Recent content by Ted265

Are you talking 360 or 318 pistons? The KBs tend to have the top ring closer to the crown so it gets a lot more heat hence the need for a larger gap. Hypereutectic alloys are lighter but more brittle and will fail faster than a typical cast or forged slug if you have detonation issues. The speed...

I tend to agree with 318willrun, weiand action plus or edelbrock performer manifold ( the weiand is probably the better intake but not much between them). Vac sec carb around 600cfm (holley or carter/edelbrock - whatever you are most familiar with for tuning purposes), headers and dual exhaust...

Yeah i think they had a pretty lose tolerance on that 9.6" deck height though. Mine also had a taller deck on the driver's side. Ended up with 9.575" after they were cleaned up and evened out, and a 0.013" positive deck height with KB167s. Did you have issues with intake manifold fitment With...

This probably won't be much help to you as this motor had been apart a couple of times with a 0.040" overbore, but on my 1973 casting 318 the pistons were about 0.070" in the hole. The block had been decked before but I don't know how much was taken off. Factory pistons could of had a higher or...

You could pull one of your hydraulic lifters apart and shim it solid for your checks

Pretty sure Howards grinds the cams for Hughes engines. If you have a search around on the Howards cams website they have a pdf with all their lobe profiles listed on it, there are some interesting lobes there. Doesn't cost that much more to pick what you want and have them grind you a cam. I...

I used a comp XE250H in a similar setup - mid 70s 318 with ported closed chamber truck heads (very similar to the 920 castings) edelbrock performer manifold with 625cfm carter AFB, headers and 2.92 gears. Good power bump from stock but nothing crazy, it was a pretty good setup for a low buck...

Toowoomba products - these will be very early production heads cast in Australia (first couple of runs) not sure if there were changes made to the castings when they moved production to NZ.

Yeah makes perfect sense...... instead of replacing the pistons in your 318 just buy a 360 and replace the pistons :BangHead:

A 400hp 318 is definately doable, but not for 3 grand. Not sure what machine shop rates are like in the US but over here you would spend most of your budget just on machining and balancing. I will go against the grain here and say a 15/16 year old in car built in the 70s with a 400hp motor is a...

Yes, but they are advertised timing numbers not timing at .050" lift. (37° to TDC + 180° to BDC + 69° after BDC = 286° ) there would only be a few degrees between .006" lift and fully closed. Someone here may have a cam card with the .050" timing numbers. But it will close the valve well before...

Hmmm... $1900 for a set of comp FT lifters - I would just go for a roller cam

Yeah the .050" timing plus 15 degrees isn't that accurate - depending on the lobe profile you could be way off. (Old school easy on the valvetrain grinds vs agressive lobes designed for a .904" lifter). The timing on the summit description are at .006" lift and probably closer than the 84°...

Kirby-Bishop made variable ratio steering boxes & racks for Fords & Holden's in Australia and later for Mercedes and a few others aswell. I have one of their variable ratio power steering boxes to go in my valiant - 2.5 turns lock to lock, 17.5 - 11.5 ratio. I couldn't find much info on them but...

I've used the blue hylomar spray with success in the past if the surface finish is a bit rough. But as TT5.9mag said if your surface finish is RA50 or finer install them dry.