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    11/24/2021 4:45 PM  #26

    MS
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    From: Canyon Lake, Texas
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    Re: I'm getting ready for winter,,, are you ?

    I did that filter when I first started the forum. There are several others.  Some common, some yet to be discovered.

    Money you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted money... unless your wife finds out.
     

    11/29/2021 7:42 PM  #27

    HudginJ3
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    Re: I'm getting ready for winter,,, are you ?

    MS wrote:

    I did that filter when I first started the forum. There are several others. Some common, some yet to be discovered.

    That's pretty funny MS. Some yet to be discovered. What other tricks did you do?  Now you started a hunt!

    I just got back from AZ. It was great as always. Shorts and short sleeved shirt weather.  My wife has been there for the past month dealing with her dad. I went to get her and her dad to move him here to Dallas over Thanksgiving week. Need to get him checked for the corona now. The Mustang has been lonesome. It doesn't get put up in the winter  
     

    70, ragtop 351W/416 stroker Edel Performer heads w pro flow 4, Comp roller 35-421-8. T5
     

    11/30/2021 11:19 AM  #28

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    Re: I'm getting ready for winter,,, are you ?

    Not sure about Shivel-lay and "the first thin wall design".......
    "Back-in-the-day"( here we go!)  it was pretty common to bore a 283 oversize by 1/8" to get a 301 engine. Some even stuck a GMC blower on top of it!
    Funny story.........That lil Po-Dunk/outlaw 1/4 mile strip I frequented in high school had MANY "gassers" with Shivel-lay mow-derz.
    It was pretty common to paint your engine size on the lower front fender.(Like everybody was tell-en-da-truth...huh!?!))
    265 cu in.+wear....283+wear....327+wear. Some even got more 'honest' with their  signage and stated 283+ware!
    Super/Stock...Super/Super/Stock...A-B-C-D-E stock were the "stock" classes.
    Remover the front bumper put you in a gasser class
    Remove BOTH bumpers put you in  Altered! (plus a few other mods!)
    ANYHOW......30 over....40 over...60 over.... was pretty common. Doesn't sound like thin-wall to me!
    You had to be there to enjoy it like we all did!
    Standing arms-length away from two AWB machines.....dragging the rear bumper...on a VERY narrow strip of asphalt...with a flagman between them .... it's a wonder we all weren't killed! (butt then again...we were 10 feet tall and bullet-proof...there's that!
    Ya shoulda been there!
    6sally6

    Get busy Liv'in or get busy Die'n....Host of the 2020 Bash at the Beach/The only Bash that got cancelled  )8
     

    11/30/2021 1:02 PM  #29

    Steve69
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    Re: I'm getting ready for winter,,, are you ?

    Alan wrote:

    Steve 
    To be Mustang related, you need to pull that trailer with your 69.
     

      LOL  I think there is some spots my Full Length headers would of got caught on the ground...LOL  
     

     

    12/01/2021 5:47 AM  #30

    TKOPerformance
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    Re: I'm getting ready for winter,,, are you ?

    Sure, we used to bore blocks 0.060" over, BUT that was maximum for a typical SBC, BBC, etc.  I've heard of FE's being bored 0.125" over.  Thin wall is relative.  The older castings that were thin wall were still thicker than the 5.0s.

     

    12/10/2021 2:23 PM  #31

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    Re: I'm getting ready for winter,,, are you ?

    Thin wall technology refers to casting process, not necessarily wall thickness. Most older engines had huge, thick castings unlike chevy or ford

    Money you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted money... unless your wife finds out.
     

     

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