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pm me your email address, and i will send you some pics..I put the dual carb set up on my 52 263 special..Alsou can search youtube for my video, my user name is Anythinggm. Search Buick straight 8...

I had mine valve cover chromed, but i was able to use a off the shelf oil breather

Here is a picture of the eyelet bolts i made.

I made some eyelet head bolts when I pulled mine, worked great. Just removed the rocker shaft assy then two front head bolts and two rear ones. Replaced them with my custom eyelet bolts, attached...

Cool find. But what about the 30's ford?? I also just picked up a 455 for my 72 Skylark too. And doing my research on cams and such. I'm pretty sure im gonna go with the TA performance cam and there...

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the carbs are Holley 94's model 59. They are a Ford carb commonly used on Ford flathead V-8's

Thank you sir.

I got mine from old buick parts. Sorry dont have the part#

http://www.oldbuickparts.com/

Just thought I would throw this little note in here as well regarding the dual exhaust. For my car which is a 52 Special with a dynaflow trans. I wanted true dual exhaust. Which is no problem on the...

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Yes and no, Its is flipped over, cut, welded, redrilled, and trimmed, also the frame mount tower has to be cut down flush to the top of the frame rail and capped off with a welded plate and drilled...

This is very good news!!!. Thanks. Here in Oregon we have 87,89, and 92 octane at the pumps, but like I said it has Ethanol in it.
So sounds to me that i should be okay with the 92 pump gas and a...

Thanks for the info guys,
Also I was talking to a guy yesterday about things to do on this engine before I put it in the car. he asked me what the comp ratio was. I said it was factory 10:0 to 1...

I just picked up a low miler out of a elderly owned 70 riv with 43k miles on it. Ran super when pulled. Thanks to this site I was able to look up the casting numbers and its a 1231738 "SF" block....

Here is a picture of mine, its a 263 in a 52 Special with true dual exhaust. Pic shows the modified motor mount.

You may have seen my video, I'm running the 41-42 buick compound intake on my 52 Special with Ford Holley 94 model 59 carbs on it. Works great and they bolt right on the manifold with no adapters,...

Yes once they are unbolted it slides off a splined shaft. There are 5 bolts for the driveline flange. remove those. Then I removed the 8 bolts and nuts that hold the crossmember to the X frame and...

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Yes your 248 is dimensionally the same as a 263. Yes I went to my local fastner shop and bought grade eight bolts and weldable lifting eyes. Ground the bolt head flat and welded the eye to the bolt....

I just went thru this with my 263. I didnt know what mounting points where strong enough to use. So I made grade 8 "eye bolts" to use in place of four headbolts. Two in the front and two in the rear....

Funny you should mention that piece of detail. Your absolutely right, I hate rubber hose too! and it is for sure temporary. I just wanted to get it started up. I went through 4 sticks of metal tubing...

My dual carb set up is from a 41-42 Buick with a 248, my motor is a 263, so yes they would work on yours. I cant answer your questions about top and bottom end power, I have'nt made any road trips...

As promised here is a video of the motor firing up since the completion of the engine detail and addition of the dual carbs and dual exhaust with Smithy's glasspacks. Let me know what ya think.

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We need a sound bite on this exhaust please!!! What glasspacks did you choose?

I dont have any detailed pics of the motor mount mod, but You can see in the video and then look at your car and you'll see what the changes are. I cut down the motor mount tower mounted to the frame...