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If you don't have a place for the pressure to escape it will make one. You will blow out valve cover gaskets or intake gaskets. Some aftermarket intakes have an indention in the front where you can drill out for the oil fill tube which you can top with a breather, then you don't have to put...

What a waist of money, both the copper Canadian penny and the American zinc penny are both worth more than 1 cent in metal value.

How about a newer chevy/gmc 4.2 liter inline 6. 270+ hp, 25+ mpg and you can find them at any junk yard.

I watched a west coast choppers show where Jessi James built a copper bike. The tank was copper and he used a nibbler to get a thin strip of copper from copper sheet metal and used that for a filler rod with his TIG.

Pennies are made of zinc with a copper wash.

Most places will cut it into more manageable lengths for you.

I would get it at a local steel supply house. Online has the best prices but shipping will end up costing more than the metal.

Try changing the springs out in the distributor for lighter ones that will advance the timing faster.

The only special part you need for old school tranies is a crankshaft spacer that moves the flexplate out .4 inches. You can even use the 4l60e's flexplate you just have to oval out the bolt holes slightly. They make motor mount adapters so the engine will bolt right in place of a gen 1 sbc...

The 4.8 and 5.3 are identical with the exception of crank, rods and pistons. They use the exact same block, heads, intake, oil pan. They share nothing with a Gen 1 sbc. I have a 5.3 sitting on an engine stand that im putting into my 35 ford, i also have a 400 sbc sitting next to it and they are...

I have a 2004 E250 and the rear doors have hidden hinges that looks like it would be perfect for suicide doors.

I got my 5.3 off of craigslist. I paid $250 and it had 48,000 miles on it and it came with everything but the alternator and intake.

If you want to go a little more old school on the LS series motors GM has a new timing cover that has a provision for a distributor, It uses a standard SBF distributor http://www.summitracing.com/parts/NAL-88958679/ with this you don't even need the coil packs or the electronic controller just...

I picked up a 2003 5.3 to put in my 35 ford truck i was going to use edelbrocks carb kit for it http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-2908/ it is about the same price as painless wirring's ls1 harness.here is the motor mount adapters...