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For those who want to become exhaust savants:

The photo in post #1 almost looks like the distributor has been painted that light purple color like the Road Runner horns, but I guess it's just the light.

I found when I installed an oil temperature gauge that an engine is only a"warmed up" when the oil reaches operating temperature (which takes longer than heating the coolant). Cylinder head temperature is probably an even better indicator. I know when drag racing, my best E.T.'s were achieved...

I like that idea, looks simple enough, must be one inlet and one outlet.

I don't know what they should sound like shaking them. They are difficult to take apart and service. It has been suggested to renew the activated charcoal by finding some at a pet store (I think the charcoal is used in aquarium filters). I guess you could duplicate the "screen" with any similar...

The main problem with them is that as they get older and older, there is the chance the activated charcoal could be sucked into the innards of your carburetor (plugging things up) as the screen to prevent this disintegrates. That's why I spent a couple of hundred bucks on a rare NOS canister for...

My vacuum advance failed right before a road trip one time and that really put a dent in gas mileage. That was a 318 BBody, which now gets about 17 MPG on the freeway.

To answer the question about epoxy on the copper wire, it was used only to keep the wire from slipping out of the groove during installation. I don't remember the diameter of the copper wire, but copper wire is probably not specific to using in automobile motors, I believe as long as the wire is...

When I installed steel shim head gaskets on my 273, I took a copper wire and used epoxy to attach it to a groove in the gasket that circled the cylinder bore, overlapping it on the ends a tiny amount. Upon dis-assembly later, the copper wire had crushed perfectly around the bore and seemed to...