It’s alive!
- Thread starter Ishiftem
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Story?
Removed engine because of ring butting issue. Hone, rings, bearings, etc. Cooked heads on dyno. So new exhaust valves, all guides, valve job, and surface. Engine back in car. The clutch was redone with a few changes and now the counter weights hit the inside if the scattershield. Slice scattershied, heat/bend, weld back together, parallel ground and dial it in again. While doing that, I noticed the engine made a bad sound and sent a vibration through the engine when coming up on the #7 exhaust lobe. Swapped lifters and rockers with no change. Primed it while turning it over by hand with no change. Pulled the head and examined #7 exhaust and it looked fine. Pulled engine out again. Cam bearing looked a little funky but, not enough to cause the issue in my mind. Checked cam for straightness and polished. New coated cam bearings. Back together and noise is gone. No idea what that was about. So that is the VERY short story. I left out the crying and swearing. Now to get to the track before the Meltdown drags and see if my carb modifications will give me the fuel I need and hopefully solve the ring butting issue.
Only two times? Have fun at the Meltdown Drags, James and company will be there, but I won't be able to make the trek 
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Cheers! TomK
.Cheers! TomK
Wow, sounds as if you've paid your dues. Hope she runs like a Big Dog Dan.
It felt like three.
I was thinking the same thing Skip but knowing Dan is smarter than me.....figured it was a new racing trick!!!!!Sounds Awesome.How do you keep oil and gas, in there, with the engine mounted sideway's?
A slant eight.
That car is awesome^^^. Palomar Red. That’s what my 283/PG Bel Air pile started life as, hopefully it will look that good someday.
When did you up the HP to 425?