we have such a wide variety of stuff in and out that i thought i should have a 'cover all' thread for it, apart from my nash and ashley's zephyr of course.
so to kick things off we have another ford exploder rear axle in to be narrowed. we'll remove the easy 2 7/8" we've done a few times before by cutting the long side of the casing and fitting a 2nd 'short' shaft. also we'll be redrilling a set of slot mags to ford/mopar 5x4.5" pcd to suit both the above axle and a straight tube front axle. this lot along with a small block chevy engine/box will be jammed into a henry j gasser project a mate's building ready for next years racing at manston along with occasional street use. i'll get some pics as we go along but i currently have the lergy so i'm stuck indoors, lol.
neil.
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we're collecting the '360?' fe engine and box sunday so we can check if it's actually a 360 or a 390. my problem now is the fact that it's manual so i'm looking at 5 speed boxes to bolt behind it. it's a sickness this hobby/lifestyle of ours and there seems to be no cure 
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we dropped the exploder axle off and collected the fe engine and box today. no time to check the 'true' size yet as other 'honey dos' took priority at home, lol.
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last week we put a socket and bar on the 360 engine after removing the spark plugs. it seemed that in the year between it first being removed (and turning fine) from the truck and it arriving here it'd 'stuck'. so we gave it some 50/50 mix of petrol and diesel in the bores. today we tried the socket and bar again and it turns easily and smoothly no problem, result. next job is to build the run stand and run it so we can assess the vital's before it either gets used or sold on. also we checked the stroke and it is indeed 'exactly what it says on the tin' which is a 360. at least i'll stop looking for 5 speed manual boxes to bolt behind it to go in my nash now, lol.
neil.
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i knew i shouldn't have said that last bit . i just got an 'offer' from an ebay seller dropping the price on a borg warner t5 from £850 to £595. bloody typical! now i have to stop myself buying it 
neil.
. i just got an 'offer' from an ebay seller dropping the price on a borg warner t5 from £850 to £595. bloody typical! now i have to stop myself buying it neil.