COMET CENTRAL

ok after doing some more researh, im even more confused. Aparantly the hipo cranks are the same. Mine still had more meat on the end and the sprocket needed to be cut on a lathe. Maybe its a 260 crank? The machine shop and cloyles were perplexed. Cloyles called an old ex-employee and he said they ha...

I'm begining to think that I have a hipo crank or something strange in my '65 c-code. The engine had never been taked apart before, the car has been in the family since new( grandfather owned the dealership) When rebuilding the engine a few years ago, normal timing sets didnt fit-too much meat on th...

What type of dist. do you have? I do't have my shop manual but I think some of the dist. did not have vaccum advance but my 65 "C" code did. If you car has vaccum advance then you should hook up a line to a vaccum port. My vaccum advance was dead so I replaced it with an adjustable one. The only tim...

What size wheels and tires have people be able to fit? My test wheels while the car is in storage are: 15 *7 4 inch backspacing front 15*7 4.5 inch backspacing rear Tires are 225/50/15 old Hoosier road race slicks and they barely fit. Has anyone fit 16s on? In a couple of weeks im going to try a fri...

I'm trying to post as much as can too. Ive been on the yahoo list for years but never got to be a part of the community as the digest is too hard to read.

We need a good comet forum!

Thanks Mike. I guess you can find shocks with the comet's style mount( at least with the gabriel's). Im still not sure what shock I want. Well of course I want Konis but I'm not ready to fork over the money. The 620s didn't lower the front much, maybe a half an inch. My stock springs had sagged thou...

I'd thought I'd start a thread on perfromance suspensions. Things I've done and plan to do. Since a lot of our components are shared with mustangs we can use many of their parts. If anyone knows of a part that I plan on using that will not fit please let me know! Thanks! Front suspension 620 lbs coi...

I don’t know if this is an appropriate place to comment but this might help someone out. I have the TCP subframe connectors on my ‘65 Caliente. I have not driven the car with them on but they fit great and the frame shop that installed them (while my car was getting straightened) said that they were...

Its great to have a comet forum! I hope more people from the yahoo list come over.

I've got a 65 Caliente 2dr Hard top thats hurtin bad. I've been slowly rebuilding it over the last 3 years after a big wreck.


I'll try and help out anyway I can.

Darren