Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

Good.....First V8 I ever "worked"was a 260,same thing as a 289-302.

This was in a '63 Mercury Meteor S-33 2 door hardtop with center console and buckets.

The usual stuff listed above,the Isky cam had almost no manifold vacuum at idle so I had to fit an electric vacuum pump for the power brakes. Had really nice Fenton headers feeding into flo-thru "cherry bombs"remember them? Ripped out the 2 speed Fordomatic and worked a '39 LaSalle tranny with electric overdrive giving me a 4th speed on top of 3rd direct,I blew ring and pinion gears every 300 miles,even with anti-roll bars and Spicer-Flex "torque absorbing"U joints and a hydraulic and spring-damped pressure plate,man,that was fun...and all done on a budget with raceway and junkyard castoffs.