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FE Technical Forum / Question on Jays valve cover
« on: March 06, 2019, 11:16:38 AM »
I noticed that the bolt holes on Jay’s v/c are threaded near the top of the holes and was wondering what was the purpose of the threads.

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FE Technical Forum / Air filter flow test
« on: May 01, 2017, 10:19:27 AM »
I have often wondered what kind of flow restriction there were with the air filters that I have put on my engine over the years. I decided to give them a flow test on my flow bench.
I used my 950 quick fuel carb. for testing the filters. I can only pull 28" of depression on two of the barrels at a time so I did one primary and one secondary and plugged the other two barrels.
I also covered half of the air filter so I ended up with half a carb and half a filter for testing. All of the bases, tops and filters are K&N except for the 2 inch paper filter witch was a Aflotech filter that I happen to have.
The carb flows 590 cfm at 28" with two barrels and no air filter. The biggest thing I noticed is sometimes the x-stream top works well and sometimes not.


Filter Size             Base             Top             Flow at 28”

2 in paper            Standard       Solid              495
2 in paper            Standard       X-Stream       577

2 in non-oiled      Standard      Solid               575
2 in non-oiled      Standard      X-Stream        585

2 in                       Standard      Solid               560
2 in                       Standard      X-Stream        580

3 in                      Standard       Solid               582
3 in                      1 in drop       Solid               582
3 in                      1 in drop       X-Stream        584
3 in                      Standard       X-Stream        585

4 in                      Standard       Solid               585
4 in                      Standard       X-Stream        589
4 in                      1 in drop       X-Stream        585
4 in                      1 in drop       Solid               585

3½ in non-oiled   Standard      Solid                589
3½ in non-oiled   Standard      X-Stream         588
3½ in non-oiled   1 in drop      X-Stream         586
3½ in non-oiled   1 in drop      Solid                589


Made one change to the 3in drop after retesting

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Member Projects / Home made flowbench
« on: January 04, 2017, 04:46:42 PM »
Last spring I got this idea to build my own flowbench. I new nothing about them so I started reading about them on the internet. I ended up buying the plans from PTS flowbench Technology. He is a retired guy who built his own as a hobby and ended up designing one that he sells the plans for and also makes his own equipment to use with his bench. It is a orifice style flowbench with a digital manometer with a pid motor control for automatically controlling the motor speed.

It took me a couple months to finish it. It was a bit more than I had planned for but I finally finished it and ran a test run. There were a number of things wrong with it and I worked at it for a couple of weeks to try to figure it all out. Electrical problems and software bugs. I almost figured everything out when I ran out of time and had to  shelve it because of other projects.

A week ago I went back at it and finally got it running. I did a test run to calibrate it with a test plate. The plate I used was rated at 500 cfm@28". There is a short video of me running the test below. I came pretty close to the 500 mark and I think now I can adjust the software to my Machine. After the test I called my wife and said I wanted her to be the first to know that I got it running. She said "who else could you call to talk about it without their eyes glazing over". Nice.... I also posted a few pictures of it being built. I now have got to get my velocity probe working and build a stand to hold things for flow testing.

I apologize to everyone's eyes in advance.






















Here is the Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx4q5UyQgCw

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FE Technical Forum / BBM blocks
« on: November 15, 2016, 02:39:31 PM »
According to their BBM website, the aluminum blocks will be coming in January and the cast blocks will be coming soon.

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FE Technical Forum / CNC Survival Heads
« on: November 04, 2013, 11:21:04 AM »
This is a link to Barry's site where he has posted his flow data on his EMC heads.

http://fefordtech.com/index.php?topic=90.0

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FE Technical Forum / Just got my new adapters
« on: March 04, 2013, 11:43:16 AM »
And they look very nice! Thanks Jay. And now to rebuild my engine around them.

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FE Technical Forum / New FE forum
« on: January 07, 2013, 11:09:29 AM »

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Member Projects / Mustang makeover
« on: April 11, 2012, 01:55:10 PM »
I decided to make some changes to my 67 Mustang.One of them is to redo the interior. I have modified it over the years including putting in custom seats. They are very comfortable and make you feel like you are part of the car but I have grown tired of the look and want the original seats back in. I also would like to change the all black look and add some color. Here is the "before" picture of the interior.


The next picture is the material for upholstering the seats. I was thinking of going with leather but I decided to be more practical and used a material that has a polyurethane facing and recycled leather for the backing. I got this from Charlotte Fabrics in Minneapolis MN.


This picture is some of the comfort weave that came off the original seats that I am using for a pattern.









This is the carpet that is going in the car. The camera makes the fabric for the seats a little to red. The carpet looks about right.


This is the rear seats sewn up.


Because I am sewing 1 inch foam in the center of the covers, I have to add 1 inch foam to the outside sections of the seat.


Instead of hog ringing the stretcher, I am attaching a nylon twine to the metal rod in the stretcher and pulling it through the foam. I find you have more control that way.






One of the bottom seats are done. You can see to the left of the seat where I need some adjustment to make it right. More to come.

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FE Technical Forum / Medium riser 4v
« on: May 02, 2011, 12:42:52 PM »
Jay I am reading your book and it is very good and timely sense I have my engine torn down and making some changes to it. I have a number of questions I would like to ask but I think I will just ask one for now.
When I first got my 65 CO 427 it came with what I thought was a Med Riser manifold but there no markings to prove it, So when I saw the picture in your book of it I dug mine out for comparison. It looks the same but there are some things that are differant.
  The date marking of 12-64 above the thermostat housing
  Fewer vacuum bosses
  No bosses for a throttle linkage
The ports had not been touched and I was surprised as to how restricted some of them were. I did some gasket matching but was not to aggressive. I am going to try to send some photos so tell me what you think

Michael Mason















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