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    Winter Projects

    My plan is to get my gerage done. I sitll need to finish insulating and sheet rocking the thing so I can get some heat in it. My II is a driver so the poor thing has to put up with South Dakota winters. Terable thing to do to a $4000.00 paint job but when I say "buy it, build it, and drive...
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    LED Tailights

    Me eather, hence the LED and bondo ida. I do like the enhanced visability at night though. I also wonder weather it would be leagal not having side marker lites.
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    Supercharging!!!????

    this is a simple rume of thumb on carb size. Displacement multiplied by 1.5 to 2. Stay closer to the 1.5 to maintian fuel eficiency or get closer to 2 for maximum performance. This is for normally asperiated engines. As for supercharging I have looked into several of the kits avaible for my...
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    LED Tailights

    In one of my street rod mags I saw a PU that they installed a LED thinrd brake light in the top of the cab. The cool part was that when not lit up you could not tell that there was a light installed at all. They mounted the light slightly under the cab surface and then covered it with body...
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    Just curious...

    I like them all but chose to mod mine. 5.0 AOD, 17'' 99 cobra weals, big brakes, Pontiac Firo buckets, removed all emblems and crome except around windows, and painted a late ford PU color. The hardest thing to get myself to do was cut the dash to put in a modern sterio. If it wasn't for the...
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    Here's what the virtual body shop did for us

    Very nice! Makes me wonder if I should have built a coupe insted on my hatch.
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    Piston choices

    Blue Thunder, I got to see a ford 2.3 head that was equiped with hrydrolic valve actuators at a small auto repair shop in Safford AZ. I believe that they were running into the same problems that you mentioned.
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    76 Ghia for sale on web

    Anyone looking for a nice 76 ghia should check this out. I have no conection with this car. I just stumbled acrost it looking for a PU. http://www.kelolandautomall.com/show.asp?vid=341568
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    Trades?

    Truck driver for a contract mail carrier. I have a degree in Mec engineering but can't stand to be couped up inside all day. It's not exactly a professional job but I have managed to log over a million accident free miles in every kind of weather you can imagine.
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    Aarrggghh!!

    77SLEAPER take a little road trip to Casa Grande. When I lived there the local salvage yard had several II's
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    Quéstions

    80 mph at 2000 RPM and 28 mpg? thats not a PITA to me!
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    yes, I know, just shuddup and read this

    That is a VERY good price. The one's I looked at cost allmost twice that.
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    suspension mods

    Seanm, The brakets came from a company I found in a Rod and Custum mag. They use full size GM calipers. Stainless Steel corp now has a 4 piston allumium direct replacement for these. When the budget allowes I gotta have um. As for the 17 x 8 weals, well The upper A arms needed quite a bit if...
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    suspension mods

    This is what I did to mine, Ford Gernada front brakes and 1/2 spacers on rear axle....wider track Rear sway bar from Mustangs Unlimited 4 KYB shocks from PST 17" x 8" 98 cobra wheels 245/45 17 tires subframe sonnectors Battery moved to trunck You would now believe the difference. Next...