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- January 26 : 2:56p
| | What's a Carburetor? | |
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- January 26 : 3:54p
| Dude, go manual choke.
When are the gold 100-spokes going on there? | |
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- January 26 : 4:27p
| Keeping it all stock with the white walls  | |
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- January 26 : 6:04p
| You so need to add curb feelers, pink shag carpet dash and fuzzy dice on the rear view.
TA | |
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- January 26 : 6:36p
| Sprocket, I used to have one of those only all black. Man, that thing had tons of room inside! It was pimpin for sure
Wish I could find an older version w/suicide doors like the one in animal house! | |
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- January 26 : 7:37p
| | You're going to end up hating three things for certain; washing it, drying it, and detailing it! That thing has acres of paint! | |
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- January 26 : 7:42p
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Nice ride Sprocket | |
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- January 26 : 8:37p
| ROAD TRIP!! | |
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- January 26 : 8:51p
| | Tom, you forgot "buying gas for it." | |
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- January 26 : 10:42p
| If it has a set of points, go straight to your favorite online auto parts place and buy a Pertronix Ignitor (solid state replacement for points). That will make starting the car about 1000 times easier under many conditions.
If it hasn't had plugs recently, go get a set of plain old autolite, motorcraft, or NGK plugs. Copper cheapies. No platinum! The cheap ones work great in these old engines. It'll cost you 10 bucks and most of the skin off your knuckles, but it will be well worth it.
New plug wires - now. Unless the previous owner gave you a receipt for some in the last few thousand miles.
Those things will get you 90% there.
Put a bottle of Sea Foam through it before you rebuild or replace the carb.
If you really MUST get a rebuilt carb, and you want it to run like new, see if Pony Carburetors (I think they're near Syracuse NY) has a rebuild/replacement program for that model/car. Nobody knows Ford carbs like those guys. It'll cost you a couple hundred bucks and you won't have to do a thing but bolt it on. If you buy a parts place replacement, you'll be bugging us about setting the floats and all sorts of other crap. Frankly, I don't want to hear it - it took me 2 YEARS to get my last early Ford carb to run like new. My friend's Shelby ran like Day 1 after a half hour when we got his Pony Carb rebuilds.
Meanwhile, you do know that a 460 gets about 8 miles per gallon - up hill, down hill, with or without a tailwind, in neutral, towing a trailer. Whatever, it'll always do about 8. It's pretty hard to make a 460 'work hard'.
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- January 27 : 9:40a
| Thanks Eric.
My office is about a mile from my house so no worries on gas, plus I've got a few gas savers when I need to go some where. I'm going to do the plugs/wires this weekend. Never heard of a Pertronix Ignitor, I'll check it out.
Yesterday I ripped all the door panels off and got all the windows back on track and greased. Even the little wing windows roll down, perfect for a smoker like me!
Got two 15's going in the trunk as soon as I find an amp, hooked up a dvd player in the glove box and 7" screen below the dash. | |
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- January 27 : 10:01a
| | Nice! It looks like you're going to PIMP your own ride! (instead of having Xibit and his new fcked up crew do it for you). | |
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- January 27 : 12:15p
| What, the factory 2 speaker sound isn't good enough for you? It might even have some deluxe setup with *4* speakers! Two in the dash, and two in the rear package tray.
I did a quick Google - looks like all Lincoln V8s from 57-73 had a standard single point distributor with no electronic ignition. Pertronix says a Ignitor p/n 1281 will fit.
Since last time I checked, they came out with an 'Ignitor II', which adds variable dwell for more mid-range power. Not sure you need that with a 460, but it might improve mileage, which would never hurt, even if you only do have a short commute.
You gotta get it out on the road and let it warm up all the way. A too short commute would be hard on it after a while... road trip!
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- January 27 : 1:06p
| It had some 6x8's in the rear, I already ripped those out for some 6x9's....haven't gotten to the fronts yet. I'm keeping the "8"-track in there and got the cd/dvd player hidden in the glove box.
I doubt I'll even really drive this thing. I just want to clean it up and show it here and there, cruise on the weekends when I'm actually home. I've got a 81 Chevy C10 I was tinkering with in my backyard but lost total interest in it and hopefully will have it to the scrap yard this weekend so I can park my new baby in it's place to play with. |
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- January 27 : 1:07p
| | Road trip indeed! For him and 9 of his friends! | |
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- January 27 : 7:11p
| | and two migets wrestlin in the trunk! | |
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