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Correct me if I am wrong, but somewhere I was reading that alot of the manufacturing of the lifters went overseas (China or Tiawan) and a bunch of cam manufacturers had lifter failure out the arse due to this. Now the manufacturing has been ramped up back here at home and the 'problem' has been...

Our family's machinist won't even rebuild the 4.7; it seems to be cheaper to order a crate motor. In fact, Joe hates that particular motor as much as he hates FoMoCo's 4.6L and he is usually quite the fan of Ford and Mopar.

I'd rather do a slight cut to the head surface. Around 9.0/9.25 to 1 compression would work nice on the street; the heads are '91 360 swirl ports from a 1-ton van. A magnum swap would entail more cash and complications and this is not to be the final motor for the Valiant, it is the inbetween...

Thanks- I figured it will probably make a decent, inexpensive street/strip combo in the Valiant. Hopefully I'll get a chance and have enough spare cash to pull the powertrain before anybody else or the yard crushes it! Last question- anybody know what the stock compression in this 360 is? I'd...

Thanks guys- I'll try to get to it here in the next 10 days...gonna be rough because the transfer gears or differential just went 'Pop' in my little turbo Caravan yesterday (just put a '91-up suspension in it w/Koni struts and was on my way over to the alignment shop, took a left at an...

Was parusing the local "Git-UR-Parts" a couple weeks back when I noticed a VERY clean '73 Dodge D-150 "Grandpa's truck." Fresh arrival, was quite complete :wav: . Somebody took the air cleaner and kick down, but the MINT thermo-quad on the j-headed 360(1972 casting)...the odo reads 76,334 and...

Another "Cop Car" give away is the metal 'data tag.' Police cars of that era had a code stamped into that tag...look for A38. Many also had a second tag that simply said "Special Handling." Later cop-mobiles are AHB-coded, but that wasn't until '82 or '84 :thumbup:

Bang for the buck, I'd go with a '89-'92 360 roller motor from a truck or van :headbang: . They are littering the 'Pull-A-Parts' nowadays- and with a correct bellhousing and crank pilot hole (may have come factory), you'll have a budget performer. Higher up the money/power/handling food chain- a...

I am planning a fairly mild/econo build of a 360 for my Dart; I talked to a machine shop owner I have known for years and posed the same question about the heads- the magnum is a better head, but the involved adaptation of the magnum head to the '92-down block is more trouble than it is worth in...

I believe those are 89-92 swirl-port 360 heads...pulled a set and the A-518 tranny from a '91 D-250 van at the local 'Pull-A-Part' for $135 last summer. Casting number on the heads had the 308. Suppose to be a very efficient head and a good candidate for building a well-rounded engine.

For the "KISS" principle, why bother adapting magnum heads to an earlier block? For what most folks will do, just get the whole motor and gain a nice roller cam in the bargain. Time, money and frustration saved in the majority of situations