‘64 4spd P code convertible

[Jim-W]

Hi all, Jay tells me I’ve been away for 3116 days! Glad to be active here again. Short story is I’ve been working on my ‘64 P code for 12 years and my ‘63 Q code for 10 years. COVID hit and I went into overdrive and began knocking them out.

Presently I’m Installing a stroker motor in the P code car. Started life as a 391 industrial pump engine. Had 428 core, bored 4.130” 4.25”stroker kit from Barry. Now cross bolted, C3AE-J heads 270s cam and tri-power. Should make great torque and be well behaved.

Hope to fire it this weekend!

Jim

[fordman460]

Looking good! Ought to make her scoot!

[Jim-W]

Had a great weekend. Started right up, ran the cam in for 20 minutes. running a Comp Cams 270s recommended by Jay. very nice idle, but pulls hard when those end carburetors open. Funny thing happened, the brand new fuel pump failed. luckily it failed in the driveway. no biggie, I had others in stock. now just waiting for bumpers to come back from chrome platers and for it to not be 115 degrees here in sunny Phoenix. looking forward to getting engine broken in and having fun with it!

Jim

[Jim-W]

Not much to report as of lately. Still waiting for chrome platers to get bumpers and bumper guards done. They were up front with long wait due to workload. Hopefully they’ll be done as it cools off in Phoeinx. Looking forward to putting some miles on this beast!

Jim