I had a friend in the early seventies who owned a 1969 Mustang Boss 429
(Ford Hemi). I remember riding in it. Very smooth power, but a real Bi***
to work on.
Bob King
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Dan,
et al.
Visit
the following link to Calculators for Gearheads on my website. This
particular calculator will give approximate time dimensions for a given
size. Let me know if you find it useful.
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/1bking/chevelle/calculator.htm#calc_tire
Bob
King
In the early seventies, I used to watch this 67 deuce at the drag strip. He
was running H/MP (modified production) at the time. The car was a little 2
door sedan with a 292 truck six, trips on a tunnel ram, cam, headers and
some compression. It sounded a little bit odd after hearing tons of ope
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To address your questions on:
1) Weather stripping
The rubber on the quarter glass is indeed a nasty little devil to deal with.
Fill a small squirt bottle with a mixtu
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I have done some touch up and refinish on dash and interior trim parts using
model railroad paints. Visit a hobby store that specializes in model
railroad supplies and ask
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The one that I liked the most is:
NO 4N JNK
Bob
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I had the same problem when I bought my 67. Pull the lock cylinders from
the drivers door and trunk ( pia to get at without key). Take the locks to
any Chevy dealer. The
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Josh,
I have had this same thought. If I have my info correct, this should be no
more complicated than swapping your sick salamander for a small block, but I
don't know ab
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Looks like he spent a little too much time tailgating at Steeler games.
Bob
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Yes
this is true. The rear, upper spring perch is straight, large diameter on
64-66 and tapered on 67. I put a 65 frame under my 67 years ago with no
problems at all. There may be a slight difference at the front center of
the cross member near the drag link. Though it may look different
Title: Malibu with a tick. Sounds like a lifter to me.
If you
are able to determine that this is a sticking lifter, here is trick that I have
used many times. Add about half of a Quart of automatic trans fluid to the
engine. Plain old Dexron is fine. ATF contains a lot of the same
deterge
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Add to that the fact that this plane is flying level. The footage that I
saw on CNN showed that the planes that hit both towers were banking. FAKE.
Robert B. King
Safety
I
believe that Super Sports had the headlamp side molding painted flat black and
that all other models were flat black between chrome ribs.
Bob
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I'm #534
Bob
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planet. While I share your sentiment, I can not agree with a nuclear
solution to this problem.
Robert B. King
Safety Harbor, Florida
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Judging by the last dozen or so posts, it looks like we may have a few sick
puppies here. Makes me feel right at home!
Bob
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Open up the headers and get out the Clorox. I feel a few burnouts comin'
on.
Bob
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No argument from me. While I do not always agree with or even believe the
powers that be, I always try to keep in mind that I am not sitting in the
big chair nor do I want
e no compromise. There must be
action.
This
sh.. stops, and it stops right now.
Thanks
for letting me vent.
Robert
B. King
Safety
Harbor, Florida
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It looks like W can talk the talk. My only reservation is whether he has
the guts to finish the job instead of hamstringing our military like his
father did in Iraq.
Bob
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I changed an oil pump on my 67 SS with the engine still in the car. To do
it, I had to unbolt the headers, drop the trans, drain the cooling system,
and on and on. Unless
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Josh,
I had something similar happen to me a number of years ago. It felt like it
lost fire at about 115 for just a second. I was running a points
distributor at the time
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The first generation MCs used the short wheelbase frame similar to the 2dr
Chevelles. I believe that it is the same from the front cross member back,
but the MCs had much l
Speaking of the early Elkys, my neighbor is selling a '59. I don't
know anything about it except that it is yellow and looks good from the
street. If any one is interested, I will take a closer look and talk to
the seller for particulars.
Bob
King
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Good call Bill. I was in the auto body trade for close to 20 years and have
had similar experiences. I especially liked PPG's epoxy primer, and used it
to 'lock down' bare
I'm
not quite sure of the years for the turboglide, but my dad had a 61 wagon, 348
with trips, turboglide. This was kind of a weird trans. You would
start out in low gear and end up in high gear, but it never really
shifted. Sort of a variable ratio low gear. Pull out from a dead
stop,
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First of all, I apologize to all of you for starting this little sh.. storm.
There is obviously no good reason to drive a Honda at all. Much less ten of
them. My comment w
Number
one on the top ten list of reasons to drive a Honda instead of a
Chevelle?
Bob
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Larry,
I am
perfectly capable, thank you very much. I just remember seeing so many
really cool cars that I:
a)
couldn't afford to buy
b)
couldn't afford to insure
c)
couldn't afford to feed
oh
well, you get the picture.
Bob
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I remember looking at a 69 SS 396/375 with chambered exhaust on Yenko's used
car lot in 73. I loved the sound, but back then it was definitely a
cop-caller. I decided to p
My advice is to be careful with the long water pump setup. I ran it in my
67 SS for a long time, but was never comfortable with how close the fan was
to the core. I broke a motor mount once and put the fan right into a two
month old four core rad. If I had it to do over again, I'd ditch the bel
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The increase in displacement for a 0.030" over bore depends on the size of
the engine. Here is the formula for calculating the displacement of any
engine:
displacement =
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408 is close enough.
formula: Displacement = ( Pi x ((Bore / 2) ^ 2) * Stroke *
NumberOfCylinders )
3.14159 * ((4.094 + 0.060) / 2) * 3.760 * 8 = 407.663
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Rich,
My name is Bob King. I grew up in Canonsburg and lived there until 89 when
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Bob
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I think it was Hooker that made header-sidepipes in the 70's. The primaries
came out from under the front fenders and turned into the collectors. I
used to see a lot of Co
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Dan,
I agree with you 100%.
Bob
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Herb,
Great looking ride, and it sounds every bit as good as it looks. BTW, I'm
in Safety Harbor and would love to see your EC up close when your get it
here.
Bob King
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Thanks Josh. Great story and a good laugh. What a wonderful way to start
my day.
Bob
RE:
I have a F**d, 71 model F150, I junked the 351 when a buddy traded me a
tired 35
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My first car was a 67 300 2dr sedan. 230 inch 6 cyl, 3 spd rubber floor
mats. It was a pretty cool car and would make a really great driver today.
Real cars have metal das
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It's OK to clean and reseal the bolts, but I always use new head gaskets.
Bob
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Rick,
Your $0.02 was well spent. I already sent mine to Jerry.
Bob
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If you are interested, I put a quick page at
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/1bking/it.htm with a few decent pics of my 67 SS
aka 'it'.
Bob
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What do you mean "too much e-mail". I watched the movie Short Circuit the
other day and agree that I need "more input". 50 or more e-mails per day is
just fine for me.
Bo
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Cool screen saver. I saw someone in a 70 SS having a little bit of fun!
Thanks,
Bob
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According to my old Chevy parts book (circa 1975), the manual rear window
regulators have the same part number for all 2dr hardtops 68-72 for their
respective sides. The po
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I tested this theory and it seems to hold water. I sent a message to the
list admin to let him/her know, so I think that we can call this one a dead
horse.
Bob
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I modified Outlook to deliberately post using rich text to verify Daniel's
theory. If we are right, there should not be a footer on this message.
Sorry for more junk guys.
Bob
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BTW I fired off a quick message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for help in
fixing this problem.
Bob
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Kelly,
There were numerous posts this morning without footers (at least in my
inbox). They seem to come from AOL users. Could this be a bug with AOL or
the list.
Bob
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As
long as we are the ones that are bent and twisted and NOT our
cars.
Bob
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If I
remember correctly, you may need to fabricate short tubular spacers for number
one exhaust port to match the manifold flange thickness.
Bob
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Perfect! My last 67 sat about 1.5" lower than stock. This alone made a big
difference in handling.
Bob
> If you do a tall spindle swap, the front end will be about 1 - 1
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> 3. For those of you who painted/dyed hard plastic and vinyl pieces is
there
> any amount of time you should wait before applying a protectant (like
armor
> all) ? I don
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Thanks Darin. I was just at the Global West site and printed the relevant
info. Looks like a lot of good stuff.
Bob
everyone has been talking about Global West.. Alot o
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> RightO. I replaced the front vinyl seat covers in my '66 myself...
I agree. Most of the work is not really rocket science. I all depends on
whether we have the determ
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> Man, that itch...
I'm not really looking to do a full restoration, and will probably just as
happy with an SS clone. What I have in mind is something along the lines of
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I have seen some good paint jobs leave Maaco shops. But keep in mind guys,
the better the finish coat the more the work underneath it shows.
Preparation is the key!
Bob ki
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Every year around this time I get the itch to get another Chevelle. I sold
my 67 SS in 1988 to move to Florida after owning it for 13years. I bought
it in '75 for $100 to
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No, no, no... That's all wrong! What you really have to do is:
Hold your breath, make a wish, count to three.
- Gene Wilder from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate F
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In response to the issue of how long and how much, let me start by saying
that if any body shop tells you that they can do a show quality paint job in
two weeks, turn around
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I bought it last week. Lots of cool stuff that probably (or at least seems
like it) came out of a time capsule. It's really refreshing to see that
there are still people i
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Good call. I don't mind paying for my own mistakes, but why should I have
to pay for the stupidity of others?
Bob King
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I remember watching at ;east one episode where the roll back wobbled when
one of the Dukes hit it getting in.
Bob King
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~If I remember my small block history correctly, 67 was the last year for
~small jour
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If I remember my small block history correctly, 67 was the last year for
small journal 283 and 327 (2.20 main, 2.00 rod). The only two engines that
I am not sure of are the
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Yes, the 67s did have the emblem in the center of the rear panel. It looks
very similar to the grille badge.
Bob King
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