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    How to remove quarter windows?

    I JUST took mine out before sending the car out for paint, so from memory: Remove rear seat & interior quarters, watershields, etc. The 1/4 cap weatherstrip peice (in the door sill) needs to come off, and I was removing all my w/s anyway so out it came. Looking from the interior to...
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    upper console wiring

    According to the wiring assembly manual, it taps into the harness just before the passenger side door switch. It looks like there is a Y shaped wire that plugs into the switch and the standard harnesss. I'm planning to fabricate something like that to install my upper console once it's back from...
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    seat belts???

    Required after '66 I believe. Anyway my '67 coupe, which came with only the 289 and an AM radio as options when my grandparents bought it, has seat belts in all four places. The rears would not require much work for someone to have removed; they don't have retractors or anything, just four bolts...
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    parts interchange

    Too many to list...the 289/302 was basically the same engine until it was replaced by the modular engine. There were some changes along the way to front dress and flywheels, etc.. you probably need to grab some literature
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    85 mph brick wall

    Well if it lacks power at low RPM but wakes up at a higher engine speeds, assuming you don't have an inappropriate cam or heads (e.g., Boss 302 = torque dog), I'd say you are overcarbed. One of the biggest factors in low-rpm power is airspeed through the carb to atomize the fuel; if it's too big...
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    85 mph brick wall

    Well if it lacks power at low RPM but wakes up at a higher engine speeds, assuming you don't have an inappropriate cam or heads (e.g., Boss 302 = torque dog), I'd say you are overcarbed. One of the biggest factors in low-rpm power is airspeed through the carb to atomize the fuel; if it's too big...
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    seats and headlights

    Don't forget about the 40 year old stock switch. If all you do is run larger cables to and from it it will be the bottleneck for current. And since the circuit breaker lives in there, you may get the infamous flickering headlight syndrome. I only say that because it would be as much or more...
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    Is bench bleeding a new Master Cylinder Necessary?

    I didn't the last time I put a new one in, and it took about 6 months and bleeding the brakes every other weekend for me to get a firm pedal. I just did it again with my disc brake conversion and did bench bleed it. I will never fail to bench bleed again!!
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    What is this harness called

    you may need the underdash harness because A) the current one may not have enough connections for some accessories as stated previously B)to "plug and play" so to speak, the engine compartment harness not only has to have the mating plug on the under dash (and the under dash to the instrument...
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    What is this harness called

    The main difference in the tach/non tach harness probably has more to do with the idiot lights for the "ALT" and "OIL" instead of the tach. I just put a factory tach in my '67 and you have to do some rewiring of the non-tach harnes IF you want to use the idiot lights. If you wanna use an...
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    seats and headlights

    Whatever you choose for bulbs, you can benefit big time from rewiring your headlights to use relays. I was getting about 9.3 volts at the headlights through the 40-year-old stock wiring and switch. I rewired them with relays and 12 ga. wire with a dedicated ground, and now get full power. That...
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    302 or 5.0 misunderastanding...

    Minimal difference in the heads I think. The chamber may be slightly larger and the valve seats are hardened (which is why I put '88 5.0 heads on my 289 several years ago as a cheap fix for my receding valve seats and worn valve train). I think I picked up the pair complete for $40 or $50. But...
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    Coupe Differences

    The collapseable column came mid-year in '67, so if you get a late production car (or one with the tilt-away) it should be collapseable. Failing that, give Flaming River a call. I don't have the actual measurements, but the '67-'68 has about a 2" wider track, which would be a benefit to...
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    429 in 66?

    No way a big block fits in there without some serious surgery. A 351 block will, tightly. Get a stroker kit for that and you can end up with low to mid 400 cubes.
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    67 overhead console

    Yep, got the bracket and a hardware kit from AMK. I'm going to try to reuse the wire that connects the dome light, but unplug it from the current source to an always-hot one. I think the wiring assembly manual indicates that it connects to the interior lamps circuit BEFORE the door switch...
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    67 overhead console

    Thanks to both...yep the new headliner is sitting in boxes along with the rest of the new interior, will go in once I get it painted. I don't think the couple uses a rear bracket? Looks like it screws directly to the rear window header.
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    67 overhead console

    I'm putting the overhead console in my coupe that didn't have one...so a question for anyone that has one from the factory -- does the front bracket go under the headliner, or on top of it? I've got the whole interior along with headliner out now anyway so it's just as easy one way or the other...
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    Weird starting problem...

    Sounds like voodoo to me. No really, it kind of depends upon what the pattern is. You say only half the engine -- does that mean right vs. left (which would be REALLY odd), or just random cylinders? Is the distributor original? Could the bearings be bad or the shaft warped enough to miss...
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    Can't drive car without smelling like gas

    I had the same smell in my '67 coupe. It was also running rich which did not help, so I fixed that. The Autolite 2100 was also leaking at the accelerator pump...fixed that. Still the gas smell (not rich exhaust). I finally found a leak in the trunk where the rubber hose from the filler neck...
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    67-68 Tachometer?

    Yeah, that cluster looks really good. I'm still thinking about it. I pieced together a nice factory cluster with the trip speedo, a clock, and the tach. I have the original wiring harness for a tach car, and a modified one made from a non-tach car (the tach one requires different underdash and...
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