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From: kspousta@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Kevin Spousta)
Subject: Re: 1984 V6 Creme colored Mustang
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Distribution: Anywhere, and Everywhere
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:37:10 GMT

Just a thought here on the moisture problem..  Hosin' down the inside of the
dist cap with WD-40 will displace any moisture that may be in there.  Also,
swishing some isopropyl alcohol around in the cap will do the same thing.

You can try the WD-40 bit on the alternator, but it's gonna make a big mess
when you fire off the car..  I had a similar problem on my '71 big block (455
RamAir IV) Firebird.  I dumped the entire alternator into a bucket of alcohol
and then blew it dry.  Worked like a charm until I accidentally shorted out the
stator.. ehhehe
From: dcg@mogun.UUCP (David Gunsul)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
Subject: Re: V-8 in a Fiero
Summary: total insanety part 2 :-)
Date: 24 Jan 93 22:12:56 GMT
Organization: Hotrods `R' Us, Montgomery, IL

In article <1jeiseINNb7v@lynx.unm.edu>, mwalker@chama.eece.unm.edu (Mark Walker) writes:
> In article <237@mogun.UUCP>, dcg@mogun.UUCP (David Gunsul) writes:
> 
> [Original post omitted...]
> 
> > I don't know if this has been discussed or not but, if your interested,
> > I have the address of a company that sells a BIG-BLOCK kit.
> 
> I'm sure we're interested, can you post the address?


Sure, the article only has a phone number but it's inside of the Dale
Wilch Sales RPM magazine.
Weither or not the kit's are actually from Dale Wilch or not, I don't know.


Anyway, the phone number is: 816-966-0595


Complete small block installation kits........$1695.00
Complete big block installation kits..........$1795.00 



> > Also, I have a friend with a 350 in his Fiero and his trans (stock manual)
> > didn't hold up under normal driving conditons and neither did the brand new
> > one that he bought after that.
> 
> How did the other transmissions fail?


He just kept losing gears.

It was really a disapointment after all of the time he had spent putting
the car together peice by peice and then not being able to enjoy driving it.

Both transmissions lasted about a week of normal driving and then all of a
sudden boom. :~(
              


> > He finally got a Borg Warner (I think) 5-speed which is still holding even
> > under not-so-normal driving. :-)
>  
> Do you know what the trans came out of or is normally installed in?


I know it was a used unit and I know he got it from a bone-yard but I have
know idea what it was out of. 



>  I daydream about fusing two Buick 	| Mark Walker 
>  V6s into a V12 and stuffing it into a	| mwalker@chama.eece.unm.edu.
>  chopped 'n dropped '53 Buick Super...	| 505/277-3688  (home 899-0644)
>    Anybody know a willing machinist?    | Albuquerque, NM

                      
                                          
                     
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                     | David Gunsul       
                     | dcg@mogun.uucp      
                     |------------------------------------------------
                     |  It's amazing what $2,500 worth of big block
                     |  will do to $60,000 worth of high technology. 
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From: (Eric Youngblood)
Subject: Vericom Corp info?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:00:14 GMT
Reply-To: Peon w/o Email privs (Eric Youngblood)
Organization: BNR, Inc.

Anyone know how to contact Vericom?  Is there a phone number or
address to write to.  None of the local performance shops around
here have a clue.  I am interested in some auto test equipment.

$0.02

Ericy 


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From: sosc1092@wc14.writer.yorku.ca (Vijay Doobay)
Subject: Re: v6 or v8
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:59:01 GMT

In article <1ivkqnINNrsk@golden.kaleida.com> The Coffin  
<coffin@talisman.kaleida.com> writes:
> Does anyone know of a place that sells a kit to put a v6 or small v8  
(215
> cu in) in a Toyota truck?
> 
> 
> Thanks
]

Your project isn;t that hard to do.  What kind of V8 are you attempting to  
stick in??  My friend shoe horned in a 350 Chev motor into his 81 Toyota  
pickup.  It worked.  What had to be done was this:  He had to get the new  
motor mounts from GM, and re-weld them in.  After that, the motor just  
dropped in without  any complications.

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[-----------York University ----------]/\/\/\/\/\/1993\/\/\/\/\/\
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Subject: Oversize pushrods revisited
From: "Russell E. Hoffman, II" <rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:46:44 -0500 
Organization: Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Folks,
   After getting several replies of "Well, it *sounds* like ...." and 
"*maybe* it works like this..." but no definitive answers to my question
of when and why to use small block Chevy pushrods that are 0.100" longer
than stock, I'm convinced nobody really knows. Thanks to all who
replied, though; there were some good suggestions about rocker arm
geometry. 
    My personal guess as to why someone would want to use the longer
rods would be if the higher-lift cams use a smaller base circle, so that
the lobes extend to the same height, but still fit thru the cam bearings
when you place the cam. Thus, you'd need longer rods to take up the
difference. 
     In any case, after having several people look at his engine, we've
come to the conclusion that the problem may have been linked instead to
the rockers loosening up. The engine is using solid lifters and a .525"
lift cam. So, my brother is considering buying a "stud girdle" -- a bar
that goes across the top of your rocker arms, and has holes in it for
the nuts used to adjust the valves. Once you adjust the valves, you put
the bar on and tighten the set screws on each hole to keep the nuts from
turning. Anyone have any experience with these, and have any comments or
suggestions?  Thanks!

-Russell Hoffman
rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:23:53 EST
From: Steven M Race <RSNSMR@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
Subject: 1969 Pontiac Trans Am Parts Wanted

I am looking for the RamAir set-up that the factory put on these cars.
If anyone has any knowledge of such parts that are for sale, I would appreciate
 the information. Thank You.
From: lusky@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan R. Lusky)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
Subject: Re: Oversize pushrods revisited
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:55:33 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <wfNLY4W00WB9JVblFf@andrew.cmu.edu> "Russell E. Hoffman, II" <rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>    My personal guess as to why someone would want to use the longer
>rods would be if the higher-lift cams use a smaller base circle, so that
>the lobes extend to the same height, but still fit thru the cam bearings
>when you place the cam. Thus, you'd need longer rods to take up the
>difference. 

  Exactly.  That's the point I (and others, I guess) were getting at.

>     In any case, after having several people look at his engine, we've
>come to the conclusion that the problem may have been linked instead to
>the rockers loosening up. The engine is using solid lifters and a .525"
>lift cam. So, my brother is considering buying a "stud girdle" -- a bar
>that goes across the top of your rocker arms, and has holes in it for
>the nuts used to adjust the valves. Once you adjust the valves, you put
>the bar on and tighten the set screws on each hole to keep the nuts from
>turning. Anyone have any experience with these, and have any comments or
>suggestions?  Thanks!

Hmmm...  Stud girdles are supposed to keep the rocker studs from flexing
on high-RPM, high-lift, mega-valvespring engines, or at least thats my
understanding.  However, we're using one on our project truck for the
same reason as your brother, to keep the rockers from backing off.
Personally, I don't see how the rocker could have backed off (only happened
once) unless A) the person who adjusted the valves didn't tighten then
setscrew enough, or B) the vibration from our slightly misaligned (off
center) 11-inch diameter by 2 inch wide aluminum supercharger drive pulley
shook it loose.  But just in case we put stud girdles on anyway (and
axed the monster pulley in the process of dumping the roots type blower
in favor of a Vortec).
  Also, I've never seen a stud girdle with set screws...  ours is two
pieces of aluminum that are held together by large bolts.


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From: cujxe@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (John Ealy)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
Subject: 400M c.i. '68 Mustang
Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:15:40 -0600
Organization: Educational Computing Network
NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.ecn.bgu.edu

Has anyone ever placed, or heard of, a 400M c.i. Ford engine in a '68
Mustang?  I need to know if you can get engine mounts or if you have to
fabricate them yourself.  Also, any problems that are encountered.  Is
there a difference in a coupe and a fastback rear quarter panel, and if
there is, who sells a quarter panel specifically for the fastback.  I
don' t want a coupe quarter.  

		Thanks, 

		John
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From: jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason Paul Togyer)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom,rec.autos
Subject: Re: 1994 Pontiac GTO
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:35:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.YfMoDW_00WAuIFGktr
	<1993Jan20.155441.28455@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

1994 Pontiac GTO, hell.  Is Chevy still going to forge ahead with their
plan to release a new Monte Carlo based on the Beretta?  

And does anyone particularly want them to?

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"It's broccoli, dear."
"I say it's spinach, and I say to hell with it!"
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From: s14109jo@UMASSD.EDU
Subject: V6 creme colored 84 Stang
Reply-To: s14109jo@UMASSD.EDU
Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:16:55 GMT

Thanks to all those who responded about
this Mustang problem...

It was the Voltage Regulator..

Joe

Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
From: chucko@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Chuck Fry)
Subject: Re: normal or supreme; what's the dif?
Keywords: normal or supreme gas?
Organization: Recom Technologies, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:45:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.192118.7492@cs.sfu.ca> ekaas@cs.sfu.ca (Erik Kaas) writes:
>This might sound like a silly question, but what's the
>difference between normal and supreme gas?

It's not a silly question.  Lots of otherwise well-informed car nuts
seem to have the same misconceptions you do.

>I know supreme has a higher octane number, what I would like
>to know is:

>If I start using supreme instead of normal, will this improve
>my car's performance (accelaration, mileage, cleaner)?

Only if your engine requires the higher octane.  Typically you would
hear pinging, spark knock, or detonation on the lower grade gas if
this were a problem.

Higher octane gas is actually harder to ignite, so all other things
being equal, it should give you marginally *less* mileage than gas of
the minimum required octane.  This difference is usually so small as
to be unnoticeable.

Some oil companies put more detergents and such in their higher
grades, but all grades of most major brands include some detergents.

>Will it damage the engine (because of higher temperatures)?

NO.  Gas with too LOW an octane rating can damage your engine through
detonation.

>If the manual tells me to use normal, can I use supreme anyway?

Sure.  It doesn't hurt anything (except your wallet).

>I'm asking this because a friend of mine is convinced that
>using supreme is better for his engine, while I'm saying that
>using supreme in a car that requires normal gas will damage it.

You cannot damage a car by using gas with too high an octane rating
(at least in the octane range most of us will ever see on the street).

Hope this clears up some of your questions.

 -- Chuck Fry  Chucko@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom,rec.autos
From: mshar@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Mshar)
Subject: Small Block Chevy Question
Followup-To: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
Keywords: Help if you know for sure.
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:13:32 GMT


I have a question for all of you small block Chevy fans out there.

I have a Monte Carlo with a 1985 manufactured LG4 305 V-8. I know for sure
it is an `85 from the engine serial number. I also know that it is a "CKA"
cast engine. In other words, "CKA" is the production code. 

Now, here is the question. 

In 1984, the compression ratio for the LG4 V-8 was 8.6 to one. In 1985,
which was the year my engine was made, it jumped to 9.5 to one. Everything
else, including the cam, exhaust, etc. remained the same. My question is,
what did Chevy do to the engine to increase the compression ratio? I know
that the bore and stroke remained the same. Did Chevy use cylinder heads
with smaller chambers, did they use pop-up pistons, did they change the
deck height, or what? The strange part is, in 1984, the only differences
between the LG4 and the L69 305HO were the compression ratio and the cam
specs. (8.6 to one vs. 9.5 to one, and a little more lift on the L69`s cam)
But in 1985, the only difference was the cam, because the compression ratio
of the LG4 was the same as that of the L69 (9.5 to one).

In addition, if anyone out there knows what the cylinder head combustion
chamber size, deck height, or piston specs are for this engine, please let
me know. If I know this information, I can calculate the compression ratio.

Please respond by e-mail if you have an answer. I don`t log in very much,
because I am at my co-op job site, and have to pay long distance for this.
Thanks a lot, especially if you know the answer!!

Mike
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From: cmh@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Holcomb)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
Subject: RE: 1994 GTO
Date: 28 Jan 1993 04:40:15 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


  Hearing all this talk about the possible 1994 GTO and new Monte Carlo has
sparked my interests about what people think. Back a couple years when High
Performance Pontiac wrote an article about the Grand Am based 1992 GTO, they
got a lot of feed back from the readers. The majority of them said (and 
petitioned) to scrap the idea. 

  I am only a 21 year old college student, but I was brought up around the
"classic" cars. I believe in letting old legends lie. Part of me would sort of
like to see a 1994 GTO on the road. He/She would pull up next to my dad's 
1969 GTO and the light would turn green......I love showing people that the
old cars still have got balls.

  I myself own a 1974 Monte Carlo and wouldn't like to see the new one. I was
disappointed with the new SS. My old Monte eats them alive and they call them
an SS (Sorry, I like to brag. :) ). Anyway, my point is that GM should let the
old name plates rest in the history books and in the minds of the enthusiasts.

--
Chris Holcomb
(cmh@wpi.WPI.Edu)                       1974 Chevrolet Monte Carlo   
				          400/4bbl/TH350
                                           "I didn't know a tank could move
					      that fast!"
From: donr@vlsiphx (Don Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
Subject: Re: V-8 in a Fiero
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:47:22 GMT
Organization: VLSI Technology, Inc. (Tempe)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

David Gunsul (dcg@mogun.UUCP) wrote:
: In article <1jeiseINNb7v@lynx.unm.edu>, mwalker@chama.eece.unm.edu (Mark Walker) writes:
: > In article <237@mogun.UUCP>, dcg@mogun.UUCP (David Gunsul) writes:
: 
[...]
: 
: > > Also, I have a friend with a 350 in his Fiero and his trans (stock manual)
: > > didn't hold up under normal driving conditons and neither did the brand new
: > > one that he bought after that.
: > 
: > How did the other transmissions fail?
: 
: He just kept losing gears.
: 
: It was really a disapointment after all of the time he had spent putting
: the car together peice by peice and then not being able to enjoy driving it.
: 
: Both transmissions lasted about a week of normal driving and then all of a
: sudden boom. :~(
               
That really must be depressing.  8-(
 
: > > He finally got a Borg Warner (I think) 5-speed which is still holding even
: > > under not-so-normal driving. :-)
: >  
: > Do you know what the trans came out of or is normally installed in?
: 
: I know it was a used unit and I know he got it from a bone-yard but I have
: know idea what it was out of. 

Well, what good are ya David??  ;-)  B-)

Any chance of you finding out for us?  I would be interested in this swap if
I knew there was a somewhat readily available combo of part that would hold
together.

DER

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Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom,rec.autos
From: dean@MorningStar.Com (Dean Schell)
Subject: Re: 1994 Pontiac GTO
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:36:58 GMT

In article <YfMoDW_00WAuIFGktr@andrew.cmu.edu> jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason Paul Togyer) writes:
>1994 Pontiac GTO, hell.  Is Chevy still going to forge ahead with their
>plan to release a new Monte Carlo based on the Beretta?  
>
>And does anyone particularly want them to?

I haven't heard the news about the new Monte Carlo, but I did read that
GM was really disappointed in the sales of the Chevy Caprice and they
were going to come out with a Caprice SS in '93 or '94.  I believe that
the SS model is going to have a different body style, in fact the
picture accompanying the article sorta looked like a Thunderbird.

-dean
From: mwalker@chama.eece.unm.edu (Mark Walker)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
Subject: Re: 1969 Pontiac Trans Am Parts Wanted
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:06:08 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: warlock.eece.unm.edu

In article <93025.152353RSNSMR@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>, Steven M Race <RSNSMR@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> writes:
> I am looking for the RamAir set-up that the factory put on these
> cars.  If anyone has any knowledge of such parts that are for sale, I
> would appreciate the information. Thank You.

The magazine Buick, Olds, Pontiac recently went into newsstand distribution
and has tons of ads for sources of parts.  You might be able to pick it up
at a newsstand with a good automobile section.

-- 
 "There's no such thing as fast enough!"| Mark Walker
    (Or something to that effect...)    | mwalker@chama.eece.unm.edu
		James Taylor		| 505/277-3688  (home 899-0644)
		"Two Lane Blacktop"	| Albuquerque, NM
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From: rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade)
Subject: Re: 1994 Pontiac GTO
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:54:42 GMT

In article <YfMoDW_00WAuIFGktr@andrew.cmu.edu> jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason Paul Togyer) writes:
>1994 Pontiac GTO, hell.  Is Chevy still going to forge ahead with their
>plan to release a new Monte Carlo based on the Beretta?  
>
>And does anyone particularly want them to?

i believe the monte will be based on the *lumina*, not the beretta.
and i don't care about it...i want to know about the GTO!  :)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom
From: ekaas@cs.sfu.ca (Erik Kaas)
Subject: normal or supreme; what's the dif?
Keywords: normal or supreme gas?
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:21:18 GMT


This might sound like a silly question, but what's the
difference between normal and supreme gas?

I know supreme has a higher octane number, what I would like
to know is:

If I start using supreme instead of normal, will this improve
my car's performance (accelaration, mileage, cleaner)?

Will it damage the engine (because of higher temperatures)?

If the manual tells me to use normal, can I use supreme anyway?

I'm asking this because a friend of mine is convinced that
using supreme is better for his engine, while I'm saying that
using supreme in a car that requires normal gas will damage it.

Any help will be appreciated.


Erik KK
-- 
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.autos.rod-n-custom,rec.autos
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:27:42 -0500 
From: Jason Paul Togyer <jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: 1994 Pontiac GTO
	<1993Jan25.183658.5386@MorningStar.Com>

Excerpts from netnews.rec.autos: 25-Jan-93 Re: 1994 Pontiac GTO Dean
Schell@MorningStar. (628)

I
> I haven't heard the news about the new Monte Carlo, but I did read that
> GM was really disappointed in the sales of the Chevy Caprice and they
> were going to come out with a Caprice SS in '93 or '94.  I believe that
> the SS model is going to have a different body style, in fact the
> picture accompanying the article sorta looked like a Thunderbird.

> -dean


Yeah, I had read that, too.  Apparently, they were going to resurrect
the "Impala SS" name for the car, and I believe it would have been a
2-door.  I was going to mention that, too, but I thought that I had
perhaps dreamt it.   Apparently not! 8-)

I was afraid that the stagnating sales of the Caprice would have caused
them to scotch the project, but it may be the impetus GM needs to
introduce the car.  I'd love to see the Impala name come back on a
limited edition "performance" car.   Of course, I'd like to see the
Plymouth Fury name come back on a limited edition LH coupe, but that
ain't gonna happen, either... ;-)

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Jason Togyer, Civil Engineering, CMU (Carnegie Tech), Pittsburgh, Penn.
"It's broccoli, dear."
"I say it's spinach, and I say to hell with it!"
--'30s NEW YORKER cartoon caption by James Thurber
*******************************************************************
DISCLAIMER: I'm completely insane, and take no responsibility for my actions.
  For that matter, neither does any organization I'm involved in.
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