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Title: FORD FE Grant-Spalding Flamethrower not mine, just saw on craigslist
Post by: hwoods on May 06, 2019, 08:18:00 PM

https://waco.craigslist.org/pts/d/waco-ford-fe-grant-spalding-flamethrower/6876895524.html

Title: Re: FORD FE Grant-Spalding Flamethrower not mine, just saw on craigslist
Post by: chris401 on May 06, 2019, 10:54:56 PM

Quote from: hwoods on May 06, 2019, 08:18:00 PM

https://waco.craigslist.org/pts/d/waco-ford-fe-grant-spalding-flamethrower/6876895524.html

It is not something I will use anytime soon and I did not want to modify it to add a vacuum advance. I figured if they sold on EBay for $600 to $800 then half would be about right. The man at Bubbas suggested polishing the cam. If I was going to run this on a daily driver I would send it to Bubbas for a Pertronix conversion or new cam and repaint.

Title: Re: FORD FE Grant-Spalding Flamethrower not mine, just saw on craigslist
Post by: FERoadster on May 07, 2019, 10:10:02 AM

FYI Bubba (Jim Linder) quoted me $300 to rebuild mine. But it's in very good condition.
Also there is a NOS Grant-Spaulding on HAMB for $800 so this $350 seems to be a good price.

Edit as a second thought I would have Bubba's at least curve the NOS Distributor for my needs and no idea what he would charge so you would be approaching $1K
or the price of a true Mag etc-------- . Also consider Grant-Spaulding's and Vertex Mags  are much taller than a Distributor so Air cleaner clearance could be an issue.

FERoadster

2nd edit: the one reverse rotation in the photo is a SBF marine distributor.