My 360 Saga
Ok I bought a 360 from a forum member a few wks ago.... The thing looked amazing... I had some friends go overthere to the sellers house and check it out for me. Everyting looked fine they told me. After DHL shipped it from San Deigo to TX the realness of the engine started coming to life.
The 1st thing I did was pull the valves covers and dist. After looking into the block and in the heads it looked like it had been sitting open for a while. So I decided to take the Tunnel Ram off and look inside the block. It was dirty and had some carbon deposits on it but at least it wasnt seized. After truning it I wanted to find the clearence from the piston to the cyl walls so I ending up tearing the entire thing apart. OH BTW when I took the heads off I found water in the cyl .
The cam looks ok but I'll prolly change it to something else. The crank was great.. The block hasn't been bored and the pistons and rods appear to be stock cast ones. the Clearance # we came up w/ was .002 I think spec is .001-.002. the cyl wall have ver very slight rust in them. The heads are fine but they are those cast stock smog heads 1.88 1.60.
I already spent $1200 on this engine and it was suppost to be turn key ready. I really am on a tight budget around $600-$700 to make it thing run and not be a dog.
My plan is as follows:
keep the pistons, rods, crank...
BUy a rubuild kit something like this http://chucker54.stores.yahoo.net/sealpowkitb.html
Have my heads ported on the intake side and get a nice valve job that opens it up to 2.02.. them plug the smog holes w/some JB weld and sand it down. I would like to mill some off the heads to bump the CR but I'm not sure how much to take off. I feel the the CR is my biggest goal in thei build. If I can get that to around 9.5is or 10 I think it should be a nice little street rod.
Swap the came out w/a cam kit like this hydraulic pkg http://chucker54.stores.yahoo.net/maravapopa.html
Then have the block hot tanked honed just to clean it up a bit. I didnt want to bore it b/c then I'd need to buy new pistons and that might put me outta budget.
How can I find out what my CR is w/these pistons that I have? Do I have to put it back together then do a Comperssion test? What was the stock CR on a 360?
How hard is it to reassy. all this to working order...lol... I have a local guy that wants to charge me $600 to do it.... I'd like to di it myself it sure wasnt hard taking it apart..lol...
I'm also thinking about changing the intake to a duel plane M! or Air gap w/a 750 or something.. I was hoping to sell this Weiand Tunnel Ram w/ 2 holly 450's on it. I hear nothing but night mares on these and I want want a rough running car.
Here are some pics
Ok I bought a 360 from a forum member a few wks ago.... The thing looked amazing... I had some friends go overthere to the sellers house and check it out for me. Everyting looked fine they told me. After DHL shipped it from San Deigo to TX the realness of the engine started coming to life.
The 1st thing I did was pull the valves covers and dist. After looking into the block and in the heads it looked like it had been sitting open for a while. So I decided to take the Tunnel Ram off and look inside the block. It was dirty and had some carbon deposits on it but at least it wasnt seized. After truning it I wanted to find the clearence from the piston to the cyl walls so I ending up tearing the entire thing apart. OH BTW when I took the heads off I found water in the cyl .
The cam looks ok but I'll prolly change it to something else. The crank was great.. The block hasn't been bored and the pistons and rods appear to be stock cast ones. the Clearance # we came up w/ was .002 I think spec is .001-.002. the cyl wall have ver very slight rust in them. The heads are fine but they are those cast stock smog heads 1.88 1.60.
I already spent $1200 on this engine and it was suppost to be turn key ready. I really am on a tight budget around $600-$700 to make it thing run and not be a dog.
My plan is as follows:
keep the pistons, rods, crank...
BUy a rubuild kit something like this http://chucker54.stores.yahoo.net/sealpowkitb.html
Have my heads ported on the intake side and get a nice valve job that opens it up to 2.02.. them plug the smog holes w/some JB weld and sand it down. I would like to mill some off the heads to bump the CR but I'm not sure how much to take off. I feel the the CR is my biggest goal in thei build. If I can get that to around 9.5is or 10 I think it should be a nice little street rod.
Swap the came out w/a cam kit like this hydraulic pkg http://chucker54.stores.yahoo.net/maravapopa.html
Then have the block hot tanked honed just to clean it up a bit. I didnt want to bore it b/c then I'd need to buy new pistons and that might put me outta budget.
How can I find out what my CR is w/these pistons that I have? Do I have to put it back together then do a Comperssion test? What was the stock CR on a 360?
How hard is it to reassy. all this to working order...lol... I have a local guy that wants to charge me $600 to do it.... I'd like to di it myself it sure wasnt hard taking it apart..lol...
I'm also thinking about changing the intake to a duel plane M! or Air gap w/a 750 or something.. I was hoping to sell this Weiand Tunnel Ram w/ 2 holly 450's on it. I hear nothing but night mares on these and I want want a rough running car.
Here are some pics