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In ‘71, the rear seat belts (all four pieces)on my Vert came up from the rear of the seat, therefore, no cut indentation’s in the actual rear side interior panels as seen on later years. Additionally, the 71 Vert’s did not come with the rear passenger side ashtray unless you upgraded to an...

In my experience, 99% of them are less then a 100 point restoration. These are one of the toughest car’s to restore back to factory, so the majority choose not too. Hat’s off to those who take on this difficult challenge to try and preserve the original history of some these car’s…

Good tip, like to see them kept “original” where possible.

Proof is in the pudding…. I bought the car in July, 2015; it was delivered in early September. I drove it only once in later September, about 10 miles - it was in rough shape. After that drive I started the complete tear down and restoration of the car. Finished it (the main portion, anyway) in...

I wonder if they get their kits from Precision Exhaust in Connecticut… I had the same problem with the H-pipe on my former 73 Vert. I had to take it to a local muffler shop to bend slightly. Good kit otherwise.

I would, I put much more faith in the Factory Invoice then I do the Marti Report…

Yes. That’s the one. USPO is fine, takes a little longer but gets the job done. A courier will work too, whatever is easier for you. Let me know the total and we can go from there? Thanks

Hi. I'm very interested in the flex ducting. I can PayPal. Will you ship it to Canada (Postal Code L3B 0E4)? Thanks

I could have owned this all original (at the time) 71 J Code Grande for $11k in 1990. Too rich for my blood back in the day. It swapped hands a couple times, the guy that bought it when I walked away, “restored” an all original, in already excellent shape car… I never understood why, but, it was...

I went through this on the timing cover a few tears back when I was rebuilding my original 429 engine. My original timing cover had a hole on the backside, apparently common with theses covers… Like you, I wanted the correct C8 part number. Ther were many D… number covers available, the C8’s are...

Installed the new A/C clutch bearing today. I did order an additional aftermarket complete clutch and coil assembly as back up, but I wanted to keep the original C9 Ford Pt# piece on the car… The new $27 bearing plus a few hours of careful tedious work paid off. I painted the assembly and will...

Thanks Steve, I figured you would chime in when you had the time as you love these Ford part's dilemmas that pop up... I did put a second response above where I clarified my position. I'm not taking any chances with the J Code Vert. The bigger D2 assembly will work as a replacement on my 73...

Well I’m interested in this so I’ll reply to myself, lol.    As noted in the picture below the larger 302/351 clutch assembly will not work on the 429 car’s. I’ll just leave it at that…   The second picture shows the considerable size difference between the two pieces. The 429 set up is...

Ford used a different AC Clutch Assembly on the 302/351 and the 429 series engines. You can see the difference in the pulley counterweight although the rest of the magnetic clutch assembly appears to be the same. I’m sure it’s an engineering issue at the time, more then likely to do with the...

https://youtube.com/shorts/8YBYbNLMDdA?feature=share Final tuning of the rebuilt Q -Jet Carburetor completed. 

Sacrilege…

Even the points were still in great shape, I just cleaned them up and reused. I did have a new NOS condenser to install. I’ve kept your thoughts previously on this subject in the back of my mind regarding the use of Pertronix over the factory installed points. Currently both my Mustang’s are...

Just went through this thread... Great job so far!

Thanks. I would not have been able to accomplish this on my own. I tried a few things over the years, checking float levels, obstructions, etc. No luck. But, I knew, even with my limited interior carburetor tuning abilities, that the issue was inside the carburetor itself. I checked numerous...

Try it now and let me know. Thanks.