Originally Posted by wazup
Originally Posted by zipper06
Originally Posted by wazup
Zip just got to love them blowers. What kinda car is that a vega.
I have been waiting on some of you guys to jump in and try and help Art, just to many things with out being there to look at it.
No Robert, it's in my friends very ugly 1963 Dodge Dart. When i built the engine i already had my 377" in my Malibu, so i just want to try the motor out and he had his motor out so that's how that happened. It ran pretty good until i cracked a cylinder and the block was filled all the way to the deck, but then i was running 30% OD and pushing 40 PSI of boost with a good Littlefield blower. I still have the whole setup but need a good Dart blk to put it back together as a 383 with alum rods.
Zip.
I have allways loved that idle as it goes up and down and lunges. Thats alot of presure for a stock block. I know that the stock blocks are not very thick and rough on cylinder walls. I had tree different blocks all #4 cylinder crack never found out way but after that i would poor all my blocks up to the water pump holes. If i here of anyone around here with a block for sale i will give you a call.
The blk was setup as good as could be done with a stock blk, splayed steel main caps hi nickle 010 blk, O'ringed and reciever grooves in the heads. It was the #8 cylinder on the outside cracked down from top about 1" down, just enough to burn down the top ring land on the piston. I think it was probably a casting flaw maybe a sand pocket in the block. it wasn't exrayed before assy. I learned my lesson on stock blks with blowers.
It did run 4.62 on a short track (620 ft lg)
Zip.
Zip.