Factory Five Forums - Blogs - bill3422 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/blog.php?977-bill3422 Builder community site for Factory Five Racing. en Tue, 05 May 2026 14:29:08 GMT vBulletin 10 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/images/misc/rss.jpg Factory Five Forums - Blogs - bill3422 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/blog.php?977-bill3422 1st Mod Started https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/entry.php?776-1st-Mod-Started Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:18:26 GMT Working on the 1st mod today. Cleaning and boxing up the Transmission from the donor car. Sending it to Modern Driveline to retrofit the T5 tail... Working on the 1st mod today. Cleaning and boxing up the Transmission from the donor car. Sending it to Modern Driveline to retrofit the T5 tail housing with an S10 . This will allow the shifter to move forward on the transmission tunnel ]]> bill3422 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/entry.php?776-1st-Mod-Started Factory Tour https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/entry.php?770-Factory-Tour Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:51:25 GMT Had a great time meeting Dave Smith at the tour. Attachment 11144 (https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11144)... Had a great time meeting Dave Smith at the tour.

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Welding Jig
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Cutter out of fiberglass parts
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Other parts
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Ready for shipment
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]]> bill3422 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/entry.php?770-Factory-Tour Engine Rebuild - 10/24/08 - 11/24/08 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/entry.php?769-Engine-Rebuild-10-24-08-11-24-08 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:32:34 GMT Adding parts as they came in Attachment 11140 (https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11140)Attachment 11141... Adding parts as they came in

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]]> bill3422 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/entry.php?769-Engine-Rebuild-10-24-08-11-24-08 Engine Rebuild - 10/16/08 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/entry.php?768-Engine-Rebuild-10-16-08 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:27:53 GMT Decided to go with a 302/347 Stroker Came back from the machine shopp looking have naked Attachment 11134... Decided to go with a 302/347 Stroker

Came back from the machine shopp looking have naked

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They had to notch parts of the cylinder walls to allow for the increase piston assembly travel

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]]> bill3422 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/entry.php?768-Engine-Rebuild-10-16-08 Disassembly of the donor - 07/26/08 https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/entry.php?767-Disassembly-of-the-donor-07-26-08 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:16:32 GMT Attachment 11127 (https://v1.thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11127)Attachment 11128... [ATTACH=CONFIG]11127[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]11128[/ATTACH]

With a little help from members of [URL="http://www.capitalareacobraclub.com/"]http://www.capitalareacobraclub.com/[/URL] we got it done in fine time

Removed the engine and Transmission. Sold the the rest of the car.
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