TN454Monte

Tim my wife thanks you...after those pictures of the car she says I can never complain again about her putting the dogs in our vehicle and the resulting dog hair everywhere mess....

Cool Guys !! That answers my questions! Thanks a bunch for the help. With luck, I will have some new pictures of the Ignition install here some time Friday to share!! Thanks again!! GL

I have a console and buckets from a 72 Monte Allan, however the seat are in bad shape, and need re done, it just ain't in the budget to have the seats re done right now, and have the console put in, I'm stuck with the bench seat for at least till next spring. Also am I confused on the reverse manual set up here? I was thinking the way that works is Park, Reverse, L1, L2, Drive, you have to manually shift the car no matter what. Is this wrong? If so what does the reverse manual valve body do for me?

Hey all, Does anyone have a bench seat with a floor mounted automatic shift? I'm having some work down this week, I want to go ahead and do my floor shifter since the trans will be out of the car, however budget doesn't allow right now for me to do my bucket seat swap. I've been really busy over here so I haven't been posting, but the Monte just spent the last 3 weeks in the shop. Here's all I had done this go around.... The MSD digital 6 ignition box is completed, with a HVC and new MSD Billet distributor. I had the rear end re done with a 3.73 Eaton Posi. I am having the transmission redone with a reverse manual valve body. While this is being done I figure I might as well go ahead and put in a floor shift. I want a ratchet shifter, any suggestions? *** I realize a floor shift with bench seats is going to be a little clunky looking and maybe a little cumbersome for awhile but I wanted to know if Anyone is running a floor shift and bench seats.

Nice! Good luck with the NOS let us know how it goes!

LOL...well she says no real luck on parts. But she did win the Door Prize That'll look great in the garage above my 3500 Ram...

LOL..well patches needs about 50 feet and I need to be running about 80 and she look just fine, so don't feel bad! .....although my crazy [censored] wife just entered patches in a car show...DOH!!! (See the post "Always wear clean Underwear!! " in the non tech forum)...LOL

Allan, the Monte looks SAH-weet in that pic!

Arrrrrr. Okay, I see what you guys are doing, that seems to be a "bug" in the upgraded code. It's very minor tho. Really not a big deal, I did try HTML only I used the wrong syntax with [ ] instead of < > DOH!

Okay, I'm a little miffed, I get that way when I can't figure something out!! LOL Why is it in UBBC code that when I put pictures up they go where they darn well please? What is the code for to insert a space between pictures? I'm seeing a lot of folks post pictures and they all seem to render the same way since the latest upgrade. That is to say, all jumbled together with no spaces between them. Is it just me?

Ian, FireFox 2.0.0.16 on Windoze XP Pro Pages load in a reasonable amount of time considering I'm pulling it across the pond to Q8. Every now and then I'll get an HTTP 404 error on the boards themselves but generally have wrote it off as the hosting server is too busy, or maybe under going back ups. A lot of the times I see it is during typical ISP / Hosting maintenance hours, my 8 am is your 1am so I can see the hosting site doing server maintenance then when traffic is less. I will say tho...Since the upgrade I've seen less HTTP errors and better page performance over all.

Hey all, Here's some more information on that lower half I bought, it just arrived today. Pistons are Sealed Power Part Number H603CP .280 Dome. With my 119 CC heads I'm showing that to come out to a compression ratio of 10.07:1 did I figure this right? I thought I'd be closer to 11?

Well Capri, maybe he's on a good track there..piggy banks have slots in them, so in a 3 year olds mind..any thing with a slot must be the place to put your coins and save them for later....and you could look at it like.."hey at least he's trying to save his money already"....LOL.

Allan, Since you had the issue on all Dell platforms, and they seem Intel on board video related, did you check Dell's website for a new BIOS? Or one that supports Ubuntu? Just a thought.

Oh BTW Ian and other admins...(Indian or not) this was a great idea...

Speaking of India… A HR rep was interviewing an Indian Fellow for a Job. He said “Mujibar, you’ve done very well so far, but I’d like to get a feel for what you would do in our call center and how well you command English”. Mujibar says “Oh Yes sir, Please I am ready” The HR says "Okay then, Please use the following words in a complete sentence. Green, Pink and Yellow". Mujibar thinks for a moment or two and says “Ok Sir I am ready to answer”. The HR rep says “go ahead please” Mujibar says “ The Phone go Green-Green,…I Pink it up, I say Yellow? Yellow?

OW! Sorry for the problems Nate...gotta give yourself some props tho, that's gotta be one heck of a engine build to do that...LOL.

Sweet! I'm over in New Tazewell. Next time I come home, I will have to pop over I'm about 2 hours west.

Hey Cstraub Thanks When the cam time comes I'll make sure I give you a call. I visited your website, & I noticed the 423 area code, where are you in TN? Also, since you've been in the business in that area do you know of a reputable machine shop, I'm looking at a place over in Kingsport that deals on E-bay called Whitehead Automotive.

My hats off to you that's some tedious type work there...with what GM charges for a part these days..well dang it I'm keeping it casting flash and all...LOL

Thanks Bones! I guess I got some learning to do here on this stroker build. I'll look into the 4 bolt and machining the block. On the manifold, I kinda figured it would help not so much on the street, but on the strip as I hit the 1/8 mark and pulled through the traps ...No? Let me know what you want for the gear drive, yeah.. I know its not NEEDED..but I WANT one...nothing sounds as cool as a gear drive whining ...Bwhahahaha. Email's in signature block or PM me.

Quote: My changes would include: Forged Flat Top Pistons Lose the FluidDampr, they have a terrible rap since they were bought. There are plenty of options. I would also agree that that is a mild cam. Well since I bought the entire lower end as a balanced assembly I'm a little hard pressed to change to a flat top vs Dome. I'd have to sell this entire set up and start over. 270 is too mild???!? Aieeee...I guess I never took into account the 50 extra cubes on a stroker and the better heads I will be running this time around. Like I said this is the first serious no sh*t motor build for me, I built a 455 in my 72 Cutlass waaaaay back when but I really didn't have a lot of cash being a military sort back then and like most inexperienced, I stuck a rather large Crane fireball 292 Duration cam in the block with...stock heads, stock springs, tiny valves, and dish pistons...you can guess the rest. While it did run okay, it had a lot of problems with vacuum and running hot. I was also in Rhode Island, and the cam was killing me on a smog check. So that all came into mind when I started looking at Cams. Guess we will see what the block looks like when it comes out, I am looking at having it pulled here soon and starting the machine work. My mechanic is chomping at the bit to get started...LOL.

Supercharging or turbo is not in the future but I might run a 75-100 HP shot of Nitrous for passes at the track. I guess it would help if the end goal was stated, I'm looking to break into the 12's on the track but still keep the car street friendly enough to drive to a show, or local cruise in. I don't street race, I might blip the throttle here and there but street racing is not worth the huge fines and risks of an accident. Right now I have: The lower half consisting of a 496 Stroker kit, with domed pistons, and Scat I-Beam rods @ 6.135 Scat 4.25 stroke cast crank Sealed Power domed Pistons, these are .060 over. Fluid damper Harmonic balancer Hayes Flexplate The heads are cast iron rectangular port casting number 14096188 These come back as a "service replacement head LS6" 119 CC 2.19 Intake / 1.88 Exhaust. Other than porting and polishing I don't expect to heavily modify these. Valves will be Manley stainless heavy duties, with roller rockers. Heads are brand new and not built yet. I have not selected a cam yet but am leaning towards a hydraulic roller with advertised duration of around 270 and lift in the area of .510. Next to the choice of keeping my current block or replacing it this is my next biggest concern, this cam might be a bit much for running on the street, and the vacuum / heat problems might be an issue with it, although I've already got those monster flex-a-lite electric fans in there and I will replace the stock radiator with a aluminum unit and I can always run a vacum canister / pump if needed. Pete Jackson Gear drive. The Hedman shortie headers will be replaced by a set of long tubes. Intake will be a single plane aluminum with a 850 CFM Demon. Rear gear will be a Eaton Posi 3.73 and I'm really set on doing away with the automatic trans and installing a 4 speed Muncie. That my 72 was originally a 350 4bbl car, and the motor was replaced with the 454 out of a truck, among other mods done in it's history, it already sort of took me out of "factory original", so I've opted to make it more of a street / strip car. I'm figuring the above set up should yield around 11.5 / 1 compression and 500 HP, off the bottle at the flywheel. Okay, 4 bolt or 2 bolt block? I'm not opposed to machining my current block considering it comes back with no cracks or problems from the shop inspection, let 'er rip and tell me where I'm "stuck on stoopid" here...LOL Thanks.

Bones, sorry I don't have it as I wrote it down and left it behind in TN and now the wife can't seem to locate that "scrap of paper you left laying around" DOH! According to the previous owner the block is from a 1978 truck, any casting numbers that match a 1978 from what I found say "either 2 or 4 bolt mains" ..so that's not much help at all. I'm erring on the side of caution and saying the block is a 2 bolt. If it is I was pretty much set on replacing it with a 4 bolt for durability.

Thanks guys that helps. I have just picked up the rods, pistons, crank, harmonic balancer, and flex plate these are a 496 Stroker kit with .060 over pistons...and I am now looking at a Dart Cast Iron block standard height of 9.8 inches. I'm am not sure what my 454 has on the lower half, but if it is a 2 bolt main I most likely will go with a new block with 4 bolt mains. There are several Dart blocks on summit with varying bore diameters bringing me to my next question, why the variance in the bore diameters? Is this something that the manufacturers do as a matter of course for oversize pistons and rings? ? Forgive my ceaseless questions here, I have never done anything other than a stock rebuild so I'm not familiar with why they would offer various bore diameters. Assuming that I end up buying a new block, What bore diameter should I choose with that .060 piston?