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I can see where the owner wouldn't want to do a run if kits from the last one languished on his shelves for a while. You can't stay in business long with product that isn't moving tying up your investment capital. That said, the .org guys are talking about a group buy with 10 confirmed orders...

Don't forget to check for leaks at/around the oil sending (gauge or light) unit. Dripping oil from unsealed threads on fittings can dump a surprising amount of oil on the ground in a short amount of time, especially if the drip is a steady one.

We've fought this battle here before, but I documented my feather getting 31.4 over several tank fulls on a road trip after putting a new clutch in. It had 288,000 miles on it at the time and was so tired you could turn the motor over easily by hand by grabbing the flywheel ring gear...

Sounds like you've done something to get the timing out of whack and now it's way too retarded. After you get the vacuum lines back were they belong, kick the timing ahead (maybe a bunch) and try starting it again. If the vacuum advance can won't let you rotate the distributor enough, moving...

Something like these to fit an A body would get my attention.

At todays price for a barrel of crude, if you divide the number of gallons you get out of a barrel it equals out to $2.65 per gallon. The rest of the cost is refining, transporting, storage, and retailing. Exxon Mobil made less than TWO CENTS per GALLON of gasoline SOLD and just under...

According to information on the Daily Markets website, a gallon of gasoline manufactured and sold in the United States by Exxon Mobil in the last quarter of 2010 earned apx. two cents. They made less than 8 cents net on every dollar of revenue earned, not a hell of a lot considering the...

Hey, lighten up a little. He's young, inexperienced, wants to learn how to fix his car himself, and is asking for our help. A least he wants to fix an old A body and learn WHAT he is doing and WHY he is doing it. He could be another one of those young mushheads that thinks putting a fart...

OK, time for baby steps here, bucco. Dreaming of exotic transmissions or fuel injection solutions as a way of upping the car's fuel efficiency is fine, but you need to go back to basics. 1. Do a proper compression test followed be a leak down test. That's going to tell you how well the rings...

If maximum economy is the goal, emulating the manual transmission OD Feather Duster should be the jumping off point. Finding a stick shift parts car to allow you to convert your existing car to the manual overdrive A833 will probably do more for the economy than any other single thing, followed...

Staged Weber two barrel carburetor (like the one on a Ford Ranger) tuned properly for the motor might just out MPG the stock single barrel, if you trained your left foot to stay out of the secondary. In addition to running the "right" plugs, adapting a GM 4 pin HEI module to the Mopar mag pulse...

While I'm as strong a proponent of hairdryers as anyone out there, I'm always amazed how Mr. Dedman can co-opt virtually any thread into his own!

It needs to be different enough from a modified carburetor manifold to capture the attention of the prospective buyer. An equal length runner, fabricated tube manifold (not unlike the Ford Motorsport version of the 93 Cobra manifold) with 16" to 18" runners rolled back over themselves and into...

Spark plugs are generally in the center of the combustion chamber of a three valve overhead cam style head and if you're going to modernize the head on a slant, you might as well go to sequential port fuel injection and a DIS type ignition. After all this, even if you were to keep enough stock...

You might try emulating the Ford Mod motor three valve head. The bore is only slightly greater than the small bore of a slant six (3.552 for the Ford, 3.4 for the slant) and guys are commonly pushing the bore of the slant six out to 3.5. Running the exhaust on the right side of the engine frees...

Although very nearly every Holley carburetor I ever had my hands on (a bunch shall we say) ran rich (slightly to a lot) on the street with the factory jetting (about 2 to 4 jet sizes too large being the norm), I don't think that sounds like your problem. Even with the factory jetting (again...

To change (increase) the ratio you need to either move the pushrod pocket closer to pivot point (center of the rocker shaft in this case) or lengthen the distance from the pivot to center of the valve. A longer arm on the valve side of the rocker would also require you to move the rocker shaft...

Unless you're a good enough machinist to take some chunks of heat treated 6061 and whittle out new pieces from scratch, it seems like it would be a whole lot easier, cheaper, and more reliable to just have a cam ground to the specs you want end up with using the stock rockers, and not screw...

If you've got a "knock" coming from the "front" of the engine at idle, you might want to check the oil level. Wouldn't be the first slant to "knock" because it had been eons since anyone had added a "little" oil. These motors usually survive conditions and owners that would have stopped...

Slants are pretty indestructible, and you would definitely see a difference over the stock one barrel on a stock motor after you got past the tuning headaches. Super Six setup with split exhaust would probably be more satisfying on a totally stock motor, particularly if you're running an...

I agree with most everything cudamark posted but sitting outside for years with no carburetor/air cleaner mounted to keep moisture out something is bound to be stuck or rusted shut. Pull the plugs, squirt ATF in the cylinders and down the intake passages as well. Screw the plugs back in and...