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Engine TechMany years ago we could look at SBF and SBC blocks and tell, at least to a degree, whether they had significant core shift. The way was to look at the cam bore holes in the front and the rear of the blocks. If the bore hole was pretty close to center of the cast boss, we had a pretty good...
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DrivelineShould be pretty straight forward. I'm building a C6 with RMVB and eliminating the vacuum modulator. Does anyone make a plug to replace it or just keep it in?
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Engine TechHello! I just picked up a 1988 f250 efi 460 . Truck has 166,000 miles, 5 speed manual. We bought the truck not to long ago and the owner before deleted the smog stuff on it. We drove the truck home that day 140 miles and it seemed when it got super hot it started to bog out like it was running...
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General TechI’m starting to restore a 67 Galaxie 500. It came stock with a 289 but I plan on putting a 460 in it. I was told that I’d have to put a mustang 2/Pinto front end so the strut towers would clear good enough to work on the engine. I want to go with hotchkis suspension not mustang 2 and I know...
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1. Intended use - 18ft Jet boat for recreational use, max around 5k ish RPM, make most of the power down-low on pump gas. 2. Vehicle info (weight/gearing/trans) - 2000lbs fully loaded direct drive to jet pump. Jet pump is a berkeley 12JE with an A aluminum impeller and inducer freshly rebuilt...
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