greymouser7
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They sold the house beside me. No more additional zealousness from the code enforcement officer. The 360 in the machine shop doesn't seem to be happening, am going to just throw one together and get this car moving
Heavy Metal Hell raiser
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I have two completely machined sets of J heads.
A milled .040 set which I will be installing low compression, 4 valve relief speed pro Pistons
-1406 edelbrock carb, reconditioned rods with new rod bolts, Chinese air gap intake, 273 rockers, crane 693901 camshaft, hooker headers...
This motor is going to be installed until I get my hi-Po one from the shop. The heads cost me $350ish from FABO. The motor will leave the hell raiser to live in a 74 road runner afterwards.
Later on I have a 76 Aspen R/T that is getting a thermoquad carb (850 cfm), cast iron intake, 2.02 & 1.6 J heads that I picked up from Don Garlets (cores cost me $100, valves $130, valve job & setup $250), 340 exhaust manifolds is on the wish list, & hopefully a roll cage....NASA-this is the car that I paid thru the nose for shipping....,anyways-
The Aspen needs a drive shaft, external balanced flywheel, radiator, front suspension installation, manual steering install firm feel adaptor, clutch, leaf spring hangers, fuel & brake lines, gas tank adaptation , may be a couple of other things, and sanding/paint.
I got some temporary wheels for it from Facebook that I paid $500 for (15's) that were a fantastic bargain. The wife is tolerating them being stacked in the kitchen right now.
I am gonna use the exhaust it came with for now until most everything is near completion.
A milled .040 set which I will be installing low compression, 4 valve relief speed pro Pistons
-1406 edelbrock carb, reconditioned rods with new rod bolts, Chinese air gap intake, 273 rockers, crane 693901 camshaft, hooker headers...
This motor is going to be installed until I get my hi-Po one from the shop. The heads cost me $350ish from FABO. The motor will leave the hell raiser to live in a 74 road runner afterwards.
Later on I have a 76 Aspen R/T that is getting a thermoquad carb (850 cfm), cast iron intake, 2.02 & 1.6 J heads that I picked up from Don Garlets (cores cost me $100, valves $130, valve job & setup $250), 340 exhaust manifolds is on the wish list, & hopefully a roll cage....NASA-this is the car that I paid thru the nose for shipping....,anyways-
The Aspen needs a drive shaft, external balanced flywheel, radiator, front suspension installation, manual steering install firm feel adaptor, clutch, leaf spring hangers, fuel & brake lines, gas tank adaptation , may be a couple of other things, and sanding/paint.
I got some temporary wheels for it from Facebook that I paid $500 for (15's) that were a fantastic bargain. The wife is tolerating them being stacked in the kitchen right now.
I am gonna use the exhaust it came with for now until most everything is near completion.
greymouser7
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I am back from my 18th deployment. As viewers can tell, once I was attached to a submarine my free time was gone compared to shore duty (2013-2015).
Anyways I bought a complete (ring and pinion, master overhaul kit) rebuild kit. One of the members here (340 something) did the math on another thread on this site calculating that the 3.21 gear would be perfect for the A833 overdrive gear splits (3.09, 1.66?, 1.0, .73) so that is the gear set I bought.
I also bought the A833 master rebuild kit as well. They still have the external balanced flywheel for sale for $230-$250 on the net despite their $100 increase in price from 83 days ago before I deployed. eBay lists the external balanced flywheel for $500 now. I am getting one on payday to finish up 2/3's of the drivetrain.
I need a driveshaft and to gather up all of the engine parts in the house for assembly.
The front suspension bushings need to be installed as well. My appologies for the extreme delay. Two other factors work against me, the wife's utilization of our slush funds and I have such precious little time while serving the Navy. That's all for now.
Anyways I bought a complete (ring and pinion, master overhaul kit) rebuild kit. One of the members here (340 something) did the math on another thread on this site calculating that the 3.21 gear would be perfect for the A833 overdrive gear splits (3.09, 1.66?, 1.0, .73) so that is the gear set I bought.
I also bought the A833 master rebuild kit as well. They still have the external balanced flywheel for sale for $230-$250 on the net despite their $100 increase in price from 83 days ago before I deployed. eBay lists the external balanced flywheel for $500 now. I am getting one on payday to finish up 2/3's of the drivetrain.
I need a driveshaft and to gather up all of the engine parts in the house for assembly.
The front suspension bushings need to be installed as well. My appologies for the extreme delay. Two other factors work against me, the wife's utilization of our slush funds and I have such precious little time while serving the Navy. That's all for now.
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Am going to wire wheel on these, find holes, weld them up, and consider fuel tank sealer while I mock them up to the Aspen.
greymouser7
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45 minutes straight on the second tank in the Georgia sun, it has a dozen holes in it, but no big concerns yet. The wire wheel has porcupined my pants. I do love this though, it's been too long.
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Shiny!
318 or 360?
In the combustion chamber, did you use a sanding wheel/drum or a grinding wheel?
Did you lap the valves/seats in, or get them ground?
BudW
318 or 360?
In the combustion chamber, did you use a sanding wheel/drum or a grinding wheel?
Did you lap the valves/seats in, or get them ground?
BudW
greymouser7
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These are '596 heads: 318 & 360 during the late 70's & early 80's i believe.
The guy (Richard Mowry) that helped me during this build took my dewalt & other drills, W2's, tools, 1970 360 block, (when he left) & so much more-so I had to get a black & decker drill, Walmart wire wheels for it, and harbor freight sand paper rolls+ allot of hand sanding.
I am going to lap the valves almost last. After that leak test them, & then CC them.
They measured 65.5-66CC's prior to working on them.
They had shrouding reliefs cut into them prior to receiving them.
They cost me $400 assembled, supposedly ready to bolt on.
I have 1.6 roller rockers for the 365" and a mild Crane 693901 camshaft for this build.
It is temporary until I get my 367 fromDvorak machine.
’596 Cylinder heads fit ’77-86 360’s.
They do have larger valves and ports than a 318 has.
The 360 (2-bbl) did not come out until ’71 (in C-bodies). Unless you have an early one cast in 1970, it is not worth anything more than any other 360 block – but I don’t think I have seen a 1970 cast 360, before (and I have seen thousands of 360’s).
The first 2-3 years of 360's are hard to find (and were all 2-bbls).
BudW
They do have larger valves and ports than a 318 has.
The 360 (2-bbl) did not come out until ’71 (in C-bodies). Unless you have an early one cast in 1970, it is not worth anything more than any other 360 block – but I don’t think I have seen a 1970 cast 360, before (and I have seen thousands of 360’s).
The first 2-3 years of 360's are hard to find (and were all 2-bbls).
BudW
greymouser7
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The 1970 block came out of a 1971 C body. I drove 1400+ miles round trip to pick it up. It's a shame. The 1970's block would have been capable of a large bore. Ryan Johnson claims to have sonic checked and bored one out for a performance build to 4.2", if you can imagine adding a bloomer performance 4.25" crankshaft to that.
Water under the bridge. Kay sir rah, sir rah sir rah-as the Frence say.
greymouser7
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I have returned from my 19th deployment. 19 years of service as well. I bought some floor pan-fit sub-frame connectors, 1.6" exhaust valves, Tac-rags, wax&grease remover, and some small block engine parts. More pics to follow when I can tear myself from work. We are working many hours on board the USS Tennessee (just finished a 3 month patrol). I am taking the axle and transmission in to get rebuilt. I might load up the engine block to the machine shop within the next week as well. I went down the night before deployment and set everything straight with Dvorak-can't say that I am very happy, but I will have a built 360 within a year that will be plenty of fun and danger. I plan on driving this car on the Hotrod Power Tour (not this year) after I retire from the Navy.
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Nice frame connectors, thanks for the pics! That 2nd gas tank, is that for an F body? I have not seen one like that and the sending unit is in a strange spot. Perhaps I have just never seen that style but I have only ever seen a hump tank for a early 76/77 F that looks like the pic of your 1st tank.
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That is a 78\79 tank.
