Larrymike63
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Well, it’s finally warming up a bit here in northern Wisconsin. It’s time.
After a year of family priorities and now being stuck at home, I’m finally off my backside to get my 409 built.
The engine code that’s cast on the rear is: 814
The engine casting number is: 3844422
The stamped number is: J204002T0827 ( CG ? ) (the ‘C’ might be something else but looks like a C)
The head numbers are: 3830817
Intake is: 3844465
The best info. this rookie can come up with, is that it was made in 63’ and put in a 64’. There’s no telltale sign of there ever being a pilot bushing in the crankshaft for a standard transmission, so I’m guessing it may have had a power glide behind it (maybe in a wagon?)
I was told it had roughly 44,000 miles on it before it spent 20 years or so in a garage in rural Arizona.
It was tore down a few weeks ago by myself and my friend who’s a semi-retired engine machine shop owner. According to him, it looks great!
It’s been dipped, checked for cracks (a more modern way other than magneflux? Not sure of the process.) Anyway, My goal is to rebuild it basically back to stock but maybe with a little bit of ‘thumpity-thump’. I plan on driving it allot locally and cross country, so I want to be able to use pump gas.
Here’s my questions:
What company or companies would be a good source for rebuild parts?....for .020 over pistons and rings? Timing gear set? Oil pump? Camshaft and lifters? Gasket kit? as well as bushings, and a host other parts I’ll need? I found a ‘Howard’ camshaft and hydraulic lifter kit #130821-10 on the JEGS website that I was told would work well for what I’m after. The car I’m putting this in is my 63’ wagon of course, but with a 4-spd Muncie I found. By the way, what bell housing will I need? (assuming I can’t use the 283 bell housing that the original 3-spd on the tree with overdrive I had in it). I gotta find brackets for the steering pump, alternator, a radiator, a carb that’ll match up, flywheel, clutch, pressure plate, geez...So much to learn and research.
Just as when I built my ‘34 Chevy coupe streetrod, I didn’t know a thing about how or where to start, but I learned from my fellow Rodders who helped me along the way. Thanks ahead of time for any contact info., suggestions, input, and cautionary advice that you all may have.
After a year of family priorities and now being stuck at home, I’m finally off my backside to get my 409 built.
The engine code that’s cast on the rear is: 814
The engine casting number is: 3844422
The stamped number is: J204002T0827 ( CG ? ) (the ‘C’ might be something else but looks like a C)
The head numbers are: 3830817
Intake is: 3844465
The best info. this rookie can come up with, is that it was made in 63’ and put in a 64’. There’s no telltale sign of there ever being a pilot bushing in the crankshaft for a standard transmission, so I’m guessing it may have had a power glide behind it (maybe in a wagon?)
I was told it had roughly 44,000 miles on it before it spent 20 years or so in a garage in rural Arizona.
It was tore down a few weeks ago by myself and my friend who’s a semi-retired engine machine shop owner. According to him, it looks great!
It’s been dipped, checked for cracks (a more modern way other than magneflux? Not sure of the process.) Anyway, My goal is to rebuild it basically back to stock but maybe with a little bit of ‘thumpity-thump’. I plan on driving it allot locally and cross country, so I want to be able to use pump gas.
Here’s my questions:
What company or companies would be a good source for rebuild parts?....for .020 over pistons and rings? Timing gear set? Oil pump? Camshaft and lifters? Gasket kit? as well as bushings, and a host other parts I’ll need? I found a ‘Howard’ camshaft and hydraulic lifter kit #130821-10 on the JEGS website that I was told would work well for what I’m after. The car I’m putting this in is my 63’ wagon of course, but with a 4-spd Muncie I found. By the way, what bell housing will I need? (assuming I can’t use the 283 bell housing that the original 3-spd on the tree with overdrive I had in it). I gotta find brackets for the steering pump, alternator, a radiator, a carb that’ll match up, flywheel, clutch, pressure plate, geez...So much to learn and research.
Just as when I built my ‘34 Chevy coupe streetrod, I didn’t know a thing about how or where to start, but I learned from my fellow Rodders who helped me along the way. Thanks ahead of time for any contact info., suggestions, input, and cautionary advice that you all may have.
