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Proper underhood marking

Discussion in '1965-1970 Shelby Mustang GT350 & GT500' started by John Edwards, Jul 8, 2008.

  1. Jul 8, 2008 #1
    John Edwards

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    As my brother and I work on restoring our 68 GT500 we wondering if anyone is aware of the proper lables that would have been attached under the hood. It seems that there are a mutitude of lables and harness lables available, but no specific indication of those that would be associated with a Shelby. I'm fairly sure that all the lables listed for a mustang would not be found on the Shelby, but I could be wrong. If it is of any help our car was build mid December 1967. Additionally could anyone give information on the appropiate distributor vacuum advance on the 428 PI engine installed in this car. There seems to some ambiguity as to whether it is a single or dual vacuum advance devise in the articles I have found.
     
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    Coralsnake

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    As far as decals go...you would have one on the master cylinder cover, a battery inspection decal, a service spec decal (same as Mustang) and probably (but not always) a smog decal. If you are really serious there was on the front of the engine block with the engine code . I'm sure I probably missed one....

    The GT500s used a single vacuum advance.
     
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    The decals Pete mentioned as well as the harness decals are same as Mustang. The only ones that are Shelby specific are the emmision decal and the engine ID that goes on RF cylinder head. If you have a stick you are out of luck for the engine ID one as I don't believe that one is currently made. The auto one is available. Also I usually see the wrong MC decal, shoot me a PM if you need pic of correct one. All GT 500s used single advance C8AF J distributor regardless of transmission. 350s and KRs used dual diaphram on stick cars.
     
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