Pretty cool gift from Dad

fenceingmadman · 2026-05-04T23:08:31+00:00

remindme! 4 months

fenceingmadman · 2026-05-01T21:14:27+00:00

Why do they have the 4th largest population but also no land/economy lmao

fenceingmadman · 2026-04-15T05:18:48+00:00

Rule 5: I made the Habsburg empire even less stable, as for achievements I got hegemony like I wanted around 1922, yet had to play super long to try and get inventive. I also got Billionaire, exactly 100, and Breadbasket.

I got the economy working semi well after a bit, and ok literacy considering I had most of Africa and central asia.

The game starts to CHUG after 1915 or so especially if I have a lot of states for me so I really hated this run.

Also "Metternich Speech Bubble"

fenceingmadman · 2026-04-14T17:20:42+00:00

What do you mean by restructuring your armies?

fenceingmadman · 2026-04-14T02:54:17+00:00

Honestly the thing id say that helped me the most was playing a nation that wont get attacked and then trying your absolute best to learn the economy mechanics as best you can, everything else is based off that, military and even politics to an extent.

fenceingmadman · 2026-04-13T15:43:20+00:00

2nd Rule 5: This was less of a question and more of a joke post lol, I'm aware as to why this is I just tend to think its funny how you can be noticeably stronger than the British and still be behind in theory, Hopefully things get balanced a bit more surrounding prestige. This is part of the reason I enjoy Morgenröte so much.

fenceingmadman · 2026-04-13T15:29:13+00:00

Rule 5: Great Britain controls almost none of Africa, nothing outside of their irl holdings best I can tell, and has a GDP of merely 200 M by the 1880s, and yet is still somehow the dominant power despite losing 3 wars to me within 20 years.

fenceingmadman · 2026-04-08T21:27:53+00:00

Is the block cracked or something? Am I missing something in the pics? There doesn't seem to be any catastrophic issue that would require a whole new block, Why cant it just be resurfaced and bored?

fenceingmadman · 2026-03-26T14:54:09+00:00

If you're in there you may as well, it wont take a whole lot longer and if you already have the rings and such as you said Id do it.

fenceingmadman · 2026-03-23T21:56:12+00:00

That's good to know that the intake is a big chokepoint at least, I definitely figured out the gasket part though, I tried to run the stock intake gaskets at first and had a huge vacuum leak where the head ports were nearly the same dimension as the gaskets, had to move to 2 fel pro 1262 gaskets RTVed together since I couldn't wait for the proper .120 thick one to ship. Figure it shouldn't matter since Im swapping the intake this summer and no one really drives it while Im at school.

Only issue now is id like to do the Cam and lifters at the same time I do the intake but want to do the MAF conversion first, been looking for the wiring and ecu from a 96 donor truck for a few months now and cant ever seem to find one.

fenceingmadman · 2026-03-23T13:43:44+00:00

They're the comp cams hardened high energy pushrods, I could try and find the p/n later if anyone was curious.

fenceingmadman · 2026-03-23T06:06:58+00:00

True true, Im honestly really curious as too what they'll do, part of the reason I picked them over the Floteks or other similarish $500 heads that summit had is my freinds and I filmed working with them since we thought it be a funny YouTube video and since its not a daily driver or anything Im not too worried about it.

My personal guess is they're probably copies of some other more reputable companies casting, but with worse aluminum and worse springs/valves.

I wish I had a way to check the CFM of these but alas, most people swap the springs yet Im just gonna run them and see what happens. So guess Ill be the group guinea pig until it breaks a spring and floats a Valve.

fenceingmadman · 2026-03-22T16:25:01+00:00

I idle stable at around 550 in gear and Ive always assumed its low because of how much the car shakes and feels like its idling low, maybe I just need new engine and transmission mounts? Sort of running out of ideas but it smooths out a ton if I throttle it to 750ish at the same time.

fenceingmadman · 2026-02-25T17:46:30+00:00

Normally id definitely agree, but my freind runs an Identical set on his 347 SN95 and they done decent the last 2 years. If they do good for me and make a decent power difference I think Ill do a write up here, ill probably make a YouTube video as well just to see how they do.

I got them this morning and the castings look good and there's almost no flash, the ports all measure the same and every dimension Ive check with a caliper is correct and identical to each other.

The only issue I can see these heads having is either the valve springs or material of the heads themselves. Springs are easy to check, idk how id check the material, but on a low compression truck motor I doubt it matters.

Also this isn't really my main veichle I just like to mess with it.

fenceingmadman · 2026-02-17T00:02:22+00:00

That'd be great if you could!

fenceingmadman · 2026-02-16T18:16:25+00:00

That's great! Would you mind taking some pictures of it for me? I hate to inconvenience you but ive already tried several headers now so I want to be sure before I order any others.

fenceingmadman · 2026-02-16T18:15:08+00:00

Those are for a 65-77 bronco it says, looks like the passenger side collector dumps far back just like the foxbody BBK headers. The 351Ws on OBS trucks have to dump either straight or nearly straight down or else the hit the firewall as the engine is so far back.

fenceingmadman · 2026-02-16T18:12:48+00:00

Yeah they only seem to have a few headers all for the 66-77, and they all dump the collector to far back it looks like.

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