Recent content by 1970Bee

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Neutral safety switch, perhaps?

Congratulations to your son, and to his parents!

Was working in the uk recently and wife visited me there a few times. On one visit, I had a car where the nav system had a male voice. On her next visit, I had a similar rental car only the nav system had a female voice. She asked me why it had changed. I told her it was because I missed having...

An electronically limited 155mph. In the mid 2000’s was stationed in Germany and bought an ‘90 BMW 750 as a second car. We were on the Autobahn at night with almost no traffic and had it buried. Wife had no clue until we passed another car with a closing speed of over 70 mph. Wife calmly asks...

I think there is a generational aspect it it, as mentioned above. The cars I saw as a kid are the cars I am interested in now. Also, since a lot of folks treat them as investments, they start to act like investments- sometimes you lose. At the end of the day, I think the $30-50k drivers won’t be...

“Compression test” isn’t an accurate term; I just used a cheap tester to convince myself I hadn’t bent a valve.

Thank you very much! Sorta what I had in mind, but didn’t want to assume too much.

I ran a rudimentary compression check to ensure a valve didn’t get bent. Consistent measurements on all 8 make me feel confident that there is not another catastrophe going on. I did not know it had a solid roller cam because I purchased the car from my brother and it broke a lifter driving it...

You may be right, but what information am I lacking? What was precisely done to the heads besides larger valves and cc-ing the chambers, I don’t know. The paperwork doesn’t specify. I know the CR pretty precisely. Stall, gears. What other information am I lacking in asking for help with a cam...

Yes and yes. Not sure what else I should have done? Headwork was done 3 owners ago. Test was done to convince myself it hasn’t bent a valve. “At a loss” suggests I’ve done something I should not have?

that’s good to hear! If it hasn’t broke a lifter, I’d have been in no hurry. After it did, and going thru it found it had such a radical cam, it occurred to me it might work better as a street car with less cam and a dp intake.

All of the cylinders were about 110, +\- 5 psi. Which seemed low in my experience, but were at least consistent. In full disclosure, the lifters were out when I did this; I just wanted to be sure I hadn’t bent a valve before proceeding (using the best compressor $20 can buy at Auto Zone )

I’d have thought a larger displacement motor would want more cam timing to operate at a given RPM? Ie- what is mild in a 440 would be more radical in a 383

I think I’ll stick with the 452s at this point- little real gain from the Stealths. The Eddy RPM heads look nice but not sure I want to dice with the angled plugs; I can service the spark plugs without any heroics, and would rather that not change. The TF heads are doubtless awesome. But seem...