New motor for my car/winter project

[scooper77515]

I have to admit that I am done for the winter...It is down to below 55 in the water, and unless we get a really warm day, 80 or warmer, I am staying out of the water.

Need to start buying parts to swap out the wear ring early this spring.

For now, I am building a new motor for my car...

Just finished it today, and hope to install it next weekend...

 

[kustomkarl]

WOW a 8 cylinder for your seadoo....nice accomplishment! My new 200speedster has 2, 3 cylinder 4-tec engines...we will have to race some time..lol

Karl

 

[brandondemarest]

Thats a good looking motor only the distributor is in the wrong spot and the oil pan is on backwards. Sorry im a bowtie man

 

[scooper77515]

The car was a free hand-me-down from family, so I am now a Ford Man...:ack:

 

[kustomkarl]

Wow your a lucky dude! First a seadoo freebie and now a car...let me know when you get a freebie house on the water, and I'll come visit with my speedster..lol

 

[scooper77515]

Car was first...and wasn't completely free. But got it for $600 after all the taxes, etc. It may as well have been free.

When I get a free house on the water, I will quit my job, disconnect all phones and internet, and enjoy the easy life:cheers:

 

[brandondemarest]

Id be a ford man too if i got a free one.

 

[kustomkarl]

I can't be bought as a Ford man... I own 5 Dodges...the rest of my family own Dodges... we be a dodge family... uh I sell dodges in my dealership and my borther-inlaw is a Dodge car salesman.....yea were just a Dodge kinda a family.

 

[seadoosnipe]

Chevy!....

Was a Chevy man my whole life. Used to build the 327's and 350's at my uncles workshop for a living. Complete machine shop!....loved to pump up my motors.
My last motor for my Camaro (1968) was a 350 with a dual line 850 cfm Holly, 6 inch Offenheimer intake manifold ( your were the baddest dude on the block if you had an Offey, Edelbrock was second best) with 2" adapter plate for a total of 8 inch lift. A cool can (that I made and loaded with ice) for my fuel system. I used a 486 total duration Crane competition cam, 2.02 heads, port and polished and headers with cherry bombs on them. Don't remember the brand of hearders I used, but I remember it was my second set, because the first were cheap and leaked all the time!.....I had a high volume oil pump and a true roller cam chain so I could advance or retard the timing, depending what type of race I was going out for on the week-end. I removed the clutch driven fan to save horsepower and went with an electric, that I had a switch mounted for on my dash board, so I didn't run the engine too cold...........man, those were the days. Something you never forget if you were ever a Chevy man.......1,8, 4, 3, 6, 5, 7, 2...!
Now, I drive a Ford..........don't ask me why, I just got tired of working on my Chevy's all the time...........:rofl:

 

[scooper77515]

Description of this motor

5.0/302 +.040 for 308 ci total, converted to roller cam, .531/.567 224/232 w/Crane 1.7 roller rockers, GT40 heads (Cobra Mustang heads), 750 Holley double-pumper carb on the old Edelbrock Torker 289 single-plane intake (NOT the Torker II), 3.80 Ford 8" rearend with minispool (REAL posi, not that limited slip crap), CalTracs traction bars, Hooker 6901 headers, full dual exhaust ending with a pair of Flowmaster Super44 and dumping right behind the axle.

Should have about 9.5:1 compression, so still unleaded-friendly.

The car had most of this for a while, but I leveled out a cam lobe and lifter a few months back, and found a brand new rebuilt block for $200, never been run. I then put all my stuff on it, and was given a roller cam, roller lifters, and all the stuff to convert the block to a roller block.

I only had to sink about $400 into the entire new motor. For block, double roller cam chain and sprocket set, new springs, retainers, locks for the valves, machine and cleaning of the heads, gaskets, paint, etc.

If anyone is interested in the project, I keep a running "diary" website at http://home.cmaaccess.com/~scodon/

 

[brandondemarest]

I raced circle track for a few years in northwest arkansas. I had modifieds the last motor i built was a 421 small block. Stock 400 block stroked lunati 4340 crank, 4340 h beam rods, SRP pistons, Iron eagle platinum 215 heads, solid roller roughly 700 lift cam, jesel rockers, edelbrock supervictor intake, willis alcohol carb. it made just over 700 horse on the dyno at 7700rpm. when i quit racing a friend of mine had a back halved, ladder bar, 71 camaro we put it in with a th 350 tranny and a 4.88 gear, we put it in and threw a 250 shot on it and drove it around town a little. Lets just say the local pd didnt care too much for it.

 

[scooper77515]

Weather is beautiful...

...motor goes in tomorrow:hurray:

I would appreciate some crossed fingers

 

[kustomkarl]

Got my fingers and toes...

 

[scooper77515]

Well, got about half way there...Ended up cutting my finger on the transmission bellhousing, couldn't get it to stop bleeding and ended up in the emergency room for stitches...

Had gloves on, then took them off to clean a couple bolts, then immediately popped off the front trans seal, and nearly lost the finger. THEN thought about putting the gloves back on...:stupid:

 

[hfgreg]

Oh wow glad to hear everything turned out ok. When do you get the stitches out?

 

[kustomkarl]

I hate working with you bare hands, but sometimes you have to. I hope you get things under control and back on track. Sorry to hear about your finger. OUCH!

 

[scooper77515]

10 days...

...but I am already working on the car again. Put the new front seal in yesterday and torque converter. Just waiting for another set of hands (friend, neighbor, I don't care who!) to help me pop the engine in.

Hopefully saturday it will be in and running. If I can keep from cutting any other body parts...:hat:

 

[kustomkarl]

uh, try super glue next time you cut something off...

 

[scooper77515]

I usually use super glue, and this time, the wife and I were in there gluing it up and i was holding it closed, when I let go, it opened all the way up and we could see things way down in there that made us both hurl...

We use superglue on all cuts that we can close up and get to stop bleeding, on each other. But this one was WAY too deep.

 

[kustomkarl]

Uh, there's a bad joke in your post but I'm not going there...!!!

 

[scooper77515]

I see lots of bad joke potential in this thread, but I figured this was a family forum...:boxing_smiley:

 

[jr86]

I restored a '68 RS Z28, with all of the goodies,("deluxe" interior) 302 DZ engine complete, even the tic toc tac worked!! I sold it and bought a house with the money in 1989. I sold it to a ford man who was tired of restoring mustangs. That car was a true head turner!!

I still have grease imbedded in my right middle finger from a battery-meets-sheet-metal with a finger in between incident.

 

[kustomkarl]

my size 9 1/2 shoe won't fit in my mouth!

I see lots of bad joke potential in this thread, but I figured this was a family forum...:boxing_smiley:

You are exactly correct... this forum has a lot of class so no bad or disgusting humor will be dragged from the gutter...this is a family fun place! Even my 14 yr old daughter comes to visit once in a while.
Karl

 

[scooper77515]

Engine is IN!!!

Weather was perfect for working on the car. Took this picture earlier, but I now have everything done except filling it up with water, trans fluid, and hooking a couple more wires to the coil.

 

[Dennis]

Installation

Don't forget to reattach your fingers back on to your hands! LOL
DAWG