[kingbuzzo]

I concur!

[Jack Gifford]

221 or 260 in the Meteor? (Sorry if you already told me and I forgot)

[Lemans64]

Decide to buy a Digital angle gauge to try and check my pinion angles, Already had adjustable uppers, but had never bothered to check it.
Had a 4 post hoist at work, but had to wait till retied and do it at home. LOL. Crawling around on floor I found that trans was down 2.1 *
and rear was pointed down 3.5*. OOPS. adjusted to up 2.1* and found I was able to move axle housing a touch side to side with adjustable
uppers. Tires were hitting exhaust, adjusted to center the diff and road tested. All good. Now onto the next thing I have been putting off for years, LOL.

[67drake]

Originally Posted by Jack Gifford

221 or 260 in the Meteor? (Sorry if you already told me and I forgot)

Well, I had always thought it was a 221 based on the casting codes. After I pulled the engine and inspected it, I found it to be a 260! I brought this issue with the codes up over on a Ford website, and the best explanation we can come up with is that it’s possibly a service replacement block.

[400 4spd.]

We recently replaced a customer's exhaust system ('69 GTO) with a Gardner system (awesome quality and fit), and I bought the 2 1/2" system we removed. As time has allowed the past couple of days, I now have it under my '72 Grand Prix.
Next week I'm picking up a built '67 428 from another customer. Hoping it ends up in my '67 GTO. My original WT can go to the next owner when the time comes.

[MUSLCAH]

Getting the 64 GP out of storage ...Saturday....Then my 67 GTO next weekend.

[65 Lamnas]

Compared the pics of my block from 10 months ago to vs today.

[Jack Gifford]

Well... I didn't actually do this today, I had a shop do it. Both exhaust manifold gaskets needed replacing on the 455HO in the 'Bandit' Suburban, so I bought a pair of Remflex gaskets and had them installed. It's a nasty job even on a lift. I have to admit to feeling too old to tackle it from a creeper.
I can't complain about the gaskets- the engine was built in '93- 31 years and lord knows how many miles ago! I've put 50,000 miles on it without ever needing to get into the engine.
What I did do on my Pontiac today was continue machining stuff to convert the lakester's broken four cylinder hemi Pontiac to a two-cylinder. Rather than source a smaller blower, I'll keep the huge 14-71, but underdrive it a bunch more (about 19% of crank speed) . This requires a 2-stage belt drive, so I'm almost finished machining a jackshaft arrangement. Keeping with the low-budget approach, and using spare parts, I'll only need to buy a couple of belts.

[BILL BOWMAN1]

Relocated bottom shock mount so I can put a bigger tire on.

[BILL BOWMAN1]

Now I hopefully will be able to shoehorn these custom 8 lugs with 255-70-15’s.

[Verdoro 68]

Got up at the crack of dawn and headed over to a show in Benicia, CA. Pretty good showing of Pontiacs. Every time I go to one of these big shows where you're locked in all day, I'm reminded me why I like the smaller casual cruise ins better.

[BILL BOWMAN1]

Quick test fit on one side.. still room to spare!

[b-man]

Began cloning the Le Mans into a GTO.

The Horror…..