Stroker's 68 Barracuda
Today was short bloxlck assembly day for the 225. I wasn't planning on having to rebuild this engine. You know the story. "It's been rebuilt, it's ready to drop in." Far from it.
Well the car wasn't even ready to have the engine dropped it. It was originally a 318 car. But, that's non-mopar people for you.
So I sourced a Slant 6 K-Member because I wanted to go cheap on the initial run in of the car. I've got a 340 that needs to be sleeved that will eventually go in it, but I've got a 225 and a 225 904.
Anyway. Short block assembly was this morning. I'm not much of a camera man so I'll give you what I've got.
It's a Hughes Whiplash cam, .010" and .010" on the crank and .030" over on the pistons.
Partswise the cam is as fancy as it gets, and every mut and bolt except the mains and rods are ARP. Wanted to keep this budget, so most of the parts are right off rock auto.
I am degreeing the cam in with a timing set from Hemi Performance. Like I said, not a good camera man, I have no pics in this post of the piston/rod assembly installed or the timingnset on.
On to the next, I whipped upba little heater plate in CAD today to attach to the underside of the Super 6 intake to keepbthe carb warm because I'm running a header.
It'll be piped into the heater circuit using -8 AN plumbing. Still working it all out, currently hust have the working sketch in Fusion right now. It's on the plate getting 3D printed for mock up and final form will be aluminum.
Also have one tub about 88% done.
Today was short bloxlck assembly day for the 225. I wasn't planning on having to rebuild this engine. You know the story. "It's been rebuilt, it's ready to drop in." Far from it.
Well the car wasn't even ready to have the engine dropped it. It was originally a 318 car. But, that's non-mopar people for you.
So I sourced a Slant 6 K-Member because I wanted to go cheap on the initial run in of the car. I've got a 340 that needs to be sleeved that will eventually go in it, but I've got a 225 and a 225 904.
Anyway. Short block assembly was this morning. I'm not much of a camera man so I'll give you what I've got.
It's a Hughes Whiplash cam, .010" and .010" on the crank and .030" over on the pistons.
Partswise the cam is as fancy as it gets, and every mut and bolt except the mains and rods are ARP. Wanted to keep this budget, so most of the parts are right off rock auto.
I am degreeing the cam in with a timing set from Hemi Performance. Like I said, not a good camera man, I have no pics in this post of the piston/rod assembly installed or the timingnset on.
On to the next, I whipped upba little heater plate in CAD today to attach to the underside of the Super 6 intake to keepbthe carb warm because I'm running a header.
It'll be piped into the heater circuit using -8 AN plumbing. Still working it all out, currently hust have the working sketch in Fusion right now. It's on the plate getting 3D printed for mock up and final form will be aluminum.
Also have one tub about 88% done.