Whats wrong with the weiand ? I think with a 1" open spacer it would work good on the street . I have a streetmaster, cut about 5lbs of aluminum out of it to get it looking good on the inside , not so hot looking stock. The guy that did the comparison had his streetmaster heavily modified if I recall all the notes on it .
Might help to know what the rest of the motor is. NHRA stocker 67-69 Mustangs & Fairlanes run low to high 10s with factory cast iron intakes depending if its a 390 or 428
Dude. Your wedding is in 3 weeks....spend a couple hours replacing a thread and the gaskets, get the thing running and driving, and go to your wedding!! Unless I'm completely out to lunch, your bride is going to require that you focus on non-car stuff in the extremely near future. I agree with trailer-ed and others, get focused and get the damn car on the road. Why would you want to buy a new intake for an engine you're going to swap out anyway???
Well I took it a few miles today and it runs strong but found a bunch of little issues to fix. The thread is holding so far with a couple threads.
All the reasons to BUY NOW! Most married guys don't ever get the chance to choose between a $20 fix and a $200 manifold! I had a wife like that once...but replaced her with a younger model. A super hot gearhead type. Only thing that ****s is this damn town!
Oh yea! Why didnt you say something earlier, that changes EVERYTHING! NOW I see why you are so hot to trot to buy parts. As a Married man, I say buy an intake, cam, headers, converter, gears, BT heads, hell, buy a 460 as well, just in case you change your mind later!...Buy it ALL, BUY IT NOW! Trust me on this, max that credit card NOW, GO NUTZ! Cause, boy, in a matter of weeks the party is OVER! Hell, do you think my 428 would be sitting with a cracked cylinder wall if I WASNT married?? It would be back together and rattling the nieghbours windows years ago!
I have the performer rpm and like it on my 428 but tend to agree with the general consenus that you should just fix the one you got... The intake only matters if you buy some good heads. I bought the edelbrock rpm heads and that made a huge difference...
The cobra jet intake is pretty much the performer in cast-iron! It is a great intake, just weighs 80 lbs.
That's unfortunate. I'm married as well and seems to be a different story over this side of the fence. She's all good with the cars. I just have to get the '50 cleaned up, she made a deal with a local well known photographer. She get's a free pin-up/lingerie shoot if they can use my car for OTHER pin-up lingerie shoots. Hmmm...you mean i have to see OTHER hot girls d**** themselves over my car???...well..okay...
Honestly, shes good for me. Shes the "grown up" voice I never had. She just says I should work on one car till I finish it, and make sure theres enough money left to pay the mortgage and eat something other than peanut ****er and toast at the end of the month.Makes life all boring & predictable
Mine pretty much says the same thing. She doesn't know when I buy parts or how much they cost or the side money I make lol. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get some odds and ends fixed
THAT is key. Good to keep a little on the down low no matter what. Any update on how things are progressing?
Edelbrock Performer RPM is about the best all around FE intake out there. Works good on a mild build and will also work well on a higher horsepower deal if you upgrade later. If your intake gaskets are ****ed in it will pull oil into the intake port and smoke. It wouldn't be the first FE to ever do that...
****ing **** *** job.I used to work part time in a school bus garage back when.They had about 60 361 powered busses.Sooner or later many of them ****ed in the intake gaskets.Other than that ,the FE truck engine was pretty reliable.
It is white smoke. I started it this morning to try to get it to do it and it wouldn't. I left the radiator cap off and when I shut it off it was white. There is no coolant in oil and it is not overfilled. The front intake gasket looks a little pushed out and is soaked. Motor runs quiet and strong. I'm hoping it is not a head gasket. When I shut it off it makes a draining sound that I cannot tell where from.
Without a cam and carb change not much of a difference , besides weight not much preformance over a stock 4bbl. I like a weind not as pretty as a edelbrock.
Oil smoke can look white in some situations. Generally,water vapor fades pretty fast.Smoke from oil,engine oil or ATF tends to linger unless it's breezy.A nose helps,if it smells like oil ,it probably is.If it smells like ****,check your shoes.
See the tread about the smoking 390- first thing I do when I drag one home is pull the valve covers and clean out the oil drainback holes at the ends of the heads- if they're clogged up, the valve cover fills up with oil and floods the stems/seals, and it starts killin' *****ers
Has anyone had to rub a chicker gasket for the carb or a spacer to make them run right? An old timer told me that's what I need to do otherwise it's like vapor locking without it
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