I had a 216 in my 51 fleetline and when I bought the car the guy told me that it was running. I worked on it for a few weeks and couldnt get it running well and we did a leakdown which came back at 62%. I was feeling kind of bummed so my good friend Lee gave me a 54 truck 235 and a small space in his shop to rebuild it. Quite a few people helped me accomplish this motor and I am very thankful to all of them. It has an Edmunds water manifold for 2 holleys, a Delta 265-S cam (solid lifters), gapless rings, a fresh hone, freshened up crank, new bearings, smoothed painted and pinstriped block. Heres a little video of the first fire up after the break in. Hope you enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dPT1j1OLfk Please feel free to post pictures or video of your inliners!
Looks and sounds nice. I have an Edmunds dual intake on my Stude 245-6 as well. Not exactly the same obviously, but very similar. Been running it for a couple of years now and works great. Congrats on the initial fire up. Good luck dropping it in and putting some miles on it.
Sweet! I'm building a my 235 this winter with the same basic setup, edmunds 2x2 with 94s. how did you set up the carbs? jet size, power valves, linkage etc?
That engine looks and sounds great!! Congrats on the build and the initial fire-up. That Fleetline is going to be happy cruising with that neat 235.
It's been posted before and not quite as nice and clean looking now since I do use it quite a bit, but here it is. (and yes, it is running on propane, not gas). Also being near the coast in CA and running propane, I don't need to plumb the water jacket either, but it does have one.
thanks guys! For jets I have 65's power valves are 6.5s. my elevation is 5600 feet though so you may not be able to use the same set up.The linkage is a threaded rod with ball stud connectors on each end, on the one end I welded a ball stud to it. I made my own hold downs and the one at the back is an angle iron ground kinda fancy with a hole in it for my throttle cable. I am using a throttle pedal from an 80s jeep. carbs are balanced with edelbrock unisynch tool, the timing is dialed in right on the BB on the flywheel.
At 5,600 al***ude, you can crank the advance up quite a bit. We usually advance until it pings pulling hard in 2nd, back off just enough to clean it up.
That's pretty cool I guess. You know, if your into that sorta thing and all... I watched the video on Facebook, pretty rad. Makes me want another inline powered vehicle! Heres a good inline thread: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18390&highlight=who+has+straight+six
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