Recent content by casey henson

not my intention just what happened. they have a lot a gas pressure. I could not compress them by hand. had to uses a rachet strap to compress them. I am hoping hey will settle some with use.

1. old and new on first pic. 2. the area cut away on second two pictures.

They are the correct length for the new shock mount location. The mounting point moves down that much from the factory shock location.

The last part of the rear suspension ISO delete. Convert to early style shocks. Pretty straightforward trimming the original shock mounts for clearance. The KYB shocks are high pressure and super stiff. they raised the rear of the car back up about an inch.

my '77

Thank you sir!

Incase someone is wanting some nice reproduction shock mount plates. I got these from Van's. A while back I did iso delete on my '77 and I am just now getting around to converting to early style shock mount.

I had the same decision to make recently on my Cordoba with a 400 in it . I have had many cars with headers on them. Most times I consider it a must to have headers. My first car in 1982 was a Challenger with a 400 and hooker super comp headers. On this car i decided to buy new reproduction...

set it on 10-15 and back the idle screws out a little and see if it clears up.

started out at 10 now I am at 15 degrees. It could use more but I would need to recurve in order to keep from having too much total.

no doubt. The mounting of the pump is key. I stopped trying to find quiet fuel pumps because they don't exist. You can actually make a quiet pump louder if you mount it wrong. I use Carter pumps and suspend them in different ways depending on the application. A Carter pump mounted this way...

LOL... I remember having to grind that top flange 40 years ago on my Challenger. Hooker super comps on a 400. Crazy how that is this like that !

yes, it was removed.

Mine did not have an EGR. It had an still has the factory block off plate