1964 Valiant "Get Runnin & Drivin"
I decided to go ahead and whoop me up a 225. I got a really NICE rebuilt one from @RAT ROD AL a little while back and it's CLEAN man it's clean. So I whipped the head off. LOL I have another head that's been milled about .150" and that's going on it. I'm also going to put an Oregon regrind in it. Grind #280, but it will be ground on a 108. That core is going out tomorrow. Put my rollmaster timing set in it, wheel it in good, put it all back together, slap the A230 on it, have a new drive shaft cut from one I have with a slip yoke, and swap it out. I'm gonna stick the 4 barrel on it and the second exhaust manifold Freddy opened up to 2.5" for me and have a complete 2.5" system run on it. Then, I'm gonna finish up my Ford 9" with 4.10 gears and small bolt pattern axles and put that under it. We'll see how snappy it is after that. lol
Here's the engine:
Here's the A230 transmission. What I found that's really encouraging here is, the column shift levers from another A903 I have like what's in Vixen now, swap right onto the A230, so I believe that transmission will bolt right in and work fine.
I decided to go ahead and whoop me up a 225. I got a really NICE rebuilt one from @RAT ROD AL a little while back and it's CLEAN man it's clean. So I whipped the head off. LOL I have another head that's been milled about .150" and that's going on it. I'm also going to put an Oregon regrind in it. Grind #280, but it will be ground on a 108. That core is going out tomorrow. Put my rollmaster timing set in it, wheel it in good, put it all back together, slap the A230 on it, have a new drive shaft cut from one I have with a slip yoke, and swap it out. I'm gonna stick the 4 barrel on it and the second exhaust manifold Freddy opened up to 2.5" for me and have a complete 2.5" system run on it. Then, I'm gonna finish up my Ford 9" with 4.10 gears and small bolt pattern axles and put that under it. We'll see how snappy it is after that. lol
Here's the engine:
Here's the A230 transmission. What I found that's really encouraging here is, the column shift levers from another A903 I have like what's in Vixen now, swap right onto the A230, so I believe that transmission will bolt right in and work fine.
