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In the latest chapter of that chevy 350, its back running. I ended up doing a back yard rebuild on it. Honed the cylinders out with a drill. Installed some flat top pistons. Aluminum heads. Its a 4 bolt main block and came with the L-46 corvette cam. With these pistons, 64cc heads, and the...

I swapped mine from standard to deluxe panels. Luckily I was starting with complete door cards from an original car. I had to get on ebay and order a set of the handles, their screws, and the actuator that the handle screws onto. What I ordered were parts that said 71, 72, 73. Somehow, the...

Yep,its a 73 mach1. Some previous owner had put the pop open gas cap on it, which I believe was from an earlier year. And the chrome trim on the hood came off my 72 parts car back in the day. You'll have to cut Hollywood some slack, though. That was a very low budget independent film. They...

No clue on that one. I always drill out the lock while its still attached to the steering column.

Before I busted out the drill, I would probably spend a few minutes poking around in the keyhole. I have a set of lock picks. You could probably find any number of thin, flat, metal things to stick in the hole and maybe adjust the pin so your key can go in. Just one last hail marry before I...

I have drilled out a handful of them. You can go in from 2 different directions. First direction is the obvious one. Drill in from the same place you insert the key. Remove enough of the material and the pins and springs fall out. Then you can turn the cylinder and push up in the pin from...

Or use a handheld vacuum pump. Thats what I use to test and adjust the vaccuum advance on my distributor.

Rotary as well as all the other brands owned by the same company are real proud of their ALI certification. That should include forward lift, rotary, and challenger lifts at least. Mohawk is another big player in the game, and lists the ALI certification for their products. I think by...

Having the numbers matching, correct motor for that car made the value go way up in my book. With a 351M, that would have been a combination that was never made at the factory, so cobbled together with a mystery assortment of parts. But now the story is its the engine that came in the car...

For sale. C4 GT transmission. $15k. No lowballers, I know what I got.

The answer is obvious. Make the entire exhaust out of muffler!

For the amount of money you'll spend making everything else connect to the car - motor mounts, exhaust, electrical, transmission, shifter linkage, new driveshaft, it would be cheaper to rebuild the 302 than to try and stuff a chevy motor in it.

Sounds like an aftermarket transmission cooler maybe. Post pictures, especially what the fittings look like.

Pretty much every app in the app store for that purpose will show the same reading for a given phone, so it doesn't matter which one you pick. Each app doesn't have enough control over the hardware (microphone) to be any better or worse than other apps when it comes to measuring sound levels...

I had to grind the washers when I did mine, too. I held each washer in a pair of vice grips and hit it with the flapper wheel on an angle grinder. IDK if I'm just that bad of a welder than I have so much practice with the angle grinder, but it only took me like 5 minutes total to get both...

Blanket statements are not always accurate. Some of my bends measure 2.6". Some of them are 2.5". None of them are close to 35% smaller. Half in inch off 3 is 16% reduction. If anybody asks, I tell them those bends are there to help keep up my backpressure for maximum horsepowers. :D

If you really want to spend some money, the cool kids these days are running 3" collectors into oval exhaust. That lets you get a bit more ground clearance and fit through tighter spots. The 3" round tube goes into 2.18 x 3.5" oval. Then tack together the pie cuts to snake through the tight...

Their phone app doesn't have the 3550 in it. Looks like there's a few versions of it, all with the same first 4 gear ratios starting with 3.27 1st gear. And either a 0.68 or 0.82 OD. Thats a big difference. The app does have a TKO-500 that has the same ratios as the 3550 with 0.68 overdrive...

I thought the backpressure fuddlore myth had been debunked long ago. Smaller tube can help you keep better exhaust velocity. But you aren't getting more power from backpressure.

I went with 3" on mine. It already had a set of long tube headers on it, no clue what brand. I had the local midas bend and weld up a custom exhaust last year. These are the dirt cheap summitracing "race" mufflers.