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The one view of a pushrod looks like it was chafing against something. Now, did the chafing cause the pushrod to fail and bend, and subsequently break..... or did the pushrod loose it's rigidity, bend, and then rub on the head casting? If you've changed the cam and/or springs, you may consider...

Nice car! Get used to hearing that.

What??? Edelbrock carbs, MSD Distributor, and Moroso oil pan on a Cobra ? Not originally they weren't! C'mon guys, you can do better than that.

My Mach 1 has a "sweet spot" of 70 MPH @ 3500-3700. She just hums. By the way, I took it to another open air car show today and, along with a few other entrees, won the "Sponsors Award"! For a stock car, it shows well. A guy came up to me and complimented me on the car. He said, " why isn't...

Regarding the radiator, I have always been a proponent for the original style brass radiators. what I appreciate about them is that a radiator shop can torch the tank soldered seams and rebuild the entire radiator. Apart, the core can be rodded out or even replaced with the brass/copper ones but...

If you have the room to do so, keep it all. If you don't, sell it or give it to someone who needs it, it's that simple.

I believe my hood was done in Hot Rod Black. I like it. There's some Armor-All on it here, it's slightly more matte usually but not "flat" in Lustre.

When I first bought my Mach, one of the first things I did was to buy EVERYTHING for the front and rear suspension NEW. I mean everything ,upper and lower arms complete, springs , saddles, shocks , tie rod ends, center link, strut rod bushings, idler arm pitman arm, rag joint, new sway bar and...

An old mechanic's trick, ( and I fall into that category of "old mechanic"), is to pour a quart of automatic trans fluid into the engine oil. This works to clean away varnish that may be causing your lifters to stick. Sometimes, along with ATF in the engine oil, you can take the air cleaner...

I too, had a brand new "performance oriented" muffler develop a dull, almost imperceptible rattle when first starting, figured it was a defect in manufacturing. The sound went away after a minute, so I left it alone. It never altered how the car ran, to my memory, but, like you, I had a defect...

I'm in agreement with others, in that changing mufflers and/or pipes shouldn't, in and of it itself, be the issue. Your engine dying issue happening at the same time is either just a coincidence of something non-related, or the installing of exhaust components has interfered, melted, or...

If we are to assume that your engine is otherwise stock, with a stock auto trans, and stock 2.75/3.00 gearing, you will do well to go 600 cfm, vacuum secondaries, automatic choke, standard 4160, with an automatic kick down for use with Ford's kick down arm. Because the 4 barrel carb will be...

Hey, Welcome! you know, it used to be, that in the "old days" if you were a car guy, you'd join a Car Club to kinda network with other guys who like the same things, and get help, or direction, or parts for your Hot Rod. Today, it's the internet that replaces that sense of community. You can ask...

Thanks Chuck. It's really basically just a well-maintained stocker. The wing and side stripes were added by the studios when they used it for the Movie, and I left them on, other than that, stock, but it presents well enough to participate with the big dogs. I had the car re-painted, and...

True that. There was a time when just by the shape, you knew there was a Corvette coming towards you. Now, new corvettes look like foreign models. Totally half of the Chevrolets at the car show today had a Bowtie logo stuck somewhere on the car, as if anyone there wouldn't know a Camaro or...

I took the Mach 1 to the big car show in Eagle, Idaho today. The heat's coming on! I'm glad I brought a lounge chair and shade, as well as a mini ice chest. Lots of nice cars... classics, restorations , hot rods ( well, street rods, not hot rods ), show cars, tractors, etc. Seems like there is a...

The term "Classic" is a term only relative to the year of manufacture. I have State Farm, and I have full coverage, at a figure which I derived from Value Guides. Initially, they told me "No Way, we won't pay out that amount if you total it", but nicely requested a slew of photos to prove my...

I found a posted photo of my Mach 1 online, that someone else had shot of the car at the show. This was outside, around the Idaho Capitol grounds and side streets. There were 250 cars in attendance being shown, but here's my car, It's just a stock, clean driver . I'll bet I had the only vehicle...

Well.........yesterday I washed, waxed, and detailed my "71 Mach 1. Today, I took it to the annual Father's Day Car Show, put on by the city of Boise here at the Capitol...............AND WON MY CLASS, Best 70s vintage! Make no mistake, there was some stiff competition, quite a showing of...

I've had a handfull of restored cars over the years, some with white lettered tires, some with white sidewalls, and also worked for a man who had a collection of bitchin' cars, that I was in charge of, and some of those had white sidewalls as well. All of these cars were either show cars, or...