Vintage Thunderbird Club International

Sorry unfortunately life happened and more priority projects jumped in front of this for me. Good times for me as my girls helped me go through some dirt bikes and a toy hauler we bought and we've been out riding as a family a bunch, along with home projects which make the wife happy, but not so goo...

Looks nice, where did you get that relay box from? I am wanting to redo mine to something that looks a little cleaner than what I did before. I see MSD is making a solid state relay panel, however it looks a little long, the one you used seems to have a smaller footprint. Also curious where you sour...

Hi Stubbie, sorry for the late reply, I really need to turn on notifications.
I have a tag on the right side by the fill tube/plug. The plain english stuff is 5.0L and 4x2.
For me the trans was the cheapest part, the adapter kit was second and controller was highest.
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Holley says “the low profile design is only 1.275” above the tank”. I’m not at this stage in my build yet to measure it in the real world unfortunately. Scott Edit - I was able to get a measurement of the thickness of the module top, I did not screw in the adpaters for the #6 AN fittings which will ...

I'm thinking of routing the wires for the transmission controller, and the EFI through the existing speedometer cable hole, since I won't be using that anymore. Not sure if I will need to enlarge it any, I'll get a new grommet installed and start looking at the wiring setup. Next things are to get t...

For the first question on console shifters, I've only seen one in person on a 64 I believe. They had installed a 302 and AOD out of a mid 80s car I believe, along with the corresponding shifter and column. Not a fan of the column since it looks fixed in place due to the size. I may need to consider ...

Scott - thank you for the write up and pictures, should save me some time and headaches. I bought all my sniper stuff back in Dec 2019, just finally able to start my install along with everything else. I bought the Holley 12-132 retrofit fuel pump for my install. Here is a mockup pic of it with the ...

On my 66 car the angle plate had a rubber cap on it and the distributor vacuum advance was still going to the high speed vacuum port on the carburetor. Shown in the pic as the steel line coming off the carb.
Scott

So unfortunately the transmission adapter kit comes with it's own specific starter. This starter does seem to be based on the same one Powermaster uses, only the one in the kit has it's own drive bendix to mate with the plate. The good news is I was able to mark where I needed the starter to be and ...

This is the 64-66 section, the 62 may be similar in that the column rod and the transmission rod are connected together by a bellcrank assembly (at least on my 66) one side bolts to the car, and other side to transmission. In the first picture the car side of the connecter is still on the bellcrank ...

Wow that will look amazing. Excited to hear about your install and see some pictures!

Started checking fitment for the headers to the trans adapter and starter, along with just the normal fitment of how tight they fit from what I have read about on the forums. Fortunately it looks like they are clearing the adapter okay, unfortunately I've got to figure out re-clocking of the starter...

Alan, thank you for posting the differences in the carb spacers for the years, as always you are a wealth of knowledge on these cars. Always interesting how Ford makes changes to something for just one year.

On my 66 428 car this was the only spacer under the carb, this wedge spacer is what I thought the OP was talking about.
Is there supposed to be an additional factory spacer on the 64-66 cars?
Edit - also I believe this wedge to be factory spacer, is this incorrect?

I'd agree most spacers will help to atomize the mixture, and help with insulating the carburetor from the engine heat. This one is fairly thin though and seems designed to change the angle of the carburetor, it does probably help the other issues as well.