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  1. If I were to paint in the garage I would do exactly what neverdone said. Make sure you put a filter in front of the fan that is sucking in the air, and if you have picky neigbors a filter in front of the fan pushing the air out would be a good idea (overspray). Definetly wet down the floor, it makes a big difference as far as keeping dirt out of the paint job. In fact, clean the garage as best as you can before anything else. As for me, I have been thinking about painting my 280 GM code 8979 (pearl red) with some red metal flake from paintwithpearls.com, with ghost flames. Or maybe a ralley black ( flat black that I can use with regular clear) with a pearl white racing stripes. I use a SATA 2000 hvlp gun and love it. When masking the car, make sure the masking paper is solvent resistant. If not, you will have problems with bleed through, dust and so on.
  2. Ya, I had a brain fart when I said el rancho. I am going to have my cross member for the motor mounts changed so that the motor will be dropped another 1/4 inch. I measured my harmonic balancer to each side of my rails and my measurements showed that i was about a half inch to the driver side of the car's center, but when i mounted the exhaust manifold on the passenger side of the car it looked like the exhaust pipe would barely clear the passenger side of the (frame) rail. The harmonic balancer is sitting just a hair forward of the rack and pinion. Plus, the carb is sitting about a little over an inch higher than the fenders ( stock two barrel manifold with stock 2 barrel carb). But right now that is just a small detail. I will probably put a shaker scoop, cowl induction hood or a nice chrome bug catcher on. Hate to cut up the hood, but oh well.
  3. I have the shifter off and taped the shifter hole in the case shut. With the motor/tranny mounted I can see about half (give or take)of the shifter hole. Most of the motor( 90-95%) is sitting behind the rack and pinion.Is that how your motor is sitting? I guess I will end up trimming the floor for the shifter, but i am not sure what to do about the console.
  4. Well, I have mounted my 302/t5 combo and have ran into some problems. When mounted in the z, the shifter is 2-2 1/2 inches from where the stock shifter came up through the floor. Did anybody else have this issue? My bellhousing is right against the firewall. In fact, the bellhousing bolts are right against the brake lines that go across the firewall. I am using alsils (I hope i spelled that right) engine cradle with motor mounts from an ('71) el rancho. Should I cut some material out of the motor mounts to drop the motor and hope that that will give me some room to push the motor back or should I "massage" the firewall some with a deadblow hammer and a 2x4. The motor is also interfering with the a/c lines coming out of the fire wall. Any ideas?
  5. Ya, It has the factory external regulator. I have been able to remove all the wires except a yellow one. Its a yellow wire on the harness, then it turns into a white wire on the regulator's side of the connector. Do I just cut the wire (taped off of course) and leave it be?
  6. I live in Montana, near billings. I have a wiring diagram, but like on the voltage regulator I have two blue wires. Which one do I use to connect to the altenator per JTR manual. Plus, can I permantly remove the two fusible links on the pansenger side of the car. Plus, how do I hook up the brain box? How did you hook yours up erehemantresni? All I want to do is clean up the engine bay except for the wires I need and the ac.
  7. Well, I finally have the motor and (5sp)tranny out. Now I am stuck on the wiring. I have the computer and harness completely out and I am now trying to figure out the harness on the passenger side of the car. Which wires do I need and which ones can I junk. The motor i am using is a 1980 302 and I have the "brain box" that came with it. I am also wanting to be able to use the factory ac, so I have left all of that in place. I have a wiring diagram for my '77 z. I need help big time, mainly cause I am starting to freak out! I am using the ford altenator. I have the JTR book, but most of the wire colors dont really match up.
  8. This harness is on the driver's side. It is the harness coming off the computer. I take it, it is safe to sh#t can the harness then? Part of that harness does snake onto the passenger side. Thanks for answering!
  9. I have removed the engine/tranny from my 77 z for a ford 302. After removing the computer I was going to remove the harness that snapped into the computer. But I noticed that the harness went up into the dash. So what all is controlled by the computer in the dash? Plus, do I need any of that wiring harness to run the carbed 302? In the JTR book, there were only 7 or 8 wires needed to run the motor and gauges. I'm getting very discouraged right now, need help!
  10. Alright, I'm finally starting to get my motor ready. According to High Performance Ford Parts Interchange book, my motor is a 1980 reman. A friend gave me his 302 heads off his 70 two wheel drive pickup. I remember him saying it had 1.94 on the intake. Looking at the chambers, the stampings on the head go (from left to right) C, then 18, then 302 with a T underneath it, then C9TE. In this book it says there is a truck head that has 58.2 cc chambers and its stamping is C9TE-C. Then in another caption it says there is a truck head with the stamping C9TE that had large chambers like a 351w, and not to use it because of losing compression. I do know these heads that I have are pre 1975. I am guessing that I have the heads with the larger chambers, but I'm not sure. So what do I have? As far as buying some good heads, I cant. I have to pay off the lawyer for a divorce first. I just have to make best use of what I collected for now. I will have more questions later, and I do try to use the search feature for my questions, but usually all I find is a headache.
  11. snork

    flame throwers

    Recently, as I was browsing through the internet for my 302, I saw an ad for turning a persons exhuast into a flame thrower. Cool!, as i thought to myself, while everyone is getting a ticket for racing, I can just sit here at the local hang out and roast weenies! I thought it would be a nice touch on some side pipes. Has anybody done this before? Any draw backs besides the law?
  12. for some stupid reason, i was thinking the heads had a smaller combustion chamber, but that wouldnt make sense if they flowed better than the stock late 70's head
  13. stupid question. the gt40 heads wont work on a non roller block, will they? Im just tryin to figure out a way to raise the compression on my late '70's 302 with out doing any machining. I think it would be pointless to do that on a non roller block. Any suggestions?
  14. To each his own. Im more of a candy brandywine person my self. to me thats more of a rootbeer color.
  15. we actually had an issue with panelbond a while back. One of the bodymen didnt mud over the area where he had bonded it. When we got done painting and the threw the booth into bake, the panelbond actually bled through the primer and paint. It buffed out, but six months later when guy had wrecked it agian, we saw that the spot came back. Just remember, if you use panelbond, to put some mud over it, or make sure you have alot of primer over it. That might have been our problem, not enough surfacer over the spot.
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