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Definitely… The car God’s are not pleased but don’t take it out on me, should have sent a bolt of lightening to the Ford Engineer who came up with the cost saving measure back in 1970 when they first started installing these on the 429 car’s… They are very finicky carburetors but once dialed in...

A quick update as this car has sat the last four years while I tried to figure out the Q-Jet Carburetor issues. Long story short; I sent it down South of the Border a second time to see if it could be fixed. Ray Klemm out of Ohio graciously ( he did not charge me for his time) offered to help me...

Rvr covered it pretty good. I’ll add the use of a scissor lift if you are doing lots of general maintenance. The good thing about the scissor lift is that most cars can drive right over them for parking purposes when not in use. Of course my convertible in the picture can’t because it has the...

Agreed, hence why I would not risk my hood or trunk lid. So what are you going to put between the metal pieces?

If it was my B!, I certainly would have looked for and done as you did. many fake Rev Limiter set ups out there, but nothing like installing NOS on a nice car. Good score.

I’m curious, did the insulation material the factory installed between the upper and lower panels when fabricating the hood, stay in place during the dipping process? I chose not to have my ram air hood and trunk lid dipped when I did my car for fear that this material might be compromised with...

Curious to see what rare or hard to find 71-3 parts people have hiding away in their garage, basement, attic, grandma’s house… Thought I would start with the smallest part I have sitting in a bowl on my office desk. I’ll have to get it installed in the J Code Vert as soon as I get the carb back...

Too this day still I still remember the serial# of my first J Code Mach1: 178920…  Always nice to reunite and original engine with the original body, if possible.

I thought about it... but, my space is full. I'm closer to Toronto and we did not get the heat bubble that the West got. Unusual for sure, with some of those temperatures. Some like to call it Global Warming... Think I will go out and start the mustang, lol.

Based on the auction, it never reached its reserve.

Hahaha. Canada is for the hearty, indeed. Wouldn’t live anywhere else, personally. Britain is a nice place to visit…

It should be fine. But you are right, the fuel filter, especially seemed to take the brunt of the impact and saved the front of the carb. To bend the accelerator and associated linkage was also no easy feat.

I had $200 insurance on it. Lol

Canada Post is just as bad… cheer’s 

The corrected setup after addressing the shipping issues…

Here is the fuel filter as revived installed in the carburetor…

Received my carb back from Ohio yesterday. Should have been a good day picking up the package from the mail box. Yep, you know where this is going anytime a reference is made to the Post Office… In this case I can’t determine the culprit as both Canada Post and USPS were in the return delivery...

Currently for sale here North of the Border. Ford did put the Canadian flag on the 72 Sprint Editions when sold here. Very rare car… This one has been nicely restored. 

Any good Q-Jet rebuilder would be well versed on all the GM/Pontiac etc muscle cars from back in the day. However, finding someone that can understand this offshoot Q-Jet that was built specifically for the 70-71 Ford 429cj car’s requires someone like Cliff Ruggles and Ray Klemm as well as...

Thx. Yes the 4300D finally bit the dust and I was able to find a local rebuild shop that rebuilt the carb. So, far so good, car has been running fine.