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is it possible that someone put KB stroker pistons in your 360? if they have the deep eyebrow valve reliefs and are 100 down in the hole that would give you 200 valve clearance.???? that would make me suspicious. Back story is , many of these pistons were installed in crate engines with the...

i appreciate this project , i was an auto mechanic in my younger years , but we never did auto trans repair. it was always sent out. i am a retired medical equipment sales guy now ,but still work on my early Mopar projects. I bought the books from Tom Hand and Carl Monroe. these are great, but...

too bad someone hasn't come up with a good tri-y set up for small blocks in some of the tight engine bays we work on. you would think that that would be easier to get performance and fit!

Just got this book @ Christmas . not done reading it yet . The brilliance of this book is the quality of the photos and the comments adjacent to each photo. This allows you to read a paragraph and immediately see the pic reference. I learn well that way. I have many trans books but much harder...

to newer denso alt . made new brackets ,alined as good as i could. started to throw belts @ 6k +. bought an 09 GM belt tensioner fabbed a mount . works perfect. cant provide a photo as car is in storage.

i welded 1 x 2 x .100 req tube "Under" the stub frames @ front and back creating a box with the body. about 12-16 inches of overlap allows plenty of welding space on both sides. 67 Barracuda runs 12.6's 2 the track, leaves straight, no noticeable flex.

i bought a blueprint engine in 2011 with 238/238 @50 thou cam , air gap, dyno'ed with 750 edelbrock and dyno sheet said 415 horsepower ,486 torque with stock magnum heads. i think intake manifold is the bottleneck

all the engine builders i talk to won't build an engine with KB pistons unless they gap the top rings @ .030+ (4"bore). i, of course found out the hard way.

i was reinstalling the extension housing on my 904 today (trying another governor) and somehow i thought that the park rod was in place when i put it together. got it all done and realized the trans was in neutral when i did the work. now it wont shift . i suspect the park rod is jamed in there...

3:55 gears with a 26" tire and a lock up torqueflight will net you 2800-3000rpm on the highway. 3:21 would be better on gas and still lively enough.

the 4 head bolt per cylinder is definitely the weak point in this design. the gasket was a generic "engine quest" brand . i didn't really assess the situation as critical as i was installing new cylinder heads and new head bolts. my normal go to would be to go with a brand name gasket . but as...

THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED! Head gasket ! blew the fire ring in towards the intake manifold exposing it to the crankcase , presumably sucking oil into the cylinder and out the exhaust. This has turned out to be an interesting thread to read as many conclusions were drawn from assumptions. To set the...

the history on this motor is that it was a bluprint crate. 2 pistons ended up with brroken ring lands. Bluprint sold me new pistons /rings and i cleaned it up with a hone and reassembled . this is when i found out about the ring gap fiasco that exists with KB pistons. as near as i could tell...

that makes sense! i have a leakdown tester as well. will try to borrow a bore scope ,but i find its pretty hard to see much with those. wondering about head gasket fire ring exposed to crank case causing a suck/blow condition??? seems odd to have happened seemingly so quick. its been awhile ...

always had one cyl down on compression that i suspected was the issue. went looking for this sudden increase in acceleration induced blue smoke and i found another cyl on the same bank that seems to have lost 40 psi since the last time i checked compression. this rebuild doesn't have 5000...

there is an issue using that one pce gasket . i dont recall exactly , but remember having to replace it as it didn,t seal on a magnum block with LA front cover. too bad as it is a nice gasket!

I HAVE THE SAME SET UP AND IT JUST CLEARS! May have to pick a low profile cap. i bought one with a chrome cover and it touched.

i ran the 1970 up(squareback) chrysler alt for years . you could buy these from rebuilders with ratings well over the advertised 60 amps. in fact you could rebuild your self using available parts to boost them to nearly 90 amps at one time. went thru 3 or 4 of these in the last ten years. seems...

i had Keith Black Hypereutectic pistons. (this is what Blueprint used in those days) recommended ring gap on a 4" bore was 26thou. apparently many engine builders have experienced the same problem i had in that the top ring would expand under heat and butt , causing the top of the piston to...

i had a "diesel" type noise in my LA Stroker. it didnt just show up one day. it was always there but it got loud enough to notice. could never figure out what it was . long story short i had to dismantle the engine . i found that the cam bearings were wiped out. this was originally a blueprint...

phone Dr. diff and see what it would cost to do with rear disk. u might be surprised. run 7 1/4 till it whines.

Don't remember what mine is . minimal toe-in . my car is manual steer with aftermarket upper and lower control arms for general street and some strip application.

correction! -.5 camber

2.5 caster / .5 camber

A lot of good responses/ideas here to work with . keep in mind that the pick up in the dist is very hard to diagnose.i had one do this exact thing for 3 months before i finally changed it and the problem went away.

i run a 410 stroker in my car . 360 magnum based. but if i was doing a car that was more show than go, i would be temped to find a 318 magnum out of a truck. would have to be way cheaper than a 360 and set it up for peppy performance with decent gas milage. Love my 410 but she sucks the gas!!!

they are often the same . but no guarantees. they made several different versions for different models

bought a pan from a newer torque flight from rock auto. my pan wouldn't stop leaking as the sealing flange on these get flaky after a while. new pan was deeper and had a drain plug. bonus. dosen't leak and easy to drain. was cheep.

stay with what you have and budget for EFI . cold start daily driver potential improves dramatically.