NO SUBSTITUTE FOR CUBIC INCHES

My 68 Dodge-383- 4speed hurst shifter, built in tach, with 3.23 highway gears, used to do 50mph in 1st gear at the 5000 rpm red line. When you hit 2nd,-- LOOK OUT !

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Love it, Jay!

My first hot rod was 36 Ford with later model Merc engine. Clutch couldn't handle it -- new clutch about every 12,000 miles...along with tires!

Uncle Bill
 
Always liked the 36 Fords Bill, one of my very favorites. They only weighed about 2700 lbs. Those old Ford V-8 flatheads went like heck. They could be souped way up. My Dad used to race with the old stock car coupes and the flatheads engines. He gave me a 38 Chrysler Royal when I was 11 yrs. old, and later we put his stock car motor in it. A 52 Spitfire 6cyl flathead .-- Bored out 60 thousands, head milled 125, Shaffer aluminum flywheel and Isky cam. Had 50 lbs. oil pressure on the idle. Never put it on the road.

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my tool time impression;

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Cobalt,

My thoughts exactly.
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Bill,

My home town is Wichita, Kansas. Small world!
 
Seeing the title of this thread I just had to reply. I couldn`t agree more! Personally I`m almost done making a 5160 12 1/2" blade Bowie-esque monster with a 3" wide at the widest 5/16" thick convex ground blade and a pronounced foreward rake (guess what I got that from!). My current project hot rod`s a `70 Formula 455 Firebird(455,TH-400,3.43posi) ;motor`s bored .030 with Speedpro forged pistons,pocket ported heads,Crower cam ,Edelbrock intake,800cfm Holley d.p. etc. etc. It`s no stroker Hemi but it`s enough to get me in trouble.
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If some is good and more is better then too much is just right!
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Marcus
 
Marcus, if you can get traction, that combo is good for low 13's maybe high 12's. My dad had a 73-455 SD car that ran 13.80's all day long in stock trim. So you should be able to cut a little time off that.
 
Marcus, when you finish that knife send us a picture!

And, Bob, Wichita has a lot of memories. My first job out of college was with Boeing. First home I ever bought was out on East Levitt, just across Rock Bl. I lived in Wichita when there was only one Pizza Hut in the world -- the little converted gas station on East Kellogg. I knew the kids who started it and when they offered me the number two Pizza Hut for $1800 (a cement block building that had been a laundromat) near the corner of Oliver and Harry I turned it down and muffed a chance to become a millionaire!

You're right. It's a small world!

Uncle Bill
 
Who needs a clutch? I drove a Ford Maverick 120 miles through traffic and stoplights with no clutch once ... it was running on five cylinders, too, and the compression was so bad when I left it parked in first gear it rolled down the hill while I was gone....

Mandatory on-topic paragraph ----> I bet the springs from that Maverick would have made a couple of good khukuries.

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
Couger, I'm sure those springs were so cold worked that they were already khukuries. hehe
 
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