Posts by 289kford

never saw one of these before item 290127716218

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as you wish

just 2 of dozens

after watching that video, I did a search. there a quite a few 289 hipo and early mustang videos. I liked the one with the supercharged burnout and the guy doing the drifting in the parking lot. love to watch people hot rod a little.

I've had a vibration in mine since forever. thought it could be ring and pinion related but I am going to check the trans mount. question is, if there was nothing wrong with the ones replaced above in this thread, was it just mis-aligned?

25" tall tire 1:1 top gear 3.50 gear. 2000 rpm = 42 mph...

2500 = 53..... 3000= 64.... 3500= 74. you can search rear axle calculators on the web and find some to play with tire size etc. you will be surprised at how little tire size changes effect rpm.

if you have bob's book on the small block V8, in the back I think it tells you how to build a 302 HIPO. if you don't have the book, you should get it. I thought the 302 had longer cylinders too ( to compensate for the longer stroke?).

I was at Walmart the other day, they have on the shelf, Accell brand 10w40 motor oil. It says on the bottle, " for use in pre-1989 cars" not for use in new cars. That brand is also sold at Advanced Auto parts or Autozone. I have seen that brand of gear oil at the parts store but not the oil. I think I'll stick with Castrol.

unless there is some of the screw sticking out that you can grab hold of, I would let them do it. I wouldn't think it is seized in the hole so maybe you will get lucky. A few years ago, they removed a broken screw from my choke linkage. After I broke 4 drill bits and was still off center, I gave up.

(resto)modifying a kar does not make it a rebody. repairing a kar does not make it a rebody. equating a new water pump (repair) or changing the paint, changing to dics brakes or rack and pinion (modify) to cutting the VIN out of a car so it can be replaced with the vin from a kar that no longer exists is ludicrous.

I don't have the book in front of me, but you can get a % of the kars (that color) that are in the registry, multiply by total production and have an un-educated guess.

according to the article above, penzoil 20-50 has .196 zinc by weight. kendall 20-50 per the kendall site has .249 zinc and only has the api service rating of sl, not sm. how much zinc was in the old oil and what api rating would it be? also, saw on another site that BG products MOA oil additive has zinc in it, the black can, not the new blue can that is for new cars. dont know if both products are available.

Assuming no mechanical or adjustment problem exists on your car, it is normal for reverse to be occasionally 'blocked out'. rolling or engaging a forward gear will spin the gear set and allow reverse to engage. it is still common on todays transmissions.

I heard that car pulling into the building, it was fairly loud. I wish I paid more attention to it now knowing it had the arvinode system on it. wish I heard it outside, driving down the road.

I have the FORD lettered intake on mine. It is from the old Muscle parts catalog era. Looks like a Shelby, Cobra, the non letttered version, and the F4B. I wanted period correct Cobra or Ford.

I talked to the 3x2 guy at the show. that may have been dealer installed if i remember. I think that was his dads car.

Being a C/SA bracket kar, is this a 427? 289's would have been L-M I thought. Looked on the internet, couldnt find this kar but did find the list of K code race Kars, all were fastbacks, sequintial vins.

No it's not a K, and I don't know the reserve, but it is a bad ass looking body style, recently(?) restored, and if the right price could still be a good buy. look for the positive guys. the car is what it is and any old car is good to have at the right price. educate the seller, maybe he doesnt know better.

when I got my Kar 30 yers ago, it had metallic drum racing brakes all the way around. it took 2 feet to stop the car when they were cold and it pulled, but they stopped good after being warmed up. I drove it like that till about 4 years ago when I went to normal brake linings. still drum, maybe disc some day. still have those metallic shoes in a box.

I registered my kar at about the time the 2nd edition came out and ordered the book at the same time. My car was in the book. I had owned the car since 76, long before any registry. I don't know how it was registered unless state records were scanned some how by somebody.

(He further states, "a mid- or high-rise manifold is only going to elp you if you are consistently running the engine between 5000-8000 rpm.")

5-8K? in my opinion, that RPM would require a Hi-rise single plane. Edelbrock, Weiand and now Ford Racing state that this particular design is good 1500-6500. I have never run my K with a cast iron intake so i can't compare but I can say that switching from cast to aluminum made a difference on my old A code.

ITSAHIPO, I am running it on my HIPO. After further review, I have a C90Z from the Muscle parts era, not a C90X. When I saw F4B and the Colt, etc. I just assumed they were all the 289-302 intakes being discussed. thanks for making me think a bit, I have corrected my post.

By the way, from the Holley site:

In 1949 Weiand introduced a series of "tri-power" and four 2-barrel manifolds and imediatly after WWII Weiand debuted a line of aluminum cylinder heads for flathead Ford engines. The famous "Drag Star" line of "log" manifolds for Hemi engines was introduced in 1952 and in 1957 Weiand developed complete blower drives for the GMC 6-71 supercharger. The first dual plane, 180º intake came from Weiand in 1965 as the "Colt" and in 1968 Weiand introduced the "Hi-Ram Manifold" and the patented D-port technology.