Funny how back then cars were identified by the engine number and the bore size! I have kind of been leaning towards building a stroker 348 until I can get a 409 block. It's going to take a lot of money to put this car together. And I still have to have a sleeve put in and have it decked and align bore checked. I was looking at a new set of 348 .060 over Pistons. I have a friend who has built several 409 stroker Motors in the past but he's kind of giving it up to build tractor pulling engines. Big money in this! He has four Haas CNC machines. He builds Pistons, rods, rocker arms, and many other parts for these two cylinder engines. I posted pictures on the website in the past.. He has the ability to do 100% of the work and I know it will be one hundred percent correct. He even puts me on the machine and then Watches Over Me. He wanted to know why I was building a 348 Stroker motor and I told him it was because he wouldn't sell me a 409 block out of his hoard that he is not using
....... he's also got an Algon 409 fuel injection set up with intake. So I told him that in order for me to get this put together and running I would have to have a budget, I have a block for 348 that needs a sleeve and it has been magnaflux so that is the only issue with it. so I went into his shop yesterday and wind a little bit and he said"
OK you need to bring me the block the main caps a crank a standard set of bearings with the thrust bearing and a front bearing so he could check some things. I think I've got him on the hook
however he did mention that he would not do this for everybody. Bob Walla knows him well and he is the one that dropped off Bob's new aluminum 409 block after it was cast. Jeff was having some castings made for his tractor cylinder heads and was going by The Foundry on his way to Ohio to look at one of the 409 stroker Motors Jeff built for a guy and he was at the racetrack and wanted Jeff to come by and enjoy. And Bob got his new block delivered to the track.
I'm sure that if Jeff ever lets loose of some of his horde that I would be lucky enough to be a recipient. But life is short so I have to move on. So it looks like it's going to be a stroker motor to start with.
WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! Please.....
just like that Johnny Cash song one part at a time..... 
That ever happened anybody else? I was looking through some ads on the internet I run across a standard standard 409 crank, a set of unmolested rods, and a set of 340 horse 409 exhaust manifolds. I contacted the guy and his name is Bruce and he has sold his 59 Impala and was wanting to clear out the rest of his parts. I asked him if he would sell me the rods in the crank separate from the manifolds and he said that as cheap as he would sell them to me that I should take them all. I about fell over whenever he showed me what he paid for the manifolds, and the crank has been magnafluxed and the rods have been too. They still have the goo from the magnafluxing dried on them. 409 parts are not cheap!
) anyway I managed to get away early this morning and meet him and pick up the stuff and I have a few more options now. I could not have bought the crank for what I paid for everything!
see ya soon!!!!!!!!!
