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Well sawbuck, I blew up the transmission in the truck a couple of days ago! lol I'll rebuild it later on.
I figured out the transmission today. I burnt the forward clutches. That's why it was going in reverse but not forward. I hope your suggestions...
the engine doesn't have blue smoke out of the tail pipe and the breather is punched all of the way out.
Squirrel: I have a pcv valve and an oil breather cap on the covers. The pcv valve is working correctly also. I had the machine shop check the...
Any ideas about the transmission Ron?
I used moly rings and honed the block until a good crosshatch pattern showed. The trans worked fine before I pulled my "stunt" and released my...
I've just rebuilt a 350 chevrolet engine. I've changed basically everything in the block. Crank, cam, rods, pistons, rings, lifters, pushrods,...
I'm not taking offense ajs, a lot of people didn't believe this until they saw it. It was a daily driver but the idle was so damn rough, it made...
Uncle Bud's truck was his shop truck and daily driver. It had a powerdlide transmisson. He still has it but it has been parked for about 5 years...
Ha ha ha yeah shame on "US"
My uncle had a 69 stepside chevy with a 327 in it that had 64 cc camel hump heads that ran a quarter mile in 11 seconds. I'm going for mabye 10...
I noticed that too Groucho! A zero makes a big diffference!
I plan on putting the engine in a late model s10 pickup truck and take it to the track every once and a while.
Bore: 4.030 Stroke: 3.75 Number of cylinders: 8 duh!! Piston dome: 0 Gasket thickness: 0.41 That's the values I put in the calculator
Yeah I plan on porting and polishing and assembliing the heads myself. The only thing I cannot do is put new seats, valve guides, and grind the...
http://car.race-cars.net/calculators/compression_calculator.html Here's the link to the compression calculator I used. It says I should have...
Thanks Groucho for the information. I won't take offense to negative comments I'm here to learn afterall. I was thinking about running the engine...
Hi everyone! My name is Justin Cormier I'm 18 years old and I'm from Crowley, Louisiana in the heart of Cajun country. I've always been interested...
I spent $257 on the heads and plan on rebuilding them myself. An intro?? I'll work on one and post it ASAP! Justin
Hey everyone, I'm new to the forum and figured I'd try to expand my knowledge about high performance engine building. I just won a set of 327 62cc...
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