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That's an impressive cobbled together setup. You'd have fun tuning something like a Sniper. If you swap for a 42RH transmission and increase the gear ratio just enough to maintain the same final drive ratio with OD your city mileage will improve markedly while getting the same highway. I like...

You're going to like that setup. Be sure to tweak the spark map on a computer to dial in your vacuum advance curve.

It was a small local high school auto shop get-together too and this guy pulls in a few minutes behind us with that midnight blue coupe. It's a survivor car with an original 20k on the odometer. It's wild because I could spend all day on Woodward and not see another M and here were are with...

That looks absolutely amazing.

What's wild is this is considered skinny by today's standards.

If body is super nice, paint and everything I've seen these cars fetch $8500. Put it up for sale high. You can always lower the price, but you can't raise it after it's gone.

If this is your problem you could attempt redo the factory spot welds. We had a member here replace the entire cross member with a piece of box tube with flat stock on the ends. The tube was angled and bushed to accept the top shock bolts at the correct angle. That's the best way, but it's a...

I've seen the upper shock mount that spans between the frame rails come lose before. Get the car in the air, support it the back with stands under the frame rails so the axle and springs are unloaded. Then start trying to move things around. Check the axle for side-to-side play and get a hand...

RPM Air Gap has the same thermostat placement as the RPM Performer. Both will interfere with factory A/C compressor mounts.

Regardless, the op's symptoms sound very close to vapor lock. When I was a kid kinking that side line coming off of the filter fixed a horrible vapor locking condition and got me home. He should try this at least to aid in troubleshooting.

It clears on Dad's car. I can't remember if he is using a drop base air cleaner, but it does clear.

It could still be a fueling issue. Do you have a fuel filter with the side outlet for the return line? If so, pinch kink that line in half, secure it with a ziptie and take it for a drive.

Look at it this way: it's the perfect excuse to get the intake blasted and cleaned. :)

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that intake needs to come off now. If I had to guess that fastener was over tightened to begin with and had already started to twist apart when the motor was new.

If the parts were smaller I would. It's just too much of a PITA to find the appropriate box and packaging, sorry.

Of all the FFI parts I have on my car this is not one of them. Does your idler need to be replaced? That's almost $300 and I'm not entirely sure it'll make that big of a difference if at all.

Of course you're on the other side of the continent from me. I've got a pair of used, but in good shape Hookers I'd just give you. ....wow, phrasing.....

It's 21C now in Michigan and you're getting more done than I am despite being buried in snow.

Champion CC374. You need to make a plate for the driver's side to mount it, but it's pretty easy. I've had this radiator in the car for 12 years now.

Be extra careful with the vacuum tree. It'll be very brittle with the age and heat cycles.

Found that post. Made some updates as it was from 2020: I've spent a lot of time over the years trying different combinations of parts to get these cars to handle. I'll start the with the best bang for buck upgrades. Cop sway bars. Easily the best and cheapest upgrade you can perform. Get...

Oh my God, I'm busting up over here! I need to work this into the prompt and generate a movie poster. We need a tagline to put on the bottom of the poster.

Need to play around with it more. lol.

When I get home I'll plug this into Grok and see what it generates. "Creepy, dark atmospheric setting of a Soviet bread factory with Resident Evil inspired zombies." Of course we all know the above doesn't exist. Communists don't have food.

Yeah, I did. I was one of those that clearanced the trunk floor with a hammer. It worked, but it never sat right with me and every time I opened the trunk I could see my handy work there on the floor. You could try removing the gas tank and heating the area with a torch to attempt to make it...