• Welcome to the new SAOCA website. Already a member? Simply click Log In/Sign Up up and to the right and use your same username and password from the old site. If you've forgotten your password, please send an email to membership@sunbeamalpine.org for assistance.

    If you're new here, click Log In/Sign Up and enter your information. We'll approve your account as quickly as possible, typically in about 24 hours. If it takes longer, you were probably caught in our spam/scam filter.

    Enjoy.

Search results

  1. B

    Low Oil Pressure when warmed-up?

    My Ford 2.8 V6 runs fine (it doesn't burn or leak oil or anything), but after it warms-up the oil pressure at idle (~800 RPM) is only around 20. When I first start it and its still cool, the pressure is around 50 at idle. When I'm at cruising speeds even when its hot the pressure seems fine at...
  2. B

    Carb advice please; when corning hard it stalls

    I've got a Holley 350 cfm on an otherwise stock Ford 2.8. It seems to run fine, but when I corner fairly hard it'll sometimes stall. Before I start playing with the jets or float level or mixture screws, etc, any advice regarding which to try adjusting first? Otherwise, as I mentioned, it seems...
  3. B

    Question on 2.8 intake manifolds

    I know quite a few of you have the offenhauser intake manifold set-up on your Ford 2.8. The stock manifold has an exhaust cross-over port to heat the manifold, but from pics I've seen, it doesn't look like the offenhauser manifold has the cross over. Is that correct? Are the 2.8s with the offy...
  4. B

    Advice on Removing Exhaust Manifold Bolts

    A couple of years ago I put headers on the 2.8 in my BII. I'd heard getting the exhaust manifold bolts out of the 2.8 without breaking can be a problem so I took it to a professional mechanic instead of tackling the job myself. As it turns out, he had a couple break on him anyway and he had to...
Top