37 Ford build--IE: old Header issues thread /37 Ford/5.0/GT40P heads

[35fordcoupe]

Sorry, Randy I don't doubt it's hard to follow without pics. It's hard for me to follow We are keeping the windshield crank and cowl vent so running the wipers below wouldn't work too well. The holes for the New Port kit don't come out symetrical over the windshield. The passenger hole ends up just past the middle of the windshield which is right where the sunroof motor is. So moving everything over and a couple other slices took care of it.

I think we have it now, but it has just been one problem after another . Buying the SPW kit where the passenger side would have come out way further over and the motor down on the cowl would have worked much better. The New Port kit is a good kit for a stock application though. It comes with nice chrome escutcheons for the outside which make the angle the splines come out of the roof fool proof (I hope! we'll see if I have the highway problems). You could tell it was a kit designed for a 35/36 versus the SPW universal kit.

[randyr]

Sorry, Randy I don't doubt it's hard to follow without pics. It's hard for me to follow We are keeping the windshield crank and cowl vent so running the wipers below wouldn't work too well. The holes for the New Port kit don't come out symetrical over the windshield. The passenger hole ends up just past the middle of the windshield which is right where the sunroof motor is. So moving everything over and a couple other slices took care of it.

I think we have it now, but it has just been one problem after another . Buying the SPW kit where the passenger side would have come out way further over and the motor down on the cowl would have worked much better. The New Port kit is a good kit for a stock application though. It comes with nice chrome escutcheons for the outside which make the angle the splines come out of the roof fool proof (I hope! we'll see if I have the highway problems). You could tell it was a kit designed for a 35/36 versus the SPW universal kit.

I just looked up the New Port kit and it looks pretty sweet. I haven't heard of them before and don't think they were available when I bought my SPW kit. Like I said, I've always been please with the operation of the SPW except for the fly away wiper blades. I think I need some escutcheons with the proper angle so the splines are perpendicular to the windshield.

BTW I could make sense of what you wrote, I was just giving you crap about not posting pics because that's what I do to the others....

[34_40]

BTW I could make sense of what you wrote, I was just giving you crap about not posting pics because that's what I do to the others....

And I wasn't going to say a word about it!

[IC2]

Randy - we WANT pictures. We ALWAYS want pictures.

I'm even going to post a few of the engine compt. changes I've made over the past 3-4 weeks (the ones I alluded to a while back) to bore the troops, maybe even tomorrow

[randyr]

Randy - we WANT pictures. We ALWAYS want pictures.

I'm even going to post a few of the engine compt. changes I've made over the past 3-4 weeks (the ones I alluded to a while back) to bore the troops, maybe even tomorrow

Dave, I've been meaning to give you some crap about those pics, too, but you just gave it to yourself!! Look forward to "SEEING" what you did to it.