I too have tried steel shots in a ordinary cabinet and
its not working you have to gravity feed the blaster
with them
What i do with alu is i first blast it with that black sand
i Think it some crushed slag, To get the parts Clean.
With that you get a raw porous surface
Then i use new glasbeads to get a smother finish that dont
absorb dirt...its like the glasbeads polish and peen the Surface

I like it. I had a black 500 xl with a 390. Later a 351 Cleveland 4v
in the late 80s early 90s

Yes everything that move the axle
from the centre of the spring up or
down increase spring twist.
A guy i know bought some "shelby"
springs that raised the rear 8 inch
he put 8 inch lowering block in to lower
the rear the nuts
on the ubolts almost touched the road.
Talk about Wheel hop
It  riped the glovbox door open

330 horses  then its a PI Engine and came with alternator
car should have p code on the chassie tag
Engine have solid lifters better rods cast shorty headers
rear with 4 pinion differential bigger brakes HD suspension
I would make the trade ...but im a hoarder

Sometimes if you heat the paint with a hot air gun
you are able to tear it of like a vinyl sticker right down
to the primer the more layers of paint the better.
Heat a spot and cut with a razorblade to get started
and just peal of and heat as you go
The paint strippers we have in Sweden nowadays
dont work on anything but waterbased paint
If you go with DA sander use as coarse paper as possible
(less heat build up)and keep the sander moving
 till you are down to the primer then
go 80-120

Happy new year to you all
My plans for 2014 is to get
the Galaxie running with a fresh Engine.
And the Packard roadster finaly painted.
And the hotrod finished. And the electrical
instalations in my new shop completed
And........

Its a beautyful Engine but the wrong one for the 32
so i can trade you a flathead for the sohc

I know i have seen some old Engine (probably 1920s) with 4 valves
and "fork" rockers. I dont remember if it was car or
motorcycle engine
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Suddenly today it hit me where i saw those fork rockers
it was on a Packard Merlin Engine
They got one Engine displayed at the Airport. I was waiting
for the wifes plane to arive so i had plenty of time to study it.
That versions of the Merlin Engines got excentric rocker-
shafts so when you rotate the shaft you change the rocker-
ratio