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Anyone seen these anywhere?

Oh, be still my beating heart!🫠

I just thought about water jackets. Any chance of cutting into one when decking? For me, IMO, the only benefit to building a 1500 or 1300, out of a 1600 is to get lower reciprocating masses for a higher revving engine with the appropriate bottom end, of course. I suppose for less $, for a street machine, one could drop in a 4AGE to get the same outcome. If racing in a vintage class, no such allowance. Sorry for the hijack.

Can a new Ford 711M 1600 be shaved down and be allowed? I don't have one to offer, but J ask because I'm considering building a 1500 with my block. @Chris D is someone who might have a block

Craig, what axle are you on now? Does the class allow anything other than a Standard 10?

No, just a hole in the floor I can push start through

@craig chima 120 front, 225 rear?

I know Dan Shivley has had a few pass though his hands. https://youtu.be/V_KQlMvGkj8?si=bFPnGOxm8CnjYK8i

Yes, love these old quirky parts. They did jobs with springs, vacuum and other mechanical trickery to do what electrics did later. The thermal fan clutch is another.

Browsing my AES electronics catalog, lots of nice surface mounted things, I found a cable operated pull type starter switch. I am completely enthralled. Used on MGs, this eliminates the starter solenoid if I understand the functionality. I love the idea of a turd trying to hotwire my seven, and he finds a shoe string, lol. Has anyone any experience with these?

If you must go it alone, try supporting the wind screen with wide painters tape from the top of the screen to the front of the scuttle bulkhead. And the bottom edge to thd scuttle to keep ir from slipping. Let the screen sit on the rubber strip. Tape and protect all the scuttle area around the stanchion triangles. If you have stanchion brackets on the inside of the scuttle, loosen this to allow it to come up to the screen height, then bring the screen down while tightening the brackets back down to the frame. Warming the rubber with a hair dryer can make it more pliable.

Those are up to $400 now? I got mine at $200, ten years ago

Sorry, I see this and thought what I thought

Yes, environmental pollution Is a horrible thing and should be prevented. It takes a worldwide effort to curtail it. This topic should have been made in the political and controversy forum. The Mod, @JohnChshould move it there

Tariffs 101. An American wants to make doo-hickies. After tooling, materials, labor, insurances, taxes, certificates and compliance, leases, build-out costs, loan interest, adversising, warehouseing, whatever, the cost per doo-hickie is $1.00. Consumers will buy other doo-hickies at $2.00, not a penny more, the value isn't there. A 50% production cost is not sustainable. You're out of business on paper before you ever break ground. A foerigner in a far-away land is able to make comparable doo-hickies for the equivalent of .10 cents apiece and import them into the USA at a tariff rate of 3%, enabling him to sell doo-hickies at $2.00 and make a substantial profit. Therefore, what Americans have done is to contract manufacturing of doo-hickies to producers in foreign lands and import them to the USA to sell, or have the materials imported duty free and manufactured into whole products in foerign trade zones. Furthermore, even if the American can make doo-hickies for $1.00 apiece here, and wanted to sell them in foerign markets, those countries often have 20-40% tariff rates, therefore he is unable to manufacture in USA and sell to foerigners either. When you see all the foreign made products on store shelves, it's not because companies can't find USA workers to do those jobs, it's because regulation and costs in USA are too high and prohibitive to compete against the foerign importer taking advantage low production costs in his country and a low USA importation tariff rate. Tariffs are used, or should be used, to raise the foerigner's costs so the domestic producer can compete and has a shot at success. Once all the domestic support for doo-hickie making and selling is lost, it takes a long time to build it back. Since Americans are happy paying $2.00, or less, for a foreign made doo-hickie,

The tariff program is being executed about as well as the Afghanistan withdrawal program.

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Amazon has been skimping on packaging and privacy by allowing the items to be delivered in the product packaging alone, saving the step of Amz from boxing. Which I understand. They save costs and you get it faster. But the turds see what you have. I was really upset recently when I got a book in an oversized box, with no packing, so the book could bounce around and damage the edges. Same with an aerosol can in which the cap cracked. Got an Amz item recently in an over size box, a 4x20" paper water filter. The packer put one little sheet of packaging paper in there. Really? The filter wouldn't have been damaged by a bump or two. But I will give Amz credit for trying to consolidate items into as few boxes as possible by giving me the option for a later delivery day. That's a good way to conserve resources. And they give me a dollar or two of credit for the save. That works for me. Oh, for others who are having delivery problems, Amz has those remote locker boxes you can have delivered to. There might be one near you. Amz gives them silly names like, Beauregard and Weezy.

Fried chicken grease has done very well in my car Could someone put up a link to the 303?

I pay almost $100 a year for a box at a parcel shipping business to ensure my items are accepted by a person. I shouldn't have to, but that's where we are.

Well, I've heard the best thing to clean carbs in is.... Wait for it..... Gasoline! Of course. I'm glad I have an extra CPAP for the ventilation I will need. I still like the idea of a sonic tank but not with gasoline in it.

These guys are the only source I know for new 7 fiber glass in the USA Wava Utt Motorsport Composites 2133 County Road W Grafton, WI 53024 262-375-1930 info@motorsportcomposites.com

Can't do much with alignment until you have full weight on the ground, including all fluids and passengers. One thing you can do now before the bay gets cluttered is index the true center of the steering rack. A mark on the shaft now will help you index the steering wheel later. It might be interesting to find out now if one side/arm is longer than the other.

I would invest in a sonic tank cleaner and use the recommended solution, whatever it is for aluminum. It may be your best cleaning method without a full tear down, which I would try to avoid. If you do tear down, leave the spindles and plates alone. But those DCOEs look like they should be fairly easy to clean as long as an emulsion tube or jet isn't seized inside. Just DON'T soak it in any solutions longer than necessary. I ruined a carb soaking it in simple green too long. All the surfaces went from smooth to pumice stone.