JustinB

Holy crap, you got a lot of stuff there! :)

I ended up cutting an adapter ring out of sheet steel, then using an adapter plate for a 2 5/8" and some vaccuum line to make a good seal and reduce the size and then threw a 10" edelbrok filter housing on top of that. Looks sweet. Can't close the hood on it though. @#$%! Gonna have to see what I can do to shrink it all down about 1/4 inch. Of course i could cut the hood and put a cowl on it, which might look cool if I did it right but knowing me, I'd screw it up, so I don't think I'll go that route.

Could you add a 4x8 tipout off the side? I've got a bunch of stuff I don't want to get rid of but the back of my truck is out of room and I need to haul some stuff so the spare parts have to go SOMEWHERE, and my wife says, no, not in the living room. I could send it over and you could store for me!

I'll check around. Best it seems like I can find is 2-5/8 and I'm pretty sure it's a 2-1/4 inch opening. Better measure again.

You see, it's big, ugly, dirty, doesn't match, and actually doesn't fit right anyway. pushes down on a couple of the carburetor components and there's a gap around the carb throat. Not much, but maybe 1/16" or so.

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I bought one from guaranteed carbs in florida and it works just fine. Don't know about national carb, I know I talked to them but i think they said they didn't have one and I'd have to send mine in to rebuild and it would take a few weeks. Guaranteed got mine ready and to me within a week of ordering. Do you know of an aftermarket air cleaner, or an adapter for one, that will fit our stock carbs?

My car is so butt ass ugly no one has even ever tried to break in. I imagine they figure if I'm so broke I drive a hoopty like that that I probably don't have anything worth stealing. However, I probably ought to do something just in case. Like that tazer club but they don't sell them anymore.

I think it would be the stock carburetor for a 1979-81 or so A14. Whole thing's kinda pieced together from a few different years. I got it from guaranteed carburetors down in florida. Looks the same as the old carb off my a14 but I don't know what year that engine was for sure. it was, like I said, somewhere around 79-81.

I put in a new engine with a new carburetor and the old air cleaner housing I had from the other engine doesn't really fit very well, and looks ugly as hell now that the engine is so nice looking. I wanted to get a new air cleaner housing but it seems like they all have 5-1/4 (ish) holes for 4bbl carbs. The smallest adapter I can find goes down to 2-5/8 but my carb opening is more like 2-1/4. Anyone know where I can find an adapter? Would help if it had about half an inch or so of rise also because the old housing is really tight against the carb and kinda pushing down on some stuff. Seems to work but I'd rather have a little clearance. Thanks.

Don't you have to change the crossmember and mounts to put an L in an A car?

Agreed. Don't over-mill your head. You might be able to get different pistons to up your compression, I've never looked into it.

Definitely use the plasti-gauge. I thought I'd save time without it and just got my engine completely re-built and put in. Knocks like a sonofabitch. Now I have to pull the whole damned thing back out and figure which rod bearing is out. Re-ring kits usually have gaskets. Check and double-check your tolerances. Double-check each internal nut/bolt and make sure it's torqued to spec. It'll save time in the long run, and you can be sure you did it right instead of being like my dumb-ass and doing it twice.

I have a good grill from my old 510 I was thinking of putting in my 210 but didn't know if it would fit. need headlight buckets though, but that looks real nice with the 4 lights.