Welcome to the forum Jim. What's your current MEL powered car?

edit: sorry, I just saw your other posts.

This one is advertised as 'rough but complete':

Nice. What model years does this reference to?

I have often read that the two block thermostats (behind the water pump) should be removed and not be replaced. If memory serves right they were a piece of unsuccessful over-engineering and were dropped in '63.

That's a cool looking air filter housing. Rare as hen's teeth, I take it?

That's a cool looking air filter housing. Rare as hen's teeth, I take it?

Tom, did EGGE have both the flat top and the OEM pop-up design on offer for the 430? I'm asking because I ordered a set of 462 pistons in 2007 and they were the pop-up design. I'm wondering what's the difference between what they have on offer for the 430 and the 462.

Thanks for that correction KULTULZ. I'll edit the sentence.

Cheers,
Reijer

Sir Spamalot seems to have joined the forum.

The goal : assembling in one post all the information MEL owners need to have in order to decide why they should buy OEM ‘step’ design pistons (not to be confused with a ‘pop-up’ design) & where they should buy OEM design pistons. I thought I'd start this thread about MEL combustion chamber & pisto...