Recent content by gingerbreadman

I'm just so frustrated with my build, I'm considering selling it fer parts!

Uhuh! Yer words not mine, Dan me boy!

Some cams in some engines have a little bit of variance. When the factory has the designs for a paticular engine, they usually get bids from competitive grinders. The company that comes in the lowest within specs wins the job. So not all cams for a given application are all going to be...

TOTALLY COOL!!! I'll look it up in my automatic......er, manual, thanks! I can see, as little as you got into it, how that design of "in and out" of the rocker (Ted Nugent) could really rock! :music2: Like the SBC engine have stock rocker ratio of 1.5, and you can order through just about...

OH! No 1200 c5?!? Oh well....back to plan A.........re-work/adapt an MSD unit to it. It can be done, as I understand the MSD brand units. Plus some GL1500 coils and wires.

That, too, makes total sense. It might also affect the mileage a little, maybe not. I can't imagin .001 making any difference in much of anything.

OK, Dan, I've been taken to the wood shed about that one. I've argued about that on SGW site and especially with our good friend Capt Midnight about "lifters" on an overhead cam engine, because technically ya can't have "lifters" above the camshaft. Now, ya talk about adjusters, and that just...

Do we have a thread about the C5 ignition? I was going to try to find some 1500 coils and wires, as well as putting on an alternator off of a Sprint Metro. I recently scored one at my favorite bone yard for $45. But of course, no matter how much power ya got, it don't do no good if ya can't...

Our rule of thumb waaay back right after my pet dinasoar died, on our street drag cars was, if we wanted more MPG we'd leave 'em loose; but if we wanted more go, we'd subtract 1 to .003 from the spec.s of the car/engine. Could mean the difference between a win or loss! I would think what...

This is where I would think the original manifold design would shine; the one where ya got two runners going all the way across the motor, from ports on the left head to the ports on the right. With 90 degree down turns with paper gaskets at each port, or just straight across from intake horn...

Dan, scinse I told ya about that trick I used on my Corvette 283, I took my oldwing's radiator to my favorite shop and asked them if the could put a trans-cooler line in the bottom of it. After "thinking" about it for a couple of weeks, I called him to see if he'd made any progress. He said...

I saw an 1100 GoldWing made into a reverse trike car. I saw it 3 years in a row at the same car show, and actually got to talk to the owner/builder for hours at a time. He was using the 1100 in stock block form, with a topping of early 1000 heads and custom ground cams. He had found a local...

My Dad taught me to rebuild engines when I was 16, and that was one of the tricks he used; that and aviation gasket sealer. That stuff is stickkkkyyyy!! Whatever you do don't get it on yourself! It takes a gallon of acylic laquer thinner and a jack hammer to get that stuff off yer skin! But...

Haven't they built the big bridge yet?!?! :shock: :smilie_happy:

What specifcally were you in reference to, Joe? I Studied the pics pretty well.....I did like your smart way ya did the throttle cable! That was pretty slick, even if it was totaly red neck! Did you want me to notice sumtin in particular? The neatest thing I noticed is that it doesn't look...