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    1967 with a worked 390 - can't get it started

    Sorted the blower motor out now - the wires were completely frayed but some carefully applied electrical tape sorted that. Pretty good airflow for a potentially 45 year old motor! Update on the 390 - I had it running for a few minutes last week - it then overheated and quite literally blew the...
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    1967 with a worked 390 - can't get it started

    @Ponyboy289 - thanks for your kind offer. I'm sure I will be picking your brains at some point. As I mentioned on the VMF thread I've just started dismantling the 66 - removed the heater core and found the dreaded cowl rot. Also, more "usual" stuff like no heater plenum, hoses or def vents. Also...
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    1967 with a worked 390 - can't get it started

    Thanks for all the replies and advice guys. Well, I got it back today ($300 poorer but $150 of that was for the tow) with my new Street Avenger 670CFM carb on there ($350 from Amazon of all places). I gotta say - it's an absolute monster - I was actually too scared to give it any serious gas as...
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    1967 with a worked 390 - can't get it started

    Rocco's just rang - they got it running. The problem is the carb is dumping fuel in - new carb should do the trick :)
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    1967 with a worked 390 - can't get it started

    That's the only thing I couldn't do. In a sick kind of way I hope that's what it is - at least then I'll have an excuse to rip the car apart, rebuild the engine and then swap it all into a fastback shell :D
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    1967 with a worked 390 - can't get it started

    It went to a place called Rocco's on Marbledale Rd in Tuckahoe. I've only been in the country 9 months and have no experience with any local garages so literally had to choose between a few I drive past every day. The neighbours all either have new cars or know people in Bronx, Queens etc...
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    1967 with a worked 390 - can't get it started

    Thanks for the responses guys. Just a quick bit of history - the car sat for a year before the owner traded it into the garage that I bought it from. The garage owner himself is a drag car owner and before putting it on ebay change the engine and transmission oils and drained the tank (it's a...
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    1967 with a worked 390 - can't get it started

    Thanks. I've checked the operation of the carb and all 4 squirters are squirting fine. In fact the carb dumps quite a lot of fuel (it's an 850CFM Holley 4150HP). Luckily for me the firing order is stamped on the manifold :-) and the PO had numbered the leads and painted all the timing marks...
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    1967 with a worked 390 - can't get it started

    Hi all, I've just got my first Mustang - a 67 Coupe with a 390 engine that's been fiddled with and turned into a drag car. I picked up last Wednesday when it started from cold fine and ran fine for a test drive. The 90 mile trailer ride home seems to have done something to it and now it won't...
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    Hello (and help!) from Eastchester

    Hello all My name's Sean and I've just bought my first Mustang - a slightly mad 67 Coupe "drag car". Here's the link to the ebay auction - Ford : Mustang - eBay (item 330539801659 end time Mar-08-11 10:28:03 PST) The idea is to de-tune it a bit and get it street-legal - once I get it started...