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excellent. Thanks. I am just hoping my CR idoesn't end up too high for iron heads and pump gas. I'm coming up with about 8.8:1 dynamic, which is high, so i may want to either mill the pistons or go with a thicker gasket to bring the CR down a hair. Hopefully, the shop doesn't need to take...

i admit, it's for my 302 ford....my daily driver 68 mustang has 1/8" crankshaft endplay, so i ordered a bunch of parts for a better build on another 302 to drop into it, and already had that new cam on the shelf. I thought it was a bit much for the 302, so i got the Rhoads lifters....but now I...

I have a question about these.....won't the fast bleed down at idle possibly cause adverse compression effects? example: I am building an iron-headed small-block to about 9.8:1. the cam will have 228 @ .050 and .512 lift. won't the Rhoads lifters help cause low-rpm detonation?

so they can't jst use the total weight of all the parts? I was going to give them the total weight so i can assemble the pistons to the rods and whatnot while the crank is being balanced

I was measuring my rods last night and have a few questions. how close do they need to be, for one.....mine are all within .8 gram and then...i made up a jig for measuring the big end, and they are all within .8 grams. I can then assume, that since i measured all the big ends exactly the...

excellent. just needed an opinion. machining for the block and crank will be 750 pistons and rings and bearings will be about 450. not that i'm trying to get out of ponying up some cash, i was just interested in not doing something that didn't need to be done, if anything. FYI....the...

Sorry for not being Mopar related, but I have to take a Cuda break and fix my 68 Mustang. And it IS engine related. The motor I'm building is a 125,000 mile 302 from an early 80s lincoln. I was wondering if I could get some help determining what to do with these parts. to me, it looks like...

but how fed up would you be if you HADN'T caught it? that's the bright side.

the cam was in it when i got it, so i have no idea.....

i need to find a chassis dyno near nashville....i need a bigger carb too, so i might as well take it to a dyno place and have it timed/jetted right...

ok.... Idle: 30 1000: 32 1500: 37 2000: 43 2500: 50 3000: 55 (i have no vacuum advance....mechanical only) and like i said...it runs great....maybe it's ok with te cam/CR arrangement? if i brough initial down to where total was 35, i'd only be at 10 at idle.....

i have marked my balancer using the existing pointer, since i know it's right i set the pointer to 10 BTDC, and marked the balancer at 0, then put that mark at 10, and marked again at 0, and did one more.... so when i checked it just now, the second mark was lined up with 10, which is 30...

yup....weird...is that even possible??? mech advance only, 800 rpm....i checked the balancer mark when i had the heads off and #1 at TDC, and it was dead on 0.....and yet the timing indicates 30 BTDC at idle..... it starts easily and quickly, and runs great......

ok...one vote for one round of final torque value, and one for going through the sequence multiple times at final torque value... i got to thinking....you are supposed to torque in at least 3 stages up to final torque...well, the closer you get to it, the more the steel shim will be...

ok....question....i understand torqueing in 3 stages to get even and uniform clamping...however.... when you do that according to the torque order. when you get the last one torqued, the first one has a bit to go to get back to that torque value again.... so do you torque in the proper order...

i think the year was 74 where the pulley bolt patern changed....i had to elongate 1 hole on my pulley to get all 6 bolts in, but if your depth is off, then that won't matter anyway....

nevermind...found a nice slug of aluminum last night lathe, here i come

i want to make a pulley spacer for my crankshaft to line my pulleys up. i currently have a 1/4 aluminum spacer i made for the water pump pulley, which lines it up with the outer (larger) groove on the crank.... in order to keep the crank pulley register, i need to make it 1/2" thick, and then...

no...just a rag and compressed air.... hmm...maybe the heads should come back off...the bolts are only hand-snugged right now...

ok....just looked at it some more.... the holes aren't going to affect flow any because there are the big holes at the front and back that are for the main part of the coolant flow....i guess the ones along the deck are just for air escape from the block and/or slight flow blending...

hmmm...wonder if i should spray mine....the old ones were bare and there were no problems, so i guess i can just install these without coating them.... and yes, it looks like about 11% of the opening is uncovered.... the block has the dumbell shaped holes, and the heads have single round...

ok...i am ready to start reassembly of the top end, and noticed a difference in the steel shim head gaskets. the old ones have a rectangular box at each water passage, of which only about 1/3 of the area passes water, due to the alignment of the holes. The new gaskets only have a small slot...

I have looked at it, but haven't found a good angle to tell if the balancer bolt captures the pulley, or if i can take the pulley off with just the 6 bolts....

isn't 8:1 a bit low for a .509 cam????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the numbers are 3671052 and 3671053. I cannot find those numbers anywhere to determine what exactly they are..... my guess is that they are standard 1972 400 pistons, which would mean that I have a 8.2 compression ratio with 452 heads?????

ok...i pulled the dizzy, and behind the drive gear on the cam is "1103" cast into it on the other side of the cam is what appears to be "F 8" stamped into it and it's purple...were all mopar cams purple??

ok...i know i'm new to mopar, so maybe that's it, BUT I never had antifreeze come out a valve cover bolt hole.... the motor is a 400....don't know what heads, that's one thing i wanted to find out while i had it off....but when antifreeze spewed out the hole, i put the bolt back in and ran...