89 top end on Gen1 block build
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Melting Slicks
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From: Cherokee National Forest TN
89 top end on Gen1 block build
Heads from my 89 Vert rebuilt with new guides, Manley SS valves, Crower springs, & surfaced .020.
4 bolt block is out of my deuce coupe (long gone), had a 671 blower & 2 4's on it. Have owned this block since 1980-81, recently bored .030 over & line bored.
Arm is a 3.48 forged unit from a Baker oval track engine its cross drilled.
H beam rods, KB silvolite +12cc slugs, total seal rings, Clevelite bearings, Crower custom grind hydraulic roller cam & hydraulic roller lifters. Have full roller rockers for it. Cloyes true roller timing set. Had a set of head studs on the shelf, used them.
Need 7.2 long pushrods to button it up, ordered them today.
Engine build is for my 57 Chevy Handyman 2dr wagon its 60 years old
this year, hope to drive it this summer. TPI will get installed next winter.
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4 bolt block is out of my deuce coupe (long gone), had a 671 blower & 2 4's on it. Have owned this block since 1980-81, recently bored .030 over & line bored.
Arm is a 3.48 forged unit from a Baker oval track engine its cross drilled.
H beam rods, KB silvolite +12cc slugs, total seal rings, Clevelite bearings, Crower custom grind hydraulic roller cam & hydraulic roller lifters. Have full roller rockers for it. Cloyes true roller timing set. Had a set of head studs on the shelf, used them.
Need 7.2 long pushrods to button it up, ordered them today.
Engine build is for my 57 Chevy Handyman 2dr wagon its 60 years old
this year, hope to drive it this summer. TPI will get installed next winter.
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St. Jude Donor '05
onlt thing that bothers me us hypers (Im assuming) only you know your motor best. Guessing you know youre tune has to be literally perfect
Were you happy with it?
YOu realize you could gain up to 100hp iwth more ping resistance if you could spend a few. Whats your stand on everything?
Any car witha 6-71 is bad to the bone fwiw
Were you happy with it?
YOu realize you could gain up to 100hp iwth more ping resistance if you could spend a few. Whats your stand on everything?
Any car witha 6-71 is bad to the bone fwiw
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Sep 2008
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From: Cherokee National Forest TN
Ran KB's in 2 oval track 9to1 spec engines without issue. The top ring land is closer to the top of the piston = the top ring runs hotter requiring more ring end gap.
Am not building a HP engine it is designed for torque hence the small 113 heads & TPI.
Cam has 117 LCA & .480 lift with 1.5 rockers
Am not building a HP engine it is designed for torque hence the small 113 heads & TPI.
Cam has 117 LCA & .480 lift with 1.5 rockers
