Ever noticed how powerful television advertising makes it self appear? I love the latest flock of Midas brake commercials that do little to justify purchasing their product.
Turn the sound down like most people do and watch the car run out of road in a panic stop. Then the freeze-frame and the road crew comes out and lays another twenty feet of blacktop.

Boy, I guess with every set of Midas pads you get your own personal road crew. I’d rather be able to stop.
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Recently a customer who owns a 455 cid F-body came by to purchase a torque converter from me. I asked him several questions in an attempt to find out why he was shopping for one, (my buddy told me so) and what the symptoms were that led him to the conclusion of converter replacement.

It turned out that the old one melted with the trans, (too much stall, too little gear), and he felt that there was something missing in the vehicle’s performance. I don’t care what the camshaft or compression may be, any V-8 that has 4.210″ of stroke like the ’55 does is going to have little lacking in the acceleration department, unless you take some plugs out.
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Well it runs. What runs? My project, that’s what, and it runs quite well to add to all the labor and $$$ invested. And what difficulties did I encounter? Well none of them have been plumbing or fastening problems for sure.

The extensive use of aeronautical hardware in critical locations on my project is one aspect of ‘overbuild’ protection that I subscribe to. I am not saying that Detroit engineers were wrong in the selection of fasteners used to screw my car together. Many of those same fasteners are still there thirty plus years later.
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Shifters You supply a 5′ long cable with all of your shifters. What if I want to use a shorter or longer one?

We have found that the 5 foot cable is most suitable for the majority of the installations. However B&M does offer cables from 2′ to 12′ lengths which may be purchased separately. See listing in catalog.

Why do B&M automatic shifters have two park positions? This is to accommodate the longer shift detent found in GM applications needed to engage park in those vehicles.
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If you own a GM vehicle that is equipped with a manual transmission and you want to eliminate some of the binding in the stock clutch linkage, then purchase from Chevrolet #3887177 fork for the Corvette.

This fork fits all GM bell housings, (Chevy II, and Vega/Monza don’t count, along with anything built after ’82) A new lower pushrod must be manufactured using either a Mr.Gasket 2477, or two spherical rod ends as I did.
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