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Worlds slowest engine ***embly
Picked up these old lifters yesterday. NOS bulk lifters from Rocco and Cheaters

Slicked em up and slid em in

 

1937, 1955, and 1956: best lookin' trucks Chevrolet ever made; imho. I'd love to snag a '55 or '56 for a DD pickup.

 

Now that is a real score! I hunted ebay for months to create a full set of NOS GM lifters for my latest BBC. They can keep all these junk new lifters.

 

These are probably standadyne stock bulk lifters. That’s what the inside looked like. This shop hasn’t had new parts show up since the mid 90s.

 

Modified power window regulators

 

The 434 Big Block is done and ready for the 29 dodge. Hope the owner knows what to do with that much HP ! Should be terrorizing the streets sometime late next week. Yes the car has 3 pedals.

 

More power Scotty...

 

Boring ole timing chain

Loc***e and torqued
Installed the oil galley plug with a little red loc***e and pinged em with a spring loaded center punch

and silicon bronzed a couple spots on my pick up tube/screen

 

I'm working on getting around this Pilfer Proof tape so I can pilfer the contents

 

The whole torque curve is sweet!

 

Nice work my friend . I couldn’t have done better myself . I don’t say that to a lot of people ! Ha ha !

 

Damn the last time I saw that was on a HS date , her Dad worked for the Post Office .

 

Well, I was raised building fords. This is my first 283. The 350 I used in my bus was ***embled by students and instructor. My students and I made it look good. We do all the fab work as well So I guess this is my first sbc without supervision.
Next time I might tap em and screw in pipe plugs. kinda didnt want to do that after I got this far

 

Yikes, that’s freight train torque, what it is going in sounds fun for sure.
Dan

 

Ha, I've never had a package with the pilfer proof before

 

Going in this, 29 Dodge. sure hope the 1 1/2 year old Tremec holds up for him.

 

Nice

 

Looking forward to seeing the engine in there.
Great flame job, that should turn some heads!

 

Up date from post #5150;
Two test drives,an all is good,no leaks now.
Seem to take along time for that. 6 trys. # 6 gets the star so far.
Last fix,that now worked,I used JB Weld to fill in all low spots,an refile flat,also went to new sealer,"Motoseal"good to 400* is clam. vs not using>Permatex #1 hard setting.

 

Im glad to hear you sorted that out.
And thanks for letting us know what you did to fix it!

 

Found a private junkyard 15 minutes from home..Rebuilt Chevy 350 in a row truck , Turbo 400 , Early GM steering columns with keys ,, and much more .Owner is a friend of a friend..Pics coming...

 

Excellent
Dan

 

Makin headway on this heap

 

Doing a juice brake swap on this one

 

polishing turd

IMG_20250418_155529 by blown348 posted May 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM

 

Masking to touch up paint on door frame before installing door panels.

 

Got a chance to road test the new front springs/suspension earlier today. The old girl feels like she's a teenage queen again and almost* ready to rock'n'roll like for another 35+** years & 100.000+ miles, not to mention proving there's no school like old school.

*She still wants her new rear springs to feel 100% to take on any adventure roads ahead can offer (After 3.5 years and 14K+ miles, a new set of tires are also at the top of the short shopping list).

** Well technically, the original front springs were (& the rears still are) 93 years old with who knows how many miles beyond the +/-100K I've put on them.

 

P.S. Also working on two 1960 Chrysler 300F engine rebuilds (one is done, dyno'd, installed & runs great + finishing up a factory A/C restoration on it, the machining on the other should be done in a week or so... ), 1956 Imperial ch***is and mechanical restoration (with engine, trans and most of the suspension already almost done), fabricating some reproduction smog equipment components for early 1970s V12 Ferrari engines and a 1937 Supercharged Cord 812 was brought in yesterday for variety of problems needing to be sorted, including clutch, cracked cylinder head, radiator, etc, etc, ...

... with three, possibly four*, early 1970s V12 Ferrari fastbacks on the waiting list for variety of services.

All the above is OEM restoration work, not hot rod jobs, per se.

* Will find out tomorrow, over lunch.

 

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Picked up these Mickey Thompson valve covers

they fit a lot better than the cal custom ones plus no holes.
Should clean up nicely