Magnum swapping the 72 Scamp!
At this point I kept the bottom end together for a bit and didnt wrench on it too much. I ended up painting it hoping I could keep the bottom end together but things went sideways when I pulled the cam and got a look at the cam bearings.
Clearly not a good thing.
So of course at the cross roads I had to look at the main and rod bearings and to nobodies surprise they were all in not such good shape.
Also started ordering up some parts for the swap
Gotta love coming home to mopar boxes :) Water pump this time
Also put some paint on a few parts.
Painted up the kevko oil pan to give it some oem stealth (orange is stealth right? haha)
Got a Hughes 222/226 110 Lsa roller cam. Plan on using the 2200 stall in it now and 3.55 gears so this should be a decent fit.
Off to the machine shop the bottom end went. Who said you can't hoist an engine into a hatch back? hahaha
The machine shop has been awesome to deal with, super old school. Really wanted to use IMM out in Indio but the 2 hour drive stopped me. Just couldn't set aside the time to get out there so I used one closer to work / home called Vellios that I have read a bit about between here / hot rod mag etc.
At this point I kept the bottom end together for a bit and didnt wrench on it too much. I ended up painting it hoping I could keep the bottom end together but things went sideways when I pulled the cam and got a look at the cam bearings.
Clearly not a good thing.
So of course at the cross roads I had to look at the main and rod bearings and to nobodies surprise they were all in not such good shape.
Also started ordering up some parts for the swap
Gotta love coming home to mopar boxes :) Water pump this time
Also put some paint on a few parts.
Painted up the kevko oil pan to give it some oem stealth (orange is stealth right? haha)
Got a Hughes 222/226 110 Lsa roller cam. Plan on using the 2200 stall in it now and 3.55 gears so this should be a decent fit.
Off to the machine shop the bottom end went. Who said you can't hoist an engine into a hatch back? hahaha
The machine shop has been awesome to deal with, super old school. Really wanted to use IMM out in Indio but the 2 hour drive stopped me. Just couldn't set aside the time to get out there so I used one closer to work / home called Vellios that I have read a bit about between here / hot rod mag etc.