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There are a few different styles of retaining clips in hydraulic lifters my pic was just an example. What you have sure looks like a hydraulic to me but the pics are not clear enough to tell for sure. Don’t assume, be 100% sure of what you have because how you adjust them will matter. And I...

Hydraulic lifters will have a retaining clip in the top of em. Pretty easy to identify. Solids will not. You can peek down with a flashlight and see it through a pushrod hole even with the intake on. Another way to tell is take a pushrod and seat it in the lifter and push down on it. You’ll get...

273 banana groove shafts. It’s pretty easy to duplicate the groove with a dremel and a thin cutting disk. Might be easier if you don’t have the tools to buy a set of shafts. They come up for sale quite often.

Sounds exactly like you’re blowing through the converter. What fluid was in the trans? You could try hygard and see if it tightens up the converter if you just had atf in it.

Hell ya brother! That car is awesome!

Go a little further north up highway 1 to Big Sur if you haven’t been.

Those are 273 adjustable iron rockers. That’s a good rocker and about perfect for your application. There are two oil holes in them and you want to run a wire through each one to make sure they’re clear. Then do all the holes in the shaft.

Yes

The shark tooth grille will seal the deal. 9.999 here you come!!!

And hope the camshaft survives also. :lol:

It was just a suggestion, not a necessity. If after 2 minutes of priming with the oil timing lined up on a dry engine, you get no oil, there is definitely something wrong. If you only ran the drill for 10-15 seconds you might wonder “did I run it long enough to fill an empty rocker shaft?”

Yup, so start by finding TDC compression number one, then roll the motor over forward 380 degrees.

Find TDC compression number one. Then roll the motor backwards 90 degrees.

And even if he gets the rocker shafts off, he still has to find the correct oil timing before oil will come up through the head.

From the front of the engine counting backwards.

Have you tried setting the crank at the positions noted above in post 21? As said by others, some aftermarket cams are drilled differently but MOST are not. Set the crank at 90 degrees BTDC on number 1 compression, run drill for 2 minutes. Passenger side should oil. Rotate crank to 20 degrees...

That is exactly the answer I was hoping you wouldn’t give.

Your car came out beautiful and your work, attention to detail, to stick the 6 speed in really shows in the final product. Very, very nice.

Gettin it done. There are many ways. Congrats on being in the money.

Mine aren’t mine until they get a turbo. :thumbsup:

The small block Torker intake is a turd. Put an rpm air gap on it and it’ll pick up a bunch of low end.

I didn’t really measure anything. Just set the ruler on there for reference

Magnum cover (blue) next to an early LA cover.

Big Chief talking about tires in the first few minutes. Apparently stretching the tire out stiffens the sidewall not softens it.

I helped @Turbo440Dart replace a timing cover on his duster with a 360 and I believe he got a Mancini repop cover. It was a nightmare to install but using the oil pan bolts to pull it down solved the fight we had with it. You can read it in his thread here; Dumpster diver 70 Duster build...

Interesting thought. You FAST guys should definitely be the ones testing stuff like that.

That’s hard to say, you need to have enough power and traction to to start basketballing the tire when the wheel speed isn’t up, to really see a benefit. The question is are you there with 500hp?

It’s very common now in the radial tire world to run a much wider rim than recommended for the tire. Seems it stiffens up the sidewall quite a bit.