Its so great to get a follow-up like this, what a cool story. As a teenager in the seventies, I built a ton of 283's, usually with camel humps and a TRW LT-1 or 30-30 cam. As time passed, we got more money and more knowledge, and looked back at those motors and snickered.autogear wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2020 2:41 pm 8 years! Wow! The kid in question is now married, and has a kid in kindergarten. The 283 ended up with the 113 vette heads, a GM composite gasket for the 305 (.026"?) a Performer RPM and a Holley 650 vac sec. Distributor for awhile was a old fashioned dual point setup, later he fitted it with a Crane Cams "pertronix-style" module. He never got the 200-4r off the ground, so they got a Muncie M20 mongrel from some guy who worked at Auto Gear. Cam ended up being a solid lifter -097 repop. Not enough compression for it, and Im not a great fan of self guided rockers with a solid lifter cam but, with a clutch and 3.55 rear gears...it did very well for itself and had all the old-guy cool a kid could want. Hardest thing to find, was a set of 14" cragar rims and decent rubber for that lil guy.
Now he wants to go LS, nearly caused a fight with his old manDamn kids!
Some things never change, 17y/o kids love glasspacks
Its funny how things come full circle, here it is 40 years later, and I am building a fake '57 270hp 283 with pop-up pistons and an Isky Z-25 for my T Tudor. Putting the motor together was like walking down the street and running into an old friend you haven't seen since high school.
