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Originally Posted by Ledsel
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Ty..
Love your work...I am an Edsel fan since they hit the street in '58...The only model I ever built was a '58 Edsel convertible..
The 361 Edsel engine I had came out of a burned out American '59 station wagon..
We put it in a 1958 Ford four door sedan,an old taxi(Got it cheep) pink and white..
Nothing to indicate what it had in it for a mill but talk about power..The original six Ford engine was replaced but the 6 transmission hooked right up to the Edsel bell housing..
That transmission lasted about a week..chewed the cluster round on one burn...but we then tried a v8 Ford transmission..a little better ..lasted two weeks..Then the '54 Mercury truck four speed transmission was the only thing we could keep in it..
Had to change the rear end to a V8 one from the six 'cause we chewed that up too..
It seems we were allways changing something or other to get the correct spline configuration..
Changed the jets in the four barrel....it had 73's in the,primary and 69's in the secondary...(I think...it's been 45 years)..
Really liked the smoke show on the web site..Took me back a long time..Thanks.
But it was a smoker..Used to go through those cheep Canadian tire two plys in about a week..
But those were the days..for ever under the hood or changing rear ends or transmissions..Knew every scrap yard on the east coast..