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Well I have the body off of the frame and the engine and transmition out. Just picked up an aluminum water pump and some other parts. Was thinking about selling the 402 and some of the other parts that I will not be needing. Kind of torn about it right now because if I ever sell the car may be nice to have the old engine and things. (air, cruse, etc.) Would like to post more pictures but still haven't figured out how to do it without useing a link.

Thank you for the info. I posted in the Modifiers section I picked up another motor to build for the car. Kinda funny, I have been out of cars and into drag racing Harley's for a long time. Sold one of my bikes and now have 3 big blocks and my new (70) sitting in its place. I feel like a kid in a candy shop, very excited about this build.

The roads were dry but you could see the white residue still. Had 2 inclosed trailers lined up but both fell through. So had to bring out the car hauler. Seemed to do alright, no surface rust has showen up.

Well this is my car, most of the body was sanded to bare metal before I brought it home, had to prime it with a rattle can before the ride home. You can see the 402 in it and the new motor that when done will be going in. Just about to pull the body off the frame. Thats it for now...

Dave you are right, having the bigger valves and ports tend to flow bigger numbers at higher rpms. I know that can be a real problem because of the large volume the air slows down and looses velocity. And in the real world for usable street power it does go out of the rpm range that I would use 90% of the time. Although it will not change the size and flow ability of any of these things, what do you think about running a little smaller cam to comensate for some of this?

I have pic's starting this project but I'm not sure how to post them. Help!

nice, thats what I'm looking for!

Whats the widest tire you can run on a 70 without tubbing the wheel well?

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it! The Zl1 block is all aluminum and it has sleeves that are siamieased. The bore is 4.25 stock. Although it will take a crank with a longer stroke I'm going with a 4.25, I don't like the rod angle on the longer stroke and I think it will give it a little more longevity. I do like the Callies crank but I'm also looking at a Crower crank that is bladed and lightened. I really have to watch myself here because I am a gearhead/drag racer and tend to go over the top. The heads I have have a 117cc chamber and 290cc intake port, they say they flow 327 @ .60 and 350@ .80 before the hand porting was done. Thats a 2.300 intake & 1.88 exhaust Stainless valve and I do have titanium retainers. The intakes ports are about 2 1/2" tall and about 1 3/4" wide and the intake is similar to the Victor JR in its a large single plane, but this is much bigger. (Trust me I know Bigger is not always better and that all of the components have to work together. I think you can see the drag racer coming out in me with this build.) As far as a carb goes it probably will be about a 1050 dominator. Well, thats it for now... Let me know what you think... Oh, and the compression will be about 11-1 and I want to run pump gas.

Well I'm going to start building a motor for this car. So this is what I'm working with. 1st I have a newer ZL1 Aluminum block fully studed with ARP studs 2nd a set of Pro-Filer Sniper 24° heads with Stainless valves, CNC ported and have been sent to Steve Schmidt for more work. 3rd Pro-Filer snyper Jr intake that has been match ported 4th going with a Callies crank 4.25 stroke 5th Earl's rods and probably Callies pistons I will do a roller cam probably from Comp and that should put me at about 482 CID. Hows that sound?

Thanks Troy. I still love the car and was going to make it a Pro Street car to begin with but was unsure if I should. Now that I find its not a numbers matching motor I may lean more towards my ariginal plans. No matter what, I will, in my eyes, make this already cool car cooler.

I like the look of the custom grill...

Could it be my car was built late in the year that they would have used a 71 motor or marked the motor different? Doubtful I know but just wondering, the Production sequence in my VIN is 121221, 146000 built that year. Yea sounds very unlikely, seems strange that someone would put a 402 out of another 71 Monte and not out of some other car. Well that kinda stinks! Thank you all for the help though Carl

I just picked up a 70 Monte with a 402 in it. Found the build sheet to verify thats what it came with, now I want to make sure that the 402 that is in the car is the original. The numbers I found are: 3969854, TO406CLB and what looks like 1L1 then 54866. I know the T=Tonawanda and there is a sticker on the passenger side valve cover that says Tonawanda. I found the 3969854 number online and looks to be approeriate. But as for the CLB and (1L1?)54866 I can't figure out. The 54866 dosen't match any of my VIN #. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks Carl.