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- From: bobv@spike.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bob von Buelow)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Firewall problems, '57 Chevy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.184001.25495@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:40:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: elroy.1992Nov10.184001.25495
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- Well, maybe this is the place to ask. I checked the other auto related
- newsgroups and none of them seemed appropriate, or got no replies.
-
- '57 Chevy 210. Had it about 2 years after taking it off the hands of my
- teen aged son who decided he really needed a 4x4, and after he broke the
- original 283. He replace the 283 with a 350 from a 75 Impala and added
- an electronic ignition.
-
- Problem: the ignition is HUGE and rubs against the firewall. Basically it
- has run fine for the time I've had it, but the last mechanic that did a
- tune up told me it was arcing thru to the firewall on 1 of the sparkplug
- wires. Anybody tell me what the standard solutions to this are. 350
- swaps into '57 must be very common.
-
- Future projects: replace the Powerglide with a TH350
- change intake manifold and carb (2bbl now) to ???
- (has to be CA legal, aren't there some after
- market FI systems that are CA legal?)
- exhaust headers
-
- Suggestions and comments PLEASE. I am not necessarily a mechanic but can
- handle some simple stuff like replace fuel pump or starter.
-
- Thanks,
-
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