Recent content by Ragtop

This is great! I'm presently building the exact same combination and I've been wondering about what cam to use. My '34 is a long ways from completion, but this is interesting.

I'm lucky to have a friend that does patterns in a small aluminum foundry and he's going to make me a set of aluminum fiined covers using a damaged old Offy cover as the pattern for the mold. I'm wondering if it would be advantagious to have him cast in some dripper bumps or maybe put them in...

Anyone have one of those 348/409 books they'd like to sell or trade, or know where to get one? I see them on EBAy all the time, but I'v had so many problems with EBAY that I won't go there again.

Just :dunno wondering how you made out with this project.

Thank you.

This has probably been discussed long before I showed up here, but I'm wondering if there's a parts interchangability book somewhere, kinda like a Hollander's but just for W motor stuff. I just read the fuel pump thread and it seems that small block fuel pumps are the same as I would need for my...

I need an oil pan, timing chain cover etc. to convert my 409 boat motor over for street rod use and I just found a 348 that I may be able to buy complete. As a street rodder, I'm not interested in numbers correct stuff. Can someone give me an idea on what I should have to pay for this? It's in a...

Center to center distance The carbs on my 348 intake are 6" apart center to denter. Hope that helps. Interesting read!

Sorry, I meant to say timing chain cover.

Just found a 348 too. Would the timing chain, distributor, oil pan etc, fit my 409? Thanx for all the replies -

Good advice! Thanx and please leep it coming - I'm a newby with these motors.

Just got my first 409 and haven't been able to do anything with it yet due to moving to a new home and building a new shop, but I'm wondering where the best place would be to get parts. I understand I can use a small block flexplate and harmonic balancer, but I'm going to need an oil pan (not a...

Sorry for the (sorta) off topic thread, but someone named John, I believe was looking for 409 boat motor parts and I just got my motor back home. Sorry John but I seem to have lost your address when I moved recently. Send me a message.

No photos as of yet. I bought the body and a set of frame rails about 2 weeks before selling my house. Since then I've been too busy building a new house and moving. Since my shop's not done yet I have stuff stored all over the county. It'll probably be spring before I can really get back to it...

Sounds good. I've heard good and bad about Pertronix, but nuthin' bad about MSD. A stock looking dizzy would look good though.