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A factory service manual helps, but a great help is a body shop estimate manual if you can find one for your car. Tons of illustrations and pictures showing even the small parts.

The other issue to think about if you get your flywheel surfaced how thick does it have to be? How many times has a 50-year-old flywheel been surfaced? Many shops don't have the specs on flywheel thickness they just cut them until smooth. As the flywheel gets thinner it affects the clutch...

The compression is most likely not to high, IF you curve your distributor or ignition system for the proper curve. You will find most engines do not detonate at max rpm it is the lugging around 2,000rpm to 3,000rpm. When I spec out a street engine for pump gas I use a performance trends engine...

Input shaft and cluster gear turn anytime the clutch is let out, and even in neutral, so I would look at those bearings during tear down, front bearing, the bearing inside the input shaft, and the needle bearings stacked in the cluster gear.

drilled and tapped them many times to 1/2 inch, only thing I will add is to lube the tap up and go slow, removing and cleaning as you go, will also help trap the debris from cutting new threads.

I agree, what most people don't get is that the process is more important than the finished project. One reason I like building race cars, you can always justify doing something new to the car. I often get bored with a vehicle that there is nothing left to work on.

Hard to tell without some more disassembly. To suggest what to look for, endgap of rings too tight, carbon buildup hanging rings in the piston lands, poor hone job on last rebuild.

I guess it's just what context the wheels are used in. I have a similar set on my 1989 Dodge Dakota convertible and have had a lot of positive comments from people. And it is an 80's vehicle.

If you want to set the chain without any marks, roll the engine to TDC, exact TDC use an dial indicator then roll the cam until you are on the overlap, exhaust closing and intake opening, put a small straight edge on the lifters it both lifters are at the same height the cam is heads up, if the...

Nope push a grocery cart fast enough and the wheel will caster shimmy, grocery carts have lots of positive caster. good info on trying to fix caster shimmy https://www.thedieselstop.com/threads/horrific-death-wobble-on-2011-resolved.385754/

70's Monte Carlo's were what GM called a high caster suspension they had 4 to 5 degrees caster, GM had to put a shock absorber steering stabilizer to stop the caster shimmy, all GM 4x4 trucks that vintage also had a stabilizer for the same reason. I have seen a lot of Jeeps develop caster...

I was an auto mechanic in the 1970's did a lot of alignments, and on the proper tracking, you have to adjust the suspension to pull against the crown of the road. More camber less caster on the drivers side wheel by 1/2 degree. If you do that you can let go of the steering wheel and it will...

I have a buddy that is restoring a 72 Challenger, well they are putting it together and a few years ago he bought the wrong leaf springs. He has the mopar performance heavy duty springs for a 67-72 B-body. And I can buy them reasonable. read this on an old post. "62-'65 B-bodies have rear...

As mentioned, if it is not a lockup then it will swap. Make sure you use the kickdown lever and manual lever off the original transmission there are some differences in lengths and can cause shifting issues.

Back in my youth a buddy had one of the predator carbs on his 427 chevy in a Chevelle. From my memory it worked very well. We took it to the drag strip, and it turned some respectable times. Throttle response was very quick.

Those cams are so close to same it makes little difference. The Bullet cam says to degree intake to 107 still a 110 center line. So I did the Comp cam at 110 intake center Comp cams peak HP 429 avg hp 300 peak torque 503 avg torque 419 Bullet cam peak HP 424 avg hp 297 peak torque 505 avg...

send me what info you have engine bore stroke what heads etc. just a full list

Go to YouTube Powell machine has a whole series of videos on cam failures. This one is showing how they check and what to look for when checking new lifters

I am willing to spend my time to help, if you have good numbers to input.

I use performance trends software. Next question is how many good numbers do you have to put in the program? Compression ratio, cylinder head flow, intake runner length and area, header diameter and length, carb size, what kind of accessories, what kind of fuel, remember garbage in garbage...