Hmmmm, you know, it seems that NintendoKD's posts are as if he is treating this forum more like Twitter or a chat line. It's all non sequitors - let's fire for effect and see what happens - would explain the little gems he sprinkles in his posts, like about evolution (yea or nay, let's stir things up and see what happens) and, of course, his high-falootin' plans for that motor (and when no one would longer dance on that, he switched gears). How many forum members have twitter and chat icons under their avatars? Is it a standard around here that we all 'look each other up'? Of course not, but NintendoKD posts that he is surprised no one has personally contacted him to 'find out that he is the real deal'. Indeed. NintendoKD, the above might be the way it is on other sites, but it is not the way it is here. The HAMB is more about asking questions and getting answers, posting accomplishments, or sharing pieces of history. Perhaps some of your frustration stems from the fact that you are not getting what you need from the HAMB. If what you need is social networking at the golly gee whiz level, you probably won't find it here.
Hey Kevin, I'm sorry to bring this up so late, and sorry to everyone else for dragging out these pictures again but....... Before you convince the world that you can achive the undone and build the motor that no one else could conceptualize, How about rotating the pictures that you post. I don't ever remember looking at any other pictures on the hamb where I had to lie down on my side before viewing them. It makes me think you spend a little too much time out there in the sun...
This guy is doing enough whining he doesn't even need a MP3 player, he just needs to listen to himself!
I'm sorry to chime in again Kevin, But if you EVER liked how the flathead looked, why did you let all of that crazy overhead valve bullstuff run rampant in your head in the first place????????? Also...I think you had the motor ripped out and sitting at the machinest almost a year ago when you first started with us. I was wondering if youve actually done anything, or gotten anything done in all that time thats passed. Just hoping your keeping a steady pace is all.....
Kevin, where have you been? Found this guy sellin parts for your motor on the hamb.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=439544 Good luck.
Seems like we lost him. Pity. I wonder if the emails were actually coming from someone else, like maybe his son or something.
A serious reply here. I would think a low boost blower (4/71 or Eaton?) on a rebuilt 230 with split exhausts and one of those Edgy heads would look really cool, and go ok. Great on the "different" factor, and not too difficult to build. Certainly not as difficult as head swaps, or even a V8 swap.
My personal favorite was the picture of him with what appears to be a shovel and a hole that he pushed the car into and buried the wheels to get it down.
One of the problems with the 230 engines is that the pistons - notably the ring lands - are weak. The top ring land starts to widen from the pounding of the top ring, and the gap gets larger and larger. Eventually the land and/or ring breaks, and voila!, another cooked stock motor. Picture I shamelessly downloaded from blue skies: I have tried to find out if modern replacement pistons are made out of a better alloy. The stock aluminum pistons from back in the day were during the early days of alloy slugs (some manufacturers were still using cast iron pistons), so it is not surprising that there were problems. Does anyone know if modern 230 replacement pistons have solved this problem? In any event, if not, then a blower - even a low boost blower - could exacerbate the problem. And you still have chicken bone connecting rods, a four bearing crank, and iffy lower end lubrication. Unfortunatly, from a hop-up perspective, these motors do present some challenges.
This thread won't die, it keeps coming back, like Christeen... except if it was a car, the tire tracks it left behind would look like a plate of spaghetti.
Personally, I dislike the appearance of any slanted engine, so that's a no go for me. The 230/etc. MoPar motors are basically good and they can give good service. They do have some rather significant limitations IMHO if you are interested in a power increase. Does anyone know if modern replacement slugs are made of better alloy?
LOL, now that nintendokid has vanished, no doubt to research the likely hood of using Hemi heads on 4 cyl. Willys engines (it worked with plastic model car kits, why not?) or is still trying to bury that Plymouth in the desert, a real question! My old '41 Chrysler with it's Spitfire 6 ate a couple of pistons in this exact way! Being a semi employed college student at the time, with a wife and new baby, I sourced my favorite parts place, "JC Whitney", and ordered a set of pistons and rings for the closest thing they listed, which was later Dodge truck engines. Happily, the local vocational school machine shop was able to bore the Chrysler block out 1/8", the new slugs could be used, and my old Chrysler felt like a Roadrunner! (OK, not really, that Fluid Drive was sorta mushy) We drove the car a lot after that, and had no problems. See, we keep learning from this thread after all! Brian
Yes, standard bore 250 Dodge truck. Plenty of meat in the Chrysler block, as they're the same. As far as strength goes, you're guess is a good as mine, but they didn't break out the ring lands while we had it! It pulled like a freight train on steroids, Fluid Drive or not. Brian
Sorry, the workups for deployment to where Americans die every day can be hell. Did you miss me? I have some more pics for yas, and some updates, but not much, no time you see. I have lots cleaned and ready for a good powdercoating, between work family and my vw turbolader project, I don't have much time for the old bucket. rods and....... well, everything is pretty much in milk crates right now to keep it all together, I have been making trips to the solvent tank to clean off all of the "old" and see the true condition of the parts, will also be ordering a new service manual for this puppy this week, got paid. I know that there are various other knick nacks in there, but for the most part she is all there. some remnants from my buddies 84 rabbit gti are still there as well, oil pump, pan, etc. Cleaned and bead blasted most of the transmission housing parts, oil pan, crank front seal housing, exhaust, and intake etc. gotta tell ya though havin a helluv time getting the *unknown* crud from off of the transmission, road tar maybe? anyway solvent doesn't work, and I have been using a scraper to get as far as I have. Got the flywheel turned, "can't see it in the pic though" there appears to b some corrosion on this side, that I can't identify, I planned on lightening up the flywheel but if this one is bad then there is ust no use, advice?
may soon have accesss to a cnc machine, anyone have specs for the computer for stuff? I plan to make some pistons, what alloy should I use? I can grind a cam and a crank from solid chromoly, not cost effective, but that isn't the point, I got some mney for my wrecked suzuki. I totaled it driving out to Victorville in a 70 mph head on collision, still walkin, both of us are.
Good to see you back. Are you deploying? What is your MOS? I'm just a nosey fucker, feel free to tell me to get bent. I was 11BCC2 btw, no deployments to anywhere that mattered. Just buy a V-8 for Christ's sake. Wouldn't you like to get to drive your machine and have some real power ta' boot? Hell, throw in a slant 6 with some speed parts on it and have you some fun.....forget about that boat anchor. Edit to spell buy right. A brain scientist I am not.
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