Recent content by AJ.

Thank you Brother for the blessing. and let me send it right back at you, with a stowaway; read Revelation chapters one thru 3, and chapter 12, then Matthew 24:40 with, Luke 17:34. Pray for understanding, to be able to put it all together. the result may be, IMO, the most important words in...

lol, I like you Russ, I hope it all works out for you. Call anytime. I'm gonna delete this thread from my archives in a day or two, to make room for others. But it will stay with you, until you delete it.

Yeah sorry about that, lol, but tell me If I had told you in my first post to forget all that and just get a stroker, be truthful, what would you have told me? See, this is how friends help friends.

Amen brother, the stroker is what you need, you are gonna have so much fun!! I am not a car engine builder besides maybe a dozen in my lifetime. I have built hundreds of motorcycle/snow-mobile/ATV engines. maybe hundred of hundreds. I am 72, and have been wrenching for most of my life altho NOT...

BTW alloy heads by themselves, do not make torque. By themselves, at the same build, just swapping heads, they will lose torque. The loss is the equivalent, of an easy full point of compression from idle to about 3500 in your case, to a half a point at peak power. Don't give them more credit...

Part-1 well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but; the 71 340 never had an Scr of 10.25 to 10.57. It was rated at 10.5 but that was a lie just like it's power-rating of 275 as a 4bbl was a lie. Do the math; The pop-up was NOT .045., maybe 015 for -3cc The gaskets were .020, maybe 4.5cc the...

I highly recommend that you not do this swap. The overdrive gear in the slanty box is quite fragile. I have blown three of them up , one with just a stock, low-compression 318. When it blows up, the pieces get into the other gears and take them out..... and then you are walking. In a truck...

I guess you have considered the gear ratios and splits? and the fact that Chevy's and Dodges have different granny gears and splits. The splits are all pretty far apart, which is not all bad with an injected Magnum......... I guess. But with a carburated version, you'll lose that long-runner...

If you are gonna assemble a short-stroke, hi-rpm engine, with a long-period cam; say with more than 60 degrees of overlap, together with small-chamber alloy heads, that engine is gonna be a little soft on the bottom........ maybe not for lack of Compression ratio, or cylinder pressure, but for...

When you replaced the rubber lines; Did you reuse the factory clamps? or did you install "gear-clamps"? Gear-clamps have a nasty way of bunching up the fuel-line, which allows the fuel pump to suck air? If/when I am forced to use them, I use two of them side by side, with the heads offset 180*...

By your description of blow-by. my guess is If the fueling is half-decent accurate, which the fuel mileage is pointing to, then either. 1) the plate on the bottom of the "keg" is sucking crankcase fumes, or 2) the oil rings are, wore out or stuck, or 3) the compression rings are, wore out or...

I'm guessing, at least 3/8ths inch. IIRC, I paid $495 for them, in 1999, plus shipping into Canada; and the dual 3" exhaust was about the same. This system is still on the car with only some minor rust-thru in the valleys of the merges. Car was a DD until 2005/6. Every fall I would swap a 318...

IDK if there is or not, I kindof doubt it. I don't think there can be. But there is a formula for computing fuel consumption to Power. As in, if your particular chassis requires "X" amount of power to go, "Y" mph, then the amount of fuel for that situation, can be calculated. Somewhere I once...

Yeah, the secret is in the gaskets, and having thick flanges. The hot/cold cycles just do that. My TTI headers have about the thickest flanges I've ever seen, and the last set of gaskets that I bought, are the the thickest I've ever run. Together they are the best sealing chit that I've ever...

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