Recent content by briansb71

My 2 cents: I have never been nor will probably ever be in “the big money club”. I just buy the nicest project cars I can get for the money but are still within my ability to undertake (I farm out very little) and spend years trying to put them together to the best of my budget and ability. Some...

Same here! I believe I now have all the missing pieces to actually sit the engine in the car, at last! I should make for a busy fall project! Thanks again!

I will try to get some photos tomorrow, when it stops raining so I can drag everything out to photograph it.

That sounds good. I do still have the truck pan and pickup tube. I also have the bell housing, flywheel, and crusty clutch parts that was attached to the engine to sweeten the deal. I am not really a Mopar guy by nature (just always wanted a first gen Barracuda) so I know I will never need/use...

I am dropping a ‘71 truck 225 into a former 273 ‘64 Barracuda. I am down to needing the oil pan and pickup tube and I think I have everything required to rehome it. Preferably, the original early A pan and tube (up to ‘66 model A body), but the “369” (Volare/Aspen, I think?) pan would do...

Any product can fail … and I have had the worst luck with “high end”, higher priced products, in general. It’s all “Ford or Chevy”, “Coke or Pepsi”, “Republican or Democratic” … nobody is really going to talk someone into or out of whatever they prefer or are comfortable with. I am just saying I...

I have never experienced any problems or failures due to any brand oil filter I have ever used in nearly 40 years of daily/normal street use driving with 3k oil changes. That includes Walmart Super-tech and even Fram.

It can be tough. People want certain parts but they are located too far away to retrieve them or, like me, just out of room to store anything else. At this point, I’m just looking to procure the required parts to complete my ongoing project cars, then I am going to be doing some left over parts...

Most manufacturers, or at least the advertising agencies they hired, came up with some bizarre ideas and claims to move the metal back then. Many years ago, I watched a promotional film done by Studebaker for it’s dealers that extolled the virtues of their new 1964 line of cars and trucks. One...

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So, would the ‘67 up bracket be “modify-able”? As in, cut the upper rear back portion out (inside the yellow dotted line), straighten out the two sides (the green lines), then weld some thick stock back onto the area that was cut out?

I believe this photo covers it? The newer passengers side bracket looks as if it might work with some modifications but the driver’s side really looks as if it would be pushing the engine back considerably. It’s too bad they changed them because it makes life harder 60 years on. Hopefully I can...

So far, the early mount brackets seem to be alluding me but post ‘67 mounts seem to be everywhere. It’s not rare until you need it and can’t find it. Because of the change in the end of the crankshaft, buying a ‘66 or older parts car just to get everything at once, doesn’t do it, either...

I will be putting a post ‘67 225 slant and and a ‘72 model 904 (the sliding yoke style) in my ‘64 Barracuda (originally a V8 car). Will ‘67-‘72 style motor mount brackets fit in this combination? I read somewhere that doing so technically fits but, on a manual transmission, it pushes the engine...