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I'm wondering if they used 71/72 fenders and valance with a 73 bumper?

Thanks Kevin, much appreciated!

Kevin, When you align the panel to cut both simultaneously, do you offset the panel downward slightly to compensate for the width of material that gets cut away (kerf)? I'm finally working on the sheet metal on my mustang and find your post, and those like it, very very helpful. Thanks, BT

I have 2 71 ranchero projects and a parts car. Progress has been slow this summer...I don't know if it's the heat or me getting old lol ...anyway, I'll be back in force when it cools down. Post pics if you get it.

Welcome from AZ!

It may be that the level of manifold vacuum is greater than ported. If you have a vacuum gauge, you can answer that quickly. The premise is that you haven't adjusted the canister enough to back off the max advance at the (suspected) higher vacuum level.

Excellent progress.

The *4 heads are not necessarily open chambered but they may have a slightly larger (up to 3 cc's) chamber....my guess...and it's just a guess...is that you have one D0AE-N head and one D1AE-GA head. No biggie to have that mixture. To know for sure what you have, you need the casting number and the date code. You have to pull the intake and use a mirror to get the casting number...the date code is under the valve cover. Date code is likely sufficient to say whether it's close or open chamber.

He's using the blue positive seals, but didn't specify if they are all viton or have the teflon ring that contacts the valve guide. I totally agree...those 1 piece teflon seals are junk...very hard to get them on without distorting them.

Yep, I know the rocker stud holes don't protrude into the ports on the iron heads...which is why I speculated that someone would have to have bored the holes too deep for that to be a path for oil. My comment wasn't at all clear. I have not worked with the P51's or the Ford Motorsport SCJ's and wasn't aware that they do...but that explains why I've read about that particular path. When I was a kid, I rebuilt an XR500 motorcycle engine....I put the 2nd piston ring on upside down...it ran fine but smoked really bad. Let's hope that's not the case here....lots of oil on the rings can make

Also...when you ran without PCV, how long did you run it (I asked this before but don't recall a response....forgive me if you already answered)? You need to drive it around for at least a half an hour to get a clear signal of whether or not it made a change.....when you said it only has 150 miles on it, it made me think that you may not have given it enough time w/o PCV to make a clear call.

You had some questions in a prior post regarding the HV pump so I'll give you some fluid dynamics based input. Flow through a fixed orifice is proportional to delta-p (change in pressure) across said orifice (there are most definitely limitations to this statement, but in the flow regime we're talking about, that is the case). So, if you now have more oil pressure than before the rebuild, you also have more flow. The fixed orifice comment relates to your comment about maintaining the same clearances. Same pressure, same clearances = same flow. The bottom line is, if you added a HV pump bu

Sweet ride!

I am thinking this one was up for sale about a year ago but was more disassembled then. It seems like a reasonable price for c code.

Did you also plug the dipstick tube?