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In the FAV parts book the components of the front lower control arm outer ball joint are listed as follows. I'm curious to know what the "74..." designations mean (if anything), and more generally were these parts sourced from some contemporaneous mass production vehicle, and if so which? Also...

Oh, well, I've never used aluminum ones, just steel, so that explains why I haven't had the problem. On the other subject (drill-taps, aka draps), Greenlee makes sets of them that are on ebay for less than $30 (for the set!). I just bought one each metric and inch. Another good thing to use...

Now that is a brilliant tool.

Good question, and I don't have a good analytically-based answer. In my mind it depends on a couple issues: If the frame material is either thin enough or soft enough, or both, the rivnut is stronger. To use an extreme example, with the soft 22 or 24 gauge steel used on the SPF GT40 it simply...

Interesting; I've not had that problem (yet). Trying to think of why that would happen (ignoring of course defective rivnuts) and all I can come up with is rivnut intended for thicker metal and thus being "over-folded"? Does this happen with just-installed rivnuts? I can imagine they might tend...

But let's not call the whole thing off.... You don't ever want to plan on removing a rivnut. They can be drilled out, but you never know what condition that leaves the hole in for re-use, and the size and quality of the hole has a significant effect on the integrity of the joint. The...

My bullshit meter deflected to full scale and stuck this morning when I read two more of Mike/MHNCO's personal jabs in one single thread. At this point he's made probably a dozen, if not more, posts that clearly have no purpose other than to provoke and berate me personally, all using a...

Been mulling a couple ideas for a really short video. But a track F-car's got me a bit distracted right now.

OK, I understand your motivation, but would suggest it's a poor way to introduce yourself to the community. A little like walking into a wine club dinner and then arguing with everyone that beer is better: it's unlikely anyone will be happy at the end of the argument. IAE, you haven't...

Ohhh, I don't like hearing that at all. You get to be a great fabricator by starting out as a poor one, and that learning experience is fun and supremely satisfying. I think that seeing my own fabrication skill improvement manifested right there on the car is probably the single most...

No.... the real question is WHEN?

Who gives a sh*t? It was a stupid, beer-addled question in the first place. The real mystery to me is why you bothered to revive this silly thread. If you want to make a comparison with some meaning, compare the Ultima to the SLC, and let this thread go back to sleep.

Chapter 5A --- Just got back from DMV with my plates. This fairy tale is over. Summary of findings: For Brake and Light, the only equipment you have to add to an SPF GT40 in CA is a license plate light, and the wiring is already there. Trailering to B&L meant I didn't need a one-day temp...

Actually I've taken a couple runs on Skyline with my Temp. Reg. Yesterday I went south a couple miles and goosed it a little.... pine cones were dropping off of trees....

Chapter 5, in which I go through the green light: After the phone call telling my I had a green light (meaning the BAR authorities were satisfied that my car was not an example of "small volume manufacturing", I made another BAR appointment (10 AM the following morning!). At this meeting the...

That's the most inteilligent and useful comment I've heard on this subject.

At the moment Google has a record of http://www.gt40s.com/forum/gt40-tech-powertrain-transaxles/39440-txl-250-txl-300-tranny-5-6-spd-sequential-anybody.html which I assume was it, but unfortunately the last record Wayback has of GT40s.com Jan. 14. Any chance it can it be reconstructed knowing...

Here's some more evidence Anglo-American equine-inequality: https://www.pegasusautoracing.com/productdetails.asp?RecID=8462 Regarding horse size, if US ones are smaller, Italian ones must be knee-high since my "350" horsepower Lamborghini used just one these pumps. But then I already knew...

Well, all pumps are only good to a certain HP level determined by their maximum flow rates. In the case of 440HP if you use the .5 lb/hp-hour formula you get ~36 gph. However I don't know for sure which of the 16 12-v Facet Gold-Flo pumps is the "Red-Top" and so don't know for sure its maximum...

I'm pretty sure all three variants come with the same piece the Kirby fixed. My SPF, originating as a 351, variant, did not have the chevy insulator, but it did come with a pair of additional engine mount parts (see below). I got my FE mounts from Othoff and so have the 351 pieces on the...