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    Show us some odd ignitions from the past

    Here's the TSB on servicing the Motorola transistor ignition factory-available to fleets on the '66 models.
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    Vapor canister and purge valve hell

    One doesn't follow from the other. You can keep or delete the EGR as you wish, regardless of your evap setup (vapor can/purge valve/etc).
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    Formed, Machined, and Assembled in the USA !!!

    Oh, it was! For a short time, for a few already-wealthy people.
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    Formed, Machined, and Assembled in the USA !!!

    You laugh, but consider the Chinese car brand Chery. Three guesses why they made up that name, and the first two don't count. See also: "Haier" Chinese appliances, which suck out loud. Even their name is a cheap knockoff of the second half of Liebherr, a legitimate company with a history of...
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    speedmaster stuff pulled from Summit racing shelves

    The entire point of SEMA is to boost the sales of whoever pays to be a SEMA member. That's what these bogus little 'awards' of theirs are designed to do. It's a circle-jerk for marketing purposes, is all.
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    speedmaster stuff pulled from Summit racing shelves

    Continuing on that theme: All but the bottom-of-the-bottom-of-the barrel products from the sewer have counterfeit/fraudulent type-approval and certification markings and labels (the shіttiest ones don't even have fake markings). Also common: irrelevant markings that look impressive and...
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    speedmaster stuff pulled from Summit racing shelves

    Read this book. I did, and it managed to lower my already-thought-it-couldn't-be-any-lower opinion of the lavishly subsidized sewer that is Chinese industry and its American enablers. Lowering that particular opinion of mine is a neat trick, because I have direct experience with that festering...
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    Slant Six Carb Issues

    Carburetor operation and repair manuals and links to training movies and carb repair/modification threads are posted here for free download.
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    Less Well Known Car Chases With Mopars

    Anyone else notice something weird and incongruous (to North American eyes) about these chases in a 1973 movie? Everyone's buckled in! They're all wearing seatbelts!
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    Found my dads original 1971 duster!

    It can provide plenty of both. Welcome here. That Hydro guy sounds like an obnoxious, thoughtless dillweed; good job getting the car away from him.
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    70 dart turn signal cam question, what the heck?

    '70 turn signal switches are one-year-only, and they're not available as aftermarket parts. The '71-up switch works in a '70 car, but has a differently-shaped hazard flasher knob. If you're talking about a smaller cam on your old switch, that sounds more like a '69-down switch. Oldkimmer's got...
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    Show us some odd ignitions from the past

    This is from an article in Popular Science, December 1962, about transistor ignitions. It's even got A-body content! The price equates to about $810 (eight hundred and ten dollars) in today's money. The distributor cap trouble the author had was probably because his car had not yet had this...
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    Greetings from Portland OR (62 Dodge Lancer)

    Sweet! Tune-up parts and technique suggestions in this post. Carburetor operation and repair manuals and links to training movies and carb repair/modification threads are posted here for free download. For upgrades, start with this thread.
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    Headlight Relay Kits

    Only the headlamps are brightened by putting in a relay harness. If you want the rest of the lights brighter/working better, check/improve the grounds at all four corners of the car, make sure the feed wires and all connections are in good condition, and do like this.
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    Show us some odd ignitions from the past

    Nope, that's a set of Capaci-Points. First pair I've seen an actual photo of; here are pics of where I know this from. This 1977 book was in my high school library—it's a low-level car maintenance manual stuffed with promotional sorta-ads for relevant products of that time.
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    Show us some odd ignitions from the past

    It has "Neato!" built right into the name.
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    Carter bbs comversion

    Outta stock, sorry.
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    Electronic ignition upgrade.

    HEI upgrade. Performance at least as good as most aftermarket systems, much better reliability, and much less costly.
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    1960 Valiant Data Plate/SN Codes

    You can get the vehicle build record from Chrysler by sending in this application with acceptable proof of ownership. That's unless your luck is bad and they don't have the record for your car, but they do have most pre-68 records.
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    Demon non-option question

    No, it would be a manual (non-remote) round chrome one.
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    1960 Valiant Data Plate/SN Codes

    1302207704 1: Valiant 3: V-200 0: 1960 2: Dodge Assembly Plant, Detroit (maybe actually Hamtramck?) 207704: Serial number (first SN of cars like this was 100001, so this is the 107,703rd 1960 Valiant V-200 built at that plant) That's all the info obtainable from the vehicle number.
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    So what's the deal? Which carb is the right one?

    7081. It's stamped there on the carb below 3870902.
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    Rods in my Head, Part 2

    I wouldn't bet on that.
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    Irregular Rough Running

    Check your valve adjustment. If they're too tight, you can get a rough idle when the engine warms up. Beyond that, and making sure you don't have any funky (cracked/spongy/holed/etc) vacuum hoses, you have the correct PCV valve, etc, tune-up parts and technique suggestions in this post, and...
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    So what's the deal? Which carb is the right one?

    Go read the article I linked for you to learn why your idea is not a good one.
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    So what's the deal? Which carb is the right one?

    That hose wants to see manifold vacuum. So you can tee it into the choke pull-off hose, or you can connect it to the vacuum tap on the rearmost intake manifold runner. Just as well; do like this and you'll wind up better off—the stock '74 setup using the throttle plate as a halfassed purge...
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    So what's the deal? Which carb is the right one?

    Same casting used for carbs with/without external bowl vent, with/without cold idle secondary enrichment, and with/without other features. Don't worry about it. Hook up the hoses that your car has to the correct ports on the new carb, and cap the unused ports. Easy.
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    So what's the deal? Which carb is the right one?

    There's not going to be a judge with a clipboard subtracting points because your car doesn't have a correctly-stamped carburetor. If it's a choice between those two carbs, here's 24 votes (both hands, both feet, all ten fingers, and all ten toes) for using the NOS Dodge van item, which will run...
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    What do you look for in a forklift?

    1. Get a forklift with a Slant-6 engine 2. Watch this hi-larious German (because of course it is) movie:
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