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Oh yeah, they turn a motor over real well! I ran a 6V Optima for a couple of years with a 6V alternator on my flathead, never had a problem with it. That said, the biggest issue with gettting a flathead to turn over is usually the battery cables. If the cables are 0 or 00 gauge, you'll be fine. If someone has substituted a 4 gauge setup from the local auto parts store, you're in trouble regardless of the battery. Marty

I always kind of liked the Tigers, until I drove one and found that they were much more go than whoa; I think the brakes on my commute car Honda are bigger! But if someone dangled a MK II with LAT options in front of me ....... Marty

As some of you know, my day job is working in a commercial shipyard. As such, we tend to be painting rather large objects that can take literally hundreds of gallons of paints, and they are all done outdoors. We actually have to maintain logs of how much VOC we are releasing weekly. How do we do it, you ask? It's simple; airless spraying. We use air powered pumps that output paint at several hundred pounds of pressure, and use special guns with no air connections. There is almost no airbourne paint, so we can get away with just tarping over a vessel (which can get a bit involved; imagine tarping over an LCU that is sitting on dry land about 10 feet off of the ground!) Granted, the cleanup is a bear; you have to be very meticulous with the pumps, lines and sprayguns, particularly when you're shooting a catilyzed 2 part epoxy that will fire off in 3 hours, and you have several thousand square feet to cover with 15 mils of wet thickness, but it can be done without sags by a good crew, who will get all of the equipment cleaned up before disaster strikes. I honestly don't know if there are personal versions of this technology, but it sounds like there might be a market for it soon! Marty

Norm, You can survive a wreck where you are hit from the rear, but not likely if you hit someone else who is stopped, which seems a much more likely scenario given the great brakes we are dealing with. Marty, who survived a 65 MPH rearend wreck with no injuries ....

When I tried to download it from home, the 4 digit code didn't appear in either of the browsers that I tried. Came to work and used IE 7, and there they were! Marty

I guess it depends on who you talk to; here's what I got ..... http://martyb.users.sonic.net/plymouth_3rd_teaser.pdf Marty

Tim, The $149 I mentioned isn't for the existing taillights, it's for their next product, the center stop light, which won't be available until February. Marty

almost $2400, and two guys were in a bidding war at that price! Makes the one that I got a few years ago for $450 an absolute bargain! Marty

I don't consider myself a Vietnam Vet, because I never got closer than 10 miles to the country, and I slept in my own bunk every night and had three square meals a day. Vietnam-era Vet maybe, but my hat is off to the guys who really earned the Vietnam Vet title. As for Lt. Wyrick, he was just one hell of a nice guy who felt a moral obligation to be on the front line of the fight for democracy. I sometimes wonder what he would have become if the War hadn't gotten in his way ...... Marty

I should mention that the Rhode Island harnes is made with new plastic-insulated wire that is covered in a woven cloth that matches the original color code. Much safer that the original wire! Marty

Don, I am amazed, I had no idea that there was a place for messages associated with The Wall. One is a message from a guy who was on the boat when he was killed. The hair on the back of my neck stood up when I read it, although I was glad to read that the info we got about everyone being killed was wrong. Thank you so much for finding this for me. Marty

I used a harness from Rhode Island Wiring, found them in their listing in Hemmings Motor News. Pricey, but excellent product. I had them make half a dozen changes to their stock harness (added turn signal circuits, wiring for headlight relays, changed wire sizes, etc.), it came out exactly like I wanted. Highly recommended. Marty

When we disassembled my 230, the valves looked fine until you actually put a micrometer on the stems and actually measured them and found a fair amount of wear. We then put bronze inserts in all of the valve guides, and used the Chebby valves. I don't expect to ever need to mess with them again in my lifetime. Marty

I always thought that a Skill saw was something you tried to use to see if you had done enough practicing to claim that you had developed a woodworking skill. Marty

Some day, if I ever make it there, I will look for Lt. David Wyrick's name. It's interesting that I still remember his name now after all of these years have passed by. His death made an impact on many of us, made the war real instead of an abstract notion. I still remember him, even though I would have to look in my cruise book to get the names of most of the officers that I served with on that tour. Marty

I was on a guided missile frigate at the time, and our Engineering Officer wanted to go Big Time. The CO kept denying his requests, so finally he requested the one duty that the CO couldn't turn down; the Riverine Squadrons, which were 30 ft fiberglass gunboats running the rivers. He got his wish, and went off to the training school. We were on the way to Yankee Station from the Phillipines when we found out that he had joined his squadron in Vietnam, and that two weeks later he and his entire squadron were killed in an ambush. He was dead before our ship even got into the war zone. Marty

The valves I used were small block V-8 valves, not the inline 6 valves. The legth is exactly right, you just have to use the correct keepers with them. Marty

Is the installation all unbolt old/bolt-on new, or is there some torch work necessary? Also, is it an optical illusion, or is the rear shift rod almost hitting at both the pedal pivot location and the master cylinder flange? Marty

I actually cut down 350 Chebby exhaust valves for both intake and exhaust in my motor. The darn things are exactly the right stem length stock, but the head material was harder than the hinges in Hell. Just about wore out a valve grinding machine cutting down the OD and then cutting a multi-angle seat on the exhaust valves. Marty

My 230 block is 0.072" over, and has always run rather warm; usually in the 185 to 200 range. I have no idea of whether the overbore is a factor in this or not. The radiator is in perfect condition, there is no thermostat or bypass at all, and it heats up to 160 and over within a couple of blocks of leaving my house. Marty

If someone wants to buy the rest of the car, I'll take the bumpers! Marty

The one piece of information missing is what the spacer itself looks like. If it is a 1" thick spacer with 4 individual holes for the throttle bores, I would use the carb 4 hole gasket. If it is just a single squarish open hole, I would use the open gasket, as there isn't anything for the 4 hole gasket to seal against anyway. Marty

Bore and stroke are the only changes that affect displacement, but the crankshaft flywheel flange, the flywheel and the flywheels bolts also change. You definitely need to have a 230 flywheel with a 230 crank. Marty

I've no idea where to find one, but my 47 has a driveshaft that was a Mopar aftermarket item which had flange adapters, modern U-joints and a slip joint. I believe it was made in the 50's. I bought it over ten years ago, and it's still going strong. Marty