Vintage Thunderbird Club International

It OK Greg, we're a tough crowd, LOL, now back to our regular schedule topic !

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or Jet Birds as my license plate implies ~

FYI ~ my 66 -390 FE, starts with a touch of the key, running auto lite 4100, with the proper jetting of 1.08 , & a petronix ignition & matching coil ! again I am not doubting the shop you are using, but it sound like they are selling you stuff you don't need, or are un familiar with auto lit...

Want to do a real good upgrade ! dual master dual bellow

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Petronix is fairly simple set up and install, carb is another story, linkage etc needs to be changed, kick down , are you going elect choke, vacuum secondaries , yada yada, read read and read some more about all this stuff, the stock autolite 4100 with the .08 jets works just fine, not a rocket ship...

Ottawa is just around the corner ! just gotta gotta keep those immortal words in your head " Honey it's time for a cruise " you know whats gonna happen, before you know it , SNOW and then your gonna say I should have gone for a cruise when the weather was good ! season too short in good ol...

Good New, Now let see some pic's of this Bird ! BTW , should join the southern Ontario Thunderbird Club ( local club)

My comp, has king valves, or service valves, they have no schrader valves in them or some folks call them schrader cores, I don't think the guys in Ottawa (where he is having this serviced) know or have dealt with older systems, or they would understand there is no schraders required to charge the s...

Schrader valves are available almost anywhere, not sure why your shop has to wait for them , they are nothing special !

Actually not, the 66 has more horse(s) and a sightly smaller carb ! curb weight is the same.

I guess we are all even, I had forgotten that the CDN gallon is larger by about 1/5 or 20% which would equal another 2-3 MPG so 14 MPG to the US Gal seems about right !

I can get 17 MPH, straight road, 90 KMH, or approx 55 MPH, , new carb with 1.08 (correct for a 66) ,new motor broken in with 4,000 K's, empty trunk, drive like a granny and you can do it, but I am with the rest of you , 14 MPH is about average, city driving even worst and spirited driving and I need...

^^^ It helps with the GAS mileage ! LOL , Dearborne should be good, not sure if I am going to make the Cambridge meet , 7-30 AM is early and Ajax is another 1 1/2 hours, means my wife needs to get up at 5 AM to be ready for 6 to leave, it may not happen, I'll probably get there when I get there !LOL...

Re Rear Vent, my rear vent work great, but the draw back I find is the interior noise it creates, specially on the highway !