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Have you asked on the Mustang 6G forum, GT350 section? IMO the best overall site for 2015-2020 GT350 info...

https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/forums/shelby-gt350-mustang.70/

Quote from: Bob Gaines on January 16, 2024, 02:05:53 PM
Lunchpailparts is Allen Cross .

Ah, right. Thanks for the reminder, keep forgetting that's Allen...

This C0AZ-9350-C described as OE for 427 Cobra just listed on ebay......https://www.ebay.com/itm/166552504273

Quote from: Hov on December 29, 2023, 11:40:13 PM
Great photo Dave, did Eric English take it?  You are spinning that motor pretty close to redline. Bet Gary Lewis moved that needle further over in 1966 than where you are at now. I don't see any purple and no Dawgs on the side of the road.

Good call Mark, next time I'll invite Eric to ride along and take some real photos. Plenty of purple.....behind the camera. 

Eerily warm ~60F in the PNW today. Get 'em out if you can...

Quote from: 69 GT350 Vert on December 28, 2023, 11:53:15 AM
Has anyone ever tried making the upper control arm supports using a block of 4" x 4" wood cut to proper length and a notch cut in the end for the frame rail contact point.  I can't weld so this might be a good alternative for me.  Let me know if anyone has done this successfully so I can get the dimensions.  Thanks.

I made some from 2x3 pieces and used very hard rubber blocks (think hockey pucks) for the contact points, they work great.

The problem with the homemade welded supports is on 65-66 driver's side they interfere with the fuel line. The original Ford piece shown in the Perkins M/T article does work but try to find one of those.

+1, got several sets from Jim (RIP). Don't see them listed on their website but check with Jesse to see if he has any...

Check the crankshaft rear counterweight for a polished area on the outside surface...

The hand held tag and fender tag are definitely two different tags.

The issue, as Cory mentioned, is the C3OE-6380-B flywheel was used on all 289's at that time, it is not HiPo specific. The only difference on the HiPo flywheel is the Brinnel hardness mark, imbalance, and orange paint daub (if it survived). Everything else is identical, including the large counterweight.

Sorry, couldn't resist color balancing this a little, cool photo!

Quote from: greekz on December 11, 2023, 03:27:43 PM
I have been disconnecting the negative cable in using a rubber cap over the post for over 30 years.  No fires, no drained battery, no ugly add on.

I've been doing the same. Current repop Autolite 24F battery has been in the car since 2009 and still going strong.

Found this website with a couple photos of Bill Cosby with a carryover car sitting in his driveway, hard to tell but the wheels might be different? A number of other period SAI images there, some I hadn't seen before. Also a few from the Sid Avery photo shoot of the 67 GT500 prototype V-738-2: https://www.mptvimages.com/images?phrase=shelby+1966

 
Image credit: ©1978 Gunther / mptvimages.com


Image credit: ©1978 Ed Thrasher / mptvimages.com

I vote yes, looks like the correct contours...

Quote from: Vernon Estes on December 06, 2023, 04:21:13 PM

Discussions like this depend on people's interpretation of the phrase "not that unusual" but I'd personally call a 1 day spread pretty unusual..just my own judgement though.

Not saying it's impossible at all, just certainly a LONG way away from the norm from my experience scrutinizing engine vins and date codes.

I'll also throw in there that, in my opinion, a hipo engine would be even less likely to have a 1 day spread since they were almost certainly assembled in batches after periods of casting cores where they would be measured for core shift and the best castings put to the side to build hipo engines out of. Not continuously assembled like on "lowpos".  Was the engine your referring to a hipo or a regular strength? 

Just my opinion here..interesting discussion.

Kind regards,
Vern

Hi Vern,

This is a standard block out of an A-code car.

Gotta fess up, I was going by memory and notes on the block dates but decided I better dig it out and take a look. They casting date is indeed 2-1-66 but I was wrong on the assembly date which is actually 2-3-66. My apologies!

Dave