Re: crazy engine rebuild
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 9:26 am
hey 1980rs that looks like it. it was popular in the late 1960s and is very low rise. art in NY
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Lol. Major run on. Have you heard of capitalising the first letter of a sentence?chevyart wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:13 pm my buddy knows nothing about engines or performance. he went to this guy because his father and brother went to this guy and got the same kind of builds and the same hi horsepower baloney and never had anything making power of performance as the guy had promised ' he never asked for any type of engine build.he is my fried and i have been around good drag motors since the early 90s, so i just tried to steer him away from this guy and his crazy engine building.he listened to his brother and to none of my suggestions, even as the motor was in production and maybe changed a little bit for the bette,. and he even knew that i am a fairly well informed hot rodder its a street car and he just asked for a good street engine combo. price was not an issue. i mentioned that he should get a decent set of aluminum heads and a modern roller hydraulic, and a rpm performer airgap intake.. the guy sold him one of the old chevy blocks he had in his warehouse and some older set of chevy casting and that old single plane intake, which is definitely a poor choice for a street cruiser. maybe heads had 2.02s in there, but probably not. he used flat top pistons and has aprox. 10.0 compression. he used a cheap harmonic balancer on it. he also used 1.6 rockers on exhaust and 1.5 on intakes. this is a street engine. a better cam could have done all this instead of the stupid stuff with the entire valve train.he also took over 8 months to do the build(maybe more time). still cant figure out why he specifically had him buy a 152 tooth flexplate(can anyone answer that one?)(any advantage to the small flexplate?) there is no dyno sheet, so im sure there were no dyno pulls) he just started it on an engine stand. thisbuilder took over this business from his father and the father is no longer doing the work. i just figure this guy just sold him all the old engine parts he had in stock with no suggestion for upgrades or more modern technology. as i mentioned earlier, he had him buy a 2500 stall converter and the mfg. of cam says to get one between 3200 and 3500 rpms. appreciate any input. thanks Art in NY