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Taking it to the streets.....

As a side note, If that is a Mexican 302 block I see in the engine compartment, it should have the C3OE Hi-Po main bearing caps. Years ago, I worked at an engine shop that bought engine block cores. Thet weren't always useable, but if it was a Mexican 302, I'd remove the main caps, a local Ford...

This has been my take on bringing a car back.......and I've done restorations on various makes of cars, as well as working at a Mustang shop and a Thunderbird shop, If the car's body isn't rusted out, then first, get it running, get things operable, get the braking system working correctly...

Pretty clean Mr. CandyRcode. I noticed you're using one of our "swing arms", and likely our snout. I like what you've done to it. Guys back in the '70s and '80s used to do all that back then, but then, those cars were just inexpensive used cars. Nobody cared about the hood being cut. Parts were...

That looks like an old Dyers "V" series blower set up. I'm looking also at those vacuum lines, are the secondaries balanced together as they should? Make for damned sure that the carbs have been "boost referenced" for proper power valve operation, don't block the power valves off. Yes, the...

Everybody has a cell phone with a camera these days. Take a photo and post. Don't make me send "Big Nick" over there to convince you to comply......

I had Lee Power Steering re-do my box. They offered the service of quicker steering components, but I'm happy with the as-new feel of the Variable Ratio that came with the car, figuring, why fix what isn't broke. I don't drive so aggressively that I'll need quicker steering. Lee had to "sleeve"...

Another take on modifying your car. when I was in the Gear Stretchers car club we had a pretty varied grouping of cars. Some, like mine, were hot rods. Then again, some were customs and low-riders. Now I can really appreciate the time, money, and effort the lowrider guys put into their rides...

....Or at least,......what appears to be it's engine. I can tell that the blower is severely underdriven, meaning, the boost number is decidedly on the low side, AND, what appears to be an Enderle Bugcatcher injector, is not what it seems. It is a look-alike scoop housing, used to hide a carb...

More "Enraged" cars...Hey, not a bad name for a race car or boat......."ENRAGED"

I noticed your original license plates. I still have the license plates that Russ Davis Ford issued to my car back in '71 when new. I removed them , as I now live in Boise , Idaho, and have it licensed with the Idaho plates. My original plates are in a storage cabinet in the garage.

I have an opinion on this topic. Unless you're in the business somehow, maybe a longtime mechanic with personal experience, or own a body shop, or something major like those, I doubt you can restore a car correctly, and for a better price, than to buy a finished car. Like having kids, if you...

1sostatic, rare back man, I love my Factory car as much as any of you, yes, YOU, but the car with carbs thru the hood was not so horrible, as to posting a video of a marionette vomiting. Lest we all forget, there was a time, during the gas crunch when you couldn't even give away a muscle car...

Exactly right. take a blade screwdriver and put the blade between the two ridges. Turn the screwdriver left and right to spread the gap apart. It should pull out of the body hole easily. These things can many times be reused, but I always like to replace old, dirty, rusty parts. Those fasteners...

Well, it's really not near as hard as urban myths make it out to be. Being that it has a right and a left camshaft, as opposed to one camshaft operating valves in both banks, you just check right and left centerlines as separate data. The camshaft sprockets are adjustable separately from each...

Yeah, Larry and I met thru Valley Head Service, when I was the engine builder there. He would always bring in cammer heads to have worked. Then, one day, he came into the engine room and we were just jawing about this and that, when he told me Earl Wade had passed. Earl wade was his engine...

That falls under the category of what was once called "street freaks". I was in two car clubs way back when, I had a chopped '34 Ford coupe and a stock '30 Model A Ford. The restorer oriented guys in the Model A Club didn't appreciate my hot-rod, and the guys in the "Gear Stretchers" car club...

This is Mia, our sweet little ****......

"Ejection seat armed" indicator bulb......

I believe the head gaskets are self-explanatory, as there is a big square water passage at the front on both head and deck surfaces., on the Clevelands. Usually, when installed correctly, a small tab of a corner of the head gasket will be sticking out at the lower front corner of the head. The...