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Kindly pardon my ignorance Tom but, is there a reason not to use hose clamps?

I was watching the Lightning vs Canadiens game last night. It had been snowing there in Montreal all day. Meanwhile it was 80° in Tampa.

JB Weld would likely do it and I have used it (on top of a head where it pitted under the intake manifold) but I never trusted it. I never had a reason not to but in the back of my mind I always...

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A guy I knew had one that was

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It may not seem odd to us now but back in the 50s, 60s and 70s the world was nowhere near as globalized as it is today.

There's an interesting...collaboration?...imitation?...not sure what to call it but there seems to be an interchange between the Japanese and British autos in that era which is surprising or at...

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Awesome. And this will allow you to go back to an "unmodified" shifter set up?

Is that going to leave you enough structural integity Mike? Seen cars come apart at the drag strip. Of course I doubt you'd be doing that but still, you wouldn't want any shiftiness.

Oh I totally get it; preaching to the choir so to speak. That was not intended to be smart or cute. I have had old cars my whole life until a few years ago when I sold my '63 Buick Riviera. When I...

Wow, you really never do get done with it do you? I remember those days. It all comes back to me reading this post.

I hope you love it. You'd have to for it not to be a drag.

You should hold auditions for people to be your shop monkeys.

Ooh! Me too! Me too!

You could have a reality show. Mike's Extreme Garage Makeover.

I have only ever sold a car in the black once anyway, at least with hotrods or sports cars. It is very hard to not go upside down with cars unless it is a business and even then it seems like a...

Amen to that. I wish I had all the money back I spent on cars...of course I wish I had the cars back also...at least most of them.

Boy I get that. In my old BMW 1600 the synchro gear between 1st and 2nd was gone so you had to know how to shift it to keep from hearing, "GRIND ME A POUND OF THAT!" from passing motorists.

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Ah the good ol days of tweaking a performance vehicle. I have fond memories...but I don't envy you one single ioda.

I used to do that iny hotrod days so I could experiment with advance/retard.

The 2002 Ford E250 I retired a few years ago developed an issue after turning 300k mi. Turns out it was a fuel/air mix due to injection issues but it began puffing white smoke like a busted water...

Yeah that would make sense. As Tom said though too many things at a time muddys the water. I had a similar-ish thing happen with one of our work vans. Lousy running then it died and was a no start....

What about a vapor lock?

Hope you're running ethanol free.

John D Rockefeller, at that time the world's wealthiest man, was once asked "How much money is enough?" His answer was, "Just a little bit more."