The time has come... 440 freshen for B-body
So I'm up at my cousin's place now, checked out the Satellite today and finished removing all the stuff connected to the 440 in the Polara. After figuring out the total cost for putting in a 4-speed (way too much lol) we decided to use the 727 also from the Polara for now. His budget is around $2000 which isn't a whole lot for what we would like to do with the car obviously. I already learned the hard way from not budgeting a car project properly and we're only gonna buy the bare essentials to swap the engine and redo the brakes and suspension at least so they aren't total crap, then go from there. That's also just the current budget, we should make some of that back from selling leftover parts.
We pulled the plugs and compression tested the front 4 cylinders because the back ones are basically impossible to get to and they all came out to 80-90 psi, including one with an ugly-looking spark plug that might have had some type of leakage (coolant?) I was a little concerned about. Painfully low but sounds about right for 5000 feet elevation and 8.2:1 nominal compression. This is why I think it's so necessary to get the compression up, the high altitude makes everything act like it has around 20% less compression and torque. I run my 10.5:1 360 up here on mid-grade gas with no pinging and it only has a 213/220* @.050 cam.
Here's where we got to today:
So I'm up at my cousin's place now, checked out the Satellite today and finished removing all the stuff connected to the 440 in the Polara. After figuring out the total cost for putting in a 4-speed (way too much lol) we decided to use the 727 also from the Polara for now. His budget is around $2000 which isn't a whole lot for what we would like to do with the car obviously. I already learned the hard way from not budgeting a car project properly and we're only gonna buy the bare essentials to swap the engine and redo the brakes and suspension at least so they aren't total crap, then go from there. That's also just the current budget, we should make some of that back from selling leftover parts.
We pulled the plugs and compression tested the front 4 cylinders because the back ones are basically impossible to get to and they all came out to 80-90 psi, including one with an ugly-looking spark plug that might have had some type of leakage (coolant?) I was a little concerned about. Painfully low but sounds about right for 5000 feet elevation and 8.2:1 nominal compression. This is why I think it's so necessary to get the compression up, the high altitude makes everything act like it has around 20% less compression and torque. I run my 10.5:1 360 up here on mid-grade gas with no pinging and it only has a 213/220* @.050 cam.
Here's where we got to today: