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Some of you have seen the Anvil. The Anvil is my VW. I beat on it and beat on it and it never seems to mind. It doesn't hurt that the engine is barely strong enough to tear the skin off of pudding. So, let's change that. The current high compression (well, 10:1 anyway) 1.8 is getting a bit long in t...

The Block video is just dumb, IMO. It's interesting eye candy but it's got little to do with motorsports. It's all just shameless self-promotion. Speaking of which: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD9RBXL04fw Mud bog, Puddingcross, whatever you want to call it, you can't call it fast. I have a hard t...

I didn't get to drive it much. I *did* get to spend some quality time with the Cutlass, though. It's upsetting how every time we get a step forward on that car, we go two steps back. Stupid dedication to ensuring things are right. :D The Cutlass is a '68 convertible that now has a 455, TH700-R4 (wit...

Here's another one, more subtle:

Found on 460ford.com, via grassrootsmotorsports.com: http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z301/666meat/IM000605.jpg That is what it looks like, and those are what they look like, and the bore spacing is so close and the bolt patterns are so close that it's essentially a bolt-together. The only minor, ...

...feels a lot like 400, just more of it.

Yet another Blue '69 Chevelle is back on the road, now with 496ci of WRE short block.

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/pts/898449985.html

Let's see how long until it gets pulled/updated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmhmA0r9qc

Would have been nice if I could have got into the powerband. Powerband is about 5500-8500. The dust is like driving on flour or talcum powder.

Had to come back to this thread to see if it was one of our customers' cars here. We just got a beautiful blue '69 in, SS396 with four-speed. (And manual steering, UGH!) The story as I understand it is that it was a decent 427 mill under the hood, but when the owner bought it it turned out to have s...

I'll talk to the guys we work with (Park Auto Clinic) and see what they can come up with. They get it done right, or know the reason why.

I may have been born yesterday but I remember reading about the Clutch-Flite in Car Craft. (I had a subscription when I was five!) That's exactly what it was... as I got older and understood the problem it was trying to solve, I kinda like the idea. Not only can you launch "wherever", but ...

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/pts/861482268.html

At the same time, I am looking to see if it has two shift arms, or three. Looks too big to be a three speed. Four speed for $65 *with* bellhousing and clutch? Even if it's a grotty old Saginaw, it's still worth a bunch more...

You might be surprised at my screenname there...

Both. I run rallycross with the Western Ohio Region (Dayton) SCCA. Detroit region and the Ohio Valley Region (Columbus) also run them but the Detroit ones don't have the good-times vibe to them, they're all lockstep organized to the point where it's not so much fun, and OVR runs at National Trails (...

YOU'RE NOT HELPING (send private message with details please) I am strapped for cash at the moment unfortunately, between getting the new engine (good to 9500-odd RPM, who needs to shift?) sorted in the Mazda and scraping funds together for the 24 Hours of LeMons, I'm flat broke until at least the e...