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The 3 manufacturers mentioned here are the options. There is a difference in the flexibility and hardness of each. Best to talk to a vendor and find out which is best for each application: softseal maybe harder than Metro and requires the door to be slammed (like mine). The trunk the same. It does make a difference in the ease of closing the doors, trunk and windows.

I have used the run for 30 minutes between 1500 - 3000.

Learn something every day.

I bought my Accel "corrected" cap this time last year. It worked for a couple of hours and then went bad. PUt on the old one and it was fine. When I looked in it, the top of the cap is filled with an epoxy, as if it was encapsulating the the internal wires used to make it work, but that's my guess. I spent the $$$ cuz it does look so much better and so easy to do the wiring!!!

Exactly; mine was #3 also. $50 mistake.

I have a couple used, but for a show quality, need rechromed.

There will be lots of opinions on this. My preference is a synthetic oil, 10/30 and I add a Zinc additive for the cam. I use premium filters such as K&N, Mobile 1 or Delco synthetic. With the consolidation of the oil industry, a Mobile petroleum engineer has told me that.there are 3 base oil manufacturers left, then the additives are combined with that. I don't pound my cars, therefore I feel comfortable with normal synthetics like Mobile 1, QS, Valvoline. For the price I dont buy the "high end" like Royal Purple, although I did find that marked down to $20 a gallon at Meijer and bought some. Now deciding which car gets that without the others finding out and getting jealous:)

Paul, great helpful post.

I voted green bit I have a.gold one also.

Auburn, not the best. The "cones" are the weak point I have been told by a couple of employees. Better than no posi, but not the best, especially the prices being within each other.

NICE!!!!!!!

Just Google "Flitz". It all comes up. Fantastic stuff. Does a great job on plastic headlight lenses also. https://www.google.com/#q=flitz&hl=en&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=gCMoUc77IMfQqAGYzYC4BA&sqi=2&ved=0CFkQsxg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42768644,d.aWM&fp=478aa291340b9ae9&biw=1366&bih=635

Tru Trac. Based on the opinion of a former Eaton employee who was a national sales rep. When I asked about the Eaton GM posi, the Auburn, etc. he said the Tru Trac. He runs that in his 1971 CHevelle SEMA car that was in the all the magazines (Super Chevy, Car Craft, Hot Rod) about 7 years ago.

I can make brake line look like chrome using FLITZ. Last winter's project was updating and detailing my green 71 small block. Bent all custom lines for under the hood, including fuel, vacuum advance, pvc to carb (dumped the rubber hose). Wish I knew how to post pics, but people ask where the chroming was done and I say one word: FLITZ.

same engine as the Chevelle. Actually the later model "396"s were in fact 402's from the factory.

Lower radiator hose. heater hose(s) running from the firewall to the waterpump and intake.

In the past I have used a bolt or two in the back of the engine where the trans bolts up to. That with a metal clothes hangar worked perfectly.

Looked at the listing to see what the bids were up to and it is no longer listed. Wonder what happened?

Hows that sound? Nasty & excellent!!! My reaction? JEALOUS!!!!!!!!

It may not be numbers matching, but it is a correct 402, so that's good. They stamped the engine when the produced the car.

Heff, know the feeling on frustrated. Spent last winter getting my small block Monte right; just how I had dreamed of doing it for 10 years. Now, I love it. Nothing more I want to do. It'll be great when it is done and dialed in. I now love seeing a Mustang around

If you already haven't, I'd call Howard's tech line. I sympathize with the altitude thing. My son graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2011 and bought his 1978 Malibu Classic wagon from a fella, now a friend, in Canyon City in 2007 the day before he in-processed. I completely rebuilt this clean car for performance. Including a custom built 355 (10:1) with a Howard Cam. The cam is milder than what you are considering, but it is excellent. The engine builder really believes in Howard. Ran great here in IL, but at altitude at the Academy, I bet he lost 25+% of his power.

I just left a question for the seller starting with "Are you serious?". I hope bidders realize this is ridiculous. IF it was a true SS 4-speed, I think the $10,000 would be WAY LOW. I'd buy it now.

Instead of having my rechromed I called my friend (and neighbor) Mark Tamraz of Tamraz Auto Parts and we talked about it. The fit and finish is much better now than it was a few years ago. I have talked with Mark on any number of repo stuff and he is quite honest. I used the $300 saved by buying the repo bumper on other parts on the Monte. No car show person has mentioned the rear bumper in the last 2 years. They'll never know.

Brake booster is the same. Here are some differences between the small block and big block. 1). Fuel line from rear should be a different size. 2). Radiator, will need bigger. 3). Front springs 4). Radiator fan shroud 5). A/C brackets, if it has AC now and you want to keep it.