I have several original Thunderbird sales brochures for sale. All are 9 out 10 for condition. $20 each plus $2.50 shipping and handling. I do take paypal.
I think I would have relocated the overflow tank and mounted the blower lower in the engine bay. That "knot" in the hood looks like it was shut down on something...
I think the whole point of the article was to twist out 400 hp on the cheap. No one stated how long it would hold up or how streetable it would be. They even reused the timing chain, oil pump, roller lifters, and the short block was untouched to keep the cost down. I was dissapointed in that they used a carb with a single plane intake and not EFI.
When doing the heater core replacement, make sure you get the heater hose that has the restrictor in it or you can buy the restrictor from LMS and install it in an aftermarket hose. It goes into the fatter one. What really kills a heater core (especially the cheap aftermarket ones) is handling of the rubber hoses that attaches to them. There is very little support from the tubes coming from the heater core and installing/removing the rubber hoses typically causes failure of the heater core.
I don't see the article online but I do have the mag. Basically they took a boneyard EFI 5.0 from a T-Bird and installed the following: 750 Holley double pumper Parker Single plane funnel web intake Pro Comp 210 Heads (milled to 60cc chambers from 64cc) TFS Track Max Cam (.499/.510 split lift, 221/225 split duration, 112 degree lobe separation) Pro Comp roller rockers Elgin hardened pushrods Duraspark distributor
Hmmm, if you look at the photo on the left of Papa John in his younger days, the camaro has a sunroof. The photo on the right with the older Papa John, the camaro doesn't. Is the camaro on the right a "clone"? or did he remove the sunroof? If you watch the commercials, it has a sunroof... Must be more than one car.
Most likely a short internal to the alt. To verify, unplug the alt connector and leave the battery hooked up and give it the ten minutes to see if it will start.
