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Originally Posted by Rusty
Bill,
That's a good point. I'm leaning toward doing just some bolt on items for fun/interest, such as a dual carb intake (possibly) if I can find one and maybe just making a header. I guess I'm not overly worried about the performance aspect of the car, because like I said, I don't think it's ever going to really move out. I'm really just interested in the reliability factor with it. Starting soon, I hope to start digging into the starting issues I was having with it in the fall, and possibly rewiring it to a 12 volt system.
It's a pretty neat car that I think I was pretty lucky to come across for $5200. It has every chrome option that I can find for the car, so I guess I'd really like to just dress up the motor compartment a little bit.
I'm also really interested in trying to adapt power steering onto the straight 8 if anyone has any experience with that, or knows anyone whom might know, let me know. I want my wife to be able to drive this as easily as I can, but with the "strongarm" steering in it now, I don't think she'd feel comfortable driving it.
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If you can't find a high compression head 7.7 compression you could have your head milled. I have a 53 and my problem was my engine was shot so I opted to go with a 55 Pontiac V8. It has been a struggle getting the correct parts but for double the horsepower I hope it's worth it. I am converting to 12 volt and you will need to get the good heavy duty voltage reducers for your radio and do some rewireing for the alternator. Your car looks good now so I stay with the straight 8 and just go throught the engine. Good luck and let us all know how it turns out.