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Their CDs are available on Amazon

Another tool for the shopping list? Surface grinder!

$200 by mail order: http://www.jcwhitney.com/product.jhtml?CATID=14715&BQ=jcw2

Saw one of those car show shows on Speed Channel last week. Dennis Gage (the guy with the huge mustache) was looking at a 1965 Ford Falcon Ranchero with a SOHC 4.6 V8. I think it has a full strut suspension to eliminate the shock towers in the engine compartment. He says to the owner "You know that engine is as big as a Boss 429"? The guy says "Bigger"

http://www.geocities.com/geo_42_99/spacer/spacer-0.htm Noticed how precisely he machines the centerbore...... there was a lot of discussion here about this subject a while back. Ahhhh - to have those machines in the shop.....bandsaw, lathe, mill drool drool drool

Sorry Wront link http://members.tripod.com/lyc_42/302strok/crank.htm

Lots of machine work. Not much crank left. http://www.geocities.com/peej410/MVC-009S.JPG

Anybody find out anything about AUDI parts? Which JTR edition was it in?

Ferrari used webers. Here are some nice pics: http://www.inglese.com/chevroletv8.htm shwing http://www.piercemanifolds.com/hotrodproducts.htm or- Offy Intake and 3 Rochester carbs and linkage from Summit are about $1,000 similar to factory Corvette pieces ca. 1966 or- For the 3x2 induction system, complete, tuned, ready to bolt on, try Racecars in Retrospect 330-823-6167 For the rocker covers: I just prefer the cast aluminum look ( 1960's Ferrari) as opposed to the machined billet look (1990's Coddington) Almost every swap meet I see Cal-Custom rocker covers, timing covers, fuel pump block-offs of that nifty cast-aluminum and black "crinkle" paint going for cheap. Seems no one wants it anymore.

Well, he needed SOMETHING to drive to those live-action D&D M&M Ogre Battle RPGs. OTOH, if you see a real light saber on Ebay let us know.

And Dodge / Chrysler

Cool, Where have the auto body styliists gone? I read once that in the 1960's a MGA with a Ford 260 or Chevy 283 was the "poor man's Cobra". I took that to mean it was a potential swap platform - before they became collectible sports car classics. It would be great as long as you wanted to go real fast in a straight line. I think the suspension technlogy was on par with Conestoga.

http://ranchoperformance.com/ These guys are mostly VW racers, but they have a transaxle called the Mendeola MD5 for mid-engine V-8s. Also, check out the GT-40 kit car pages from Europe. http://www.gt40club.clara.net/technics.htm http://www.gt40.co.uk/gt40indx.html#Manufacturers and new Zealand http://www.gt40.co.nz/parts.html They put 400 hp through Audi and Renault transaxles.

One of the first GTO replicas I saw was on a PBS low-budget program about cars and car shows. They interviewed the owner ( is he a Hybridz member?) who explained that although its a Datsun platform, he titled it as a 1962 GTO.....because he lives in California (!) and that was easier than smogging a Datsun with a 283 Chevy. I thought this was a pretty clever way around the rules. I wondered if I could title my 1979 Ford Fairmont as a 1947 Pontiac since the 429 wasn't stock but but I did have a funky breather made of a gutted Poncho air cleaner with 8 Hillborn stacks through the hood. - What was the subject of this thread? Ummmm ya, Pontiac bumpers would have been too heavy.

Backspace: 1.255" Centerbore: 3.171" measurements of a used (0.485" think) stock '77 280Z front disk.

Going for the F1 look? Saw an ad in this month's Hemmings for a set of 4 spoke MGB 4-bolt wheels (same as Z 4 x 4.5") 9" x 15" fronts and 14"x15" rears

Borg Warner T-56 http://www.drivetrain.com/fordt56inst.html this article was in Car Craft almost 9 years ago.

Not always. It's sort of a chicken - and - egg thing. The front pump fills the TC , but the TC turns the pump, but TC can't do it's thing unless full of fluid. I've always filled them on the bench first before hanging it on the flexplate.

Did you fill the torque converter?

Someday I'm going to make a body tag for my Aston Martin DB-5 replica. It will be number "007". Whadya think?

Looks like the one on my Spitfire. Which I transplanted from a Lotus Europa part I got at the JY. British Leyland did a lot of cross-fertilisation in the 70's same part on a lot of cars. (not MGBs, I just looked at a photo) It was chromed pot metal, not aluminum, but only cost $5.

I think you can check it from the outside as well. If you machinist's rule is too long, try a piece of string, pulled tight, it will show high or low spots if the tube is bent. The spindle is a pretty beefy casting and I'd be surprised if that was bent, but it may be bent right at the joint of the spindle and strut tube. That would be hard to determine without dis-assembly -- and you need to know what the camber angle of a good straight spindle.

Yea.. Andy Granatelli sells them. Makes them out of unobtanium. That's a joke, son.

I think that Chrylsler and AMC used them. I once worked on a mid-60's Jeep Cherokee that had CV joints in the drive shafts. We replaced it with a U-joint shaft when the CVJs came apart at 70,000 mis.