In the mid 60s when we built gas class cars if you didnt have a lot of money you had 2 short blocks one long rod and a cheap one. The cheap ones had matched form 60 or 70 sets of rod and pistons 63 corvette fi pistons, dykes rings on the top, good used top rings upside down on the second ring and any oil ring on the 3rd ring. I just found my set of rods and pistons with the rings in a box in my garage. They are standard 4 inch 327, I am thinking of buying a 350 block and making a 327 out of it to put in my 60s 55 chevy. I wonder if the rings will work after sitting for 47 years? I dont drive this car much it is not very practical and I dont care about that, it has the orijional hilborns and a 5.57 rear end it gets about 3 miles per gallon and I plan to drive it 3 to 400 miles per year. In the 60s we thought about this kind of stuff for 5 min and tried it. The internet has taught me there are a lot of people out there that know a lot more than I thought I know. Thanks
If they aren't rusted I don't see why they wouldn't work fine. They were just sitting in a box and not under tension all those years. Guys have to be getting by with running all of those "NOS" rings you see on Ebay or there wouldn't be a market for them anymore. The car sounds like fun once you hunt down a big journal 327 Crank.
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