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Back in the day, my grandfather paid “protection” to the Brooklyn, NY mob. I dealt with similar players in the corporate world, two generations later. Legal extortion, probably not as good a value…
I had to replace the front floor pan and trunk floor in my '64 Polara. I removed the old floors by carefully marking out where the crossmembers were with chalk and cut the bad stuff out with a cutoff wheel. Then, I removed the spot welds on the crossmembers with spot welds cutters. I bought...
I would not use a crank like that without cleaning it up. And I would be leary of the short block assembled by a builder that would not clean up that situation.
Mike
Interesting, no such animal in a Ford. That said, I'm on battery #3 in 7.5 years. First two paid for by Ford (I guess I actually paid for the first one), I put another in last Summer with a 5 year FULL replacement warranty.
More angle forward would definitely help with the look. It’s 3 separate pieces that bolt to the nose and two that bolt to the fenders. I’m gonna finish this and see how I like it as I can always make another. One of the primary goals for this car was the standing mile which needs all the air out...
& batteries,
there's an extra battery
it's under the normal battery to accommodate the stop start BS
dbl the replacement costs & if you have it done the labor rate too
Was that cast iron bracket the goes across the top of the intake painted with the engine or did it go black? Since it’s held on with two of the intake bolts I was curious. Still trying to hunt that particular bracket up by the way. Thought I had one but it’s for a 440. Too wide.