Hot Rods Free hot rod motor if I go pick up another motor and some other junk and move it.

Great find! So does it turn over?

 

Great save, great parts score as well.

 

Haven't tried to turn it over yet. It does have the two eighty three crank It does have the 283 crank.

 

Huge pop-ups, tame-able w/E85. .
Marcus...

 

Great score! As squablow stated, take it all if you can, even if it takes some time to get rid of it at swap meets and giving some of it away, at least then it doesn’t go to the land fill or the recycling center.
I’ve participated in a few ventures like this and it’s always entertaining, even of there’s work involved. It’s like a treasure hunt and detective work rolled into one.
A friend of mine was asked to get rid of a small block Chevy that had sat under a garage bench for 30 years after their son had pulled it from a car and moved out east. He extracted the engine, took it home and decoded it. Turned out to be an original 302 out of a 69 Z-28. I think he paid them $25 for it.
I responded to an add for a Pontiac 400 in the local newspaper about 20 years ago. Guy had it in his garage and I think his kids had worked on it but I never did get the whole story. He was asking $50 so it was a no brainer, I loaded it up and took it home. Engine turned out to be a 1974 low compression 350 from a GTO of that same year. Then it got interesting, cylinder heads were large chamber 4X heads, (I think somewhere around 114 cc’s). The pistons in the short block had some taper on the upper ring land, I suppose to reduce compression on a smog era engine. I’m not sure but I think those 350’s started out around 8:1 or lower, and with the large 114 cc cylinder heads the compression was lucky to be 7:1 if not less. I pulled the camshaft and it was an early 60’s McKeller solid lifter cam with lift and duration that were similar to a Ram Air IV. Lifters turned out to be hydraulic. I’m not sure what they were trying to achieve. I found a spun rod bearing so I assumed that they couldn’t get it to idle with the horrible parts mismatch so they revved it to the moon to keep it running. Hard to say but it was an entertaining evening spent disassembling someone else’s misguided attempt at performance.
If you have the chance to invest in someone else’s car parts trove it’s usually time well spent.

 

Thanks for that, makes it quick to identify.

 

I worked with a guy whose FIL rented out houses in the area. One tenant moved out and left a pair of SBC engines in the garage, full set up with an in-board Flagship Marine FWC set up. Plus the in-out boxes still attached. Likely they weighed in at #1200 each.

He gave me the first offer to just get them out of there. Timing was no good at the time, so I passed. The engines looked like that were 1966-ish. Possibly 327s.

 

Nice score !