Foxy Green Foxbody Build

Fuck me.

This is all Foxs fault for abandoning us!

My apologies. I'm a little stressed out because my wife took the tub of red vines and locked them in her office and left me with a plate of sticks to snack on. Thank you in advance for your understanding in the matter.



That ain't food, that's torture.
 
Fuck me.

This is all Foxs fault for abandoning us!

My apologies. I'm a little stressed out because my wife took the tub of red vines and locked them in her office and left me with a plate of sticks to snack on. Thank you in advance for your understanding in the matter.



Lol, no problem man, never apologize when yer on the dark side.
And yes , I am a Trudeau/Carney despising, liberal hating Canadian.
 
Lol, no problem man, never apologize when yer on the dark side.
And yes , I am a Trudeau/Carney despising, liberal hating Canadian.
Nice to meet you. Don't tell Paul or Pavel or whatever name he wants to go by on any given day, but I hate them too. I just hate the other side just as much. Possibly more because they were supposed to be on my team. Not to muck up Foxs thread any more than I already did, but I had a "conservative republican" maga endorsed legislator here in Montana tell me the other day that I should thank him and his conservative republican colleagues for not raising my taxes any more than they already did.

Someday I hope everyone figures it out. None of them work for us. None of them.

Back to Fox's shit show. <------- meant affectionately.
 
That is 100% true!
I have a friend with a 69 Camaro, BBC, I think it's a 496, good old mechanical fuel pump, single Holley, goes 10.00 all day long.
Nothing wrong with that.
I resembled this remark for some time. Even won a few rounds. One, after my competition laughed when they looked under my hood in staging. Theirs’ was closed, secret squirrel shit I guess. They did not 3 peat the Yellowbullet that day. First round and out for them.
 
I thought fox was in Virginia? Leaving New York now?
I don’t follow the soap operas close enough I guess. Missed my cop calling, lol.
 
That’s what you get for abandoning us leaving us to wonder if you were dead or just stuck under some overweight chick in Kentucky
He's back with Thick Nikki?

Congrats Fox on getting it up and running. Hoping you get many thousands of miles of entertainment out of it. My only advice is, once you get the carb somewhat dialed in, don't go to deep in the weeds on it until you've set a good base timing and have a nice timing curve. If you have a vac can on the distributor, you'll need it dialed in as well.

I think I can speak for many, we're happy for you.
 
pretty tired of the micro-management of his thread and build

When I ask questions, I invite the answers, as long as those answers have a "why" attached to them. I'm here to learn, not be told an answer with no reasoning. That's backyard mechanic regurgitation. You have to learn to separate "this is how I've always done it" with the valid reasons why something does or doesn't work. This might explain to others why they give advice and I ignore it until I research further
 
He's back with Thick Nikki?
Was that the Russian chick?
I thought fox was in Virginia? Leaving New York now?
I don’t follow the soap operas close enough I guess. Missed my cop calling, lol.
I stay confused on where he is. I already just planned to spam about 5 Christmas cards to different states addressed to 89fox427 or current resident.
 
When I ask questions, I invite the answers, as long as those answers have a "why" attached to them. I'm here to learn, not be told an answer with no reasoning. That's backyard mechanic regurgitation. You have to learn to separate "this is how I've always done it" with the valid reasons why something does or doesn't work. This might explain to others why they give advice and I ignore it until I research further
When I read that I imagined you were making this face. Lol

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Sometimes there is more than one way to skin a cat. People aren’t always offering the “why”, but they are offering life experiences and with some many, many, years in the industry.

I’m onboard with what you are saying, but taking their “opinions”, and then doing your own research to make a sound decision doesn’t sound so bad to me. It’s a good way to learn. It’s your job to sift through the bullshit. You do a pretty good job of that and that is a compliment.

Personally, when I did my build, I picked a couple guys that have been around for a Looong time and are still active in the industry and blocked most others out. Turns out I have one of the best running SBF combos around these parts. A guy with a 363 and F1 blower with faceplated trans almost shit himself when he saw my car was NA this past weekend.
 
When I ask questions, I invite the answers, as long as those answers have a "why" attached to them. I'm here to learn, not be told an answer with no reasoning. That's backyard mechanic regurgitation. You have to learn to separate "this is how I've always done it" with the valid reasons why something does or doesn't work. This might explain to others why they give advice and I ignore it until I research further
Knowing the theory behind something certainly helps understand why. Thats why I do a bunch of research before asking questions on a forum 😉. To be honest, I was under the impression that you just wanted to get this thing together, you know, dot to dot 😉😆🤣

I find people tend to go with the majority or most popular answer as well, or the most popular member, lol. The lad that helps me will suggest something once on a forum, he doesn't waste time convincing anyone he's right while the other 8 are wrong, or not as right. People always go with the other 8 🤣.

By the way, I've explained shit, like the oil filter bypass and you still ignore, glad patriot told you to use one 😆🤣

Also, it's hard to know what you don't know. Ask what you want better explaining on. Nobody just knows this shit, they either grew up around it or been doing it their whole lives, lol.
 
When I read that I imagined you were making this face. Lol

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Sometimes there is more than one way to skin a cat. People aren’t always offering the “why”, but they are offering life experiences and with some many, many, years in the industry.

I’m onboard with what you are saying, but taking their “opinions”, and then doing your own research to make a sound decision doesn’t sound so bad to me. It’s a good way to learn. It’s your job to sift through the bullshit. You do a pretty good job of that and that is a compliment.

Personally, when I did my build, I picked a couple guys that have been around for a Looong time and are still active in the industry and blocked most others out. Turns out I have one of the best running SBF combos around these parts. A guy with a 363 and F1 blower with faceplated trans almost shit himself when he saw my car was NA this past weekend.
You ever have that light weight (😆🤣😉) on a dyno ?
 
When I ask questions, I invite the answers, as long as those answers have a "why" attached to them. I'm here to learn, not be told an answer with no reasoning. That's backyard mechanic regurgitation. You have to learn to separate "this is how I've always done it" with the valid reasons why something does or doesn't work. This might explain to others why they give advice and I ignore it until I research further


Here’s a coupla things that I think you need to know.

Up until about 20 yrs ago there wasn’t the the technology to measure & model & compute the things that are here today.

Engine builders would dream up stuff, make it & test. Usually the results sucked lol

Occasionally something would show some positive results. There was no accepted reasoning as to why it worked but it opened a small crack in the door of progression. More testing may or may not show you why but it was there. More innovation & testing would show trends. More testing. More failures but occasionally a small improvement would arrive.

Very smart men could not prove why but it wasn’t really so important as more failures than successes would litter the discussion & you’d get paralysis by analysis. We just kept moving in a certain direction.

Thousands & thousands of race winning, championship winning, record setting engines were built with maybe 25% of the knowledge thats present today.

What was “secret squirrel “ shit was actually unexplainable but nobody would admit it. EGO & all that showmanship shit. Lol

You have access to todays science & even with all of it, nobody can scientifically prove that one way is better than the other. I think the newer science spent most of its early times trying to figure out why accepted results were what they were, sort of backing into results.

If it was as easy as you seem to expect, there would be one book with all of the answers & everybody would do it exactly the same way but NOPE!

Why do you think that all of the big hitters are ALWAYS testing testing testing, spending untold time & money to find 3 more HP or another .005.

There is no accepted answer to any of this because there is someone, somewhere hauling ass with damn near everything that the “experts” say is wrong. Instead of trying to figure out why it worked, most will accuse that guy of lying or cheating & dismiss a learning opportunity.

Take this for what it’s worth to you as I’m just trying to help you learn how to learn.
 
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