Anyone have a real original big block ignition shield, looking for pictures, of originals, back side. 1966 preferred, thanks.
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Ron
This is off of my 67. The lower left part of the plastic has been changed. The rest of the plastic and shield is original. I think it has had glue added to it.Bill
Bill Lacy
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Hi Bill,
I'm looking for the back view of the base shield, the area cut out for the tach cable.Comment
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Ron -- to allow us to rationalize the GM prints in Noland's book, could you please take more pics (or as a minimum least another in the tach cable area of your interest) from the outside/backside ? [the one you posted is kinda small and is a view from the inside of the backside]. Full front and back would also help; that is, if you have it in-hand.
I'm interested in the evolution of this surround shield over the three C2 BB years.Comment
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I have larger pics at home, how do you guys get them posted within the text of the message? I get an error if they exceed 500 pixels on any side.Comment
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Sorry about that Ron
Bill Lacy
1967 427/435 National Top Flight Bloomington Gold
1998 Indy PacecarComment
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Ron -- NCRS pic [jpeg] limitations of 290 kb (800 horiz x 600 vertical pixels) is a real PITA, and I wish that John Waggoner would bump it up to at least 1 Mb total (and remove the horiz/vertical aspect limitation), at least for jpegs.
For those pics within the text, I use a hosting site (Photobucket, in my case -- free), and then link to them in the NCRS text message -- it autoloads, and better still, doesn't hog the NCRS servers.Comment
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Wayne,
This PITA picture is of the back side of a reproduction. It shows a partial circle and then the rest is notched out.
Note the print is showing a circle - radius.
I have a couple of original 66 shields that have had bubba mods, or so it would seem, perhaps not as bad since one early part looks similar to the one you posted the other day for '65.Comment
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Ron -- I glanced at Noland's '67 section and see shield # 3900517 with a tach cable cutout like yours (1.5" radius for a quarter circle, with the passenger side morphing to a square with 0.25" radius at the corner [pg. 437]. Sure looks like yours. Notice the part # is earlier than the 2nd design '66 shield # 3906149
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I wish more people would respond, as my curiosity is piqued for the '65 BB designs. Maybe after this thread has run its course, I'll start one for the tach cable opening for the '65 396.Comment
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Wayne - I send that wish.
Perhaps in the meantime Joe will be able to tell us a little about that part number history.
You have to figure that any mods were due to people timing these engines and most probably had the distributor gear off by a tooth, whihc put the tach cable into the shield, but that does not explain the difference to the drawing and or this other part number in the system.Comment
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Wayne,
Back before the repop world and NCRS were paying attention to these big blocks, the late 70's, while restoring one, I happened to snap a picture of a friends' at Bloomington that year. The photo I'll have to peel out of this old album and scan, but the notch out is distinctly rectangular similar to your '65.Comment
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Ron,
I found my shield this morning. It's original as far as I know. I'll take a picture of it over the weekend and post it here. I'd be ashamed to post a pic of it as it sits because it's pretty dirty. What would be a good way to clean it up and make it presentable?
JoeComment
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Joe, probably chrome polish would clean it well.Comment
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No, no, Joe -- dirt is good -- they haven't figured out how to repop it.
Here's an example of very late L78 car, now owned by one who frequents this board. Late style large keyhole; question is: what size and shape is the tach cable cut-out on the back ?Last edited by Wayne M.; March 31, 2011, 10:21 AM.Comment
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Wayne, that's a good one, but I bet if there was a demand for it, duplication would be easy, just as that example shows...so who has to go look at the back side that that car? Make sure to brush those NOS leaves out of the way
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