Search results for query: *

I heard that next Summer they are hosting the cars of the 70s. The Chevy Vega, Ford Pinto, AMC Pacer and Dodge Aspen are featured. I read it at FABO.

Sometimes the Formula model was a better choice. The Trans Am sometimes looked a bit gaudy. A magazine article writer that did a road test once said....Driving the Trans Am around is sort of like hanging around with Andrew Dice Clay. It might be a lot of fun but sometimes you find yourself...

While we weren’t looking, cars from other manufacturers spiked up like our 1972 and older cars did. I had a 76 Camaro that I sold for $3000 in 2003. Today, while it isn’t in the sweet spot of the musclecar era, would still bring four times that. I had an ‘84 Chevy 1/2 ton that truck guys are...

Hey there, There are times like these where a guy puts his car together and somehow didn't hear of all the problems that others have been dealing with for years. This is one of those times. I dealt with it in 2002, others here have seen it before that! It is an unfortunate fact that aftermarket...

Forgive my lack of experience but.... If a shop installed valve seats, is it possible that the taller seats result in a shorter installed spring height? Are the back sides of different valves thicker in some cases? I would assume that these would be machined to get the valve stem height all the...

Some people prefer the convenience of buying a packaged kit that includes all the stuff to complete a swap. I understand, that is easier and usually works just fine. I have a history of trying to make use of what I have or what is immediately available AND a curious mind as well. Junkyard stuff...

Wouldn't that mean that you'd need to pull the heads apart to have the seats cut deeper?

I don't understand how you found spring heights shorter than the target number while not being shimmed to get there.

Somehow I missed the Hemi Tick with my truck. I’m at 414,000 miles and aside from a slight tick when cold, (broken exhaust manifold studs) the truck is quiet and still idles like new.

I like the Pontiacs. Great looking cars and the Firebirds were great handling too. I’ve owned three. 1972 base model, a 78 Trans Am and 1980 Trans Am. The 1980 model was a sacrilege with a pathetic 301 that made half the power that a Super Duty car did 7 years prior.

Yeah, I know that he is. I just thought I’d offer what I have figured out.

I noticed that some of the times, pictures we post are coming through in landscape mode when they were loaded as Portrait/vertical mode. I've tried this a few times and noticed that pictures taken from my phone and loaded to the computer are fine if they started out as landscape from when the...

My last cam failure was after a trip to Southern CA and back, a 950 mile run in 4 days. The freeway driving was the majority of it at engine speeds around 2000 rpms. Unfortunately, several months before the trip I switched from Valvoline VR 1 to this.... I was told after the failure that this...

In early 2020, I called what I thought was Racer Brown to spec a cam for a 383. I told the guy on the phone that I was worried about the risk of cam failures. The man said that he never heard of a cam or lifters going bad. He lost all credibility from there. This same line is spoken by others...

My first two cam failures were almost 20 years ago. Both were in my 440/495. We want to think that we did everything right to ensure long life but it is always possible that some fatal mistake was made without even knowing. One cam crapped out not long after break in, the second one lasted...

Most of us have heard of the increase in flat tappet camshaft and lifter failures over the last 20 years. Some of us have actually had it happen, even more than once. I have. FOUR times too. The blame has never been able to be attributed to one issue but is often spread around a few things. The...

It was an excellent feature.

I'd agree with that if the flat tappet cam setups also had to be limited the same way. Lobe taper....I understand that it pushes the cam forward or rearward, I don't recall which direction. I don't quite understand if it does push it rearward in a small or big block because that would put the...

I don't know if I had asked this before but.... Why is the camshaft supposed to be limited to just .010 movement fore/aft? I understand the need to control some movement but why is it limited to such a small amount ? If the lifter wheels are still in contact with the lobes beyond .010, why such...