Thread: Tech1, Parking Brake?

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One last pic.

This one shows the electric fuel pump and the heat shields, but the main thing I wanted to point out is how the cable goes through the 4 bar bracket - which is actually a ladder bar bracket - and into the brake drum backing plate.

Laying out the brake cables this way makes for very few bends and the bends that are there are mild ones.

The small white filter in the background is the gas filter.
It mounts to a single remote oil filter adapter.
The adapter had a new nipple turned on the lathe so as to adapt the smaller threads of the small filter to the adapter.
The gasket ring is the same size as a Fram PH8a filter.

Since then I've found a gas filter that's the same size, same threads as the Fram PH8a.
The PH8a is a very common filter and used on many Fords.

If you set up a fuel filter like this you'll need a shut off valve between filter and tank to make changing out the filter easy.


The four bar bracket I alluded to is an Alston ladder bar bracket with the top hole drilled a little further down and the top corner cut off.
That allowed the top 4 bar to come down in the rear and made for a level - as viewed from the side - 4 bar setup that's on the outside of the frame.

People tell me the car squats on a somewhat hard launch and I'm not getting optimum bite.
I'll agree with that, but I also note that if the throttle is not hit too hard, which flashes the converter the car will launch hard and in fact I've gotten a few looks from Sweetie when I failed to tell her what was coming.

I guess I'll find out in a few weeks how well it does.
We have a combined two day airplane/car show and 1/8 mile drag racing will be availalbe.
No times, just pick your (potential) victim and go from there....