joe_padavano

Nicely done, Eric. I’ve also had good results from Right Stuff.

You’ll need a custom flexplate and the D&D adapter plate. The 200-4R is set up to use a lockup converter unless you build it specifically for a non-lockup. You will need to modify the floor. The only later model automatic that fits without floorpan mods is the TH200 three speed.

I’ll also suggest browsing the engine builds at britishV8.com. Lots of good info on the BOPR motors (that’s Buick-Olds-Pontiac-Rover).

Spend some time looking at the engine builds at britishv8.com. The Buick 300 crank is the usual way to go, but put that in a Rover block with Chevy 305 pistons and you get about a 298. The late Rover 4.6 blocks have cross-bolted mains.

“It has all to do with stopping power. If manual brakes are so great then why does the D.O.T. require power brakes, and now antilock brakes.. Again its making old cars better than new.”

You apparently still don’t understand how brakes work. If the pressure at the wheel cylinders is the same, what difference does it make if there is a power…[Read more]

“Why keep manual brakes….. The whole point to convert to disc is power disc brakes… A hell of alot better stopping power. Its all about making old cars better than new.”

Uh, no. The brakes at the wheels neither know nor care if there is a power booster. All they know is the hydraulic line pressure. You don’t need a power booster to make suf…[Read more]

Win10 and Firefox on a PC.

I just did a test. With this website open in one tab in Firefox, I opened a second tab and did a google search for a topic on the site, as I suggested above. When I open that topic, the pictures open up just fine. No gyrations, no magic, just two tabs open in the same browser.

So use Google. It’s a better search engine anyway. In the Google search box, type (with the quotes) and then your search topic. This searches the entire site, forum and all.

Click on the red magnifying glass at the right end of the menu bar at the top of the page.

And where does the other end go? Again, NOT factory, so you’ll have to ask whoever installed it why it is there.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to show in those photos. If they were in focus it might help. I do see a copper line in the second photo. That’s not factory. Olds NEVER used copper lines, only steel.

Eric, do they look like this? These are Centric bushings for a 1963 Tempest from RockAuto.

“This is the line in question if the pic loaded”

Any chance of a photo that’s in focus and zoomed out a little so we can see what’s going on?

“Joe you’re right, the carb choke of that type pulls vacuum. Your description is correct.
However, the exhaust manifold isn’t pulling or have vacuum, the carb is pulling vacuum. The exhaust manifold tube simply provides heated air for the carb vacuum.”

I thought that’s what I said. The tube in the hot air stove simply passes through the man…[Read more]

1961-63 F-85 or Skylark are the only options. Nothing else fits. Rust free sheet metal from the desert southwest is your only option. Keep in mind that this is a unibody car. The floor pans are part of the structure. You don’t want to mickey-mouse something.

The choke hot air tube has vacuum from the carb. That’s how the heated air gets pulled past the choke coil. The other end of that stove in the exhaust manifold is obviously also going to have vacuum, since air has to be pulled into the stove to be heated before it goes to the choke coil. It’s all the same tube.

If your real question is, “is there a flywheel from another engine that fits a 215?”, the answer is no. There are several variants of 215 flywheels, by the way, including the Buick inertia ring flywheels.

Hmmm. Another Jetfire unique part, like the brake line. Cool.

No, I still have the original four wheel drums. I used the Fox body disc M/C. The only difference is that the disc M/C doesn’t have a residual pressure valve in the port to the front brakes. I figured that if that became an issue, I could always just plumb an external PRV into the line. So far I haven’t seen the need for it. My lines are all stock…[Read more]