My name is Bryan Blake. I work at a local machine shop. My family and I have been into hotrods, since they have been around. A little history about my car here. My dad and Grandfather had purchased this car in the 1970's from califonia. It was a 100% Stock form Car. They had only built right over 1000 of the 60 Series Century Buick Coupes in 1936. It was the first year for the solid one piece steel roof, but yet still had wood framed doors and body mounts. This car was named the century as it was the first american made production car to sustain 100 MPH for any sort of distance. To where at that time your chevy's and fords would do about 60 MPH. This car is also considered to be on of the first american muscle cars. It is considered that because Buick took the Small Speacial body, and put the large roadmaster engine in it. My father had a identical car that he drove to high school, and ever since I was a young kid, my dream was to do the same. So when I was 15 We Drug the car out from out back and my grandfather, dad and I started working on it. When I was 17 I drove this car to high school and to collage in not too much different trim than it is now. We have run 13.20's in the 1/4mi at 101 MPH with this car. It weighs 3650 LBS. It still has the factory transmission and rear end. I took a short video of our 1936 Buick 60 Series Century Coupe. We just got done installing the bigger valves. We went with 5/16 stems on intake and exhaust. 1.875 Intakes, and 1.625 Exhaust. 90lbs on the seat for spring pressure. Single springs. Head flows 215 cfm on the intake at 1/2" lift at 25" of water. And 178 on the exhaust. Cam is a crane cam grind with GM lifters. Chromolly pushrods, lash caps installed also. We built this clear/aluminum valve cover for a couple of reasons. One was so we could use a stobe light to see if we have any valve float, and to optimize our spring pressures and valvetrain balence. The other is to monitor oiling of the rockers. Also the stock covers always leak. This cover uses orings to seal it. This one does not leak. We also have built our roller rockers, but are not installed in this video. This valve cover started out as 88lb chunk of aluminum and complete with lexan and hardware is 4 lbs. Thats 3 lighter than a stock steel one. This motor is a 3/16" Overbore, full floating wrist pins, sonic tested block, solid copper head gasket, stainless orings in the head, etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm-A06AGEew Here are some still shots
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