very mild 360 build.

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Dan the man said:
Sounds like you have a good plan for your car.
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well its a plan.. not sure if its a good one or not..lol..

i want to do this stuff and not touch it again except for tinkering around with it.. burned out of doing this big stuff.. its why i bought the 08 mustang.. i just keep it clean and tinker with it and get a big smile on my face whenever i take it for a drive.
 
abodyjoe said:
well its a plan.. not sure if its a good one or not..lol..

i want to do this stuff and not touch it again except for tinkering around with it.. burned out of doing this big stuff.. its why i bought the 08 mustang.. i just keep it clean and tinker with it and get a big smile on my face whenever i take it for a drive.
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I like to open giant cans of worms then get dumb founded when cost and schedule spiral out of control. But its looking like thats how I am gonna keep rolling.
 
the Oregon cam i ordered came today. i didn't cancel it just incase I don't like the MP cam thats in it now I'll have another option.

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Dan the man said:
Did you have a shift kit installed in the transmission when you had it rebuilt? If so what stage did you get?
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when my buddy tom does my transmissions he makes his own kit. uses good clutches, good band, 4.2 leaver. he makes it shift fast but not harsh. i can't stand a real hard shifting trans. i'll see if i can get some better details on what he does in there..
 
so i asked my buddy what he does to my 904's to make them last.

his reply:


****. Nothing exotic in there. The most exotic thing is the direct clutches and the fact there is 5 of them instead of 4.

There's a 4.2 lever. 1 5/8 wide band. 5 direct clutches. I always replace the bushing in the front drum no matter what and make sure the end play is on the tight end of the spec. I have a few secrets I do in the front drum. I drill a hole or two, enlarge a hole or two in the valve body. I have a certain way I set the line pressure screw. I use a screen filter. I set the two bands to my liking. Every unit is different, it's done by feel. And I normally don't do anything to the accumulators.

Other than that it is a close to tolerance stock overhaul replacing all the needed parts.

And on the installation, the linkage better be adjusted right and the kickdown better be hooked up or I don't want to hear a ******* word.
 
abodyjoe said:
so i asked my buddy what he does to my 904's to make them last.

his reply:


****. Nothing exotic in there. The most exotic thing is the direct clutches and the fact there is 5 of them instead of 4.

There's a 4.2 lever. 1 5/8 wide band. 5 direct clutches. I always replace the bushing in the front drum no matter what and make sure the end play is on the tight end of the spec. I have a few secrets I do in the front drum. I drill a hole or two, enlarge a hole or two in the valve body. I have a certain way I set the line pressure screw. I use a screen filter. I set the two bands to my liking. Every unit is different, it's done by feel. And I normally don't do anything to the accumulators.

Other than that it is a close to tolerance stock overhaul replacing all the needed parts.

And on the installation, the linkage better be adjusted right and the kickdown better be hooked up or I don't want to hear a ******* word.
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What is a 4.2 lever and a 1 5/8 wide band?
 
HankRearden said:
i had a 360 the previous owner had built to mimic the little red express engine. same cam,wind age tray etc. it ran well enough in my 74 dart to win a bunch of street races but was mild enough my wife delivered pizza with it. That may be the sort of build you are looking for.
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Can you remember the camshaft specs?
 
abodyjoe said:
thats been debated for many years.. not sure anyone knows for sure unless someone actually pulled the cam and had it cam doctored.. many say its just a regular 360 production cam.
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That's possible too, as you said who knows for sure
 
mopowers said:
I'm pretty sure all 4 bbl 360's came with that cam, right? Not just LRE's.
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I don't know if this is true or not but I heard that the 1974 dart sport had two versions of the 360 and one was considered a high performance option because it had the 340 cam and again I don't know this for a fact, same thing for the 1974 360 duster's. I could be wrong about this
 
Dan the man said:
I never heard anything about them having W2's, if they did that would be awesome
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78 prototype did. never made it to production though. the prototype didn't have heat shields on the stacks either. few higher up burned themselves and the stacks got shields for production..
 
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