GatorDog72

Does it bubble or gulp with the engine running or is it only when you shut it off? Is it violent or just small bubbles?

I would start by replacing the filter element in the canister, it looks like Year One has it. Hope this is what you are looking for. Heres the part number- Filter Element- 9054N Charcoal Canister- 2159N Good luck with the fix!

Thank you for all the replies/support everyone! I stopped into the machine shop today and they are going to get me the right set of rings. Very strange, it was a brand new, sealed box of rings and had two different sizes in there....must have been boxed wrong. The top rings were definitely for something with a larger bore. These were a set of Liberty Performance Components racing rings Hopefully I will have the new rings by this weekend so I can get the short block completed.

Today I finally got around to fitting some rings and ran into a problem almost right off the bat.... The first ring I filed was the 2nd ring down on the piston. That went perfectly. It fit nicely inside the bore with no overlap before filing but with a very tight end gap.( <.010") I really didn't have to file much off at all. After that, I moved on to the top compression ring for the same piston. This ring wasn't even close. Heres what the overlap looked like.... probably 5/8" or more. This can't be right... I'm thinking my machine shop gave me the wrong compression rings. Anyone know whats going on here??

This is where im going to need a little guidance. I know im going to need some sort of a roll bar/cage to stiffen the chassis up. Im going to keep the stock suspension for now and just put in some boxed trailing arms and adjustable shocks. I plan on running 28x10.5 slicks at the track and DOT slicks on the street. I have a few questions about rear end options, i'll start a new thread for that.

The domes on the pistons are 18cc and the heads I had milled to 118cc. Static compression worked out to something like 10.5 to 1. I want to keep this thing on pump gas and i think im pushing the limits on whats safe to run. Heres a cool pic of the giant 2.300 intake and 1.880 exhaust valves

Well it was supposed to be a mild build, but it turned into something way more extreme. When I bought the core, it came with a set of 781 iron oval port castings I was going to rebuild and install with a mild cam and a q-jet. After finding out how much it would cost to redo and port the heads, I decided to just save up money and buy new ones. I ended up going with AFR 325 cnc ported heads, a comp cams solid roller cam 248/254 duration @ .050, .653" lift, and a 1050 ultra dominator carb on a single plane eddy intake. The bottom end is a 4.25" stroke 4340 forged crank, 6.385" forged H beam rods, and 4.280" bore forged aluminum pistons from SRP. Right now im in the process of file fitting my rings. The block needs to be at room temp for this and when its -5 in my garage it makes it sort of difficult. The purpose of this build is to get my Monte into the tens at the track and still be able to drive the car to work in the summer.

Hi guys, just wanted to upload some pics of my engine build. I found a short deck 454 big block engine searching on craigslist one day for a decent price. It knew it was in pretty bad shape, but I took a gamble and bought it anyway. Once I got this thing home, I realized that the engine was in far worse shape than I thought. This thing was seized up hard! I soaked it for about a month with a mix of ATF and PB blaster and finally decided I had to smash the pistons out with a hammer. Every bearing in the engine was smoked. Some were so bad they were spun 180 degrees from where they should be. Not having any clue what I was about to get myself into, I brought this thing to my local machine shop to see if it was worth messing with. They shot blasted and magna-fluxed it and they said with some work it would make a great engine. I bought an internally balanced 489 rotating assembly from them and had tons of block work done. They bored .030 over, align bored and honed, and zero decked the block. I will be doing the final assembly. Im saving money right now to buy the final parts to make it all work. This was supposed to be a budget build, but I got a little carried away. When its finally done, this engine should move my Monte Carlo pretty well. Here's some pics of what I have so far. I have a ton more to upload too!