been slowly putting this motor together for my daily driver. i tend to get carried away when i work on anything and why should the motor for my daily beater be any different. well to start. there was this one nasty looking casting line on the front of the motor that i thought for sure i would someday cut myself on while working on the motor. so i ground it off. next thing i know i'm grinding the entire motor smooth. not "goldchainer" smooth, but pretty smooth. it was rewarding and easy work, so what the hey. well, while i had the grinders out i figured i'd try my hand at gasket matching the intake and exhaust ports on the heads. so i did. they look pretty good and i can't believe how much i had to open up the exhaust just to match the gaskets. hope it helps the performance. well this motor has been fun to build cause my dad has been coming out and helping me on it quite a bit. i've rebuilt motors before but it's not my favorite thing to do. dad is a machine repairman by trade and used to build motors and work in a machine shop for a living in his younger days. it's not a radical motor but should move down the road pretty well. it's got TRW flattops, it's been fully balanced, bored .030 over to 355ci, head surfaces decked to get to "zero deck height" and it sports a Comp Cams "RV cam" (i forget the specs) that is suppose to be quite close to the Edelbrock Performer RPM cam specs. ofcourse i have the Performer RPM intake. the valve covers are something i picked up on Ebay a couple years ago and have had hangin on the wall since. they should look pretty sweet on the daily, but i will have to machine the oil fill hole into the front of the intake so i have someplace to put oil in. i'm pretty sure i can buy those tubes aftermarket and it should be an easy thing to machine the hole. i have a pretty good selection of spray paint so i looked in my cabinet and found some "Grabber Green" engine paint and figured "what the hell" ... i think it looks pretty good. the oil pan and timing cover will probably be satin black like the ARP head bolts that i carefully taped off before the paint job. speaking of the oil pan. i have an oil pan off the original motor that was in the truck when i bought it. dad sand blasted it and found a small hole so i welded in a small patch and cleaned it inside and out. then i primed it and painted it with some "hammer tone" industrial spray paint. then i notice today (after all that work) that the relief for the dipstick is on the wrong friggin side . the engine has a driver side dipstick but this oilpan has the relief on the passenger side. ARRRG! one more piece i need to buy. oh well. it's been a fun little mini project, even if it is just going into my daily driver.
it better. we TRIPLE checked everything and watched each other to make sure no mistakes were made. EVERYTHING was plastigauged and checked for tolerence.. BTW. i worked on your 50 Chev with Paul a few hours today.
the 83 Chevy i got from Donzie a year or two ago. it's blue. i'm gonna rockabilly it out .. just kidding... or am i???
If you didn't pay someone else to smooth it, it ain't Goldchainer smooth, not matter how smooth it is. Dig?
Yeah, I seem to remember a certain someone painting their Bug lime green LAST year.... Ahead of the times, or what?!?
Looks good Mike.... That's the same color as my bedroom! Also, If you don't mind cleaning/painting again, I've got a bunch of the oil pans like you need... you can grab one when you come to breakfast Saturday!
looks good enough to eat! hey, ya know if you don't want to (or can't) drill that oil fill/breather tube hole, you can add yer oil through one of the valve cover breathers. Paul
Awww man I thought it was gonna be a pic of your rainbow undies with your fully fluffed hard-on peeking out!! tease.... BUHAHAA
I don't want to get run out of here or anything, and I am not sure about the politics of this sort of thing, but are you kidding with that color? Everything sounds solid and it looks great, but Lime Green? Anyway, like I said just wanting to join in. Not trying to offend anyone to much.
I'm confused. If green is the new flat black and lime green is the new pick, then what color is flat black? So that means a suede Afro-American woman is still lime green on the inside?
The greens alittle off but sure would look good in the engine bay of your wife's VW so she could cruz this summer. It's a GMB thing, you wouldn't understand
i did the green just for fun. it's just the daily driver and i want to have fun with it. do things i might not do to my hot rod. i plan to do some kind of suede paint job and some flames (prolly lime green) just for the hell of it. this truck is in realy good shape and only has a couple sall cancer spots to fix. i want to keep it as solid as i can so i'll be welding it up before it gets any worse. that'll happen when i get burned out on the more important projects and want to do something different for a few days, or even just a few hours at a time. the VW is gone. went to FLorida. gotta go. dad and little bro are getting ready to pull the old motor and trans right now. i sould help ...
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