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Falcon, how's the little red coupe doing for ya??

It's doing great but Im thinking of putting it up for sale since we are putting our house on the market. We're probably going to move to an apartment or a small rental place while we build a place so I'm thinking of how Im going to store all my stuff in the meantime.

We are having the builder concentrate on the shop first so we can start moving things in. In the meantime we are moving things into a storage unit near the new house.

Jack.

That's what we're thinking, too, Jack.

Normally we install the Sway Bar Link bolts with the threads up. Reason being that they might ground out, bent , and or booger the threads and ruin any chance of removing 'em intact. But be sure to check running clearance through full range of movement.....RooDog

Most oem type master cylinders have internal residual valves

Mine ended up mounting about the same level as the slave; no issues. Clutch has a nice feel to it although the original pedal assembly has about three times as much travel as the Wilwood cylinder needs. It bottoms out before the clutch pedal is 1/3 of the way down. But it was pretty much just an issue of learning how to drive it the way it is; clutch works great but just has a short throw.

I did try to run the car through ebay and wasn't happy at all with the final bid so it looks like it's going to be in my stable for a while to come. Im hoping to wrap up a few incidentals over the winter and hit the Hot Rod Power Tour next summer with it.

You could change the travel by moving the cylinder linkage up the pedal. Just a thought. That is a fun car

Now that my 48 is actually running, I'm going to knock out a few things on the 49 before spring gets here. After a long search online I was able to get all of the missing chrome trim. Here's the hood ornament, PLYMOUTH letters and hood trim. Looks much better with it on. I also figured out that my fuel gauge had a bad ground which is why it never worked right so that's fixed, too. More to come later; the goal is to have it ready to hit part of the Hot Rod Power Tour in June.

It's gettin' better all the time! NICE

It looks great and I like your gauge bezel too! Keep us informed how you like those dolphin gauges. I almost baught a set for my 40, but saw all the bad reviews from guys with 67-72 chevy trucks. I guess they had a bad issue with the lights not working or something? The trim looks great too!

Yeah, those gauges were on there when I got the car. They're nice but I would not have picked them. It's a little weird having a temp gauge that reads Celcius and an oil gauge that reads Bar.

One of the things I found out this summer was that I did not like the sound of the V6 through the glass pack mufflers. At idle it sounded OK but at highway speed it had a really annoying, unpleasant high pitched drone. With the pipes exiting in front of the rear wheels it felt like it was right in your ear and the radio was useless. After a little research I decided to go back with something a little more similar to the stock SHO exhaust and use a Y pipe to run the 2 1/4" header pipes into a 2 1/2" Y, use a free flowing muffler like a Magnaflow or Flowmaster, and take the pipe all the way out the back of the car. It has to be a single out the rear as the fuel tank is offset to one side and the spare tire well hangs down on the other; just giving enough room for a single pipe in the stock location. But for a 181 ci engine, I think this will be more that enough.

I dug out all my leftover pipe bends today, pulled the dual exhaust off, and built the Y pipe. It came out pretty good; I'll get a muffler this week and finish it up.

Merry Christmas! We did our family get together last Sunday so my wife and I are just hanging out today. I finished my exhaust and took it for a ride; it sounds sooo much better. It doesn't sound so much like a rice rocket without a muffler now. You can actually hear the radio and carry on a conversation but has just enough rumble to sound respectable. As respectable as a V6 can be, that is.; Power feels the same; dont think I lost anything going to a single pipe.

Came out sweet Falcon ,, now I have to catch up on the 48 ..


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