Reply to "Oil Pressure??.. What say you??..."

The stock engine is the most reliable component of the original car. The 73-4 US cars are noticible more dependable then the first ones.

This had to do a lot with Fords involvement in the Pantera.

The two piece valve in the original engine will get you eventually if you put enough miles on it.

The solid state Motorcraft ignition was not available quite yet to the car and it adds a good deal of dependability to the car if added. "Taxi tested tough".

A lot of the problems with the wiring stem from the difficulty in servicing it without stressing the harness.

The stock, as delivered '74 car is difficult to improve reliabilty on.

Recent developements with electronic updating will improve the car 1000%.

"Updating" the engine, if you know what you are doing", will give it more go power.

But think about what some people are adding. For instance, aftermarket roller cams? Those are strait out of the drag racing parts books and have lousy dependability in everyday use.

The reason many put this stuff in the car is because they want to increase dependability and the result can be exactly the opposite. They wind up shooting themselves in the foot.

This car is hard to work on and the simplest things can be expensive to do.

You want to make the car so that you NEVER have to go into the engine again. Changing the oil is all you want to have to do.

Stay away from aftermarket distributors and go with a Motorcraft electronic distributor and brain and you will have gone along way towards increasing the dependability of the engine, including the oiling drive.