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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2013, 08:59:14 AM »
Doesn't tarnish the image of the car as far as I'm concerned.  I've got BBC connecting rods in most of my FEs, but they are still FORD engines. 

Thankfully, Ralph Nader never found out about this LOL!
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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2013, 09:05:58 PM »
Matt did a whole article on that "secret?"  It been general knowledge in those circles since the sixties.  I think it was news to Matt just because he was born in the eighties or something. ;D

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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2013, 11:45:51 AM »
When I worked at Performance Auto Machine in Chicago back in the day we had a rod chart. It was not for application but for size. It was common practice to use a rod that was for another application on a multitude of other engines. None rarely were a direct fit so re-sizing and bushing was required.....Jon

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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2013, 12:58:32 PM »
Makes me wonder what rods Ford used in the '62 Galaxie 483 FE at Bonneville?

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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2013, 02:21:26 PM »
I actually thought it was pretty cool.....get an off-the-shelf item that was the lightest!
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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2013, 10:33:16 PM »
I've had two different sets of the so-called 'Chevy' rods in my TP. Neither said "Chevy" nor would either fit a Chevy piston. The rings and bearings didn't have a bowtie on the packages either ;), RodC

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Re: 483?
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2013, 12:20:16 AM »
Makes me wonder what rods Ford used in the '62 Galaxie 483 FE at Bonneville?

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You can bet they didn't use Chevy rods in that 483....Chevy had enough trouble keeping their 409/427 together on the racetrack.

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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2013, 09:54:12 AM »
It would probably be most accurate to designate the aftermarket taillights as replacements for that chibbie application instead of simply chibbie parts. They were likely made in a foreign country and had no direct link to GM. The comparison to the connecting rods is accurate as well. I have used rods in several FE engines that had some dimensions in common with the BBC articles, but none of them were GM-sourced and in all cases, had some aspects that had nothing to do with the BBC.

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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2013, 05:33:44 AM »
How many auto parts stores had vehicle specific tail lights on the shelves - even back then?
Much more likely is somebody saw them somewhere and said "those will work."

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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2013, 11:17:19 AM »
The first iterations of GT40 used taillights from the '65 English Ford 'Cortina'.

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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2013, 05:23:51 PM »
The first iterations of GT40 used taillights from the '65 English Ford 'Cortina'.

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I thought that was the Lola GT, that Ford purchased to use as the basis for the GT40?  Maybe both used them?  I have a Lotus Cortina, so my ears perk up when someone mentions Cortina!  :)
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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2013, 09:36:02 PM »
Corvair Tailights on a Mk IV no big deal it's only proper to have Chevy literally wiping the Ford's Ass

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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2013, 09:47:29 AM »
See........chevy parts do have a legitimate use on a Ford.......when you need to slow down!
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Re: Oh no!
« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2013, 11:54:16 AM »
I had a '65 Cortina GT. One of the selling features was that the wipers were of the same design as the GT40. Skeletonized and made of little rods held together with plastic fittings. Supposedly very aerodynamic. After about a year the plastic began to give up. Replacements were mundane.

The first GT40 taillights were the tri-part items from the Cortina. I'm not sure when they changed.

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