1) Start with a large fortune 2) Get out when...
If you are going to build traditional then it has to be traditional with no corners cut to make it modern. I am such a stickler for tradition that...
93+ years is quite a full life & we never will get out of this world alive, so a tip of the fedora to one of the founding fathers or this...
You could sell everything and make a bucketful of money for yourself and chuckling inside over how you slipped one past her and no one would be...
Please post some pictures of the car, we are all waiting!!!
You will get a much better idle and crisper low end performance if you were to install a balance tube between the manifold runners. I cannot tell...
I went to an Everly Brothers show at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga NY in the early 80's or so and they put on an incredible...
When the Granatelli brothers promoted the "Hurricane Race Cars" at, I believe Soldier Field, they pulled one of the greatest stunts any promoter...
We built a bunch of 230 & 250's for racing on Long Island and the block casting on anything before 1969 were prone to cracking the oil passage...
Stu's injection was utilized across all forms of racing and when Vukovich proceeded to dominate Indy racing with the "Fuel Injection Special" it...
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