[Mercury]

Burning Rubber.

Your reply kinda Irked me.

NO, I didnt not have a proffesional rebuild my engine, I did it my damn self. Just like I have on several other engines. I've rebuilt 390's with friends, a 352 with friends (Both are FE big blocks), rebuilt another 289, a 351 cleveland, a 302, and even a chvy 350.

In class, I also supervised several students how were rebuilding there engines. Tim C has done the same.

I've rebuilt Automatic Trannys before, a few Turbo 350's, a C4, and a C6, and also supervised other students rebuilding theres.

Putting in Shock towers is not like building an engine, or transmission, or like doing a brake job, or like rebuilding a rearend. Shock Towers are a major structural part of the CAR. WOuld you like to see your tires have some funky wear charectoristics all the time, Would you like to have some funky handling traits on your car. And if there not done properly they can fail.

To put this simply, the clearences in an engine are Two Dimensional, you check gaps, bearing clearance, Degree cams, Torque sequences and load. You screw up an engine, what can happen. It can lock up, it can blow up, or it might not even crank up. Not Kill ya, and damage the car.

You screw up shock towers, what can happen. You can go through tires like you would not believe, have a car that cant handle worth a damn, have a car that cannot be aligned properly, and have a car that may have a structural failure looming.

There are a few things I will leave to the proffesionals.
1. Paint and Body
2. Anything that does with frames and unibody (Shock Towers are part of that category.)
3. Interior.

I have done all the mechanical work on my 64 1/2 289 Mustang, and my 2000 GT myself.

Hell, I even ported the heads myself, CC'd them myself, Decked them Myself, Bored the block Myself. My Carb, I rebuilt myself, moddified it myself, deburred it myslef, adjusted it myself. So before you go insinuating I cant do my own Damn work, do some research.

Damien Out.

P.S. Good luck.