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If you still have the charcoal canister line on the car you can just use that as the vent. I often run the line up in front of the radiator (just rubber fuel line) and stiick a little filter on the end of it. Works fine for equalizing tank pressure and nothing ever dribbles out of it. But you...

Those are "full size ovals" as opposed to the later model, smaller "peanut port" ovals. Cruise Summit Racing's website and search their BBC intake gaskets. You'll find scillions of different brands and types for full size oval BBC heads.

Yeah, me too. Same tool, bought from the same place many moons ago. I do it with a hand drill no problem since it's self-aligning. You're drilling aluminum so the work goes quick. I always lock-tite the new bushings in place (apply it to the ouside of the bushing before you tap it in).

Being a low-buck home-gamer type of guy I often find myself faced with these weirdo kinda problems. A little throught and you can usually find a way of narrowing down the problem area. A junkyard cable screwed on but with the other end hanging out you can see if the cable inside is turning...

Agreed with above. Electrical vs. cable-actuated downshift. Is the speedo cable even connected on the driver's side of the trans? If so you might want to check to see if the cable is broken internally. The stock speedo/odo is very reliable. They rarely fail internally. Whether the internal...

It's not a ton. But it's not zero. Somewhere in between. The only force that acts on the crossmember, aside from the weight of the trans, is from the forces that the driveshaft imparts on it under a launch. Now, I'm not entirely sure how a driveshaft can push up on the tailshaft of a...

Using thicker gaskets (like a typical FelPro blue rebuilder gasket (.039") will kkeep you down in the mid 9s but it really won't help detonation resistance because the quench height (from the top of the piston to the flat quench arear of the combustion chamber) will be wider and therefore, less...

I guess I should add that the "stock" shocks I took off are not factory pieces, obviously. They're just a cheap set of Gabriel Pro Ryders that have been on the thing since forever. So the possibility exists that the shocks I took off were wrong and the C.E. drag shocks are actually the right...

Guys- I just went out to bolt on my new Competition Engineering 2720 rear drag shocks. Measured them up against the stock shocks I took off and they're about an inch or two longer than the stock units both compressed and extended. Rechecked the part number for a 78 Malibu- yep, 2720 says C.E...

I believe the factory called for .045. If you have the right plugs, the side electrode should be very close to flat across the center electrode at the proper gap. Not angled open or closed.

Only in a certain speed range or constantly a any point above a certain speed?

For a quality converter at a reasonable price I've had good luck with Redneck converters (EBay). For the price of a bottom-of-the-line brand name converter you get a lot more features like heavy duty internal components and an anti-balooning plate (stuff you pay extra for with a brand name...

Is it a high speed vibration (like you're sitting inside an electric razor that will rattle your fillings)? That kind of vibration is caused by something forward of the pinion gear. Low speed vibrations are wheel/tire/axle issues. Sometimes putting the rear up on jackstands and sliwly...

Truck TBI engines are flat tappet. Car TBI engines use roller cams. The truck block MIGHT be a roller cam block (it's kind of a crap shoot- some were, some weren't), but even if it is a roller cam block it will have a flat tappet cam and lifters in it. TBI heads are the weirdo 87-up bolt...

The Torker II is a dog. The base model Performer will whip it's *ss anywhere below about 5500-6000, which is about all that Summit K1103 house brand cam is going to want to make power in anyway. The real "secret weapon" WITH YOUR CURRENT CAM would be a Performer EPS or equivalient Weiand...

A few years back I was given a lesson by an old timer who ran a shop for a living (and raced Pro Stock back in the 60s). His advice: put it back together with the stock shims and nothing else. Pinion and side carrier shims, exactly like it came apart (even if changing the differential...

From any gear to the next? Or just one shift that doesn't happen? Assuming the TV cable linkage is set up close to right you've either got issues with the springs/weight in the governor being too light (they work TOGETHER, not against eachother like in a distributor), line pressure is just too...

Pinion flange.... pinion flange.... Do you mean to retain the u-joint to the pinion yoke? If so: tight. Tight with a regular wrench, not tight with a breaker bar. Do them evenly, back-and forth, not all the way down one at a time.

I've also run the Comp Cams XS282S (solid flat tappet) and it's not horrible on the street in a 383 or larger. Partly becuase the effective duration is a little shorter than the specs would indicate because of the valve lash with a solid cam. Still, it's a bit too aggressive for me. And it...

Pick the heads first. Note that with your flattop pistons you will need the "large chamber" version of whatever heads you choose- in the 70-76cc range, to keep compression low enough to use pump gas. Typical 64cc chamber heads will put you up in the 11:1 range. That means a set of inexpensive...