Help with my broken 406

[Excaliber]

Monster, my apologies to you for getting SO far off track on this thread.

Sounds you like have a great plan on a nice budget! I wish you well with your build. All though I've built many engines over the years it was usually because 'they needed it', just another job that had to be done.

But my ERA engine build was different, MUCH different. I really enjoyed it and still get such a kick out of firing it up and thinking, "Cool, I built it"! If I blow it up tommorow, it's OK, no regrets, only cherished memories! It is without a doubt, the most significant automotive related exprience I have ever had.

[Monster]

Dan/Ernie,

Thanks......... as you can see I'm a very senior member of CC and I've seen more than one thread take a detour. (In my warped/perverse way I enjoy some of the banter that goes on in these discussions as long as it doesn't get to personal). It's been said before "We're all here because we love our "hobby".............we just need to remember that hobbies are for enjoyment and not get personal when stating our views

As for this build, I too have built a number of engines over the years, this build was dictated because of a poor "rebuild"/failure ("rebuilt" engine was included with my basket of parts & partial built project car when I got it). I elected to take this opportunity to build out the engine to what I wanted as a dependable performance motor. Since most of my experiance has been in european performance and SBF's, I was not that framiliar with recomended mod's for the FE, which has been the source of most of my questions.

BTW: this afternoon will be breakin, I had a couple of issue to resolve: a broken collector/exhaust bracket & a missing (misplaced) piece to linkage

Thanks,
Mike