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Hanging out with John Morton today at Atlanta Motorsports Park. It was his first time on a track since his health scare a couple of years ago.

The rest of my parts have been plated - yay! The parts which are yellow are likely to be much more shiny than the finish from the factory. I think they came out quite nice though. Not sure why, but a couple of the hard lines got bent pretty significantly. I think I'll be able to straighten them out, but will likely have to wait until they are ready to go back on the car so I can see how they need to be bent to fix them.

That 250 degree hard coolant line between the intakes seems awful hot to me. The valve should close when the temp gets up to operating range. That's for cold weather starting. I bypassed mine so no hot coolant flows through there. My domes are cool to the touch now although I do have a ceramic coated header that took a lot of heat away. You could check the float chambers when it won't run by trying to see if the floats are buoyant in the fuel by sticking a small red straw down the vent bung. If the chambers have fuel in them that straw should be "bouncy". Move up and down with the float.

Thank you Mark Maras , Your comment gradually made me think the lever would be snapped off or the symbols would be erased before it is flattened . Just a matter of molding? For 1972-73 levers , I saw similar variations on a surface around a symbols . Kats

Yea, I agree. I would think that the symbols would be worn, not the thickness of the knobs.

I don't see much wear on the symbols that would indicate heavy usage. I think they were made that way.

We discussed the “missing dizzy spring” on a thread here some time ago. Long story short, it is by design, the spring is not missing. Concentrate on the sticking advance issue. I’m willing to bet one of your choke nozzles is stuck down even if the cable is trying to push it up. Give both a good finger shove upward under each carb. Secondly check fuel deliverability. Pressure and volume.

Yeah their pretty nice, and for that price they should be, of course they , like all the others are " Out Of Stock " ?🤥

Ooops! I made another one!

I was all set to use a sealant as a precautionary measure, then decided to cut open the tank bc of some significant denting in it I couldn't resolve otherwise. Sure glad I did. The pick-up tube has a VERY fine mesh screen inside a baffle that I had never before seen nor heard of. I suspect the sealant would have done a brilliant job of sealing up that screen as well as everything else it is supposed to do. Tank is from early production '76 280

I don't mind replicas as long as they're not misrepresented as OEM parts.