I think I’m finally happy with the carbs. I ended up having to order a couple pair of step rods to fine tune it. They came in today and have been installed and road tested……a couple of times .


Here’s one for the Mopar guys. I decided that when I do the power steering conversion on the 57 I’d go ahead and change over to one of the smaller Chrysler high torque starters. Chrysler started using them in the late 80s early 90s. They interchange with the older gear reducted starters on both the Small Block and Big block Mopars. I have one on the Hemi in the 37 Dodge and am really pretty impressed with it.

Anyway I ordered one and when it came in I thought it looked smaller than the one on the 37, so I checked. Sure enough the snout was the same configuration but the starter was quite a bit smaller.

MS1 by M Patterson, on Flickr


MS2 by M Patterson, on Flickr

I figure in this case a bigger motor is better so I’m going with the larger one, it just kind of surprised me a bit about the 2 different styles.



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