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Old 08-22-2017, 03:54 PM
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Your cam would be perfect for FatBoy's engine. See here: Cam Recommendations?
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Your cam would be perfect for FatBoy's engine. See here: Cam Recommendations?
Great idea. It'd be nice to see it find a good home.
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Since I'm in engine waiting mode, I'm working on some other cobra improvements, one of which is to add an A/F ratio gauge in the glove box for better carb tuning. Easier to add the o2 bungs with the side pipe out of the car. I assume that one o2 sensor is sufficient for a carbed engine and one of each bank only makes sense if you have EFI?
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Need one on each side.
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Need one on each side.
Thanks. That's why I asked.
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Old 08-29-2017, 08:19 AM
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A nice dual lambda gauge, please.

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A nice dual lambda gauge, please.

That's the exact one I was looking at.
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Since my headers and pipes are laying in the garage, I thought this was the perfect time to weld the bungs in. I will probably just leave the AF gauge in the glovebox and pull it out only when testing/tuning.
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Don't just pick any spot to weld them in -- think about what you're doing. When you put your pipes back in the car, you don't want to wind up saying "dang, I should have put it just an inch over there to the right...."
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Bungs should go in the collector portion of the exhaust so that it gets a uniform signal instead of one pipe. Unfortunately, most Cobra setups are that you can't put a bung hole (had to say that, thinking of Beavis and Butthead days) in the header, it has to be in the sidepipe.
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Well, I want a video of you craning your neck over to look in the glove box while you nail it to WOT for a good three seconds. And, if you hit a tree, we won't post it just out of courtesy.
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Doug, your cam shipped today. Your lifters and carb shipped as well.
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Well, I want a video of you craning your neck over to look in the glove box while you nail it to WOT for a good three seconds. And, if you hit a tree, we won't post it just out of courtesy.


I will store it in the glovebox and actually may only connect it to the bungs when testing/tuning. The o2 cables are long, so I can move the gauge closer to me when testing. Or bring along a passenger and they can look at it - although I find that WOT in a cobra can be distracting to passengers.
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Well, I want a video of you craning your neck over to look in the glove box while you nail it to WOT for a good three seconds. And, if you hit a tree, we won't post it just out of courtesy.
A gauge like that needs to be within your normal view, even if only temporary for tuning.
I've done it, and it's near impossible to drive for power while observing a wideband gauge, ESPECIALLY a digital gauge.
A passenger or a video camera would be safer.
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I am going to replace my pilot bearing since everything's out of the car. My current bearing is part #6303RS but there is no manufacturer (FE to TKO). Google isn't as helpful as I would have thought with lots of part numbers that are similar, but not the same.

Who makes a quality replacement bearing that's an equivalent?
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I am going to replace my pilot bearing since everything's out of the car. My current bearing is part #6303RS but there is no manufacturer (FE to TKO). Google isn't as helpful as I would have thought with lots of part numbers that are similar, but not the same.

Who makes a quality replacement bearing that's an equivalent?
Aren't Ford standard pilot bushings all pretty much the same? Why sould you want one of those funky sealed bearing jobs anyway? Just use something like this: https://www.napaonline.com/p/BRGB50HD

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If you use a sintered bush, make sure you oil it correctly.
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The only time it even does anything is when you're sitting still with the the clutch pushed in. Or just a teeny bit in between shifts. If you've got everything aligned properly a bushing will last a thousand years.
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That's correct, but they last way longer if soaked in oil first.
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Aren't Ford standard pilot bushings all pretty much the same? Why sould you want one of those funky sealed bearing jobs anyway? Just use something like this: https://www.napaonline.com/p/BRGB50HD

Well I had one of those funky sealed bearings on there so I thought I'd replace it with the same since it worked fine.

Did I read somewhere that Tremec's called for the bearing style rather than the bushing? It's a McLeod clutch if that makes any difference.
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