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  1. Spike Morelli

    Find low side AC port cap

    Isn't Amazon the "Go-To" ever since all that Covid stuff, and people started to depend on getting things "online"? I admit, I do the same, I get various things through Amazon. and it's cheaper. Many manufacturers and suppliers are simply not Amazon, and it is common to use UPS, or Fed-Ex, etc...
  2. Spike Morelli

    Find low side AC port cap

    JJHSTANG, Although it appears not right that the shipping is $12, that's the going price. I work at The Blower Shop, and get lots of calls for small items to be shipped all across the continental U.S. Normally we ship UPS Ground which is the cheapest way, but, lots of times, the item is small...
  3. Spike Morelli

    Hello all !

    Nat, zip codes? Different.....
  4. Spike Morelli

    351c 4v rebuild

    I will assume that this will be your first experience in building Cleveland Fords, are you personally planning on building the engine?
  5. Spike Morelli

    Distributor Issue:

    I think I have a '72 Duraspark distributor in my parts cabinet for a 351c/ 429-460. Who knows why I have it, or who's it was. It can be like an archeological dig to look into stuff I have sometimes .
  6. Spike Morelli

    351 4v ( 408 and TKX )

    As being a "car guy" since I was sixteen, I've often thought it was a Rite of Passage to put different exhausts on your car, and drive it to the muffler shop uncorked. It seems like every guy who has hopped up his car, or installed headers, has done this in their life. When I was a younger man...
  7. Spike Morelli

    Odd Rocker Arm

    C9ZX is correct. I'm not entirely versed in which engine received the lesser material rocker fulcrums, and which received the better fulcrums. I'd guess the lower performance 351c's got the weaker ones, and the higher performance engines got the stronger ones. Of course, those Boss and...
  8. Spike Morelli

    Hi Peasants....

    I thought your Parole was coming up........
  9. Spike Morelli

    Winglets!!!!!

    It certainly does coincidentally follow the sides of the rear body, but again, that's not why they're canted that direction. The winglet is designed to re-direct the vortexing faster moving air which tends to roll over the top of a wingtip. In our case, since the wing is upside down on our cars...
  10. Spike Morelli

    ’71 Mach 1 Resto Project

    I did the same as well, in that, after the re-paint ( original color), I replaced the door tag with a new Marti tag, which calls out just how it came, even though I've changed the rear axle.
  11. Spike Morelli

    Question on painting dash bezel?

    If the chrome is still good, you can just spray the entire face with a matte black paint, and before the black completely dries, take an old t-shirt cotton rag over your fingertip with a small amount of lacquer thinner, or a Q-tip with lacquer thinner on it, and just wipe the black off the tops...
  12. Spike Morelli

    Kamm Tail aerodynamics and our Mustangs

    Right-on. I've been aware of the "kammback" . on these cars for years. There was a guy, back in the 80s if I remember correctly, who grafted a Plymouth Superbird/ Dodge Daytona fiberglass nose onto his '71 Mach 1. He published wind tunnel tests on the car and.....man, was it slippery. I could...
  13. Spike Morelli

    ’71 Mach 1 Resto Project

    I certainly get it. On my own car, I've changed the open 3.00 to1 to a 3.50 to 1 Trac-Loc, added the trunk wing and side stripes, added the Tach option and center gauges, performed engine mods, changed out single exhaust to duals with 4v rear valence, and so on. Mine started out as a "garden...
  14. Spike Morelli

    ’71 Mach 1 Resto Project

    How many of these optional assemblies did your car come with from the factory? Maybe better asked, what options are you adding that weren't on the car as invoiced? Inquiring minds want to know.
  15. Spike Morelli

    Sunrise Semester!

    It looks like a photo of " ...years after the Apocalypse, there was only silence..."
  16. Spike Morelli

    F-ing HOA issue!

    Wouldn't this World be a fantastic place if not for the people.......
  17. Spike Morelli

    Winglets!!!!!

    Have you ever looked at your Mustang's deck wing, and pondered the reason that Ford bent the tips down? Those bent down tips are technically called "Canted Winglets". Today, their useage is very commonplace today on Commercial, Military, and private aircraft. Originally designed by NASA way back...
  18. Spike Morelli

    Winglets!!!

    Have you ever wondered why the deck wing design on our Mustangs have those bent down wing tips. They're certainly different from many other cars. There's a reason. The wing tip design is called a "Winglet", and was designed by NASA, to decrease drag caused by wingtip vortices, and increase lift...
  19. Spike Morelli

    Hood paint

    The practice of painting the area forward of the windshield for "anti-glare" purposes can be represented in these photos of fighter aircraft. Note the matte Olive Drab top cowling on the P-51, that's the same thought as the Mustang car's matte hood section .In the second photo, of the P-38...
  20. Spike Morelli

    71-73 Seat track extenders?

    I'm 5'- 10", been driving the car for 34 years. Personally, I don't find the seats too close , but I'll tell you, I've ridden in a friend's car that has had the seats replaced with newer aftermarket designed seats, and That car is more difficult to get in and out of. Lumbar supports , wrap...
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