Recent content by bmc69

Holley HP/Terminator/TerminatorX fan here. For quite a few years now. I'm even using it on marine engine builds.

I've forgotten...it happens. I'm 68..

Still running the 1.5" and 2" billet steel 8-lug spacers on my '78 Bronco...40" Toyos. Lost count of how many years...

Any time I need an electrical item, I look it up in my old Standard Ignition catalog then go to eBay to find n NOS part.

Pic of the remote reservoir on my '69.....

Passing comment: I've built more performance SBFs than I'll stop to count and am still building them...and have never encountered this chain-block interference issue before.

I sold our 20K 34' hydraulic dovetail gooseneck last year because, at 68 yo, keeping my class A CDL was becoming too much of a hassle. Our tow rig is an F-450, 14,000 GVW. It was a sweet rig though...the dovetail would lift the front of a trail rig nicely to make repair work easy.

I believe that the first trip to Tellico with the race truck was 2001. After 2003 I had the turquoise '69 EB on 39.5 IROKs and wheeled Tellico every year until it closed.

This '66 was free. Abandoned in a farmers field, had to cut a couple small trees down to get it out. Had it running the same day we brought it home and it was our first "yard truck" used for moving boats around. Sold it for silly money not too many years ago...and actually drove it on to the...

'76 I bought in Murphy, NC. A "three-fer" deal..paid $3000 for three EBs and gave one to Donald Dickerson for picking them up and storing them for me. He got the '76 running while it was at his place, so we stopped by Uhwarrie on the way back to MD and had to try 'er out a bit. This truck later...

If I recall correctly, I bought this '72 for around $1500. It went on to become the basis for our EB race truck, "Nails". Picture below of me running it on Tellico trails. "Pffft...dude..you can't run a race truck on 32" tires and open difs on Tellico trails". Me: "Hold my Corona..."

I paid $1200 for this '67 but only because it had a functioning aftermarket A/c in it. The wiring was mint. Used it for years as a "yard truck" to launch and recover our boats or shore fish. Some on here recognize it as the "Island Queen". I sold her for $2000...last flip I saw, she went for...

Not $1500, but....I paid $1700 for this '68 and daily drove it for a year or so. Sold it for $3500 and patted myself on the back for making such a huge profit. :confused:

Excellent point. I was going to add that caveat to my original post...

I've been using Cometic head gaskets on most of my builds these days. No complaints about Fel Pro's performance head gaskets either.