John Ha wrote:

Great video!  Thanks for doing that.

I have to ask - have you ever driven your Mustang since putting the IRS in it?  I'd love to know how it works out in the real world.

Glad you like the video.  As to the Mustang it has been on the back burner and has not been on the road other than to drive it on and off the lift.  Too many projects not enough time.  Actually part of the problem has been my YouTube channel.  I started the channel because my business was seeing a decline in customers due to the fall of forums.  Now with my YouTube channel up and running my business has picked back up BUT shooting video and editing video takes a ton of time.  I miss the days when I could be working on a project and stop every now and agin to take a picture, then write an article after the fact on the project.  WAY simpler than video.

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MS wrote:

Great job, Daze.
I appreciate the credit.
Hopefully you have a tapered ring compressor tool. Those are the ONLY way to install pistons. Thumb pressure is all it takes and they never mess up. I have them in stock sizes and an adjustable one. If buying again, I would just get the adjustable one.

Thanks! yes I will be using a conical spring compressor

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Nos681 wrote:

Thanks for sharing the assembly tips Day.

Glad to hear you are feeling better.

Cannot wait to hear the 393w running…in the ol’ Gal.

I am feeling better! I will have limitations the rest of my life but am now at "normal".  should hear it roar to life  sooner rather then later.  I have a stock(ish) 351w on the engine run stand that I need to fire up to test the Frankenstein EFI. THEN the 393 will go on the run stand and start breathing fire


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wsinsle wrote:

Good tips and great job on the video.

Thanks

BobE wrote:

Nice job Daze, good tips, thank you.  

My pleasure, Glad you liked it
 

It had been way too long inbetween videos even though I had a good excuse.  Mustang Steve gave me some engine building tips and the video is on that and other possible "mistakes" that can cause issues when putting an engine together.  I hope to actually get the thing put together in the next couple days. https://youtu.be/xkN5i8cphMI

 

RTM wrote:

This video is really making its rounds on Facebook. I'm seeing being shared and posted on a lot of groups and pages.

It's a little bit ridiculous what people like and share... it's not a very good video but yet it's my top performer at 420K views.  I have way better videos with only a few thousand views.  I never know what is going to hit.  More often than not the videos I pore a tone of time and energy in flop and the ones I throw together do well.
 

MS wrote:

I think it is some CGI mess. Look closely at the headlights. The right one overlaps the bottom of the headlight door and the left does not. They look like cropped versions of round lights. The rear bumper is visible in the rear view, but is gone in the side view. And the side coves…. I agree they look like an orange wrap gone terribly wrong.
Just a big mess of a mess.

Good spot on the rear bumper...maybe it is CG,  but I still can't see any reason to go through the effort/expense of doing the CG when all you need to do is remove the badging to eliminate licensing fees.

rpm wrote:

I don't know, I kinda like them square headlights. Are square headlights even made?

A quick internet search came up with this.  Probably doesn't give the option for high and low beams but somehow I don't think this car was designed with driving being the first priority.


 

BobE wrote:

Thoughts?  Don't like it. 
I do not know how to tell something that may have been created by a computer, or what can be done with 'photoshop', AI, etc.  By why go to that extent and leave the OEM wheels?  And where is the gas filler cap located?
I am curious as to whether this is a real car, and, if so, why the builder went to this effort. 
 

Ron68 wrote:

Gotta be CGI - they forgot to put the front turn signals on the lower valance.

I can almost guarantee it's NOT CGI.  CG is very expensive and this is just a commercial.  You could use CG inexpensively to eliminate badging but not completely redesign the car, especial on a moving image as she drives the car through most of the add.  Yes CG could be used to make the mods we see to the car but the CG will take up 3-4 times the entire commercial budget and why would you do that when you can simply use a different car.  It's the name, badging, and logos that would be the copyright issues not the stylings of the car as lots of Mustang appear in commercials and the body lines are not modified.

Sad truth is it's a real car and someone chose to turn a Mustang into that.
 

Steve69 wrote:

Mine would be looking at both of your cars!  They look great!

except for the fact that Steve didn't get the passengers side door shut.. "ruined" the picture.  😂😁🤣
 

It has been almost 7 weeks since my surgery.  I am recovering, albeit slowly.  The doctors tell me I am way ahead of where I should be which horrifies me because I still get fatigued fairly easily.  I am walking 3 miles a day and am able to spend a few hours a day in the garage but am quite tired afterwords.  They say this is a 6 month recovery so I guess I should be happy with my progress but I am not one to sit still. 😁  No football officiating and no bash for me this year but next year both are something I am going to try and participate in.  In spite of  the small amount of time per day and my weight limit restrictions I have still manage to do a project or two.  

If you are like me and most of what you do is SBF Windsor you may consider getting a mockup block. Obviously you would need two to have both the 289/302 and the 351 and these foam blocks are not cheap. I didn't want to pay for two blocks so I purchased a 302 block with removable heads and made deck height spacers so I could also use my 302 block to mock up a 351. 

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My Uncle's square body chevy has two stuck locking gas caps.  I haven't actually looked at the caps... been a little laid up  but it sounds to me like the internal mechnisem is frozen so I don't even know if drilling it out will work.  Got any other techniques to pull one of these caps without out damaging the filler neck, don't care about saving the cap.

Thanks for the kind words and prayers!!!  I'm HOME and feel like someone dropped a toploader on my chest.  This will be a very long recovery, 6 weeks minimum and things I will likely need to be mindful off for the rest of my life  (I'm not even 50 yet) .  This all started at the end of May and likely I tore my aorta then but was relatively asymptomatic.  It was torn in three spots and could have completely ruptured at any time in the following month which would have been the end, especially given I was still exercising every day.  Everyone is saying I need to buy a lottery ticket.  I went from a routine ultrasound last Tuesday to confirm I was "getting better" to a ER room CT scan showing  the problems were not better but actually worse  and then surgery an hour later.  Thanks again to the support from this family!!!

Thanks guys.  When I get to the test and tune I will show snippets here first before it ever makes it to my channel.

RPM, aka Bearing Bob wrote:

 
Yeees...butt...I saw what you were doing, but I'm too lazy to do a two minute search. But I'll post a couple times here which takes much more time.

 😂😁😂  Sounds reasonable to me 
 

Nos681 wrote:

Daze, you deserve an honorable mention as well.

I did read your initial write up years ago…did not see the updated clevis.

I used the same seller for the clevis, just checked your website.

No I don't need honerable mention 😁😁 Just curious if it was the same part and now we know it is.