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I believe that the early hemi flywheel had 146 teeth.
I believe that the ends of the rocker shafts will not clear the valve covers without modification.
Yeah, I think that Ford tried to set the record for different bell housing patterns.
...and they transferred upside down. Great. Anyway, if you want to try to make one, I could make you a pattern out of paper.
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I'll try to snap out of my Alzheimer's and get you some pictures tonight.
Guys also used to stick a slab of raw meat on the end of a tree branch and hold it over an open fire for a couple hours. Thankfully, things have...
I've got a Hurst shifter mounting bracket that's not for sale, but could give you some pictures and dimensions. As for the shifter, just about...
I used to have one of the Eelco shifters you mentioned; a very strange animal.
In the early '70s, my cousin bought some Cragar wheels for his '63 Impala SS from Sears. Cragar called them G/Ts, but Sears called them Magsters.
I don't believe that the plate has to be from a standard shift car. I used to have a Trans-Dapt bell housing that allowed the use of General...
It might be a Trans-Dapt housing. If it is, it will have a part number cast on it somewhere (like HC-27) that will identify it. It wouldn't bolt...
Starting in '64, the passenger car 283s got cast crankshafts which required more clearance.
I've never seen a Carter AFB that wasn't all aluminum. People who discarded the stainless steel plate that went between the intake manifold and...
The 1964-67 283 blocks have sufficient room for a small journal 327 crankshaft.
Offenhauser made the original version of this adapter in the 1950s, presumably for people who thought that you just couldn't do better than...
You'll damned well get some. I refer to Hershey as my annual cardiovascular test.
I'll be there in the red field. Don't forget to sacrifice a goat to the weather gods for that week.
Yes. The small block Chevrolet gained popularity for all of the same reasons that the Ford flathead did twenty years earlier.
O'Brien Truckers has a very extensive inventory, and are reasonably priced. They had three plaques from clubs that were in my area.
One of my childhood friends decided to make his Visible V8 more realistic and put oil in it; that didn't end well.
Years ago, a salesman at the Chevrolet dealer where I work (who had been there long enough to know better) took in a Chevy pickup on trade. When...
When you judge when something happened in your past by what car you were driving at the time; also, when the guy who came to your house to talk to...
No, the standard shift cars are much easier.
I don't believe that anyone makes that style contact set any more.
There's a house near where I live that I joke with my wife about being the ideal house; it looks like the one in "Krass and Bernie" comics.
A '49-'54 car transmission would have the same bolt pattern, but have a normal side cover with two equal sized shift arms, as opposed to the...
Yes, they all turn CCW. The only difference I know of on the earliest distributors is the '54 Fords had a drive gear with a different number of...
Like I said way back somewhere in this thread, a friend of mine flipped the stock intake upside down and used a Carter W-O from a late '40s/early...
I've owned two S10s (both 4.3 powered) with this transmission and ran them up to 250,000 miles and 312,000 miles with no problems. ANY...
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