Refresh on a 302: Any Advice or build secrets?

[69boss429]

Originally Posted by Dangerous Doug

And yeah, you're quite right. One thing that I know will drive me nutz is a nice warm California Spring afternoon, and my Cobra sits, partially dismantled, in my garage and the only sunshine I get is when I stick my hand out from underneath the Cobra for a wrench...

Well, lots to think about.

By the way, the re-ring trick I mostly hear from ex-racers. It was brought up to me by a racer that used to drive GT-40's "back in the day".

By the way, here's a tech question: When resetting a distributor, how do you get the distributor to line up with the top of the oil pump shaft. I tried for quite a while on my engine, and ended up jacking the Cobra up in some weird way to get the oil pump shaft to center, then I could set the distributor.

There has GOT to be a better way!

Dd

The end of the oil pump driveshaft is pointed and the dist shaft hole is chamfered to allow the two to go together.
I gently press down on the dist while hitting a remote starter button to get the dist in .
Always works.