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I do my own... I always thought there was some kind of mojo about doing one then I had a local racer shorten one for me in his home shop... perfect. After I bought my first mig welder around '79 I started doing my own. Sometimes I had my friend shorten an existing shaft in his lathe then I'd...

The US had a nationwide 55 mph speed limit in '74 to "save fuel". I got 25 speeding tickets that year. The gov of Massachusetts encouraged drivers to report truckers who were speeding by recording license plate numbers and mailing in the info. The outfit I drove for got gobs of mail... I got...

Almost forgot... My first oppotunity to go to Bonneville came courtesy of White Motor Company and their POS trucks. My co driver Wendy and I were coming back from CA with a load of produce when a fan blade exited the hub and punctured the doghouse on our Road Commander ( should have been...

BMFH works...

When I was there in '79 a Daytona only managed 199 as I recall.

Bonneville is the ultimate gearhead experience... NOTHING COMPARES Been there twice... 1979 and 2002.

I just retired for the third time!

When I sold new Fords (1990's) we never ordered anything in "no sale grey" or "no sale blue"... not much in black either. Few in white. Now look at the colors...

Simple exhaust hose available from industrial suppliers... google can help

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When new we didn't have many fat asses. I was 218 lbs in high school... I was the 2nd heaviest kid out of 3000 students

My buddy had a '35 Nash that had a foot ling freeze crack that was repaired 70+ years ago with a brass plate, a homemade gasket and about 30 machines screws tapped into the block... never leaked. One of the first big trucks I drove with a NH220 Cummins engine had a rod break thru the block. My...

The bearing rides on the inner and outer race not on the spindle. Any movement by the race on the spindle isnt a concern. I've run spindles on big trucks with a lot uglier damage for a hundreds of thousands of miles without any issues. If you aren't comfortable change it... but I'd run it.

A little fine crocus cloth will do wonders for that spindle...

Those high spring loads are a flat cam waiting to happen! Running a dirt track car? OK.... lots of oil splash to keep things lubed. Street car? No... I ran 160/335 on my race motors but not on the street unless you regularly run 7k driving to Dairy Queen