Recent content by Siksty7 Dart 270

I haven't come across a 318 crate engine, small block crate engines are generally 360s or strokers of that nature. Oreilly auto parts lists 9 different 5.2 liter long blocks and LA versions are pictured. They also list a 360 crate engine. I mean, if you work out the balancing differences with...

Right on guys. If they listed them as "domed pistons" and not flat tops I might not have gotten crossed up. Yeah I'm thinking of using Magnum heads on a 340 block, going hydraulic roller cam with retrofit lifters, tapping and plugging the oil galley holes below the deck.

Now that makes sense! Thank you!

Before I go inserting my foot in my mouth responding to a UEM Pistons representative, can someone tell me if I'm wrong here? I sent UEM an email asking if the compression height could be reduced by machining a KB243 piston shorter to achieve zero-deck clearance under a closed chamber cylinder...

That's in the plan before proceeding. Bore measurements conveyed to me on the phone ranged from 4.071 to 4.075.

Machine shop said the current 4.070 bore is too sloppy and it needs to go to 4.080 for a cleanup. They said if I ran it, with the current bore and 4.070 pistons there would be piston slap. I believe them.

Thanks for the suggestions. Do you know of a hypereutectic 4.080 piston that's not an out of the hole compression height? I'd prefer to go hyper, but I haven't found any that aren't a long way out of the hole and that's tough on a closed chamber head. FYI: the cam mentioned isn't Hughes, it's an...

I picked up an over bored 340 (4.070) block which the machine shop says needs to go to 4.080 to avoid piston slap. Here's a recipe I'm considering: Stock stroke cast crankshaft, steel I beam connecting rods, 4.080 D.S.S. forged flat top 4032 alloy pistons with valve reliefs zero-decked, .051...

I like the Freiburger and Dulcich video on Roadkill Extra on degreeing a cam. It was super helpful to this newbie! I degreed mine using their video. It's an Oregon re- grind and needed 2 degrees to land on the installed center line. I bought Summit's double roller timing chain that has lots...

I did this once using duct tape over the crevice tool and sucked a piece of a pencil out a spark plug hole, that I accidentally broke off while checking for TDC. Just poked the rubber hose through the duct tape and got instant suck!

I would exhaust all possibilities of that clip dropping elsewhere outside the engine, and then pull the hood and anything else in the way on top to get a really good look down the hole with a good light before removing the intake.

Wow, just wow. Shroud it and get the fan spaced to an inch or closer to the rad. It has always been lack of shroud for me.

It was a pleasure meeting you @goldduster318. Glad you were ok after the rock encounter.