And So It Begins....
Here is the short block as Buck Owens would say "Together Again". Still have more cleaning up to do because I'm going to repaint it Street Hemi Orange. But you can see how high up in the bore the pistons are. About .010" in the hole. I plan on running the factory steel shim head gasket that gets about .020" compressed thickness so that should give it some close quench. Factory rods and ARP rod bolts and I plan no more than 5500 RPM so I should be safe "there".
Here is the short block as Buck Owens would say "Together Again". Still have more cleaning up to do because I'm going to repaint it Street Hemi Orange. But you can see how high up in the bore the pistons are. About .010" in the hole. I plan on running the factory steel shim head gasket that gets about .020" compressed thickness so that should give it some close quench. Factory rods and ARP rod bolts and I plan no more than 5500 RPM so I should be safe "there".