Magnum swapping the 72 Scamp!

MOA said

A couple comments on the oil pickup.

Purge the tube with a constant argon flow to avoid the ( sugar) inside. And, it must be clean. DO NOT USE BRAKE CLEANER TO DEGREASE! Argon plus BRAKE cleaner plus heat equals deadly gas that will kill you.

You may want to reconsider using that main bearing bolt you welded on? I wouldn't use it. I'd find a different way to support the tube.

That bolt has a specific tensile strength, temper, elasticity and yield point, all of that was changed by the heat. Not a chance in hell I'd use it!

That's just my opinion. I like what you're putting together though, nice car.

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Thanks for the compliments and suggestions.

I think it’s buried in the thread here somewhere but the bolt welded on didn’t even hold for a day haha. I found it on the garage floor the next morning even with minimal torque. Luckily I was able to order from kevko a single Mopar main bolt with a stud already on it.

As for the pickup tube I didn’t like the other one that had been messed with so much so yeah I got a new one of those too ($40 I think? Worth it for piece of mind).

In other news I got the intake milled .040 on each side this morning and it lined up perfectly. I got that installed, installed dip stick tube, and installed fuel pump today.

Also double checked balancer timing marks with a piston stop.

I dimpled the valve cover baffles on the inside and with the thicker Mopar gaskets it looks like they won’t need any trimming either. Needed to oblong the holes on my billet water neck too, not sure if the neck was off or the intake but it works now.

Hoping to have this baby dropped in real soon.