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In my opinion, the factory egineered things to be just strong enough with a little added strength for security. I over build when modifying anything because I dont know how much stress it can actually take. I would not let the weld joints carry the weight if were me. Go in a little deeper.

This week I have accomplished quite a bit. Brake master cylinder is fitted to the brake bracket. The stock power brake linkage did not work with this system. It is a pressured master cylinder from ABS Power Brakes. I refitted the linkage in the bracket, upside down and reversed to get the ratio...

I have a 46RH in my 69 Road Runner. It was rebuilt a couple years ago. It works great, ecxept at full throttle. At WOT it wants to rev well over 6000 and wont upshift. I have adjusted the kick down cable, Bouchillon, to get my street driving shift points reasonable. If I adjust the cable to...

Wheel choices are very few when trying to get the correct offset and wide width. The rears are an 18x11 with 5" back space. Fronts are 18x8 with 4.5" backspace. They were off the shelf, not custom made. A custom wheel would have cost twice what these were. When I get the front suspension on...

Maybe? But I am not doing a nut and bolt explanation of every aspect of this build. I am doing it for me. Selfish maybe, but I am at the age now where I really dont care about much else. Been there done that, this is what I am doing. Aging, when you make to your 60's, at least for me, all the...

That's $3000 leaning against the wall right there. Man this world is getting crazy. I think I am very happy with that choice though. 315/40's on the back.

I know, it is odd going to the rear. Putting the rear end in the car now with the cast aluminum diff cover, with the axle up to the bump stops the bar was contacting the cover. Had to make some 3/16" steel plates to shim the bar away from the axle a little. When test fitting it I had a stock...

Its been well over a year since this derelict Satellite followed me home. The paint is done. Now all the shiny and/or new parts can go back on. The link is from a year ago when I started the dissasembly. I dont like yellow cars, and currently I have a 73 in yellow. So the 72 had to change...

All the paint codes I have seen start with G, but not the color chips. Going back to stock color is cool, especially if it was not a common color back then. Look around online and you might find some Y4 cars to get an idea of what it looks like. My 72 Sat was Y1 Top Banana. Yellow is not a color...

Thanks for doing that.

The heads are not 78cc any more. They might be less then 70. I bought a CC kit to check the heads myself when I get them back from the machine shop. The cc kit arrived a few days ago. I opened it up to see what I bought only to find the buret broken. Summit is sending another buret. I bought a...

OK guys, this is a quote from the insightful Forest Gump, "stupid is as stupid does". Yes, I am the stupid. I was on the exhaust lobe. At least I was on the odd side of the engine. I got on the intake lobe and measured everything again. At 0 - 108.5 ICL A2 - 106.25 A4 - 103.5 A6 - 101.75 A8 -...

The engine is on a stand. Heads are still off. I am done playing with it, just setting the ICL back to 108. I played with the timing set till I finally just mapped out the different positions. Put some match marks on the block and cam gear to see how much the gear was actually moving in each...

Understood. Degreeing the cam looks like rocket science to most people, me included. Special tools are needed, which a lot of people do not have. Thats why the average person lines them up dot to dot and done. It is a starting point. I have to dig deeper with this engine. I have a degree kit...

Lets see, dot on the cam gear gear is aligned with the dot (0) on the crank gear. no advance, no retard. Been like that forever.

It is installed dot to dot. That is how I took my measurements.

I am going to CC the heads myself when I get them back. Like Ronald Reagan said "trust but verify". Then I will know exactly how much head gasket I need. I expect to be around .070"

I just went through a cam degreeing video from Britney. Link below. With the cam straight up the ICL is at 90, i want 108 asper the cam card. That is 18° retarded. This kind of rings a bell from the first time I did it. I think back then I had to advance the cam 4° to get the 108 ICL. Does that...

This is the cam I have Lift - 543 int 540 exh, Dur - @50 234 int 240 exh. 112 LSA 108 ICL

Thanks guys. Will check that.