29streetrod, that's a great looking coupe in your icon! I have been busy lately with my '29 fendered roadster, but for me there is nothing (non-biological) with a better looking rear than the '29 coupe/roadster. I am just installing a straight across stainless bumper to protect the 'glass fenders. I'll try to get one of those small spare tire rims redrilled for the 8" Maverick rear end bolt pattern and carry a small spare in the rumble seat. This thread got my attention since there is more than a little Irish genetic material in my body, but it is complicated by being from the Northern Ireland County Down area and I note there are Shilladys in Scotland as well as Belfast, so maybe they could row across the channel! In my teaching career I always thought that my tendency to story telling came from the Irish part of the family but the math ability came from my very exacting mother who was descended from Bavarian German stock. You know we cannot control where we came from and all we can do is make the best of it but here we are in the U.S.A. where there is a lot of opportunity for almost anyone! Anyway I enjoy just looking at my candy-apple-maroon rumble lid while I work on the rest of the machine, what a classic shape! I bought a stock HEI unit for my 350 but the engine has not been fired up yet. With a very mild Crane street cam, I am not expecting to go over 5000 rpm so from what is said above the HEI should be OK for my engine.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder