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Bufus, A little more information here would be helpfull. Are you trying to determine if you need shorter or longer pushrods ? As I recall , that was the reason for the rocker arm in the first place, or you attempting to determine your correct lifter preload ? Or perhaps diagnose a lifter...

73SGM Mach, Sounds like you are in need of some accelerator pump tuning. Would you please post your Holley carbs list number so we can see what pump nozzle your carb came with ? You might end up having to buy a new larger nozzle, there is more to tuning a Holley pump but it is pretty common...

fordismyboss, Hey jerry makes a good point about the  tc nuts, defenitely go there first. I can only add that the oil pump pickup is threaded to the oil pump, it is remotely possible that it is not level with the bottom of the oil pan or worse yet loose by one complete thread. When I have a...

Quality brake rotors (coated) for Fords seem to take 3 or 4 days here in upper Michigan.  Other items that my local NAPA store always had in stock are not there, they can be had from another store the same day, but my store had to employ another full time driver, that's gotta be driving prices...

I put the console where it fit the shifter well , with painters tape under the screw holes in the console and marked each one with a sharpie. from there I removed the console and heated a piece of 3/16'' brake tubing with no flare red hot and simply melted thru the carpet.  Stinky and hard on...

Ok, After some unavoidable delays the TKX is in (well partially ) re -dialed the bellhousing and only had to make a small adjustment to the parallelism of the engine block to the face of the bell opening, I did this by adding two pieces of .016'' shim stock  between the separator plate and bell...

That block needs to get on a serious diet !

Kcmash, You probably wont have to worry, because if Brent Lykins is going to spec. and build a cam for you, he will probably NOT let you use the (spider & dogbones)  there are 2 threaded holes that need to be added to the valley in the block and some Clevelands also need machining around...

OK, Pulled the trigger on the TKX today. I will have a 1350 type slip joint, pretty sure I will just have to make a u joint change in the front and should wind up having the front and rear u joints being the same. Not 100% on the driveshaft length, MDL offers a 50'' driveshaft for our cars...

73'mach1, 10 years ago, I would have called Don's statement rubbish, but the fact is it's very true (at least where our iron heads are concerned. Pretty sure this all came about when the MoCo started dropping compression ratios and then everyone thought compression ratio was the ONLY way to...

Kcmash. Looks like you got some homework to do before you start doing your homework. 1 figure out what octane fuel you intend to use. 2 how are the mating surfaces of the cylinder heads and cylinder block. if too much material has to be removed to make surfaces true, that MAY influence your...

.576/.588 @.006 284/290 @.050 224/230 110 lsa @.050 int. open 6 BTDC close 38 ABDC @.050 exh. open 49 BBDC close 1 ATDC I am also running 10.4 CR, no time slips or dyno runs, 

Tony-Muscle, If you are going to pull rocker covers, I would suggest you re-check your valve timing. Comp cams offers a method  called lift@ TDC no degree wheel required. You WILL have to know where true tdc is on your balancer, find your grind # , in your case 3354s int. and 3355s exh. and...

Tony-Muscle, Sorry for my incompetence, sticky tires and track prep would be a must. Just had a flashback of when I had bfg's on the rear, would finally hook when I shifted to 3rd. total smoke show.

Tony-Muscle, Would have been nice to see A/F and wheel speed on that chart, guessing then wheel slip would have been a no brainer to pick out. Also you could have made a run with learning OFF and in open loop and known if you had an exhaust leak skewing your mixture. When you get a dyno run...

Tony-muscle, Looking at your GREEN hp numbers in the 5 to 6 K range, where the hp is falling off. i see a small dip then it comes up a little then a bigger dip then it comes back again, that should never happen. I dont have a lot of v-8 dyno experience, but over 60 runs with my shovelhead...

Well according to Midlife, ( if I had your money, I would throw mine away). You asked for it Midlife, you got it. I count salvage yard time as HEALING TIME and I sure need a lot of that. If Modern Driveline would just make the shorter input shaft, that would make things a lot easier, then of...

73inNH, Motorcraft EV50 pcv valve comes to mind as a small orifice pcv valve for the Cleveland engines. As for the bog, has correct fuel pressure been verified ? Fairly easy with a Holley vacuum secondary carb when the secondary spring is too weak, don't know on the AVS if there is a way to...

73inNH, DonC, as usual nailed it. With just a breather on the passenger side rocker cover (open to atmosphere) and the pcv valve connected to the pcv port on your carb, you would have what is called an (open pcv system) With the breather going to the carb, you will have a (closed pcv system)...

73inNH, IF your breather in the passenger side is open to the atmosphere , it has to overcome atmospheric pressure to flow. If the breather is inside the air cleaner (as this system was stock) it uses the engines intake airflow to overcome that atmospheric pressure in order to work properly...