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FE Technical Forum / Re: Subframe connectors
« on: October 29, 2025, 11:13:34 AM »
i put some from crites on my 66 comet several years ago
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FE Technical Forum / Re: C5AE 390 block cast with cross bolt bosses
« on: October 29, 2025, 11:11:32 AM »
i have a nice std bore c5ae-a block with bosses and thick main webbing
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FE Technical Forum / Re: BBM Head Swap
« on: August 21, 2025, 09:05:49 PM »
love the car,i have a factory black 66 comet caliente ,mine came with a white vinyl top but i removed it.factory 390 4 speed y code,im on my 4th engine,428 bbm heads,hs rockers,hooker comps.i have owned it 43 years.nos if needed
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: buick v6
« on: August 21, 2025, 03:11:34 AM »
after checking it out a little,it has a 899 gm performance parts block offered over the counter in the 80s and early 90s,dry sump only,no provisions for filter has an fitting instead ,billet steel 4 bolt main caps with outer bolt on angle,even fire steel crank with offset crank pins,alot of extra meat every where,alu heads with 2.15 intake valves with porters name etched on them they came with jessel or t&d shaft rockers,700 lift solid roller cam.exotic 2 piece 4bbl intake,old msd stuff,,the list goes on.its a pure race engine.complete dry sump system with all braided lines and an fittings,3.5 gallon oil tank,3 stage ex pump with scavenge pump,tank vents,super nice vintage quick release steering wheel,plus a rebuild kit,extra crank,block. remember all for 400 dollars! engine is fresh on a stand but needs to be inspected.
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: buick v6
« on: August 17, 2025, 02:57:32 PM »
if i keep the v6 i may find a s10 already set up for this engine,mounts and all are on the little v6,looks like a 750 or 850 double pumper on it and a msd dist,my neighbor built stout engines,i remember hearing the race car start up when i was a boy,you could hear it for miles away. harry gant drove one of his cars one time at bristol and harry told my neighbor that his car ran as good as anyone there but harry said it needed to be set up,it was hard to handle. my neighbors were the applegates,butch,Alan,and there dad bill.they raced mostly short tracks like kingsport,but every year they would go to bristol to try and qualify,they didnt run up front much,but they were just average guys racing on the weekend.
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FE Technical Forum / Re: 428 cam section
« on: August 17, 2025, 02:12:17 PM »
i have a .245 at .050 hyd cam in my 428 with a 4 speed on the street,it has good manners except when idling along in first,it can start loping and you have to push in the clutch,rev it up a little and take off again,if thats similar to what brent is explaining.
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Holley 80496-1 carb
« on: August 17, 2025, 02:05:38 PM »
i think the quick fuel 950 q series has bigger ventures and flows as advertised.
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Front wheel and tire size question
« on: August 17, 2025, 02:01:35 PM »
my stock suspension 66 comet will take a 24 inch tall tire-70 series,anything bigger rubs
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: buick v6
« on: August 17, 2025, 01:57:35 PM »
IM SORRY,i misled everyone,i bought the engine just seeing it covered up in the corner of the garage with no lighting or glass windows.when i picked it up yesterday and got a good look at it,someone had said buick, but its a chevy v6 nascar engine,
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: buick v6
« on: August 15, 2025, 08:29:33 PM »
i forgot to mention she let me have everything for 400 dollars and there is enough spare parts to build another one- extra crank new in bag,spare block in a bag and a big crate with a set of pistons heads and every thing else needed to build a second engine,plus main engine is new on a stand ready to drop in a car, too good to pass up even if i dont need it.
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: buick v6
« on: August 15, 2025, 08:22:44 PM »Sounds like a Stage II Buick V6. Snatch it up, find a mid 80's Camaro, drop it in and embarrass the heck out of all the 350 fanboys. Stage II's have been known to make ridiculous (1500+ HP) power with the right turbo and 2+ HP/ci in NA form is also quite doable.it looks like the one in the pic,it even has the flat top intake and external oil pump
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / buick v6
« on: August 11, 2025, 07:19:47 PM »
i hate to bring up non ford topics because im ford thru and thru.my neighbor ran the grand national series in the 70s and 80s,they even let harry gant drive one of their cars back in the day,anyway,my neighbor passed away a while back.his wife sold me what racing stuff he had kept,main item is a buick v6 with external oil pump and dry sump system.his wife said it was out of his last racecar.it has steel bradded hoses going everwhere and an alu. oil tank. i really dont know anything about it.can anyone tell me anything like performance,value,etc?
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Uncle Tony's Garage: Basphemy upon the FE
« on: June 08, 2025, 10:13:39 AM »i dont know what his job was but im just saying im surprised he was bad mouthing them after working with them years ago,every engine has its quirks,sbc-stupid dist in the back etci dont care much about the video or u.t. but did you guys know he used to work for a big time race program that ran sohc engines back in the day!Ok but what did he do, build motors or clean parts ?
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Uncle Tony's Garage: Basphemy upon the FE
« on: June 04, 2025, 01:08:56 AM »
i dont care much about the video or u.t. but did you guys know he used to work for a big time race program that ran sohc engines back in the day!
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FE Technical Forum / Re: What's the highest horsepower and hp/ci that you've seen....
« on: May 21, 2025, 11:22:38 PM »
im hoping one day i can get one of the top Fe engine builders in the world to build me a max effort street race engine. no need to mention any names we all know who they are!