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Wow, I can't believe you found me here...followed me here. :!:
louich wrote:brand new crank, resizing rods, arp bolts, balancing, pistons, rings, bearings, cam and timing chain set.
There's nothing to say other than, you better have your tools recalibrated
because you did nothing to ensure the new assembly height was proper
for the deck height.
0.037" in the hole and then follow up with a 0.040" gasket. Nice... :roll:
louich wrote:had the heads redone at a local machine shop and put the car back together.
What machine shop worked on those heads? I'd like to call and laugh
at them. Did they use cotton balls for valve seals and assorted cracked
exhaust valves for the re-assembly?

Look up at the pretty pictures.
louich wrote:the customer the heads were discussed as not being able to support the needs of the bottom end. but guess what....the customer didn't have the extra cash to spend to buy better heads. so the 882's went back on.
So? You are going to put heads back on without checking them? Not even
clean up the port edge and corners?
louich wrote:the car is a street car. not a 100000 drag car.....i also paid to do some dynoing for the car and it made over 280 hp through those heads at the rear wheels....that was with a bigger carb...
I have made more than that with a smaller carb on a 355! 280 HP out of
a 383 is nothing to brag about.
louich wrote:.also the intake range is 1500 to 6500 not the 5000 you stated....
It doesn't matter. You don't use a dual plane intake with that camshaft.
It negates the intended ground-in overlap needed to scavenge at higher RPM.

louich wrote:and i should post the video of us starting it up at my shop it fired right up ....the fire was in the headers not coming out the carb.
Please do. You haven't built enough motors if you've never spit up through
the carb.

I guess if the timing tab was phased properly and the distributor wasn't
20 years old, I wouldn't have had that problem to begin with.

Have a nice day! Stick around and learn something.
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I don't know who you are, but if you're part of Louich's clan, kindly leave.

Moderators/Admin, please keep a close eye on this thread and recent enrolled members. I want no part of their games.

You might want to trace the IP address and see if Florida is the actual
place of origin. I doubt it. Please PM me with the results.
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It's pretty easy. You set the marker on the balancer to the timing pointer
and advance it about 10-20 degrees.

Then you can phase the distributor rotor with the #1 spark plug post.

If the last engine builder set the pointer properly and used a good cap,
rotor and distributor, it starts up every time.

As you'll notice in the video the engine is already running and then spits
out.

That's a good indicatoin that there is cross fire in the cap, or the base
unit is garbage.
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Adrenaline_Z

There are two different nicks in this thread in the more recent responses. I believe that one of these is for sure here to learn and for help.

Also check your PM's.

Ed
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