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Hey Joe...Why did you swap sides for the alternator when you did the engine swap?
The pictures of the car on the Dealers lot are priceless.
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Tony 55 Nomad Gasser 70 SS 427 Nova 34 Ford Sedan..Hemi powered Michigan/ Florida |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TDW</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hey Joe...Why did you swap sides for the alternator when you did the engine swap?
The pictures of the car on the Dealers lot are priceless. </div></div> <span style="color: #3333FF"><span style="font-weight: bold">Well Tony, when we did the engine, back in the day, I didn't think I could put the alternator on the "correct" side because the heads we installed didn't have the bolt holes in them like the stock heads did. So I bought a "short" water pump, changed out the pulleys and used the header alternator mount on the driver's side. I changed everything back to "correct" in 1997 when I realized that I could use the stock brackets for the alternator and just put a nut on the end of the bolt that was supposed to go into the head. I had the original water pump rebuilt, reinstalled the original smog pump, added tubes into the headers I bought in 1969 and it was just like "day 1" again (well almost!!). It's hard to see in the picture, but after I had the headers aluminized, I painted them baby blue. Remember when that was the "hot" color for headers, or even white?? BTW, I did go to the Garden Grove cruise night tonight and ended up winning a trophy for "Best Original"!! I was totally surprised!!</span></span>
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Winning a trophy for best original? It was a slam dunk! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]
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Bruce Choose Life-Donate! |
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You're right. link for the lazy
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbt...372#Post323372 I really dig the old SW electric fuel pump too. |
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here's something you don't see every day..
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