jbird72

Here we go scott..bottom end in. Just gettin ready degree cam. Wish me luck plus all painted again

2nd pic is the concern

No got a wiseco kit. All forged flat top Had it balanced and with all.gaskets bought thinkin round 10.5:1 comp. So can still run pump gas. Just was concerned bout that knick. That could of even been there when was made who knows

Decks fine...cylinder with that notch old piston took. out looked fine soo..well.see

Iron

Yeah man lucky me lol...hope trans is good find out when drop pan.

Yeah, I actually think that happened from the factory, something that's crazy. The Dyno guy my that builds motors, he couldn't believe it either he said prolly happened day 1 He's never seen anything like that, but he said, hey, it ran there was no marks on cylinder or bad rings so yeah, yeah, I know.Let's keep going..cursed block lol. This whole thing again started with a carb and timing change

I have the parts already. I shouldn't have said ordered and uh, I mocked up the crank everything grinded the block. So the crank would fit everything's all figured out, but notice this, it's already bored. .40 over

Well, here it is. Everything's ordered. Everything's getting put back together, honing the cylinders and found this. This has been running like this for years, though, with this little imperfection and nothing was wrong on the old pistons and rings. But uh I hate to put all this money into it and have this Be a problem. It's a little Nick in the side of the cylinder wall. Here's the picture.

So despite the dyno numbers on my built 355 pretty happy 449 hp...turned out as stated before had bent crank. So still gonna keep sbc because of money invested rather go bbc yet...doin 383 ..all new bottom end. All forged. Bit whats crazy besides bent crank is found 2 broken valve springs...so after bathing block and porting heads should pull bout 50 hp more and more torgue id think. What are your thoughts ...only 8 bolts lol

Wow nice lookin ss ..lil jelly aint gonna lie. Shes a buety

I bought one like that. Made by trickflow. Awsome yu made that tho..that does work great. ...i still needed a curved wrench but i have 30 yr old long tubes way to go matt!

Definatly butchered... like i said body is perfect everything else not so much. Maybe could of used a grand prix. Lol

I would love to have that straight body though. Ugg

Im doin new pistons crank rods timing chain. I fig better than putting lipstick on pig. The cam button was missing also..just gets better ugg

Its .40 now...sucks cause was getting decent power. Cant run with bent crank. Thats why rear main still leaks well i guess bright side should be more torqy costing a lil more than getting another 350 crank

Turns out cranks bent so now gonna put a 400 crank in her....plot thickens ugg...i got some flange bolts grade 8 same deal as picture

Yeah, the Tran shop that put this in apparently years ago. Didn't really do that good of a job, because when I pulled the motor apart from the tranny washers, fell out from the converter, and I think they shimmed the converter when they didn't need to, because the crank actually pushed forward in my block. I had to get new thrust bearings to get the crank to not rub on the block. So it's supposed to be eight thousandths away from block now it's five thousands but it's fixed, and it's not rubbing. And this is like, hmm, supposedly one of the best trans places around here, so it had to be someone that was new ...just frustrating. Good thing pulled motor or i never would of found all this micky mouse stuff

So here we go been 3 weeks and still aint built..i have faith tho cause looks legit mark. I sent adam a diff dyno spec wich made top torque 600 rpm lower rpm. So hope he got it

I agree what your saying but are those the right bolts. Cause thy was in there doesnt mean they are right. Ive been surfing and no bolts ressemble that pic. But ill do the heli coil and try get same bolts i guess

Gota love it

Bolts didnt come in kit just shorter ones to mount to the cross member

I guess i can see if oriellys carries them....,so im guessin on motor mounts dont use them either then more than likely Ts

Well, the problem is, is the one doesn't want to screw in, it wants to just turn, it's like it's stripped, so I figured I'd throw some J. B weld on it or something, whoever put this thing in was a complete moron.