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    Yes they do.
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    Do ignition systems really do anything?

    Lol, my wife isn't exactly what I'd call mechanically savvy, but you can't have everything. Years ago, she got so tired of people asking me questions about her car, she got a license plate frame that said, "No It's NOT My Boyfriends 'Vette" as a semi joke. So years go by, I moved to Oregon and...
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    Do ignition systems really do anything?

    Lol, It actually is her car. She grew up on a cattle ranch and wanted a Corvette. So she saved money from bottle feeding calves that the mother wouldn't take and scraped up the $6000 needed to buy the car when she was 19 in 1985. These days it's tough to imagine a 19 year old girl restoring a...
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    Do ignition systems really do anything?

    The Corvette IS my wife's car, so there's that...
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    Do ignition systems really do anything?

    I know it's hard to believe, but it's true and repeats so I know it's not a boo-boo with my math or a big tailwind. Here's the combination: 1969 Corvette (3600 lbs), 427 (390 hp) with a 4speed trans and 3.36 gear in the rear, 295/50-15 tires. The engine is mostly stock except the cam (Comp Cams...
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    1965 Engine replacement choices (cheapest)

    I think the bellhousing may be different, but they're the same trans. BTW, want to know how I found out 6 cylinder flywheels interchange with SBF? I bought a flywheel that accepted an 11" clutch at a swap meet that was cheap and had "302" written on it with a paint pen. So I bought it, had it...
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    Do ignition systems really do anything?

    Getting 20 mpg out of a carbed car isn't magic. My wife's 1969 427 Corvette gets 17 mpg with a carb and points. While my '68 doesn't currently get 20 mpg (too big of cam, too low of gears, to heavy right foot) it gets 17 or so freeway. You also can't stand to run it in the garage. Ask anyone...
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    1965 Engine replacement choices (cheapest)

    Not to start an argument, but a SBF weighs about 450 lbs where the six is about 75 lbs lighter, not 250 lbs. If it were 250 lbs lighter that would put it at 200 lbs. By comparison the all-aluminum two stroke twin in my Yamaha banshee weighed 125 lbs! The trans for a 6 doesn't weight one ounce...
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    1965 Engine replacement choices (cheapest)

    If I were starting from scratch, I'd go with the roller cam 5.0 (like the 1990 you mentioned) and the T5 it's likely attached to. I tried to give away a 5.0 with about 120K miles (ran fine) but realistic CL ads seem to favor a few hundred bucks for a nice running one. T5's are popular (as in...
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    Do ignition systems really do anything?

    Awesome stuff here. Age is relative indeed, I'm almost 57 and still love to hear the small block in my '68 scream up through the gears on the freeway on ramp. My 18 year old son loves it, my wife, not as much. Like you, I'm not too quick to dismiss "older" technology. While I absolutely love the...
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    Exhaust question/opinion

    An X-Pipe will drop the interior sound a touch more than the H-pipe design in my experience.
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    Do ignition systems really do anything?

    Neat car indeed. I gotta ask, what's the little sports car next to your coupe? What I can see appears to be Datsun 1600 roadster. Or maybe an Alpine/Sunbeam Tiger. Hard to tell, but cool regardless.
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    Do ignition systems really do anything?

    Lol, glad to see some common sense being spread here. I still remember the first time I swapped in a Mallory Dual Point and expected huge power gains and got no noticeable change at all. People who claim they feel a difference need to post up some quarter mile times, or MPG improvements or dyno...
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    New to forum. Doing restoration 66 Mustang coupe.

    Yep. The days of finding a $100 9 inch, especially one narrow enough for a '65-'66 are long gone. By the time you buy a housing and axles ($700 and up) and a limited slip 3rd member ($1000 and up) and brakes (used drums if you like) that 8 inch Auburn will seem like a bargain and will be just...
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    Worth the upgrades?

    Personally, I think numbers matching stuff on a 1-of-500,000 car is a waste of time. Anyone that thinks their drum brake, 289, 2 barrel carb, auto trans car is worth more stock than tastefully modified is dreaming. When I built my clone, I started with an extremely clean, one-owner fastback with...
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    Mustang Depot or Maier Racing?

    I tried using the heat method to get my Maier hood into some semblance of shape. I put over 80lbs of weight on it, plus two big cabinet clamps and enough heat that you couldn't put your hand on it and left it for several days with zero affect. Not that it mattered, not only was the hood bowed in...
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    1966 289V8 timing/bent push rods?

    Yes I do. There's two schools of thought on this: one is to bump the starter (pull the coil wire to keep it from accidentally starting) until the valve is closed. With the pushrod in place, once it's down as far as it will go, the valve is all the way closed. Tighten the nut on the rocker until...
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    Learning to fix problems in a 65' with a 68' 302

    Oh yeah, it's amazing to me how bare-bones our cars really are. I open the hood of my wife's Lincoln and there's absolutely nothing I can work on. I tried changing a Xenon light bulb in it (the headlights also turn with the wheels) and failed. Had to pay the guy that changes oil in it $20 to put...
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    Mustang Depot or Maier Racing?

    I have Maier hood and Shelby nose on my fastback. Depending on how picky you are, you can easily spend more than the hood making it right. They don't fit for squat but can be fixed. Learn how to work with fiberglass and you can do it yourself for about $50, which is what I did.
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    1966 289V8 timing/bent push rods?

    If you think you bent one, pull the valve covers off and rotate the pushrods between your thumb and forefinger (with the engine stopped of course) and see. If they are badly bent, they can fall out, but either way, you'll easily spot a bent one.
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