I lived in the mountains in Washington State for 5 years and no electricity and had an old wood kitchen cook stove that we used in our cabin. Long story short it was the best years of my life.
What size converter would yall recommend for my setup? If I ended up going to trick flow heads one day would that same converter still be applicable? (which I believe have a smaller chamber volume and would raise my compression to about 10.2:1)
I will definitely be going to at least 3.73 or...
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After a head gasket change a deep gash was found in cylinder 8 from a broken wrist pin keeper which allowed the wrist pin to ride on the cylinder and a rebuild was in order.
A quality rebuild including a 30 overboard and stainless steel valves included in the Xhead rebuild .
KB 243...
Not sure what my goal was but I start to believe that these rods don't fit any of my goals. One thought was to replace the LY rods in a 69.5 six pack but I soon realized that the gain would never be worth the money spent on balancing.
idles like stock with just a hint of lope, awesome vacuum, lots more midrange. It is just a stock 318 with an old holley street dominator intake and an Eddy 600 carb, but runs very strong
And for those of you following the story along.....here's the last part of it I left out.
Auto shop class was off school campus in downtown Macon. So we had permission to drive if we had cars. So me and Kirk always took the Charger. Anyway, the Monday following the Saturday we had had the car...
Yes they were so very light it was like the difference between a quarter and a dime with chromoly. Kind of sketchy I guess but I will tell you that thing would wind.
It's been years since I've heard of aluminum retainers. But I'm willing to bet that either build with the 4.10s and a four speed had explosive mid range power. RIP, Crane Cams. I wish we could buy parts of that quality again.