1972 Duster, 340/4, black on black (the endgame)
BAM!!!
Found a motor...
Blurry photo of a 7*10*69 340-4. Stamp on the front says FW340P 3006 0193. 3006=Monday, 20 October 1969. Everything but cam & lifters, intake, carb, windage tray and the sleeve for the dip stick. And the best part?
STANDARD BORE!
A real live, honest-to-god unmolested 1970 340.
Story goes, it was in a '70 Duster that the original owner wrecked. Before he sent it to the scrapyard the guy I bought this from pulled the motor for a project Challenger he wanted to build. Now that he's retired and working on '67 Chevelle and '72 Camaro projects he's passed on starting a Challenger project and let this go. On Craigslist. Not 20 minutes from where I work in Bozeman.
Original valve covers. Original air cleaner. Pilot bushing in the crank so that '70 Duster had a stick. I don't think I could've found a better starting point for a 340 build for this car if I had stole it from a museum. STANDARD BORE!!! There is NO ridge in those cylinders :thumbsup: If there's a downside to it the heads are 1.88s (edit-nope, they're 2.02). But 2.02 heads are a helluva lot easier to find than a low mileage '70 340-IF I care to go that way.
Thirty five years later and after dragging this car to everywhere I lived in Wisconsin, out to NoCal and here to Montana the Duster finally has a motor. I gotta go back downstairs and look at it again...
BAM!!!
Found a motor...
Blurry photo of a 7*10*69 340-4. Stamp on the front says FW340P 3006 0193. 3006=Monday, 20 October 1969. Everything but cam & lifters, intake, carb, windage tray and the sleeve for the dip stick. And the best part?
STANDARD BORE!
A real live, honest-to-god unmolested 1970 340.
Story goes, it was in a '70 Duster that the original owner wrecked. Before he sent it to the scrapyard the guy I bought this from pulled the motor for a project Challenger he wanted to build. Now that he's retired and working on '67 Chevelle and '72 Camaro projects he's passed on starting a Challenger project and let this go. On Craigslist. Not 20 minutes from where I work in Bozeman.
Original valve covers. Original air cleaner. Pilot bushing in the crank so that '70 Duster had a stick. I don't think I could've found a better starting point for a 340 build for this car if I had stole it from a museum. STANDARD BORE!!! There is NO ridge in those cylinders :thumbsup: If there's a downside to it the heads are 1.88s (edit-nope, they're 2.02). But 2.02 heads are a helluva lot easier to find than a low mileage '70 340-IF I care to go that way.
Thirty five years later and after dragging this car to everywhere I lived in Wisconsin, out to NoCal and here to Montana the Duster finally has a motor. I gotta go back downstairs and look at it again...