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Assembling my 64 Impala 409/340 wagon rear axle - are coil inslulators installed top and bottom or just lower? The coils were goe when I bought the car.

3/4 of a point is 8 cc - close to what I remember. I just want to take out as much guesswork as possible.

I have a 64 409 truck block that cleaned up at 4.390. I am planning to use (but have not yet bought) the ICON IC979.078 pistons. This is a 340 HP engine - correct 817 heads. I need the cc volume of the truck notch to do some pre-mockup calcs on the compression ratio plan. Goal is 9.75:1...

mystery B/A 409 Thanks Tom for the link. It is very helpful. I checked my block today and it is a 068 block - good news. I also examined the hole for the shifter and found it to be a very smooth professional cut with a 3/8 to 1/2 inch radius in the corners - again very smooth. Fuel line is...

exhaust manifolds Thanks Tom. I discovered this car was originally black - it is now ermine white. It has headers which will leave the vehicle as fast as I can get them off the car! Are the reproduction exhaust manifolds indistinguishable from the factory pieces? You mentioned that the...

Help! I just bought a 62 B/A 2 dr post 409/409 and am trying to establish it's lineage. It has a QB block, 690 heads and what looks like a repro air cleaner. Generator has the large pulley but it goes down hill from here. Trans is a Muncie. Steering column is black and wheel is black on a...