Hello everybody, I know I don't post much, but I thought I would show everyone what I actually do work on. My rebuilt master, and wheel cylinders went out on me, and I decided since it took two weeks to get the parts I would install my new motor I was working on. It is a .030 over 235, with dual rochesters, and fenton headers. Nothing really special but I am proud of it. It runs, and drives, I have to finish the exhaust and work on jetting a little bit more, and reform some of the hard lines, but all that will come in time. After this saturday it will return to its faithful daily driver postion. - Jeremy
Very Cool, I like the design on the door. Where did you get the valve cover? I have a 216 and that looks to be what I'm lookin for. Love the dual Rochesters (the are rochesters right?) and the fuel lines!
Yes they are rochesters, and the valve cover, I bought from a friend but it is originally from Patrick's http://www.patricksantiquecars.com
Are those copper fuel lines?? They look great! You do that yourself, and if so, did your need a pipe bender?
All of the lines are copper, and yes I did us a bender. Nothing fancy I picked up form sears for like 20 bucks. I made the mistake of not having everything mocked on the motor when I made the lines and now I have to remake a couple of them. I was a very time consuming process, to make the line up and look right. I probably have like 8 - 10 hours in making the lines alone. It was also fairly pricey buying all of the fittings. I will have to take a close up tonight, I also made my own line separators (sp?) out of copper line straps for walls. I cut one end of the strap off of each one and shortended the other, then soldered both clips together, and tightened them so they would snap onto the lines. - Jeremy
Looks real good. Whee did you get those spark plug wires? Are you running a points distributor or electronic? r
I got them from http://www.riwire.com, their service was exceptional. I called on Monday, and recieved the parts across the country by the end of the week. It was about $36 with shipping, for 10 feet of cable, and all of the parts to assemble. The distributor is a stock points type. Thanks for the interest everyone. - Jeremy
Great looking six and truck.. Nice pressure gauge on the side there. I've been considering bending up copper lines for my multicarb setup when I strip my engine compartment down this spring to freshen it up. Any tips for doing the copper lines safely? MONGO
Killer! I really like how the copper lines look. Where did you get the plug wires? What is the gauge that's bolted to the head?
I dig the pressure gauge too. The whole engine looks very similar to my 235, which I just got running. I did a lot of reading about copper lines, and the big concern with copper is that it work hardens, so you don't want it moving or vibrating or it will break. I definately wouldn't use it for something like the line from the fuel pump to the tank (since it moves with the engine). I made brackets to hold the lines down solid to the engine.
I freakin' love inlines and 235's in particular!! Nice looking engine & truck. One word of caution, however on the copper fuel lines.....they tend to work-harden from vibration and are then prone to cracking & leaking. Not cool to have fuel leaks under the hood. Lots of cars have been set on fire because of copper fuel lines. You might wanna rethink them. My 2¢
Thanks for the compliments everybody, as far as the copper lines go. I wish now I would have used flares instead of compression fittings. The work hardening issue, I have been hearing about that now, and I may rerun the fuel line in steel if it is an issue. Currently the fuel line is bolted solid so vibration should be minimal except where the weight of the filter is not supported. The guage is a neat pressure guage i picked up at Turlock, it say Oil-O-Matic on the face and I assume it is measuring in a form other than psi? I don't know, pressure at the head is between 1 and 2 on the guage. It is fairly useless but i think it looks neat. - Jeremy
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