Recent content by bob k. mando

the Rover engines are also metric, so most fasteners will not interchange.

uh, yeah? that's what i was pointing out in the first post. Mr Hooper has gotten off a bit more into the technical details, but that's also what he's saying. and we agree, if you want more HP then you either need to make more torque or make the torque at a higher RPM. that's why crank...

Dutch is not so far away from Deutsch. *wink*

i would look around at your local junk yards and see if you can come up with a trash Buick 400 / 430 / 455. you're going to have to have something to work as a jig while you're fabbing this anyway. heck, the junk yard might even let you work on it there if you make friends with them.

those plates used to be stamped manually, so i wouldn't be too worried about some of the spacing. by which i mean that i suspect that the 3 in "F3" is the first digit of your body number. i believe there was a Chevy plant in Flint ... which got the "F" designation. this is why Buick Flint...

was that actually a US mil / ambassador car back in the war? do you know any history on it?

your English is much better than my Belgian. ;)

hah. i bet that thing is like a space ship on Euro roads. she looks good. you realize, now you have to visit the French Riviera with your French Riviera?

yeah, you may as well swap the trans with the engine while you're doing this and converting to a drive shaft.

interesting.

i'm thinking Bob is just trying out a new sponsorship idea? "233" is not a valid area code, but it is the prefix code for ex-US calls being made to Ghana.

Vice Grip's conceit is that he goes somewhere out in the boonies and tries to get an old car running again and then drives it back home. you know, one that's only been sitting for 20 years or so. he actually has a pretty good success rate, at least that he can limp it a couple of hundred...

350 Buick has a taller deck so it's a little bit wider and the exhaust manifold is a different shape due to the changed valve order, but i don't know that that will make any difference.

what kind of "news"? on late model Buicks? most of our info is on stuff from pre-1990.

The Honda F1 makes almost 7 times as much torque per cubic inch than the Cummins ! i'd like to see you put a million miles on an F1 engine!