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We were told a similar story by our teacher in primary school in about 1982. The boiler is broken and the repairman comes, whacks it with a hammer and gives the client a bill for $500. "$500! All you did is hit it with a hammer. How did you come up with that cost?" The repairman replies "Hitting...

How did you use the straight edge? In conjunction with some feeler gauges? Or just by sight?

I think it's worse with older carburetted cars than modern computer controlled engines. Fuel wash from rich idle mixtures, diluting the oil. I don't like idling mine when cold either. The idle rpm is lower and the oil is thicker so I reckon the oil flow will be less.

Maybe to limit the wear from the "scraping" that will occur - rather than the 2 surfaces rotating against each other they will also be rubbing against each other horizontally?

Your "directness" is callous. It's also disrespectful. You are also mistaken, and as OneWheelPeel has stated, as you appear to have very limited skills in understanding this social environment. Bob copped a lot for sure, but the vast majority was "piss taking", look it up if you don't...

Please don't spoil Bob's wonderful tribute thread with your usual bullshit. Just mine and everyone else's opinion of course.

You've got a very warped, cold way of looking at the world.

It must be hard having to put the car away for winter...but the benefit is it allows you to work on it stress free. Whenever mine is off the road I'm always fretting because I'm missing opportunities to take it out. This was last Saturday, beautiful day.

If you're attaching an engine that weighs 600 lbs and the most you can realistically save is 22 lbs (that's if you could halve the weight of the factory unit) with an unproven design of unknown strength and durability, then as said above - why bother? But - you said you have extensive skills...

Saturday morning at the beach with the dog, the car and a bacon and egg roll, life's good.

Why does the hood fit so badly at the front? Was he trying to replicate the factory quality?

It has to be something almost unobtainable, the Cannonball Run Countach:

That sucks big time. Stay positive and think of all the things that didn't get damaged: a. You b. The engine, transmission, wheels, tires, interior etc. At the speed you were going it could have been catastrophic. It might make you feel a little bit better.

I'm genuinely upset by this, even though I'm half a world away and never met him. He was pompous and could be a pain sometimes, but I honestly liked him and valued his thoughts. I'd often search for his latest threads just to get some "entertainment". I'd noticed he'd been MIA since the end of...

Yes I could...but I was looking for the type where the carb hold down bolt is captured flush underneath the spacer i.e the spacer is countersunk and machined to hold the bolt head. The reason being the poly manifold outside "ears" of the carb pad will encroach on the stud/nut needed to hold the...

The Weiand 7503 is a weird cross between a single plane and a dual plane manifold. I had one on the car when I bought it and after the first re-build. Very poor below 3,500 rpm, but it takes off after that. It was exciting in some ways but completely painful on the street and wouldn't even take...

Thank you. It took 3 weekends...including removal, re-installation and usual family/house commitments. Opening up the plenum was the slowest part. All the runners were opened up to match the gaskets/heads. It was slow work because I'd never done this before and was being careful, and it was hard...

It's a square bore carb - 650 Double Pumper. The spacer was meant to be on the other way - upside down. But when I went to put it on there was a 1/4" gap into thin air where the spreadbore "scallops" were. So I had to turn it over and put the square side down. It's probably unacceptable for a F1...

I did re-tune it after the original plenum work and I'll check it again with this new spacer. The open plenum wasn't my idea, it came from Poly guru Gary Pavlovich.

About 4 months ago I spent many hours porting the intake manifold on my poly engine and opening up the 4 hole plenum into one open space with a cut down divider Porting a Factory 4 Barrel Poly Intake Manifold The poly intake requires a carb adapter to take the standard Holley or Edelbrock...