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Seems still to have ignition points, though.

I'm wavering. Four sets? How long have you had the car, if you don't mind my asking.

Which Dunlop- the only ones I saw were, I think, race tires.

Just an update, but full details in engine forum section. We fired the car up, had a leak from a block crack, rebuilt the engine within a new block, now sorting out misc leaks and hope to have her on her feet within a few weeks from now. Very keen to have her on the road for some exercise. I am...

I recall reading that 50/50 actually cools better than plain water. AND plain water does not protect against electrolysis. Since aluminum is below iron on the galvanic scale, your expensive aluminum heads will suffer from their proximity to the iron engine block. In my marine diesels, I run...

My GT40 has never had a proper set of tires. With a newly rebuilt engine, and anticipating actually getting her onto the road once sorted out, and actually being able to DRIVE the car around, getting a matched set of tires has become a priority again. I won't mention what's on her now, but put...

I ordered those little steel plates that spread the clamping load out. Also a set of valve cover studs. AND thicker gaskets. These are stamped covers, not cast, but I know what you mean. I'm fairly sure the cover rails are flat. The heads are AFR 185s and I've never heard any complaints about...

Question: on some Ford SB engines, with the steel valve covers, there are little steel plates that go under the valve cover bolts, to spread out the load and clamping force. We need those, twelve of them. I have not been able to find them. Anyone know where to buy them? Thanks!

Very high class bookends, I must say.

GT 40 ownership is, in itself, somewhat less than rational....

I can post a photo of the underside later today. But it is not a vacuum plenum type manifold. Thanks for the interest, though.

Good thought- actually the breather tubes were open when we trialed the engine, because the push-on caps have not shown up yet. I think the gaskets are not compressed enough. The screws may be a bit too long, they may be bottoming out.

Jim, this rig is IDFs, did you see that? I'd love to sell them, but I don't want you to buy them thinking they are IDAs. IDFs are said to be better for street use- at least Jim Inglese says so. And other sources as well.

I don't know, but I know they were set up for SBF 302. They are also big enough to work on a 351w as noted above. If you're seriously interested, I can try and take a look in one and see what's in them.

My old valve covers, which were cast alloy, also leaked. I replaced them with stamped steel ones, which look perfect (or will as soon as I get breather caps for them) but they leak. Suggestions gratefully accepted.

More progress: newly rebuilt engine started and run today. One pesky problem is that the beautiful new valve covers leak oil onto the headers... very annoying as they were custom built for this engine. We're going to try different bolts and washers, possibly a thicker gasket set. HOWEVER, no...

302 thanks

I'd love to sell them.

I bought this set of Webers for SBF about 12-15 years ago from a fellow Forum member. They are chromed Weber 48IDFs mounted on a cast alloy manifold for SBF. They have never been mounted on an engine, never had fuel in them, and have never been used. The carburetors are "Made In Spain"- I don't...

Made some progress on the GT40 last evening- got the exhaust system in and all snugged up. Whose idea was the bundle of snakes, anyway? What a headache! They are sure a pain to install, although they DO sound great when running. Look nice, too...Took two of us the better part of two hours...