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I have 1" lift springs and have wondered the same thing.

I have a set of D453's that were on my 68 Dart. I switched to manifolds 3 years ago. There is only one spot, at the z-bar, where clearance was hammered. Wheel-hopping burnouts moved my engine one day. On the way home my clutch was hard to push. The z-bar was scraping the hot header. I removed...

Very interesting stuff!

Tony Angelo is putting a Gen3 hemi in a 70 dart on his youtube channel called "Stay Tuned". Very interesting. Check it out.

Yes, there are weights on the converter.

I recently bought a 77 440 that came out of police car. I got it back from the machine shop and I have some questions. It is bored 30 over and the cast crank is ground 10/10. I have the balancer and the converter that came off of it so is it still balanced? If so, do I just have to match the...

Espo +1

I just checked it again. The initial is 30* and it advances into the 50's. It is like the balancer is off but the key puts it in the right place. I let it get hot to see if it had trouble starting but it fired right up. I don't hear anything strange when I throttle it up. I'm going to take for a...

318willrun says in this video (3:55 in) that his truck has 30* of initial timing because the distributor is locked.

I put the 318 together and it's back in the truck. There was nothing wrong with it. I thought for sure I would find something when I tore it down. I got a Pertronix ignitor and a new distributor cap. I put a new ballast resistor in it since I had one. The 318 has never run better. It fires right...

Thanks FABO. I ordered some 1243's.

Tomorrow I am going to re-install my performer intake on to my 72 318. The Fel-pro gasket kit came with the metal 90041-1 gaskets. I had Fel-pro 1243's on it before. Does the raised side of the metal gasket go against the head or the manifold? What kind of sealant should I use on them? The...

I replaced the condensor and started it. It made the same knocking sound. The inside of the cap looks ok to me. A toasted rotor could cause it to knock like that? It fired right up and ran. There is nothing hanging from the coil, that is a ridge on the 4 barrel intake.

I pulled the engine and tranny out. I got service paperwork when I bought the truck. The tranny was rebuilt by aamco in 2008 at 45,000 miles. The truck only has 52,000 now. The heads, valves, and pushrods are all good. There is a little verticle scoring in the cylinders but almost no ridge. A...

Here is a video of it running.