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Quote from: deathsled on April 10, 2024, 01:34:35 PMIt's a heat signature left by the natural, spiritual aura we all possess.

You could hypothesize that so is a...um...passing gas. It leaves a heat signature also...or is that what you were initially suggesting...OH! you bad boy!

Quote from: computerworks on April 10, 2024, 01:51:59 PM

Quote from: shelbydoug on April 10, 2024, 01:48:56 PMI suppose in the balance of things in the known Universe it doesn't really matter? I'm just curious on this. Is this just the default settings on the software or was it deemed necessary?

It's the way it works. How many get displayed? ..that's programmable.

Well, but in essence that's what I was asking you? This is a change. Not necessarily an improvement. Just a way to suggest there is more going on then there is? Kind of like echos in an empty hallway with nothing going on.

I think Tony is gonna' luv this? Somehow. Like a construction site in the city with posters plastered all over it. I can envision it now. FLSAAC plastered all over everything. Everywhere you go.

Why am I getting the feeling that somehow we are all going to get screwed?

I checked it out. I hate it when I find that the reality is that I don't understand the English language at all. At least not the way they speak it?

Quote from: computerworks on April 10, 2024, 12:57:12 PM

Quote from: shelbydoug on April 10, 2024, 12:20:30 PMIs this the new normal?

They're not double posts. 
The Recent Topics list is set up to show the last 15 posts. 
If two or three were made on the same thread, each one will show up individually in that list.

I suppose in the balance of things in the known Universe it doesn't really matter? I'm just curious on this. Is this just the default settings on the software or was it deemed necessary?

Is this the new normal?

That is a really nice color.

They didn't get to the black out in the scoops?

To my knowledge these wheels were never dated.

What differentiates a '67 from a '68 wheel is there is a 1/8" spacer cast into the mounting flange of the wheel on the '68 version.

The '67 version does not have that. The '67 version clears the '67 brake caliper but will not clear the '68 brake caliper without a wheel spacer.

I am sorry for your loss.

OOPSIE! Problemo!

It would be nice to see the bad guys get caught once in a while wouldn't it?

$1350 or make an offer.

$595 or make an offer.

$700.

If I remember the newspaper ads from back then, I seem to remember that new tops with plastic rear windows were something like $39.95 installed and with glass another $20 or so?

Although white tops are better to keep your head from cooking under a very hot black top in the sun, I don't remember them as being popular because of the difficulty in keeping them clean.

At that kind of price, I can envision dealerships like Gotham with Bill Kolb willing to do anything to sell the car, changing the top from white to black to make the sale.

I personally would not automatically dismiss a car because it is reported with a black top by the last owner or vise versa.

Just as a point of interest, I mention this.

On my '68 GT350, I bought a set of JBA long tube headers "theoretically" built for that year car.

When I installed them, the car could not turn left. As it turns out, the Pitman arm would hit the #5 tube and restrict it from the necessary distance necessary for it to move to turn the wheels left.

In discussing this with JBA, it seems that they built the headers on that chassis that used a different Pitman arm.

Now I did try to discuss this intelligently with the design tech, but some might argue that is a bridge too far for me, but the comment from JBA was that my car uses a "special" Pitman arm?

So that's what I know and the "Special Bus" just pulled up for me so I have to cut this short and run to catch it.

I was told by someone I consider an authority on FE's that FE's wound up with a "harmonics situation", i.e., a vibration. All of them.

The only way he knew to reduce it is to use a heavier balancer. What you are doing by adding reciprocating mass is not re balancing the engine but moving the vibration to another rpm range or some would describe it as "dampening" it in the usable rpm range of the engine.

I believe that essentially was said by Scott, not in the exact wording but in describing the effect?


I have seen this effect on other Ford engines as well. You can more then notice the added mass on the 289hp, Boss 302, the Boss351c and the 427's.

One thing that I noticed was on my 351c. When I added the '72 351HO balancer v. the 4v balancer, it seemed to calm the idle down as if I had taken some of the duration out of the camshaft timing.


I think that you can actually use the 427MR balancer in your application also. The 427's are neutral balance through the complete engine. I think the 390's are also but it depends on which crankshaft you used if you built a stroker using Ford parts?

The 428's are neutral balanced in the front half and Detroit balanced in the rear half. I don't know how that works but it means that any FE balancer will work on any FE since they are all neutral balanced on the nose. The flywheel is a different story and needs to match the Ford crankshaft used.

Aftermarket, non-Ford crankshaft manufacturers will advise you what to use with theirs.

I would go with the heaviest balancer that I could get in there, like the "427" on my '67 GT500 428. It can't hurt the engine. Cobra Automotive has those also.