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Member Projects / Re: 67 Mustang Pro Street
« on: December 18, 2023, 05:23:46 PM »
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: Northernlight
« on: December 18, 2023, 03:59:07 PM »
What you dont see in a photo is, it "dance" around in the skye and change colors
Green, red, purple, and blue its a real show. sometimes when it real intensive
and you are in a real quiet place you can hear like a crackling, sparkling sound
Green, red, purple, and blue its a real show. sometimes when it real intensive
and you are in a real quiet place you can hear like a crackling, sparkling sound
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Northernlight
« on: December 18, 2023, 10:38:44 AM »
Wife catched some northernlight the other night. Was way more when i went to lock up the shop.
So i told her when i came back and she snapped a few photos
When i was a kid and was outside playing we saw a lot, but now i avoid being outside in the winter
So i told her when i came back and she snapped a few photos
When i was a kid and was outside playing we saw a lot, but now i avoid being outside in the winter
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FE Technical Forum / Composite Rockers
« on: December 14, 2023, 12:20:20 PM »
A friend sent me a note about "Forged" Composite rockers from a company
by the name of AWA
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=804358958369462&set=a.488848879920473
by the name of AWA
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=804358958369462&set=a.488848879920473
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: Is there on the internt a small block engne forum?
« on: December 13, 2023, 01:38:40 PM »Yes, if the .050 is indeed 262, that is way to much cam. That cam could get you 8k rpm, if the heads are big enough. You should be able to get 375 hp with a 232 cam.
The 289HP heads don't have any flow advantage, unported, they just have spring seats and screw in studs. Porting isn't easy on them either. Stock they flow about 165 and the best porters can't get above 240 cfm. I had a set of C6 heads and after quite a while porting on the intake, schooled by a pro, I was only able to get 196 cfm with a 1.90 valve, good for close to 400 hp.
A EMC competitor, got 2nd place, in the last EMC with 294 ci, 235 cfm heads, dual plane intake and a 242@.050 roller cam for 440 hp @ 7.2k.
Im abit unsure about that 262 was about 40 years ago, sound wrong to 308 adv 242 sounds more realistic remember redline 7200 anyway
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: Is there on the internt a small block engne forum?
« on: December 13, 2023, 01:32:21 PM »Blykins just curious, you that have built a few sbf what hp
do you guess i had in that. 030 over flatops ,10.5 CR
Ported milled 66 289HP heads with 1.90 1.6 valves. 308 deg/ 510 lift cam
think it vas 262 at .050 lift edelbrock performer rpm 650 dp holley
Hooker super comp headers, good machine jobs. 375??
That's a whole lot of cam for the displacement, head, and intake, I would think 375 would be on the high side.
Yes probably, In those times chosing parts was like ... as far down and to the right in the catalog was the best parts
only you that is old enough to have purchades from a catalog understand what i saying
And it was a Camdynamics catalog so you know how long ago that was. whatever hapened to Cam dynamics?
Must have went under in the late80s.
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: Is there on the internt a small block engne forum?
« on: December 13, 2023, 10:36:28 AM »
Blykins just curious, you that have built a few sbf what hp
do you guess i had in that. 030 over flatops ,10.5 CR
Ported milled 66 289HP heads with 1.90 1.6 valves. 308 deg/ 510 lift cam
think it vas 262 at .050 lift edelbrock performer rpm 650 dp holley
Hooker super comp headers, good machine jobs. 375??
do you guess i had in that. 030 over flatops ,10.5 CR
Ported milled 66 289HP heads with 1.90 1.6 valves. 308 deg/ 510 lift cam
think it vas 262 at .050 lift edelbrock performer rpm 650 dp holley
Hooker super comp headers, good machine jobs. 375??
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: Is there on the internt a small block engne forum?
« on: December 12, 2023, 04:24:14 PM »
How good or bad is a later 5.0 Rollercam block?
The last 302 i built had a mexican truckblock
was probably out of a van looking at the transdipstick
so you know where you can find one
The last 302 i built had a mexican truckblock
was probably out of a van looking at the transdipstick
so you know where you can find one
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: Water base solvent for parts washer - what are you using?
« on: December 08, 2023, 04:09:48 PM »Same - use the Tractor Supply PSC 1000 in a large HF tank, no issues in many years. With any tank, make sure you set up some easy way to drain the tank. I converted to a larger gate valve vs just a plug in the bottom. Lazy like that.
But is it safe for a pump that calls for water base solvent? This is Petroleum Distillate. Not sure if it is compatible with my pump?
Thanks,
It said on mine that it required waterbased solvent but as the rebell i am.......I used regular petroleum based solvent and have done for 10
years.
The problem i had initial, was that the degreeser i used was for washing trucks and tractors etc
And it contained wax to protect the paint, not good when you dumped the parts in the solvent
to soak for a few days.
It built up a layer of wax on them that was a pain to get rid of
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: it happens
« on: December 04, 2023, 06:23:16 PM »I'm sure we have all experienced this in some fashion.
Working on mechanical objects exposes us to some irritating things....of which we find out in curious manners.
While the attention getting sensations you describe do make a lasting impression, I find it is the stealthy things that seem to get me the most.
Things like trac-lok additive............a seemingly benign little bottle of special lubricant.
However, should you get this on....well....anything, that thing will stink like the horrible additive for the next ten years and there is basically no way to clean it off.
My father had a tube in a chalkgun with som realy sticky blackgrease probably boiled by the devil himself. That chalkgun never left the rack
but that devilsgrease was on everything in the shop. You was doing something and suddely you felt something sticky on your hand, and the amount of a matchstik head seamed to be enought to make spots on 64 car interiors, 44 pair of T shirts, 16 wieners 8 pair of jeans and a couple of leather jackets. Damned Impossible to wash of anything okay tool you could put in petroleum based deegreaser,,,,,,the wiener not so much. The trick to get rid of tar is butter.......well buttering up ones wiener seems.........a little kinky
obviously there was some devils grease on some of my clothes that wife washed together with her WHITE competition jodhpur pants. I can say i dont got awards for best family member of the month.
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Lifter Replacement
« on: December 03, 2023, 02:57:22 PM »Yeah, I recall the old Lisle tool, just didn't look like there was much access to some of the lifters.If you use exhaust gaskets throw them away and use hightemp silicone. I had not had an exhaust leak since late 80s when i started doing that
I have adjusted the rockers and made some jam nuts for a couple that were clearly losing their interference fit, so I think I've addressed most, if not all those issues. I did find some exhaust manifold bolts a little loose, hoping that may be part of the issue, but its not a nice day here, so I won't be running it to find out just yet. These GT exhaust manifolds have some bolts that are a bit challenging to get to, especially the passenger side rear. This is a Galaxie, I'm sure I'd get a lot of practice cussing if I had it in a shock tower car. An FE in a Cougar or Fairlane has got to be tight.
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Porting Heads
« on: December 03, 2023, 02:20:37 PM »
I dont think you need more torque than you already got with that combination in a cobra
not with a manual trans anyway will be a bit jumpy traction problem too
not with a manual trans anyway
will be a bit jumpy traction problem too
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Lifter Replacement
« on: December 03, 2023, 02:11:27 PM »I have the factory adjustable rockers.
Making adjustments or taking measurements while it is running isn't really in the cards, as I don't have an old valve cover to cut up and don't want the mess associated with doing it without a valve cover. I don't know how messy it could get, as the pushrods don't oil and it is restricted, but it's probably still messy.
I looked at Johnson's website and it looks like they only make roller lifters now. I suppose there may be some old stock flat tappet lifters sitting on a shelf somewhere
You can have a factoryadjuster that backs out they do that when they get loose. Its not that messy to adjust it running on low idle.
Especialy if you have if you have restricted the rocker oiling
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FE Technical Forum / Re: C6 calibration
« on: November 29, 2023, 12:19:55 PM »
Beautyful car Lenny
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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: Abolut beauty
« on: November 28, 2023, 09:02:26 AM »Cafe not my style but it is nice.Thats the style the tuff guys drove when i was a kid
Or Scramble style
Before everything got built in to choppers.
I think it is hard to build a good looking chopper out of a brittish twin
If you not two apples high