Looks good.

What radiator, shroud and fan do you have in the Falcon?

Last edited by Chaplin (4/15/2018 6:44 AM)

Makes my engine compartment seem really roomy after looking at this thing. Nice work.

BobE wrote:

BB - very nice install, one question, will the shock tower braces be re-installed?

Oh yes, we are just not sure of what kind of magic we will do to make them do the job and clear everything.

BB

Thanks C9ZZ.  That might give us some ideas.

BB

Steve69 wrote:

I must of missed a couple of posts.  You bought a Falcon BB?

Naw Steve, my friends are second owner of a Denver DSO 64 Futura Vert, 260, 4 speed, Rangoon Red.
The lady bought it new in Colo Springs when she was a brandy new skool teacher and brought it to Montrose when she got married.  It spent the rest of it's days here.  Always garaged, still has its original paint...nice car.  We are making it a great car with an EFI 5.0, five speed, 12.5" front discs, cable clutch, Vintage Air Gen IV HVAC.

You can see it  here on the street at Bash 13.

BB
 

Last edited by Bullet Bob (4/16/2018 8:03 PM)

kdgt500 wrote:

Bob, I'm about to put a new fuel tank and sending unit in my car and I remembered you had a way to calibrate the sending unit to read more accurately. Can you educate me?

If you PM your email addy to me I'll send you a PDF that I put together (BB's Gas Gauge Gage) that includes a template to adjust your sender to bottom out at the two-gallon level.  It also has instructions to measure the resistance of the sender and adjust it so the gauge will indicate the exact bottom of the scale at the two-gallon level. 
When I put it together I had a early Scott Drake sender with an adjustable arm and a fixed CVR.  I find now that the new senders may not have an adjustable arm and may not have enough resistor travel to allow the gauge to get down to the zero mark.  For the one I just did for the Falcon, I bent the arm to have the float at the two-gallon level when the resistor was bottomed.  Then I used an adjustable CVR to set the voltage (4.3v in this case) such that the gauge would be right at the zero mark.  At the full up position the gauge reads about 7/8 full...you can't have it both ways with the new repop crappo.

Hope this makes some sense. 

BB

Last edited by Bullet Bob (4/18/2018 7:52 AM)

Sorry about the "off topic" question but I have to ask about the "Bird of Pray" (versus "Prey")  Is there a story there?  :-)

Last edited by John Ha (4/18/2018 12:07 PM)

Bullet Bob wrote:

Gee John, Corky figured it out right away.  With all the modifications we are making and considering his wife will probably drive it more than him, it seemed to my friend to be an appropriate name for the project. 

BB

That's what I sorta kinda thunk the answer would be - much the same as the horse of pray" that many of us have.  :-)