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I agree.
This car.....
...Is not hacked together but it does look ratty. It is the kind of car that was used up and parked when wrecked, then it sat for 24 years.
It is safe. It is reliable, it just looks junkyard fresh. It has a Battery hold down, a cooling system that retains fluid, an...
I would look on my 67 GTX but it’s been missing the bottle since day 2 or so. Maybe different supply for different plants or to make up for a shortage. Amazing what I find as I’m digging through hardware that I’ve collected over the last 40+ years
I have a later build Eddie 440 Sixpack manifold, and the machining and core shift is gruesome. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if it needs some correction.
The trouble is finding a machinist that can do it, and KNOWS what he's doing.
What also confused me is when I used a simple compression ratio calculator plugging in the values of existing setup it really shouldn’t have had a pinging problem.
Yeah, I'd like to have the gasket diameter closer to the bore size, but I'd look first for the thickness I want.
Time to do some calculations to find how much available gaskets affect the comp ratio.
I've always used the Wallace calculators, and without actual measurements of the heads, I use...
Keep in mind that air/fuel falls off a step a whole lot better than having to go over a step....best not to have any steps especially when the step is up.
It had fel pro permatex torque blue head gaskets and I measured their compressed thickness at ,050. If I use cometic I can easily get a fatter head gasket. Bore measured .030 over but the fel pro gaskets measured 4.5 bore. Shouldn’t I use a smaller diameter gasket?
Mike Hunt....pulled that one off at a dealership years ago. Got the receptionist to page him. A buddy that was working there at the time said the whole place was rolling. He knew it was me on the first page. Got her to 'please keep trying because it was important that he be reached.
If I were you....
I'd use the fattest head gasket (within reason) I could find (no quench to lose with a 906 head), a new bathtub, and use both gaskets that come with it.
The fat head gasket will take the place of the material removed, and lower the compression ratio a bit, so you can maybe use...
Had a mess of E body parts years ago but sold it all...and probably have enough to put my 66 Belvedere back together and not have to buy much but that's not in the cards.