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from the thumb of Michigan I like old cartoons too. So much **** on TV these days. Vintage cartoons take me back and make me smile. Never heard "snort wagon" exactly. But it has a familiar and typical sound for the time. Might have likely come from Tex's imaginative mind. I had neighbors a couple of farms down the road. Lee and Norma, both 92 ...
Just pull number on plug on the front left bank, pull coil wire to keep it from starting, stick your thumb over the hole, bump it slowly with your remote start button or a buddy on the key switch, when it blows against your thumb pull the cap and make sure the rotor is pointing at the number one hole, if it is not, like Jean Luc Piccard would ...
Rickybop ALLIANCE MEMBER from the thumb of Michigan Huh... it's a 2-door. What is it?
a good rule of thumb is, whatever you can add going from 1.5 to 1.65 rockers, i.e. around 10% more lift, you can generally grind into the cam itself for hydro flat tappet. then if you run the same 1.65 rockers, you can add that much more again with rocker ratio. so...in case of a Pontiac V8, a .470" lift cam can become a .510" lift cam, then ...
Roll oversteer feels twitchy. There are lots of "rules of thumb" about what should be parallel or pointing up or down. Mostly it's all bunk. Just do the calculations and design a geometry for the handling characteristics you want. Some adjustability is always a good thing as well.
The accepted "rule of thumb" at the axle connection is to have the shackles at a 45 degree inclination. Due to the arched design of the "A" spring, the outboard end of the spring will move out laterally almost as much as vertically at the 3" design bump.