Art & Inspiration Engines: Lying in Wait

Red Ram's Loaded, Firedome is empty. Waiting for the banger in my roadster to quit

 

A straight 8, a Caddy flathead and some baby hemis.... excellent!

 

A lot of hoarders on here.

 

I have a disassembled 241 Dodge Hemi. The block is under the workbench on a storage stand, heads are on a shelf and other parts are in boxes on other shelves. Block has been cleaned, measured and crack checked. Now it waits.

I bought it about 1 1/2 or 2 years ago from a hoarder friend just because I never owned a Hemi. I guess I'm the hoarder now? Picked up an Offy 4 barrel intake for it last year(?) at the Pate swap meet. Had planned to build the engine for another T roadster but have myself sidetracked from that idea right now. I've also considered taking the 2.5L Iron Duke out of my Model A coupe and swapping in the 241 Hemi, but don't know if I want to tear the coupe apart that much again since it took longer than expected to get it put together the first time.

A guy does have to have some inventory for inspiration and dreaming.....right?

Lynn

 

Holy moly.... That's a heap o hemis!
Lynn, everything in my shop, including the cars is for dreaming. I enjoy just being out there surrounded by old hot rod stuff and if I'm accomplishing something, even better!

 

Well....41 caddy
Where to begin...cpl hemis, few 21 stud flattys 59 ab, 8ba and 3 292 y blocks...oh and a 4 banger
Then theres my 1950 303 thats gonna go in my 33 dodge...
Then the 57 vette sbc...
Plus a 49 linc 337

 

So that’s where all of the Y blocks are hiding…..

 

Not under the bench, but under cover. A 0.030 over ‘67 Pontiac 400, 11.5:1 TRWs, big Crower solid lifter cam. It’s supposed to go into my ’62 Tempest, along with a 4 spd and the Corvette rear end in the background, if I ever get to it.

 

Nailhead 401 with a couple of hundred miles when it was lifted out of a -65 Riviera just waiting (10 years) to get in to the Deuce Tudor. More engines to come…….

 

How about a Pontiac OHC 6 .....

 

1964 409 passenger .060 bore.
1965 409 truck block with fresh .010 bore.
350 .030 bore 14.5 to1 bowtie for digger.


1964 409 passenger .060427 crank with 4 bolt mains.
1958Dodge 354 and a 400 SBC with fresh .030 bore a nd splayed 4 bolt mains.

 

318, waiting for the other one to go bang.

 

I've been trying to cut down on stuff I don't actually have an intended use for...Had quite a few engines, down to just a few now...

Bare 427/454 block, have all the pieces to put it together but nothing to go into
Standard 283 w/ steel crank
532 BBC 800 horse race engine...was going to go in my Henry J but sold that...

Devin

 

Like some others,I've got too many engines just stored. 2-FE's,5 Ford Y-blocks in parts,1 Ford 5.0/302 Mustang,1 Merc Flathead v8,some tranny too, and very very close to enough old rod parts to build a rod with,even best part of 1917 Hup roadster.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ounted-with-1917-hup-hot-rod-project.1243767/

 

2 364 nailheads, 1 with a dynaflow still on it. Also a 350 .010 good running long block. Got a 700R4 in a corner too, a complete rebuild with 2000 miles on it before the engine blew. Sorry, no pics. Gotta trust me...

 

sbc's not shown.

 

2, 250 hp 327s and 2, 455 olds 1, 425 olds and a 429 Cadillac. And a couple of 4 bolt 350s.

 

I used to have several 454's and 350's laying in wait for some day but cleaned house and let someone else that actually needed them use them. One of the well built 355's I just gave away to my friend that needed an engine for his model A build, which was much better than it sitting in my dusty corner.
Anyways after the clean out, in this corner we have a 489, 383, 454 and a 355



The only other I have not sitting in a vehicle is a nicely built couple thousand mile 11-1 355, that unfortunately had been sitting uncovered in a dry garage, so it'll need disassembled and cleaned before use. This engine is a perfect example of karma though, a friend gave me this after he heard I was going to pull the hot 355 out of the t-bucket to put into the 57 pickup, just like when I gave the 355 to the other friend for his model A

 

11 years Old photo, ‘57 392, and a ‘63 327 small journal, both are dual quad, and still not in use. Now I have a new four cylinder Burtz block Model A motor in progress as well. It may be the first to get back on the road. The table has a 45A body on it now, and the cabriolet body that was on it is now a finished car.

 

Lets see....305sbc, 455olds, two 460 fords, a 390fe and about some between 10-20 oldsmobile 350 diesels.

 

A Pontiac 6 cammer, if I had one of those, I'd hold onto it too!
Haven't seen a 351 Cleveland in a while. I knew Swade41 had a cool stash from the background of other pictures he's posted on other threads. Thanks for sharing.
Anthony, I thought I had a mess.... Did you know you have a hemi hiding under there? Lol.

 

Nice Buick. I see an old Olds lying there also.

 

I sure enjoy coming to this thread, good idea Bob!

 

Just an old 283 I hope to save some day. I'd put it in my '36 Ford pickup but there's nothing wrong with the 305 in it now and I doubt any one would notice the difference anyway.

Gary

 

Me thinks that the few "Hot Rodders" that are left in twenty years from now will have good pickin's".

I am guilty myself. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/whats-on-your-engine-stand.1150444/page-3#post-13089123.

 

A Ford 243 six pulled from my son's '48 Anglia. I added a home made tri power and now it's ready to go into my '49 Anglia project.