Crushing Defeats... and Intake Identification...

Yeah, I hear you about "progress". There seems to be no substitute for doing it right the first time, when it comes to actually moving down the road with the project. As for the intake - $229? I think you could get a Weiand or Edelbrock 4v intake, dual plane, at almost any Ford swap meet for $85 to $125. Of course that is used, but these things don't break unless someone over-torques, usually around the thermostat area.

Those late 70s 302's have cruddy heads cause of smog control, but you have fixed that with the 351 heads.

As for the steering box, I purchased a flaming river steering gearbox for my power steering car. It had the same gear ratio as a manual box. I think it set me back about $450. You can use the same box for both manual and power steering on the 70. The power steering is really power assisted steering, with all of the "power" mechanics located outside the box. True power steering, such as Ford brought along later, centralized all the power mechanics inside the gearbox. That is why you can go with the same box for both power and manual (but for the gear ratio). I think the pitman arm might have a slightly different bend, however, between power and non-power. I read where the pitman arm on the shelby is different than the non-shelby. This is just my vague recollection, however. Good luck.

sure it's fun, but it's only a car.

You caught me at work without the pics or the specs... BUT... I can get you the identification number that's stamped on it
tonight. I wrote that down. As for pictures... it'll be two weeks. Time for me to get home again, and take a picture.

As for the cam. It's the same cam I have been posting about earlier. 279 290 duration, .479-.490 duration or something
like that. I'll get those numbers too. I also have the stamped numbers on the end of the cam, though I'm not sure
if they decode to anything on the www.lunaticams.com site. It's going to go into a 302, that was running until my bro and
dad did a scortched earth policy of pulling it out. (nothing marked) So we get to put it back together with all these
"enhancements".

Rich
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'66, 302-4bbl, Granada disk brakes, etc, etc...

I had thought I looked up the intakes and found they were that... maybe you're right, I'll check again.

Finding a Ford swap meet in Iowa is close to impossible, I'm finding. I went to a huge on in Cedar
Rapids over the weekend... 90% chevy crap... errr... stuff. Took me 30 minutes in the shower to
wash all the "Chevy grime" off me.

The steering box is a 66, same year as the car. and $450 is NOT what I wanted to hear in regards
to getting a new one. I guess I'll just have to deal with the 16:1 steering then. I wrecked the power
assist that was in it before (i used a picklefork on the little bolt going from the assist to the pittman arm)
so I know I can't really use it. and I'm sure I cna't get it fixed. We'll see.

I asked the guys at Mustangs Plus and they said the Pittman arm was the same for power assist and for
normal steering.

Rich
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'66, 302-4bbl, Granada disk brakes, etc, etc...

d'oh. Mine weren't that serious. It was more like....

"I have to torque the bolts on the upper ball joints???"
or...
"I can't put the upper arm in until I clean the areas where it bolts inside the engine compartment".

It's just the level of detail gets higher, and therefore the work increases.

Rich
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'66, 302-4bbl, Granada disk brakes, etc, etc...