Recent content by BillGrissom

Great that your engine is running better. With all the changes, it is hard to know how much improvement the HEI part made. That it allows a larger spark gap always helps. It is also one less "knob" to adjust since dwell control is integral. The earliest electronic ignitions like ~1972 Mopar...

I have an even crazier idea, to bolt a Magnum beer keg intake to my 1965 273 heads to get cheap MPFI. I know the bolt angles are different, but in 1965, they were closer to vertical (~20 deg off vertical). Appears enough meat in the beer keg to hog it out to pass bent studs up thru the holes...

Wifey says she'll sell all my hobby cars and tools for $1. Absolutely no appreciation. She is from a developing country where everything is disposable. Don't know what happened to all the Honda 125 motorcycles, but now all new scooters on the streets there. Ditto for my kids, who learned...

Very dangerous. Many engine fires due to leaking or overflowing carburetors. When high-pressure fuel injection came out, I predicted major future problems with engine fires. We did see some early on, but turned out of little concern. I attribute that to better Viton O-rings and lined fuel...

I term a "fly-by poster". Common among newbies on web forums.

Interesting 2nd link. It shows that both Ford and Chevy 6 cylinder engines also had a damper with integral fan-belt pulley like the slant-six. Best way to squeeze a straight-six into an engine bay. I wonder if either also had the AC-pulley that bolted to the aft side of the damper pulley...

See any inconsistency in your posts? You suggest that others should PM you rather than publicly fault you (in the post you started), but you didn't PM the seller to address buyer-remorse concerns, despite them being a forum member. Rather, you started a post fussing about things that worry...

Photo of 8-pin HEI in my 1964 Valiant slant (R inner fender). The HEI module is at top right and GM e-coil to left of it. Only 4 of the pins are required, the other 4 pins are for the option of a spark timing command. I'm not currently using that, so have a connector w/ stub wires on to keep...

Not easier. The 8-pin has a GM cable that runs from module to GM coil so just plug and play for that connection, and designed to work together. The connectors are weather-proof Metri-pak, much better than the exposed spade terminals (type 57?) of the older 4-pin module. The megasquirt site...

Many posts. Easiest and best is the GM 1985-95 (trucks, to 93 cars) HEI termed "small cap". The 8-pin module is inside the distributor. Take it, the pickup connector (cut wires right at sensor), the ignition coil and cable that connects the two, power connector/cable to coil (cut wires as...

To pile on. Some cars have fiberglass bodies, like Corvette (still?) and Delorean underneath the thin stainless sheet. Show cars often have a skim coat of Bondo over the whole body, to get sanded to mirror-smooth straightness, at least per cable shows. Bondo is similar to fiberglass, but...

When faced with such, often good to test the distributor in the air, spinning the shaft by hand. A points distributor needs its case grounded to the engine block (or BAT-) with a jumper wire. Leave the distributor cap off and don't disconnect the spark wires. Connect a spark tester (or spark...

Dealt with that in my first car for almost 20 years, a 1969 Dart slant 225. No mechanic could figure it out. I was sure it was due to being lean at idle. I finally tried a 4th Holley 1920 and it purred like a kitten. I had tried changing almost everything under the carburetor, yes even a new...

If it is what you desire, everything works, and it is close to perfect (can't tell from photos), then it is worth that asking price compared to what you would pay to buy a rough fish of that year and have a shop bring it to that standard. Also true if you value your time at even $10/hr, given...

Even closer to home, many people are confused about copper tubing for water vs HVAC, so you see many fusses in product reviews of "wrong size, didn't fit". A "3/8 tube" (or fitting) for HVAC is "1/4 tube" in water plumbing (most are termed 1 size smaller in plumbing). The reason is HVAC tubes...