Search results for query: *

While, on your car, the shift is at near max, I can't recall if, in all the A-bodies I have ever owned over 54 years; if any of them were that much different from yours. I can't even remember ever seeing it perfectly centered on any A-body car that I've ever looked at. It absolutely does not...

The only way to get 340 cubes out of a teener at 3.94 bore is to use a 3.48 stroke. For reference; My Zero-deck 360, with alloy heads, and running the pressure up into the zone of 185>195 psi, makes more torque than my 68 Barracuda chassis can handle, but it will burn 87E10, at full-timing...

My Late-A with a 9.5 compression-ratio, 2bbl slanty bucked snow really well. Bumper deep, snow-tires all 'round, 35 mph in Second gear, lean forward, no posi required; just keep her over 30. But if you ever get hung up, it's gonna take a lotta-lotta-lotta shoveling. That's Not for me...

timing chain slack. That's a "normal" symptom. The test is to rock the crank back and forth against the valve springs, without disturbing the cam. 2/3 degrees at idle is not that bad. The sparkport should have zero vacuum at idle. In fact, if you slowly bring the idle up in N/P, it might take...

If the bouncing Vacuum gauge quit with the vacuum line pinched, and the line plumbed to ported vacuum, then, your throttle is too far open, because at idle, that port should be dead. But if the line was plumbed to the intake-port, then the possibility exists that the diaphragm is fubarred; you...

You don't have a timing problem. All your efforts are only band-aiding the real problem, which is most likely the carb. and AFAI can tell it has multiple problems. Assuming; the intake valves are sealing and NOT sticking, and the gas is fresh and clear, then the carb will have to taken apart...

What I mean is, that if your compression tester shows 125psi, well that's a problem. We can all dance around the campfire pissing on the ground, but we can't drown the fire like that. Or say your distributor is stuck at 15 degrees, that's a problem. Or say the secondaries don't open at...

here's what I recommend, in order of complexity; >does the car roll easily in Neutral? >does the transmission shift and get all gears (don't care about overdrive right now) >Proving the flash-stall rpm, and >proving that your rear gears are actually 3.73s, and >and yes,as mentioned, make sure...

that's exactly what I did too; and away we went..... and that was 20plus years ago..

I've lost 8553s in the same manner at less pressure, without detonation, using alloy heads. The Static Compression Ratio is nearly useless in regards to avoiding detonation. It's all in the measured cranking cylinder pressure, and the expansion ratio and time. I cannot see running over 200psi at...

I think you misunderstood my meaning. With an open diff, it is almost impossible to initiate a sideways skid, unless there is close to zero traction. This is because at least one wheel back there is always fully connected to the road. This is why you cannot make your one-legger fishtail, unless...

The governor has NO IDEA about engine rpm; The governor has no idea about the roadspeed; The governor only knows driveshaft rpm, and only responds to increasing rpm , by increasing it's Shift-Command Pressure. Anytime a rear gear ratio is changed, the governor will need to be re-educated. And...

If you changed the rear gear ratio, then the rpmat any given roadspeed has changed by the percentage difference between the gears. You won't notice a small change on the speed-O (which is calibrated for the out=going gears, BUT You most certainly will see it on the tach as a similar percentage...

Hang on Scamper. If I understand you right, your car could 10 minutes or $100 bucks, from a new personality. You said When you changed the rear, and the old one was NOT also 3.55s, then you have destroyed the relationship between the Governor and the Throttle pressure. The governor pressure...

I ran that box for three or more years behind my 367, and with three different cams, trying to like it. After breaking the third one, I got me a regular Commando and a GVod; problem solved. My complaint was that the gear ratios were just too far apart. The thing is that the Convertor of any...

I'm really starting to like the Second-generation Duster hoods. but the bulge is quite conservative. Maybe that's why I like it, lol.

With upsizing to a 318 comes more torque, that will allow you to run less rear gear with any old TF trans, but specifically the A999 will get you a low cruize rpm with reasonable take-off power. Lemmee run this by you; >Your wagon probably has 3.23s in the back and the A904 has a 2.45 low gear...

To that end, when it was time to paint mine, I bought some plastic model kits and painted them in a few of the eye-popping 70-up colors; and like some say; they just didn't look right. Then one day I was 60 miles from home in my family car, and passed a GM dealer's lot, and there it was; a...

Gun-metal gray. I forget the code; maybe GA-4 just guessing.

back from the dead, but; I put a 340 in a 65, back in the mid 70s, using a 65 A904 from a 273. It was a drop in. The only hiccups were the exhaust and the gas pedal. I installed some Hooker fenderwell headers, and a later cable pedal system, and that was that. Great swap. I would do it...

BTW With my year 2000 TTIs, I was able to remove the POWER steering box several times, for modifications. But I split the pitman arm off. I cannot remember if I dropped it out the bottom or top. I bet it was the bottom cuz I do remember it was pretty heavy.

I have never taken a steering box off to fit headers. In really difficult cases I have undone the engine mounts. and cherry-picked the engine over to the passenger side with that side header not yet mounted. I have always left the P-side for last, cuz it usually falls on. But now that the...

Do you know how easy it is to drop the column out of that car? There are three small nuts at the cradle, 2 screws at the floorplate and a pin in the coupler. Plus two wire couplers. and a quick-pin/cotter-pin if column-shifted I think 10 minutes should cover it. Pull the starter as well. If the...

Well , I might just have to go find my slightly used one, that hasn't been used since maybe 1983.lol

Yes you did my friend; You started it,lol Be fruitful and multiply. it all starts out pretty innocent and the next thing you know a few decades slide on by, and suddenly there you go; kissing the young girls, and changing diapers again. Go ahead,set a spell, you earned your rest. At least that's...

17?! how in the world.... I'm going 68 in June and it it looks like we are done at 5, from the ages of one to six. Seventeen is impressive man; good job.

Yur giving me way too much credit, and way not enough to yourself, but I still love you man.

I gave you a like because my mouth gets me into so much trouble; or rather my sluggish brain does. I have more or less stopped trying to be funny, everywhere except FABO. All too often what sounds funny in my head, ain't nearly as funny out loud; and once spoken, those words are impossible to...

We're practically twins,lol. But I've been stuck in this rut for over two summers. I guess there is a reason God says to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, and 2 can put ten times as many to flight as one, and we need to work in pairs in case one falters, etc. I have been...

I hear ya about being burnt out; I don't do much mechanical work anymore, and I too am still working part time. I'm not really burnt out; I just haven't been able to get motivated this year to do much of anything; I think it must be a SabbathYear for me,lol. We'll see what happens for me in...