Hot Rods $100 Chevy engine

So how did it run?

 

I have four cast iron points distributors with the tags wrapped around them.

 

The date code is backwards from how it reads on a block or cylinder head. For example, 4 B 6 would be February 6, 1964.

 

Behind all the freeze plugs is packed with leaves acorns......

 

About time I figure out what I’m gonna do.. Not think about what do I want to do... Three factory’s on the same road shutdown within years of each other. The whole town three factory’s worth of people just taking any of the few jobs that don’t require them to move. Point is I don’t have any money at the moment. There was a time where I was doing ok though. Always kept quite but a few engines got ran through the machine shop. Only one I cared about or kept though. 327 10under/30over eagle rods kB pistons..So clean up and re***emble pull the 283 for the top end and see how the rb 327 does?? Throw all the rb stuff back in the weeds and pull the good 327 out of the garage and not have any trouble? I have to make a decision do I wanna mess around with junk or just ***emble the good engine and find something to do with it... Edit: for anyone wondering 3932386 or 3932368 one of those two block numbers.

 

Bummer on what the town is going through. What kind of factories closed the doors?

 

Residential/industrial manufacturing on all three.. parts in one end ***embled in the building and loaded onto trucks at the other end. All very dilapidated falling apart and not safe at all.. you could film a scene for a saw movie in the bathroom. Never once did they even attempt to address that the place was falling apart.

 

Damn. And now you reminded me I have to catch up on some Saw movies after the super bowl!

 

.250" shorter stroke using the same piston & rod only drops the piston .125 in the hole.

 

LOL I tried that on the 327 in my coupe. Whoever squared the decks up on it didn't bother to put the numbers back on. Bastages.

 

Ground some round stock down and used a chisel to close off the end of the broken dipstick tube. That pressed right out. Two freeze plugs also popped right out no trouble.

 

Gah **** what’s the deal with these cam bearings being pressed in an out? Can I do it at home? Edit pulling the last freeze plug and I didn’t go from the middle.. I learned somthing today...

 

if you get the tool and some knowledge of how to use it....

usually cheaper to have the machine shop do it

 

Yupp I figured.. there’s an old machine shop down the road and the guy never seems to mind me stopping by with a problem I just gotta figure a way to get the block down there. Are the cam bearings a standard or will they need measured? Can he press it out and just press a new one in with the tool? Or do they go in from the front meaning he has to replace them all now? If he has to pull them all just to get to the one I think this project just halted.

 

That was not hard at all to just pop right out of the block and I didn’t hit any of the surface under the cam bearing. Can they be pressed in from the back with the tool? $25 set of cam bearings isn’t to bad even though I’m only using one out of the whole kit. If they can’t be pressed in from the back any unethical ways to press it in from the back?

 

They go in from wherever you want them to go in from, no special order. Make sure to pull those plugs out and clean the **** out of the oil p***ages. The plugs are tricky to get out, have the machine shop guy help you, he knows the tricks. and has the right tools.

 

Ask the guy at the machine shop if HE can get single bearing. The guy I used to use could...

 

I think there are three different bearings, the OD is different size by just a little bit. Been years since I installed a set, though.

 

I asked my shop long ago, place I’d been to many times. “Can I do those at home”? He and my dad were good friends, he said something along the lines of “ if you’re asking no”.
Good enough for me to never have a go at it.

 

**** just kickin my *** all over the place. Anyone wanna list a few stock 327 piston on eBay tomorrow? I don’t know anything about PayPal. So eBay pay now would make you a few bucks... at least two with the rings on them? The machine shop has boxes of used sbc pistons so I might get lucky there...

 

Fricken ring landing....grumble grumble...

 

I promise it wasn’t beat up like that before it broke. I just tapped the ring and the land broke off.. didn’t matter so I made it a mission just to get the rings off.. I failed after two hours those rings are still just as stuck when I started. If someone lists up a 327 rod piston I could throw my bearing into that would be awesome. I’m gonna go to the shop tomorrow and ask to look around there buckets.. if they don’t have one and I can’t find any for sale this marks the projects doom. Just so damn frustrating...

 

That doesn’t sound to hard to do. Do I just drop the crank in tighten all the main caps put one piston in with the rod cap torque it and spin it over? Just having the main caps torqued and one rod won’t hurt anything or scratch bearings???

 

The crank in my sisters 57 Belaire was cast as it broke in 2 pieces in front of the rear main bearing. When I went to the dealer for a new crank, the counter man asked if I wanted cast or forged. I bought forged. This was in '64or'65.

 

Grab one of the trw standard bore pistons of the shop press it on my rod and slam it in the hole? I do know when why but when I picked up the 350 from the sprint car track it had like 3 different pistons in it for some reason.

 

Compression heights 4" bore pistons 302 -1.805, 327-1.675, 350-1.56

 

You know I have re-read the past posts and without putting a piston back in this engine can almost ***ure you they set down in the bore. Members verified rb327 and from the piston part number verified it was stock 327 pistons. The crank is 283 and forged. Do we have a part # on the 327 piston with the corrected wrist pin height to bring the piston to the top of the bore? if the part number on the corrected pistons is not the same as the stock piston part # then that means they set down in the bore. Somehow if they did manage to reach the top of the bore with the stock pistons that means the crank is stock stroke 327 forged and we all know it’s not. Edit: just look at the chart to identify the cranks it’s 283... so they most certainly will set down in the bore..