White 1968 Ford Mustang race car with black racing wheels and "C…

a reworked air cleaner pan with a rubber sealing strip that connects with a hood scoop and provides a cool air inlet. Then too, there is an aluminum Police Interceptor mani- fold saving quite a few pounds and offering improved breathing. Hubert tells us that the 428 perks best on 38 degrees of total spark ad- vance. He also found that the engine responds best when this advance comes in fast. The initial setting was turned up to 18 degrees and the dis- tributors centrifugal advance is lim- ited to 20 crank degrees (10 degrees at the distributor.) On a Ford this is easy to do, since one side of the distributor cam provides 15 degrees advance and the other side limits the advance 10 degrees. You simply re- move the distributor cam, turn it around, and reinstall. Since the Cobra-Jet 428 is de signed to crank out more rpm than Teeth on the locker rings of the three upper gears are machined all, only First retains them. S/S & FX 43